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Why The Force Should Stay in Super Rugby.

Yesterday SANZAAR announced what had been the worst kept secret in Southern hemisphere rugby, that Super Rugby was going to return to a 15 team format in 2018. It was revealed that even though Japan does not play in the

Merging Rather Than Axing May Be The Key In Australian Super Rugby

It was we believe the Daily Telegraph that broke the news first that the Western Force were to be the Australian Super Rugby team axed when the competition gets trimmed back to fifteen. The opening line of their article read

Podcast #32 – Are Administrators Paid too Much, The State of Rugby and a Retiring Hockey Umpire

Not the Footy Show Podcast

Well judging by the feedback and the increase in downloads you are liking the new format. Thank you for those who contacted us with feedback. ON this show we have one guest, a man who has umpired over 200 hockey

Two to Go In Super Rugby?

Sometimes bigger is not better. Super Rugby has found that out the hard way. Instead of learning the lessons from the competitions in Europe, who soon realised when the game went professional that too much rugby was harmful to the

Rolling Substitutions Part of Rugby’s Ongoing Evolution?

Rugby has come a long way since the dawn of professionalism, but are the Queensland Reds about to influence the biggest change of all? At the start of January we heard Dutch footballer Marco Van Basten putting forward suggestions that