http://www.greenandgoldrugby.com THE Aussie Rugby Blog for Wallabies fans to wang on about anything to do with Australian rugby Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:34:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The public standing down of Super 14 referee Paul "Skid" Marks this week for "imbalance from a management perspective" seems to have marked a new official openness in discussing referee performance. If that's the case, I'd like like to submit to the SANZAR panel a piece of evidence for long-term ... http://www.greenandgoldrugby.com/refereeing-imbalance-try-kaplan-for-size/ [caption id="attachment_9692" align="alignright" width="220" caption="fantasy 'guru'"][/caption] Four weeks into the season now and things are still looking good for our group.  Our league average is now clear of our closest competition by more than 100 points and looks to be putting on distance each week.  Much of that success we ... http://www.greenandgoldrugby.com/super-14-fantasy-comp-round-4/ The top 10 is starting to settle down a bit with familiar faces at the top of the log. The Crusaders boys are running 1 - 2, followed by our Fantasy captain Newb. [caption id="" align="alignright" width="284" caption="petdr looks for clues"][/caption] 1 Mainlander 30.33 2 dogmaniac 29.33 3 Newb 29.00 4 chief 28.00 5 Tangawizi 27.75 6 ... http://www.greenandgoldrugby.com/super-14-tipping-comp-week-5/ Despite what our Super 14 round-up says, I believe the real star of the Reds win over the Chiefs last weekend was none other than Ewen "Link" McKenzie. Even the most rabid Reds supporters had thought that playing the rampaging Chiefs at home while missing a run-on back 3 and three ... http://www.greenandgoldrugby.com/video-analysis-link-out-thinks-the-chiefs/ [caption id="" align="alignright" width="135" caption="Shirley."][/caption] Well that was quite the round.  Three wins from three games for the Aussie teams. For the first time since SANZAR expanded the Super 12 competition into the Super 14 competition in 2006, all Australian teams playing on the weekend won. Surely you can't be serious? ... http://www.greenandgoldrugby.com/video-ggr-super-14-round-4-review/ So were the inspirational words spoken by Russel Crowe as Maximus, one of cinema's greatest 'Rebels', in the Oscar winning moving “Gladiator”.  Rod McQueen could hardly be confused for Crowe, nor a Gladiator, and it would be unfair to suggest that he had ever planned to ‘unleash hell’ on anything. ... http://www.greenandgoldrugby.com/at-my-signal-unleash-hell/ The last two minutes of the Waratahs vs Sharks match have generated more than their share of controversy. First of all, in the 78th minute, faced with a two on one overlap, Kurtley Beale either failed in an intercept, or cynically knocked the ball on (depending on your point of ... http://www.greenandgoldrugby.com/video-tahs-vs-sharks-controversy-exploded/ [caption id="attachment_9598" align="alignright" width="125" caption="Waving his Wallaby jumper goodbye?"][/caption] It is interesting to see how the on-field fortunes for these two have panned out after the first quarter of the season. After playing along side each other for the past couple of years, each is now responsible as being the ... http://www.greenandgoldrugby.com/barnes-v-cooper-the-stats-tell-the-story/ [caption id="attachment_9580" align="alignright" width="176" caption="Sanchez no ken mekim nois blong Kumul"][/caption] 'Better red than dead' was the saying in the 1940s when red stood for a socialist dictatorship of the proletariat and consequent violent regime change. Locally, the revolution over recent weeks has been the Queensland Reds overthrow of the natural order ... http://www.greenandgoldrugby.com/broke-blooming-and-bringing-back-the-biff/ [caption id="attachment_9571" align="alignright" width="215" caption="TPN - a new deity"][/caption] Waratahs 25 Sharks 21 It was the same old shit different year for Tahs fans as Hickey's men dished up a crapfest. The Sharks were better but not much – they were on the nose too. I was chatting to some ... http://www.greenandgoldrugby.com/tahs-fans-have-had-enough/