All posts tagged "sanzar"

The Australian Rugby Union Players Association (RUPA) have slammed the Australian Rugby Union for their role in...

After a prolonged period of angst among the Super Rugby community, SANZAAR have finally made official their...

Messages from the West don’t always make it through to Rugby HQ, so it was thought high...

Well, it looks like the negotiation tactics as outlined in My Week – By John O’Neill, have...

In the Super 14 next year the nationality of refs will no longer matter when it comes to allocating them to matches. Instead, it’ll come down to ‘merit’. Apparently they used 19 refs last year, this time they’ll concentrate it down to the 9 ‘merit’ refs (below), and fill gaps based on...

As we all know the key thing about rules in sport is that they’re applied consistently. However, the bans resulting from the citings of CJ Van Der Linde (4 weeks) and Rocky Elsom (1 week) last Saturday open up some inconsistencies that you could drive a bus through. First off, the head-butt...

About bloody time. In marketing speak, these tours devalue the International Rugby brand. Hats off to Ireland and England this year though. THE contentious issue of northern hemisphere nations sending weak teams Down Under is set to come to a head at a SANZAR CEOs meeting amid threats that France may be...