Bryce Lawrence yesterday announced that he is done with refereeing at all levels and will step down with immediate effect to concentrate on a back-office role within the NZRU. […]
Posts tagged with: John O’Neill
Lawrence is GONE – thanks to fan power!
17 Oct 12 10:00 by Rob Otto (robdylan) | 17 Comments
O’Joy! O’Rapture! O’Neill retires!
12 Oct 12 08:24 by Rob Otto (robdylan) | 9 Comments
Australian media outlets are this morning reporting that Australian Rugby Union chief John O’Neill has decided to bring forward his retirement. […]
The Erasmi shrug off SANZAR rejection.
26 Jul 10 19:24 by Andre Bosch (KSA Shark ©) | 6 Comments
Organisers of a proposed Twenty20-style rugby competition have vowed to continue with their plans to stage the tournament despite failing to attract the support of SANZAR. […]
Super 18 on the horizon
22 Apr 10 06:31 by Andre Bosch (KSA Shark ©) | 23 Comments
The expansion of Super Rugby from a 14-team to a 15-team tournament may be short-lived. It is almost certain to expand to a 16- or-18 team competition in the next five years. […]
Two referees?
1 Feb 10 05:05 by Andre Bosch (KSA Shark ©) | 11 Comments
Super rugby could follow in the footsteps of the NRL and introduce a dual-referee system as soon as next year. […]
Farewell, Currie Cup. We’ll miss you
20 May 09 09:59 by Rob Otto (robdylan) | 107 Comments
Yesterday’s unveiling of the proposed Super 15 competition structure makes one wonder why Andy Marinos and SARU wasted so much time, and so many column inches, in the lead up to giving John O’Neill exactly what he wanted anyway. The belligerent Australian has, as always, ridden roughshod right over the needs and demands of his supposed partners and bullied his way to a structure that is far less a compromise than a total realisation of all his goals. […]
Super Rugby Safe – S15 agreed to
15 May 09 07:21 by Andre Bosch (KSA Shark ©) | 64 Comments
We now have an expanded Super 15 rugby competition after the three Sanzar nations finally reached a compromise around the boardroom table in Dublin today, though the champagne corks were not exactly being popped by any of the protagonists. […]
‘Aus, NZ can’t do without SA’
12 May 09 07:41 by Wesley Weber (wpw) | 40 Comments
Australian rugby boss John O’Neill has been called to order by South African Rugby Union (SARU) president Oregan Hoskins. […]
O’Neill – SARU still bluffing
11 May 09 06:47 by Andre Bosch (KSA Shark ©) | 8 Comments
South Africa’s threat to defect to northern hemisphere competitions remains a bluff, says Australian Rugby Union (ARU) chief executive John O’Neill, as the Sanzar nations try to thrash out a Super rugby solution in Dublin this week. […]
Stop messing with a working formula
7 May 09 10:24 by Rob Otto (robdylan) | 50 Comments
There is nothing wrong with Super Rugby – or rather, nothing that adding more teams to the mix is going to solve. […]
Future of Super Rugby on a knife edge
1 May 09 19:25 by Andre Bosch (KSA Shark ©) | 20 Comments
The future of Super Rugby is clearly on a knife edge as New Zealand and Australia explained the stumbling blocks to the tournament continuing with South African involvement. […]
Force on the brink of extinction
25 Apr 09 07:34 by Andre Bosch (KSA Shark ©) | 5 Comments
Perth is in danger of losing its Super 14 franchise, the Western Force, to another State after the Government’s rejected plans to upgrade Subiaco Oval. […]
Marinos: Saru looking north
23 Apr 09 08:01 by Andre Bosch (KSA Shark ©) | 21 Comments
SANZAR’s alliance is on the edge of collapse as South Africa have admitted that they are looking at joining the Northern Hemisphere tournaments which would leave Australia and New Zealand to go it alone. […]
SA shut out talk gains momentum
14 Apr 09 07:35 by Andre Bosch (KSA Shark ©) | 2 Comments
As Australia and New Zealand struggle to agree with South Africa on the future of Super rugby, a contingency plan involving a replacement Asia Pacific trans-Tasman tournament gains momentum. […]
SA may play little part in radical new Super rugby model
10 Mar 09 11:54 by Andre Bosch (KSA Shark ©) | 60 Comments
South Africa’s involvement in Super rugby could be whittled back to a mere handful of matches as SANZAR investigates a proposal that would see Australia and New Zealand stage their own Asia-Pacific tournament. […]