Tag: Ivan’s Angle
Super Rugby: Jordie steps up for AB’s no 15
Having outplayed the mercurial Damian McKenzie in the Hurricanes’ last-minute 27-24 Super Rugby win against the Chiefs, Jordie Barrett served notice to brother Beauden...
Opinion: Blues go marching on in Super Rugby
A three-game Super Rugby winning streak culminating in a 24-15 victory against the dangerous Hurricanes in Wellington has confirmed the Blues’ long-awaited improvement.
The latest,...
Super Rugby: Improved Blues face mighty Hurricanes
OPINION
Having deservedly overcome the previously unbeaten Stormers 33-10 in Cape Town, the Blues face an even sterner test of their Super Rugby talent against...
Sport:Honours for Taurua axe for Alexander
A one-point World Cup 52-51 triumph that won coach Dame Noelene Taurua and her Silver Ferns a clutch of Halberg Awards in Auckland last...
Ivan’s angle: Gatland’s Chiefs made of the right stuff
Coach Warren Gatland would have relished his Chiefs 25-15 Super Rugby win against Scott Robertson’s champion Crusaders in Hamilton on Saturday night.
It proved his...
Agnew’s angle: Black Ferns and sailors overcome adversity
Overcoming adversity is just one element which makes the Black Ferns Sevens and sailors Peter Burling and Blair Tuke great.
In winning the second round...
Agnew’s angle: Watling and Santner epitomise true grit
Having completed their first double century and century respectively in the first cricket test against England at Tauranga’s Bay Oval on Sunday, BJ Watling...
Reaction: English thorns mortally wound All Blacks
By Ivan Agnew
Having predicted in last week’s column that the English rose’s thorns could wound New Zealand in their Rugby World Cup Yokohama semi-final,...
Thorny English rose aims to prick All Blacks pride
Rarely has a Rugby World Cup match promised such excitement as Saturday’s eagerly anticipated semi-final in which the English rose will seek to wound...
Japan puts the cat amongst the pigeons
Much as we admired Japan’s magnificent 19-12 Rugby World Cup win against Ireland on Sunday, it has put the cat among the pigeons with...