'This is rugby': Match that reaffirmed our faith in football
It was football like they don't make it any more: stunning, scintillating, shattering in its intensity, extraordinary in its capacity to entrance.
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Peter FitzSimons
Peter FitzSimons is an Australian journalist and author, based in Sydney. He is also a former Wallabies player.
Australian rugby paying the price for ignoring grassroots
Australian rugby needs to batten down the hatches and weather the storm before it can emerge as a world force again.
Apocalypse now for four football codes, but as for next week ...
To paraphrase Bob Dylan, when it rains, it pours in Australia's football codes.
Call me crazy, but it's time to get Alan Jones to coach the Waratahs
Listen, when it comes to Alan Jones, I've had to put another man on, just to keep track of the things I violently disagree with him on – and I have done so for 34 years now.
Why rugby needs its Mummy
What rugby needs right now is to nurture the love once more.
Want more Ellas? Then change these rugby rules
Rugby union needs to change the rules to revitalise the game.
All Blacks IVF plan for world rugby domination
Listen, I get that New Zealand takes their rugby seriously, and world rugby is all the better for that. But do you think, sometimes, they might be taking it a bit too seriously?
Memo Waratahs: You were awful - do something - anything
There are losses, there are bad losses, there are disgraceful losses, there are disgraceful losses including craven collapses and then . . . there is the Waratahs' 28-12 loss to the Brumbies at the Sydney Football Stadium last Saturday night.
The Australian team that must be cut from Super Rugby
In the beginning there was rugby, and it was good and it was great.
It's time for the Kiwis to apologise for slurs against Wallabies
So there I bloody was ...
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