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Reviewing the situation.

As Fagin said and sung in Oliver! I am reviewing the situation as we approach the business end of the competition. Unless there are some extraordinary surprises like Fiji beating Wales and Canada the Boks , the final eight look like Japan, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, England, France, Wales [...]

October 7, 2019 // 0 Comments

Doing it right

It is an inalienable fact of life that every sport known to man comes with a series of principles that define its culture and to an extent attracts participants that respond to them on one level or another. There are also inherent differences between those which one might describe as individual [...]

October 5, 2019 // 0 Comments

Changing times – or maybe not?

The UK may think that it is currently immersed in the mother and father of mess-ups over politics, Brexit and where the hell it is going, but you can take comfort in the knowledge you’re not alone. Those at the top table of rugby administration – not least World Rugby itself – are making a [...]

September 29, 2019 // 0 Comments

Nihon e yo-koso! [translation: “Welcome to Japan!”]

To begin my first piece for the National Rust on the 2019 World Cup – the greatest ‘shop window’ for what I think we can all agree is the finest sport ever to grace the Earth – I wish to pay my respects to the host nation and particular one of rugby’s greatest sons Shiggy Konno. I make no [...]

September 26, 2019 // 0 Comments

Sports topics

Here’s a brief fly-by of my pick of the sporting issues and stories that caught my eye over the weekend: ROWING Multi-gold medallist James Cracknell undoubtedly ranks as one of the all-time great British rowers, not only resembling a purpose-built Greek god but also possessing every champion’s [...]

September 23, 2019 // 0 Comments

Cranking up the pressure …

For domestic reasons which need not concern the average Ruster I have yet to witness more than a pair of BBC New bulletin brief reports’ worth of coverage of the matches played so far but – as yet – the 2019 Rugby World Cup experience seems to have been progressing much as World Rugby and the [...]

September 22, 2019 // 0 Comments

My story/ Granite Grant Logan

I thought I would begin by explaining how it was that I came to write for the Rust. Your wine correspondent Algy Belville came to North Island NZ, what 2 year ago, and met up with a great mate John Buck whose family own Te Mata Estate, the best winery in our country. John chaired Hawkes Bay Rugby [...]

September 21, 2019 // 0 Comments

Let the games commence!

One of the ironies of living long enough to reach one’s sixties is that the very fact tends to play havoc with both collective and personal memories, not least because inevitably the technology by which historical events were recorded define their brief moment in time. This might seem an obvious [...]

September 20, 2019 // 0 Comments

‘Granite’ Grant Logan joins the Rust

SPORTS DEPARTMENT ANNOUNCEMENT Despite the Rust’s extraordinary commercial success – itself a welcome testimony to the fact that those beyond the first flush of youth can still be relevant, place new ideas on the table and indeed provide insights sprung from wisdom gained down the years that [...]

September 18, 2019 // 0 Comments

The name on the Trophy

With the Rugby World Cup almost upon us – it begins on Friday morning (UK time) – it is currently the ‘Phoney War’ moment during which the media to provides us with a blizzard of copy about every aspect of the country, the culture, the competing teams and indeed every [...]

September 17, 2019 // 0 Comments

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