Aisle be Back: Hurricanes v Blues

By Kevin McCarthy Move on. Move on. Heard that a bit this week, after Ardie Savea’s infamous throat-slit gesture. Moving on for some meant justifying or rationalising the act. Odd stance. You can’t really do that and expect an apology to be enough. No-one thinks it was meant in a literal

Aisle be Back: Hurricanes v Rebels

By Kevin McCarthy. We couldn’t lose to the Rebels tonight, could we? Yes, we could.  But surely it hasn’t been keeping any Hurricanes fans sleepless this week, sweating like the players were in last weekend’s thumping of the Reds. If you can’t win the title in rounds one and two, you surely

Law changes locked in for 2023 rugby season

Almost the only thing certain about rugby these days is ongoing change, especially when it comes to the Laws of the Game as more tweaks are made for the 2023 season. At the World Rugby level, the only change is that the five Laws trialled last year – Goal-line drop-out, the