Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Southern Comfort

Congrats to New Zealand, inaugural winners of the Southern Hemisphere’s Tournament formerly known as the Tri Nations (#) following their 51-14 win over Argentina at the weekend. It seems that the All Blacks are some way clear of the chasing pack at the moment (again).

As for Argentina – their progress has pretty much been the only point of interest in this tournament for this blogger and, although so far winless, by and large it appears they have been competitive and have fully justified their long overdue inclusion in mainstream international rugby. Good luck to them at home against the Aussies this weekend.

(#) – which marketing genius came up with the name “The Rugby Championship”? Crap name which, certainly up here in the north, carries with it connotations of a very much second-tier competition. Sometimes rugby does itself no favours.

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