This weekend is the final of the Farah Palmer Cup in both the Championship and Premiership divisions. Bringing to a close the domestic women's rugby season. 10 long months after the first tragic bronco time would have been run in pre-season. I've been thinking today
We are now only 36 days away from the election here in Aotearoa. So I can't pretend that there's much else on my mind but politics. This last week, my team of volunteers have knocked on over 1000 doors and made nearly 2000 phone calls to
The Canadians got bloody close last week. We all (the players included) wanted to see what they could do off that last scrum but the call was made and the ball was kicked for touch. Bringing to an end England's 39 game winning streak. It was the best
It was both messy and convincing last week. The Black Ferns doubling the French score at both full time and the break. Playing on top footy that we know and love, pushing the pass at the line but let's be honest, the timing was a little off. They
It wasn't news the Black Ferns fans would have wanted. Our Global XV Series kicks off with a replay of the World Cup Bronze Final this weekend and our captain and first five is out. Ruahei Demant has injured her calf badly enough that a replacement is being
The Black Ferns have joined the All Blacks on their Greatest rivalry tour, to play their first ever match against the Springbok Women on South African soil. This game is the development of rugby's newest rivalry. It's that emerged in the quarterfinal of last year'
The women's domestic competition kicks off this weekend. If you want to see your local team in action, you better make a plan to get down to the grounds cause otherwise you're shit out of luck. That's right, we've all woken up
First up an apology for being missing from your inbox last week. The Black Ferns and Black Ferns XV match being played at 3.30pm landed right on top of my writing time. So I made the executive decision to head down there and ask some questions instead to better
The Black Ferns will be playing the Wallaroos in 15 days time and a lot of rugby news will drop between now and then. On Monday, the best fifteens players in Aotearoa will be assembled here in Wellington. The Black Ferns and Black Ferns XV scheduled to play a (probably
It was a year ago that sport minister Mark Mitchell went against the advice of Sport New Zealand to demand the removal of the guidance for transgender participation in community sport. It was yet another example in the growing list of communities that National was willing to sell out to
A final has arrived to mark the end of a season like no other. We have always been promised that Aupiki would be the leveling up of domestic women's rugby but this year, year five, it has actually felt like it. We've seen all franchises now
I was going to write you a full preview today but stuff it. This is my newsletter so I'm allowed to just talk about my Poua. Long time readers will have been with me on this journey. Seeing our franchise limp out the gate at the launch of