The Gold Coast 7s party is over for 2013 and the Kiwis finally claim the spoils after two exhilarating days of action defeating the Aussies 40-19 in an exciting Cup Final where initially the local team lead 12-0 after two quick tries. All the weekend action was hot on and off the field with the [...]
The first round of this season’s World Sevens rugby junket 2013/14 started at 10:30am on the beautiful Gold Coast with New Zealand playing USA in their Pool A match. The Kiwis were victorious over the Americans 38-0. This was followed up by the ever improving Kenyans, with a huge supporter base, smashing the Tongans also by 38-0. [...]
Pretty patchy game, to be honest, if you watched all of it. We were lucky to win after poor English execution in the last 15 mins. To be fair I think that the Wallabies played with great heart, as they always do, you can never question their desire, but they had a little more structure [...]
Less than 12 months has passed since the Gold Coast first hosted the opening round of the HSBC World 7s junket. An action packed weekend carnival that visits 9 destinations around the globe as we look towards Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 2016 where this variation of rugby union has been chosen to represent the [...]
Spring has sprung and therefore the pointy end of the rugby season in this part of the world has arrived. At the weekend we had the Brisbane schoolboys GPS competition decided, the finalists determined for next weekend’s Brisbane Premiership Grand Final and the last domestic international for the Rugby Championship on the Gold Coast (of [...]
An assortment of vagabonds, rogues and scoundrels made their way to the Shekou ferry terminal on Saturday morning. The brave Shenzhen lads were heading to Macau for the annual beach rugby tournament, in what is the most unforgiving and brutal form of rugby. They were set to represent the fine city of Shenzhen and assist [...]
Having played all season on Saturday, last Sunday saw the start of the finals series for the Brisbane rugby Premiership competition. Queensland University continued their meteoric, late season rise up the table to defeat minor premiers, Brothers, 59-12 in the major semi-final to book a Grand Final appearance on September 23 at Ballymore. The students, [...]
Last Saturday saw the Queensland Reds take on the Sharks from Durban at Lang Park in Brisbane in the second play-off match of the 2012 Super 15 finals series. Earlier the Canterbury Crusaders defeated the Bulls to advance to the semi-finals and were waiting on the result of the second match to find out whether [...]
Continuing with our tradition of covering rugby from all corners of the globe, Brisbanerugby.com found ourselves in Hong Kong, for the final round of the Asian 5 Nations at the weekend. The final match was between Hong Kong and Kazakhstan played at the recently refurbished Mong Kok Stadium in Kowloon. Trevor Gregory, Chairman of HKRFU, [...]
It has been 11 years since Tokyo has been part of the international 7s junket, however inclusion in this seasons HSBC World Sevens Tournament was a great success. While the early spring in Japan was a little cooler than the week before in Hong Kong, Sunday’s blue skies & huge crowds made up for Saturday’s [...]
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