Craig Joubert
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Crowning Glory: Three pivotal Ireland games at Twickenham
- International
- February 22, 2020, 11:00
Ireland have travelled to Twickenham in the middle round of the Six Nations on three previous occasions and, in their own way, they have been landmark(...)

It’ll be all black for a while but New Zealand will rise again
- International
- October 28, 2019, 06:00
Some get to pen their own exits, be it Brian O’Driscoll to Derek Pender in our neck of the woods, or in Rugby World Cups most recently there was the A(...)

Steve Hansen taking in all in his stride ahead of England showdown
- International
- October 22, 2019, 17:00
Joe Schmidt and Michael Cheika looked like tortured souls and on at least three occasions Eddie Jones has shown signs of emotion in front of the Engli(...)

Gerry Thornley: Japan v Scotland was a magnificent irrelevance
- International
- October 15, 2019, 07:00
Only a game, but what a game. Japan and Scotland served up the best of the 37 pool matches in the last of them. After Typhoon Hagibis, which wreaked s(...)

Owen Doyle: The refs know their duty – but do the coaches and players?
- International
- October 9, 2019, 05:30
We started out in September looking at the focus areas for the match officials. So let’s see what’s been happening so far. Firstly, when we look at h(...)

Rugby World Cup match officials admit they must do better
- International
- September 24, 2019, 19:20
Match officials at the Rugby World Cup have shown themselves a yellow card after reviewing the opening round of matches. Referees, touch judges and t(...)

Precedent everything when it comes to contentious TMO decisions
- International
- February 15, 2018, 12:08
Warren Gatland decried a “terrible mistake” by the TMO after Wales’s defeat to England last weekend and prompted an admission from World Rugby that th(...)

View from New Zealand: We're just happy to take your money
- International
- July 14, 2017, 14:00
New Zealand Rugby’s coffers are stuffed as fat as a Christmas turkey thanks to the British and Irish Lions. For six weeks stadiums from Whangarei to (...)

Gerry Thornley: Lions, not All Blacks, were denied final shot at glory
- International
- July 9, 2017, 15:17
There are 77 minutes, 54 seconds on the clock and, as the dogs in the street now know, it’s 15-all. Freeze-frame Beauden Barrett’s restart. Kieran Rea(...)

Gerry Thornley: In Wayne Barnes Ireland must trust
- International
- March 7, 2017, 05:30
The appointment of Wayne Barnes as referee for this Friday night’s Six Nations encounter away to Wales has, most probably, engendered a degree of anxi(...)