Articles by Gregor%20Paul,%20NZ%20Herald
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Sport
Comeback call! Razor approaches ABs great to return
Thursday, 21 March 2024, 12:39PMEXCLUSIVE One of the great sporting comebacks may be on the cards later this year as All Blacks coach Scott Robertson has...
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Sport
ABs coup: Joe Schmidt set to join Foster's coaching team
Tuesday, 14 December 2021, 9:27AMThe All Blacks will welcome Joe Schmidt into their coaching team next year. The Herald understands that Schmidt, who masterminded...
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Sport
Forsyth Barr enters battle to buy into New Zealand Rugby
Friday, 14 May 2021, 12:37PMAn alternative offer to Silver Lake, valuing New Zealand Rugby at a colossal $3.8 billion, has been tabled by local investment...
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Audio
David Kirk: Players fear profitability issues over Silver Lake deal
Friday, 30 April 2021, 3:10PMNew Zealand Rugby could be a loss-making venture by 2025 and living off its capital reserves if it takes the deal with Silver...
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Sport
All Blacks great Dan Carter reveals retirement from rugby
Saturday, 20 February 2021, 11:50PMDaniel Carter, after 19 professional seasons and just a few weeks short of turning 39, has announced his retirement from...
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Sport
'We're flabbergasted': All Blacks icon slams 'cruel' NZ Rugby over Pasifika snub
Sunday, 4 October 2020, 4:13PMSuch is the passion for Moana Pasifika to play in Super Rugby next year that the option of lifting the team from South Auckland...
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Sport
Cash-strapped NZ Rugby to reveal 'most radical shakeup in 24 years'
Thursday, 27 February 2020, 4:58PMThe process of radically changing the set-up of rugby in New Zealand will begin tomorrow when provincial unions are presented...
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Sport
Accident or one last dig? Eddie Jones reveals Hansen's next job
Sunday, 27 October 2019, 10:54AMEngland's stunning victory will be widely dubbed as one of the best in their history, but coach Eddie Jones wasn't giving...
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Sport
Exposed: NZ Rugby's World Cup stuff-up
Tuesday, 10 September 2019, 4:12PMRugby's drive to create gender equality has hit an ice-berg with the 2021 World Cup set to offer women inferior basic conditions...
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Sport
Rugby set for biggest change in history with new World League
Thursday, 28 February 2019, 2:08PMKEY POINTS 12-team World League from 2020 Japan and USA to join Rugby Championship Deal worth $10-14m a year for each nation Pacific...
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Sport
St Kent's shocking u-turn in player poaching row
Monday, 17 December 2018, 5:16PMSt Kentigern College has confirmed to its parental community and former pupil network that it needs to review its policy...
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Opinion
Gregor Paul: How one woman shattered rugby's biggest lie
Friday, 14 December 2018, 8:12AMCOMMENT There is a small and indeed small-minded lobby of rugby followers who think the game's newfound desire to embrace...
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Sport
Auckland school kicked out of top rugby competition
Wednesday, 5 December 2018, 12:31PMThe ethical quagmire that is schoolboy rugby has been further muddied with Auckland powerhouse St Kentigern College being...
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Sport
Comment: Why All Blacks victory should be treated with caution
Sunday, 25 November 2018, 9:41AMItaly are clearly not giants of world rugby and therefore the All Blacks' crushing victory in Rome has to be treated with...
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Sport
All Blacks could lose and still have edge over rivals
Monday, 22 October 2018, 6:40AMCOMMENT: The next two weeks could go a long way to helping the All Blacks in chasing a third successive World Cup. They could...
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Sport
Rugby: Bok Shock! Springboks stun All Blacks for famous win
Saturday, 15 September 2018, 7:17PMSo the All Blacks are beatable after all. A brilliant game and a brilliant turnaround from the Springboks that no one saw...
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Sport
Rugby: All Blacks hold off potent Pumas performance
Saturday, 8 September 2018, 9:34PMThe All Blacks coaches got their wish of a brutal test to examine the credentials of a number of fringe players. There had...
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Sport
It's Richie time! Mo'unga to start for All Blacks, latest in long line of first-five stars
Thursday, 6 September 2018, 6:39AMRichie Mo'unga gives off a vibe that invokes a particular sense of confidence he's going to deliver on his immense promise...
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Sport
Rugby: Ferocious Hurricanes overcome Crusaders
Saturday, 10 March 2018, 9:33PMWellington just isn't a good city for the Crusaders. They haven't won there since 2012 and were never much of a chance of...
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Sport
All Blacks TV rights: It's now make or break time for Sky
Friday, 2 March 2018, 12:45PMAs much as Sky knows its future is inextricably linked to the outcome of the next All Blacks broadcast rights negotiation,...
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Sport
2023 Rugby World Cup host revealed
Thursday, 16 November 2017, 6:22AMFrance have won the hosting rights to the 2023 World Cup, somehow managing to persuade a majority of voting members to go...
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Sport
All Blacks make history with 2,000th try as they crush France
Sunday, 12 November 2017, 11:13AMJust as they did last year, the All Blacks managed to cling on to victory in Paris in the most unconvincing manner. It was...
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Sport
Wallabies take down All Blacks in epic test
Sunday, 22 October 2017, 6:30AMThe All Blacks couldn't pull off the great escape for a second time. They couldn't do in Brisbane what they did in Dunedin...
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Sport
Springboks thrashed by record margin
Sunday, 17 September 2017, 6:30AMThis All Blacks team is certainly on to something. They'd hinted as much in the last few weeks but for the first time this...