Gordon Tietjens, widely regarded as the greatest rugby sevens coach of all time, and certainly the most successful, chooses his fantasy rugby sevens team in this video by Inside Sevens. His team includes rugby union greats Jonah Lomu and Christian Cullen. He describes Lomu as having the ability to play as a forward and a winger with outstanding power, and Cullen as having phenomenal pace and fitness levels. ‘Titch’ also selects sevens exponents Karl Te Nana, three time gold medal winner Amasio Valence, Dallas Seymore and current New Zealand captain DJ Forbes. Former New…

In this YouTube video Rugby Channel USA spend 5 minutes with All Black legend Christian Cullen. The interview comes soon after New Zealand won the 2010 Commonwealth Games gold medal for rugby sevens – a medal Cullen himself won in 1998.

Christian Cullen burst onto the scene in 1996 on the sevens circuit, where he scored a record 18 tries in the Hong Kong tournament. That year he made the All Blacks and went on to play 50 consecutive tests; a record unlikely to be repeated. In 1996 he was an integral part of the…

The All Black and Springbok teams have been named to play the sixth Tri-Nations test of 2010. The match will take place on Saturday the 21st of August at 5pm, local time at Soccer City Stadium in Johannesburg.

All Blacks:

15 Mils Muliaina, 14 Cory Jane, 13 Conrad Smith, 12 Ma’a Nonu, 11 Joe Rokocoko, 10 Dan Carter, 9 Jimmy Cowan; 8 Kieran Read, 7 Richie McCaw, 6 Jerome Kaino, 5 Tom Donnelly, 4 Brad Thorn, 3 Ben Franks, 2 Keven Mealamu, 1 Tony Woodcock.

Reserves: 16 Corey Flynn, 17 John Afoa, 18 Sam Whitelock, 19 Victor Vito,…

Each week this All Blacks team is breaking so many records that many of them are not getting the sort of fanfare they deserve. In last night’s victory Ma’a Nonu became the 35th player to get 50 test caps for the All Blacks and Tony Woodcock became the most experienced test prop in All Black history. Both records were achieved with minimal fanfare. The exploits of the current team is bringing familiar criticism of the All Blacks notorious record of peak in between world cups and their inability to win the big trophy.

Here’s…

Over the last few years it has been hard not to notice the impact KooGa Rugby has started to have on the rugby union landscape. What is really striking about the success of KooGa Rugby recently is the amount of professional sports teams they provide rugby gear and rugby clothing to. The list reads like a who’s who of rugby teams.

KooGa International Rugby Teams

Internationally they supply KooGa sportswear to the Wallabies from Australia and the Fijian Rugby team, both of whom are in the top ten IRB ranked countries, with the Wallabies traditionally sitting in…