Once Glorious Highlanders Call Up The Troops To Avoid Sinking Into The Lowland

Fame is a fragile twig. In five years, the victory lap by Mark Hartill's Gordon premiers with the Shute Shield has almost faded from memory, to the point that the Highlanders have become the ``lowlanders".

Slow Starters, Scratching For A Win, Look To The Past To Secure Their Futures

Desperation for a first win may not be enough motivation for Gordon and Warringah at Pittwater Rugby Park today, so Highlanders coach John Quinn has his side focused on the past in an effort to improve its future.

Waratahs Cling To Finals Dream

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Full Marks Go To Waratahs For Making Schoolboy Fans' Day

ABC rugby caller Jim Maxwell sent us this snap of Sir Garfield Sobers's putting style. And Sir Garfield's golfing partner is not NSW Rugby Union chairman Dilip Kumar. If the Waratahs need a motivational tool to beat the Highlanders tomorrow night, they have only to remember a group of Perth schoo

Do-or-die Waratahs Rush Noriega Back Into Line-up

The Waratahs last night chose experience by rushing Test prop Patricio Noriega into the starting line-up for Saturday night's Super 12 match against the Highlanders in Dunedin.