Failing the UWTBB exams

It's report card time for New Zealand's international season and Mark Richardson plays professor. The Kiwis may have passed the overall season, but failed the all important Up With The Big Boys (UWTTB) Exams. Read on in the New Zealand Herald.

John Bracewell has an unfancied job arresting New Zealand's Test decline and the results seem unfair, given his passion and commitment to his job, writes Paul Lewis in the New Zealand Herald.

"He just can't win no matter what he does, you might say. It's true, as ever, that the blokes who trot out on the paddock have a fair bit to do with things."