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<i>Editorial:</i> Players wise to avoid restrictive contracts

<i>Chris Rattue:</i> Cash is only thing going for King Carlos

Carlos Spencer has pocketed one of the richest deals in South African rugby by heading to Johannesburg.

Rugby: Biggest, worst, dirtiest

Gregor Paul outlined his rugby awards for the year last week - here he takes a lighter look at some of the stranger happenings during the year in rugby.

<i>Gregor Paul:</i> Pointing a finger at thugs

The decade's best All Black XV

<i>Dylan Cleaver:</i> Clear choices, relatively, for decade's World XV

There are some here who have never really performed against the All Blacks but they have excelled against most.

Paul Lewis: Cancellation will stymie Tua comeback

Rugby: Best of 2009

Gregor Paul springs a few surprises in his “best of” review of the rugby year.

<i>Richard Loe</i>: Good but not great is the fairest assessment

<i>Sean Fitzpatrick</i>: Two years out and we look to be nicely on track

<i>Inga Tuigamala</i>: Hope for our game in Marseille victory

<i>Wynne Gray:</i> Let's give coaching team one more roll of the dice

<i>Chris Rattue</i>: Credit where due - Vive Graham Henry

Even the harshest critics among us will willingly concede that Henry really showed his coaching chops in this one.

<i>David Leggat</i>: A welcome win - but it could have been achieved more convincingly

<i>Wynne Gray</i>: A final flourish for which great teams yearn

<i>Gregor Paul</i>: The beast and that beauty Dan Carter