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Posted 421 days ago
I WENT to Stuart Lancaster’s Six Nations debrief last week. He had put together an impressive presentation, complete with PowerPoint display, but what really stood out were the words of Graham Rowntree, his assistant coach.
Given that the England coaching appointment was still up in the air at the time, Rowntree could have been forgiven for looking after his own interests and making sure that
Posted 434 days ago
GETHIN JENKINS, who will join Toulon after Wales’ three-Test tour of Australia this summer, is more renowned for his scrummaging and tackling ability than splitting opposition defences. Against Namibia at the World Cup, however, he showed a surprising turn of pace and threw a dummy to score a memorable try. Watch it here…
Posted 581 days ago
By Sarah Mockford, Rugby World Features Editor at Eden Park
WALES DESERVED to end this World Cup with a win but it wasn’t to be. Neither Australia nor Wales excelled in a rather drab third-place play-off, but it was the Wallabies who emerged 21-18 winners at Eden Park.
Wales put together a great spell in the last five minutes, keeping the ball…
Posted 585 days ago
Wales’ biggest rugby fans can expect another red hot welcome at the Millennium Stadium for the free live screening of Friday’s Rugby World Cup Bronze Final between Wales and Australia.
After a record 61,543 rugby supporters packed out the home of Welsh sport for the semi-final clash with France, the WRU are inviting fans to show their support for Walesas they…
Posted 585 days ago
Craig Joubert will take charge of his first Rugby World Cup Final after the International Rugby Board (IRB) announced that the South African has been appointed to the New Zealand versus France Rugby World Cup 2011 Final at Eden Park on Sunday, October 23.
Joubert, who took charge of the New Zealand versus Australia semi-final on Sunday, becomes only the second…
Posted 585 days ago
The French Rugby squad took the heat off their Rugby World Cup 2011 finals build-up with a relaxed day out in Auckland.
The players and management enjoyed a typical Kiwi barbeque lunch at the waterside Riverhead Tavern and a thrilling jet-boat ride on Auckland’s Waitemata Harbour.
While experiencing a high-speed blast and sweeping turns the group made the most of their day…
Posted 586 days ago
By Sarah Mockford, Rugby World Features Editor at Eden Park
SO THE omens of 1987 continue and New Zealand have made it through to the World Cup final after comfortably seeing off the world’s No 2 side Australia. They now have a great chance of lifting the Webb Ellis Cup for the first time in 24 years as they will face…
Posted 590 days ago
As South Africans come to terms with the weekend’s quarter-final loss to Australia, Francois Pienaar, captain of the team that famously won the tournament in 1995, offers a pragmatic view on a match that he feels the Springboks could certainly have won.
“The team, management and South African supporters will all feel that the Boks were unlucky, with the indifferent refereeing…
Posted 591 days ago
I am delighted and I must say a little relieved that Australia have made it to the semi-finals of the Rugby World Cup. It was a brutal game against South Africa and I felt we were fairly fortunate to get through. Australia put up an awesome defence to keep South Africa out.
Good teams have a variety of ways of winning…
