September 2011
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Francois Steyn out of rugby world cup, injured.
Big loss for the Springboks. Their goal kicking collosal and all-round backline star Francois Steyn picked up a shoulder injury against the Samoans, which will rule him out of the rest of the tournament.
Steyn is to distance kicking, what Haile Gebrselassie was to distance running
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Italy name their team for Ireland match. Andrea...
15 - Andrea Masi (Aironi Rugby) 14 - Tommaso Benvenuti (Benetton Treviso) 13 - Gonzalo Canale (Clermont Auvergne) 12 - Gonzalo Garcia (Benetton Treviso) 11 - Mirco Bergamasco (Racing Metro 92) 10 - Luciano Orquera (Aironi Rugby) 9 - Fabio Semenzato (Benetton Treviso) 1 - Salvatore Perugini (Aironi Rugby) 2 - Leonardo Ghiraldini (Benetton Treviso) 3 - Martin Castrogiovanni (Leicester Tigers) 4 -...
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Muliaina and Read returns for All Blacks
Good team, good continuity leading up to the quarters
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New Zealand have opted to rotate their options for their Rugby World Cup pool clash with Canada in Wellington on Sunday.
New Zealand: Mils Muliaina; Israel Dagg, Conrad Smith, Sonny Bill Williams, Zac Guildford; Daniel Carter, Jimmy Cowan; Tony Woodcock, Andrew Hore, Owen Franks, Samuel Whitelock, Ali Williams, Jerome Kaino,...
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Paul Ackford still gets palpitations remembering... →
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RWC2011: who will make the last eight?
There’s eight games left in the pool phase of this year’s rugby World Cup. Rugby fans will soon be facing the doldrums as we enter the quarter finals and the surfeit of rugby starts evaporating.
The weekend’s games will confirm who the last eight are. There are a number of crunch fixtures, where victory or defeat will determine a team’s fate. Those who win will pass through, while those who...
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This is how Welsh we all are:
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In my school’s main enterance, there is a television on the wall where notifications are put up so we can read them as we walk through the reception. Today, someone put the rugby on the television. The entire enterance was blocked with students cheering at the TV. I love my school.
W.o.w.
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Rugby World Cup - big games still to come
25 September
Fiji vs Samoa
Second sellout crowd for Eden Park in two days. The Battle of the Pacific.
Argentina vs Scotland
Last chance for Argentina. A virtual quarter final for Los Pumas.
27 September
Canada vs Japan
This is Japan’s last game. Can the brave blossoms pull out a win? The Canucks have fought good battles against Tonga and France. This should be no different.
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New Mike Tindall video
Unfortunately for Tindall, Zara or England, this story’s does not seem to be fading away.
It seems a second Queenstown bar has CCTV coverage of Mike Tindall (in action) with that mystery blonde. Luckily the bar does not want to release the tape. What did they capture … there’s a few clues here.
< This from the NZ Herald http://bit.ly/pX0d0z >
The bar manager Mel Latu...
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Good news for All Blacks on injury front →
Most serious is Richard Kahui. Come on boy you’ve got make it back for the quarter finals.
Cory Jane. Head-knock. Hopefully not too serious with not too many brain cells being lost.
Thomson and Dagg could potentially be back for Sunday’s game against Canada.
Oh yeah, and Keiran Reid is still on target to make his splendid return in the All Black’s last pool game.
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RWC2011: All Black injuries following France game
All Blacks coach Graham Henry has confirmed that his entire back three that started against France are now under injury clouds, with it further revealed that Richard Kahui is in doubt for next week.
The Waikato back has a haematoma in his thigh and tweaked his hamstring, and Henry did state that he may not be available for selection next week. He left the field in the second half, to be replaced...
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All Blacks 37 France 17 - French lessons?
France fails to storm le Eden Park fortress.
What a fantastic performance from the All Blacks. Accuracy. Efficiency. Every player turned up and demonstrated why they’ve been selected in the top team.
Unfortunately it’s a win which history prefers we don’t celebrate. It’s a great step in the right direction to the country’s biggest party ever. But there’s still...
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All Blacks despatch France with ease →
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New Zealand 37 - 17 France
Half-time: 19 - 3
Tries: Dagg 2, Jane, Thomson, S Williams Cons: Carter 3 Pens: Carter Drops: Carter
Tries: Mermoz, Trinh-Duc Cons: Yachvili 2 Pens: Yachvili
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Italy rugby name starting fifteen for USA clash
Nick Mallet goes for an experienced line-up.
BACKS
Andrea Masi, Tommaso Benevenuti, Gonzalo Canale, Gonzalo Garcia, Mirco Bergamasco, Luciano Orquera, Fabio Semenzato.
FORWARDS
Sergio Parisse, Mauro Bergamasco, Alessandro Zanni, Cornelius Van Zyl, Quentin Geldenhuys, Martin Castrogiovanni, Fabio Ongaro and Andrea Lo Cicero.
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RWC2011 favourable draw - have the experts got it...
The melee around tonight’s game continues.
During the week a number of New Zealand pundits have claimed the French are going to surrender without a fight. Believing the French will throw this in order to make the favourable side of the sudden death draw.
Since Ireland’s historic win against the Aussies all sorts of permutations with the quarter finals have come into play.
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Ten lessons learnt from RWC2011 (rugby world cup...
(1) A lot of teams are good at scrummaging. Someone somewhere has made a bundle selling scrum machines to minnow nations.
(2) When it comes to rugby; Georgia are the masters - Russia the subservients.
(3) Ryan Nicholas and James Arlidge are alive and well, both playing rugby in Japan. Good to see you guys are safe. We can call back the Hercules planes.
(4) Sumo Stevenson and James McOnie are...
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Chris Rattue: France pose absolutely no threat to...
Does anyone else remember this article? From that journalistic buffon, NZ Herald writer Chris Rattue. Woops he got this one wrong. Or was he just communicating what we all were thinking … we just needed to turn up to win that quarter final in 2007. Oh that bloody grey jersey.
Article first published: Wednesday Oct 3, 2007. Highlights (most embarassing bits) are in bold.
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RWC killer quote competition - Dan Carter (NZ)
All Blacks star Dan Carter shares his opinion on Saturday’s big game.
“We are very wary of France.”
“I know how much they love playing the All Blacks and it is going to be a huge game for us.”
“They are dangerous and unpredictable and they will crank it up for this game. What happened against them in 2007 has not been mentioned at all this week.”
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