The News Review:
- Indian rugby authorities disown team
- Rugby: More England players downed by stomach bug
- Rugby: Kenya’s Shujaa Rugby team drawn against Tunisia in Pool D
- Super 14 Rugby Super Rugby News Fixtures and Results
- Rugby Union: Memo to England: Beef Up Now or You’ll Get Bullied
Indian rugby authorities disown team
Pakistan Dawn – May 31, 2007
“ur Pakistan Rugby Union is the sole body affiliated with the International Rugby Board and we have no knowledge on whose invitation the Indians are in Pakistan” Khawaja said. “We have also contacted the Rugby Football Union of India President Pramod Khanna asking him to explain the status of the Indian team which is currently in Pakistan” he added. In reply the Indian rugby authorities said: “This news has come as a surprise to us. It may please be noted that the Indian Rugby Football Union is the sole governing body for the game of rugby-football in India and it did not send any team to Pakistan.
Rugby: More England players downed by stomach bug
Channel News Asia – May 31, 2007
Fullback Mike Brown loose forward Andy Hazell wing James Simpson-Daniel and centre Andy Farrell are out of the running for Saturday’s Test. They join David Strettle Iain Balshaw and Nick Wood who pulled out of the tour following the Springboks’ first Test 58-10 win in Bloemfontein last weekend. Brown Simpson-Daniel and Farrell are according to England coach Brian Ashton too ill to fly home after picking up the stomach bug. A large chunk of the touring England squad have been downed by a viral infection that has moved through the team since their arrival in South Africa two weeks ago.
Rugby: Kenya’s Shujaa Rugby team drawn against Tunisia in Pool D
Kenya Broadcasting Corporation – May 31, 2007
Posted: Thu May 31 2007Kenya rugby sevens team has been drawn in pool D while the second tier team Shujaa has been grouped in pool C in this year's Tusker Safari sevens tournament which will be held from the 8th-10th of next month at the RFUEA grounds in Nairobi. Kenya seeded 4th has been drawn alongside Zambia Morocco and Mpumalanga in Pool D and their first match is against Morocco. Top seeds and reigning world sevens champions Fiji Namibia London Irish and SEP lions make up pool A. Defending champions Emerging Springboks of South Africa are in Pool B with Uganda Bristol University Select and Cote d' Ivoire. Shujaa Kenya's B side is in a tough pool C that includes last year's finalists Zimbabwe Tunisia and Japan who will be making their debut in the tournament.
Super 14 Rugby Super Rugby News Fixtures and Results
Super 14 – May 31, 2007
Bourgoin wing Jean-Francois Coux a late replacement for the touring squad when Pepito Elhorga pulled out with a knee injury duly steps up for his first cap. Whilst Julien Laharrague misses out altogether the dearth of fit French fly-halves means that Nicolas Laharrague hangs on to his place on the bench. “Yesterday [Wednesday] there was a clear delay in their arrival for a video and training session by both the Laharrague brothers” said France manager Jo Maso. “We have given them a light punishment but they will both stay on the tour.
Rugby Union: Memo to England: Beef Up Now or You’ll Get Bullied
Buzzle – May 31, 2007
com –>If I had a pound for every time I heard someone say over the past year especially in the media that English rugby players are spending too much time weight training I could buy my own gym. I would argue that what last weekend’s defeat to South Africa showed was that not enough hours are being put into conditioning work. The Springboks were more powerful than England and it told. Anyone who wonders why Graham Henry risked the wrath of broadcasters by insisting that his top players missed the first half of the Super 14 series to take part in a conditioning program only had to look at the way South Africa looked and played last weekend. Big men imposed themselves physically: it does not matter how skillful and talented you are muscle matters.