The News Review:
- Puma power: Argentinian rugby
- Rugby League: Dragons writing their own fairytale
- Parlez-vous rugby? If you don’t there’s help
- Rleague.com – The World of Rugby League
- Rugby World Cup 2011 The Unofficial Rugby World cup website
Puma power: Argentinian rugby
BBC News – Jul 26, 2007
ver the years they have been perhaps the most feared scrummagers in world rugby reflecting the macho meat-eating culture of the country. When the uncompromising forward power is allied to a ruthless kicker – Hugo Porta and Gonzalo Quesada to name just two – the Pumas have an efficient rugby machine capable of troubling all but the very best. Perhaps the emphasis on forward play has hindered the development of an all-round game in Argentina their sides failing to make the most of such talented backs as Agustin Pichot and Felipe Contepomi. The dispersal of their rugby talent around the globe in the professional era has exposed their leading players to different rugby cultures though.
Rugby League: Dragons writing their own fairytale
International Herald Tribune – Jul 26, 2007
A pedant might object that George rwell always more interested in political than popular culture took little interest in the town's sporting passions when writing “The Road to Wigan Pier. ” And of course “Homage to Catalonia” was concerned with the Spanish part of the region rather than the French section from which the Catalan Dragons operate. Yet rwell always alert to the significant would certainly have appreciated what Sunday's match in Warrington means to the competing clubs and rugby's 13-a-side code as a whole. The prize is a substantial one.
Parlez-vous rugby? If you don’t there’s help
New Zealand Herald – Jul 26, 2007
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Rleague.com – The World of Rugby League
World of Rugby League – Jul 26, 2007
The Wigan club pleaded not guilty to the suggestion that they had breached the salary cap. The RFL Tribunal did not agree with the Wigan club and declared that the Wigan club had breached the salary cap by 6. This resulted in the club facing a deduction of four points in the current season.
Rugby World Cup 2011 The Unofficial Rugby World cup website
Worldcupweb.com – Jul 26, 2007
Murray capped 83 times by his country recently announced that he was to join Montauban of France after the forthcoming Rugby World Cup but The Herald claims that the lock has been “axed with immediate effect by Edinburgh”. The newspaper alleges that the club has dispense of Murray on the basis that he was “in breach of contract for speaking to the press” about his imminent move to France. “Scott is effectively being left without a salary for four months which is why the matter has been placed in the hands of his lawyers” said the newspaper’s “source”. “It is very disappointing but this has been bubbling under the surface for the last couple of weeks.