The News Review:
- In pictures: We played rugby surrounded by sea
- Warning over rugby ticket sales
- Chris Rattue: Argentina – rugby carthorses
- The Great Australian Rugby Movie
- … duo fit to fly – Rugby News Results Fixtures and Features…
- Saving rugby in the south
In pictures: We played rugby surrounded by sea
BBC News – Aug 31, 2007
This bit of sand can only be seen during the very lowest tides of the year. All is quiet – but not for long.
Warning over rugby ticket sales
BBC News – Aug 31, 2007
With a week before the tournament kicks off in France thousands of tickets are on offer on unofficial websites. Most tickets via official sources have already been sold and one fans’ website says supporters will still buy online. But Cardiff Council’s Handley Brustad said: "Quite often these tickets just don’t materialise it’s a pure scam for you to send money. "Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium is hosting four Rugby World Cup matches and organisers say there are still plenty of tickets left for two games – Wales versus Japan and Canada versus Fiji.
Chris Rattue: Argentina – rugby carthorses
New Zealand Herald – Aug 31, 2007
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The Great Australian Rugby Movie
TIME – Aug 31, 2007
artTools –>For those of us who’ve spent a good part of our lives watching men play games most sports films are viewed through parted fingers. While the ones about the hopeless kids’ team coming good under the unlikely coach can be all right those based in the big-time tend to send the cornball meter into meltdown. With all that striving and emoting it’s easy to see why sport lures film-makers. But sports fans get the real thing on television every week. There’s also the problem of actors trying to look like athletes.
… duo fit to fly – Rugby News Results Fixtures and Features…
Planet Rugby – Aug 31, 2007
The Boks considered by many to be potential RWC winners leave for France on Monday. There was however much uncertainty surrounding flight plans for the two players as it was revealed by Springbok spokeman Vusi Kama on Monday that a final call on the fitness of the injured duo would be due on Friday only. The self-same Kama then sent out a brief statement in the late afternoon declaring: “Akona and Jean declared ready to go to Rugby World Cup. “Bulls winger Ndungane returned home early from the World Cup warm-up tour of Ireland and Scotland after suffering a chest injury in the scrappy 18-3 win over Connacht in Galway last Tuesday whilst centre ace De Villiers injured his ribs in the first warm-up match against Namibia just over a fortnight ago.
Saving rugby in the south
Stuff.co.nz – Aug 31, 2007
nz>The Southland Times in an editorial. A few seasons ago when the mountains rose from the sea and the glaciers melted away did anyone think about the ramifications the proximity of Rugby Park to Carisbrook would have on our sporting fortunes? During the past 120-some years Southland has been slated wooed courted and scorned by its rugby neighbour in a relationship which has been held together by a tolerable mistrust. Where other unions have profited financially and psychologically by being linked to well-performed Super 14 franchises Southland has been ignored through the good times and dragged down in the bad by a professional team which has its glory days well and truly in the rearview mirror.