The News Review:
- Rugby Union: Small American is dreaming big
- SA bids farewell to pair of rugby icons
- Rugby rail row ‘risks city image’
- Repeat performance?
- Shock result in rugby brain damage study
- Provincial features on Rugby Heaven – Printable
- Rugby: Lam rotates side for Southland match
Rugby Union: Small American is dreaming big
International Herald Tribune – Aug 16, 2007
Not only does the United States have a rugby team – the Eagles – but it has qualified for the World Cup to be held mostly in France in September. The American fly-half Mike Hercus (“the quarterback if you will”) the normal-size chap who throws and kicks and runs grew up in Australia and played in Wales but whatever. The point is the United States is just good enough to meet the defending champion England in the first game in the French mining city of Lens on Sept.
SA bids farewell to pair of rugby icons
Independent nline – Aug 16, 2007
The Newlands faithful got the chance to bid farewell to a favourite prodigal son and salute an astonishing rugby career after Percy Montgomery’s final Test in South Africa on Wednesday night. Few could have imagined 10 years ago that Montgomery the fun-loving young playboy in an exciting Western Province team would go on to achieve what the 33-year-old has accomplished in a Springbok jersey. In his debut season of Test rugby in 1997 Montgomery shouldered most of the blame for a series defeat to the British Lions when his boot deserted him. He was booed at Loftus in a Springbok jersey for his flamboyant style wearing white boots and long blond hair.
Rugby rail row ‘risks city image’
BBC News – Aug 16, 2007
Jenny Willott’s comments came as it emerged no trains are planned after a vital Rugby World Cup tie on 6 ctober. Transport Minister Ieuan Wyn Jones said assembly officials were asking First Great Western about extra trains. The train operator blamed engineering works but Network Rail said it hoped to be able to “work something out”. Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium is hosting four games of the 2007 rugby tournament including a quarter-final on the evening of Saturday 6 ctober.
Repeat performance?
Times nline – Aug 16, 2007
The hope is that a monster pack can dominate the opposition and JonnyWilkinson can pop over enough kicks to secure victory. For 2007 read 2003. It makes you wonder whether English rugby has moved on at all in four yearsbut you can’t really blame their coach Brian Ashton. Ashton has always beena proponent of skilful open running rugby but he is pragmatic enough torealise that without the raw material at his disposal a more conservativeapproach is called for. So why is it that English rugby is still saddled with this limited style ofplay? ther nations particularly in the Southern Hemisphere and Franceseem to have invested in Total Rugby with forwards and backs equallycomfortable with ball in hand playing a dynamic game. But we simply haven’t got the skills particularly among the forwards toadopt this approach. Joe Worsley a strong all action flanker will tackleanything that moves but the problems set in when he has ball in hand and abit of space… For 2007 read 2003. It makes you wonder whether English rugby has moved on at all in four yearsbut you can’t really blame their coach Brian Ashton. Ashton has always beena proponent of skilful open running rugby but he is pragmatic enough torealise that without the raw material at his disposal a more conservativeapproach is called for. So why is it that English rugby is still saddled with this limited style ofplay? ther nations particularly in the Southern Hemisphere and Franceseem to have invested in Total Rugby with forwards and backs equallycomfortable with ball in hand playing a dynamic game. But we simply haven’t got the skills particularly among the forwards toadopt this approach. Joe Worsley a strong all action flanker will tackleanything that moves but the problems set in when he has ball in hand and abit of space. In the first World Cup warm up game against Wales Worsley wasin possession and bearing down on the Welsh line.
Shock result in rugby brain damage study
Independent nline – Aug 16, 2007
The first local study of its kind into the effects of rugby on the brains of young adolescents followed about 150 12-year-olds at a Cape Town school for three years ? with shocking results. At the start nearly 8 percent of the boys were found to be in the “average” achievement range with 17 percent “below average”. This was a measure of so-called “abstract thinking” essential for more complex high school work. Three years later that figure jumped substantially with 28 percent of the boys now considered “below average”.
Provincial features on Rugby Heaven – Printable
Stuff.co.nz – Aug 16, 2007
The five-test All Blacks hooker announced his premature retirement on Monday an unfortunate outcome for the 28-year-old who had played himself back into All Blacks reckoning given Anton liver’s decision to stay in France after the World Cup. A collapsed scrum – the occupational hazard for a front rower – during the opening round Air NZ Cup clash with Counties Manukau proved the end point of his first class career.
Rugby: Lam rotates side for Southland match
New Zealand Herald – Aug 16, 2007
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