The News Review:
- Listen up Colonials – New Zealand’s source for sport rugby…
- Rugby: Pillagers who live in glass houses be wary of shards
- Rugby: Lam sets sights higher
- It’sa Scrimmage Not a Scrum
- Iran’s women ‘thriving’ at Rugby
- Gay Rugby Player Crowned Mr. Gay Ireland
- Results f The Rugby World Cup : French Hotels Are Clearly The…
Listen up Colonials – New Zealand’s source for sport rugby…
stuff.co.nz – Oct 28, 2007
Another Rugby World Cup comes and goes and what have we learnt? Apparently that we are boorish and sneering that we need to become more gracious courteous and generous and above all show greater respect for all our opponents particularly England. According to an assortment of northern scribes and Keith Quinn the idea of being passionately proud ever-hopeful and blindly supportive of our players is just another sign of our collective conceit and of our curious knack of being both big-headed and small-minded at the same time. If you believe these amateur psychoanalysts one of the reasons the All Blacks are such an unsuccessful world cup side is because the players have with heavy New Zealand support become used to being placed on pedestals and consequently fail to show their opponents enough respect when it matters. Until the day arrives when New Zealanders genuflect to the British style and acknowledge England as a powerhouse of equal proportions; until they learn to temper their support with a more holistic approach to the game the All Blacks can apparently never hope to win. n top of that the reason the next rugby world cup (New Zealand 2011) promises to be such a flop in comparison with the previous two tournaments is because Kiwis are extremely narrow-minded in comparison with the French and Australians and will struggle to embrace the tournament as opposed to merely their home team… If you believe these amateur psychoanalysts one of the reasons the All Blacks are such an unsuccessful world cup side is because the players have with heavy New Zealand support become used to being placed on pedestals and consequently fail to show their opponents enough respect when it matters. Until the day arrives when New Zealanders genuflect to the British style and acknowledge England as a powerhouse of equal proportions; until they learn to temper their support with a more holistic approach to the game the All Blacks can apparently never hope to win. n top of that the reason the next rugby world cup (New Zealand 2011) promises to be such a flop in comparison with the previous two tournaments is because Kiwis are extremely narrow-minded in comparison with the French and Australians and will struggle to embrace the tournament as opposed to merely their home team. The best we can hope for according to one Daily Telegraph reporter is that visitors might enjoy our scenery. Well thank goodness we’ve been told in time and especially by people who clearly don’t suffer from superiority complexes of their own. That these bastions of human standards should take time out to remind us of our greater responsibilities is a good example of the sort of selflessness that we perhaps should be seeking.
Rugby: Pillagers who live in glass houses be wary of shards
New Zealand Herald – Oct 28, 2007
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Rugby: Lam sets sights higher
New Zealand Herald – Oct 28, 2007
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It’sa Scrimmage Not a Scrum
New York Times – Oct 28, 2007
‘”It turned out that the spectators liked Harvard’s approach better. So did Yale’s players. An intercollegiate league was soon formed based on rugby rules and Walter Camp a Yale halfback and the team’s captain joined the new league’s rules committee. He didn’t become known as the “Father of American Football” for nothing. Camp not only liked rules he liked tinkering with them and over the next few years the rules committee adopted a series of his ideas that transformed the rugby-style game into the one that now commands much of America’s attention on Sunday afternoons in the fall. Camp didn’t like the rugby scrum so he invented the line of scrimmage. To keep teams from holding onto the ball to run out the clock he developed rules requiring them to give up the ball after failing to advance a certain distance in a specified number of downs… He didn’t become known as the “Father of American Football” for nothing. Camp not only liked rules he liked tinkering with them and over the next few years the rules committee adopted a series of his ideas that transformed the rugby-style game into the one that now commands much of America’s attention on Sunday afternoons in the fall. Camp didn’t like the rugby scrum so he invented the line of scrimmage. To keep teams from holding onto the ball to run out the clock he developed rules requiring them to give up the ball after failing to advance a certain distance in a specified number of downs. He came up with the idea for a quarterback and the 10 other specialized positions. He also developed the scoring system. The evolution took time.
Iran’s women ‘thriving’ at Rugby
IranMania News – Oct 28, 2007
com LNDN ctober 28 (IranMania) – Iran’s female athletes are turning to sports such as rugby as the popularity of strength-based activities in Iran increase PressTV reported. Amid greater official encouragement for women to participate in physical activities Iran’s female Rugby Union holds weekly training sessions at Tehran’s Azadi Stadium. Elham Shahsavari is a 24-year-old female Rugby player. She explains that ?in early 2006 Gorgan University advised me to play rugby because of my physical power. Rugby Union was just my thing!” The Islamic Republic of Iran’s Rugby Union was formed in 2002 through university contacts and has now grown to include over 1000 players both men and women.
Gay Rugby Player Crowned Mr. Gay Ireland
Gay Wired – Oct 28, 2007
Emerald Warriors? is the new Mr. Last night he beat off competition from 21 other finalists from all over Ireland?north and south?to take the title. ?The lads on the rugby team asked me if I would represent the club in this years Mr.
Results f The Rugby World Cup : French Hotels Are Clearly The…
hospitalitynet.org – Oct 28, 2007
Since the beginning of the year the industry has shown major growth MKG Hospitality estimates that this event could result in an additional revenue of between 100 and 150 million euros. n match days the RevPAR in French host cities was increased by 37. 5% with a clear impact on hotel occupancy rates. The results registered during the quarter-final in Marseille and the semi-final in Paris were among the highest of the competition.