The News Review:
- South Africans aren’t the only winners at Rugby World Cup
- France’s disgraced rugby coach gives Sarkozy the blues
- English rugby ‘must avoid 2003 errors’
- RUGBY WRLD CUP: Record-breaking Pumas lament uncertain future
- Rugby: Lam’s men not for slaughter this season
South Africans aren’t the only winners at Rugby World Cup
International Herald Tribune – Oct 22, 2007
The day after South Africa beat England 15-6 in the final Bryan Habana the Springbok winger was named the International Rugby Board player of the year. Jake White was coach of the year and South Africa the team of the year.
France’s disgraced rugby coach gives Sarkozy the blues
Taipei Times – Oct 22, 2007
ne fulfils a role not for one’s pleasure but for the good of the French people. ” Roselyne Bachelot French politician French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s first looming Cabinet crisis has been triggered neither by the announcement of his own divorce nor by the transport paralysis caused by the past week’s public servants’ strikes. It comes down to rugby. This morning Bernard Laporte Sarkozy’s jogging partner and coach of the disgraced France rugby XV is due to take up his long-promised new job as secretary of state for sports. But in a move that has reportedly left the president speechless Laporte’s future Cabinet colleagues have engineered the revival of a tax fraud investigation against him. Responding to reporters’ questions at the end of the Lisbon summit on Friday Sarkozy failed to grasp the opportunity to support Laporte saying only that “the presumption of innocence is important in this case as in others.
English rugby ‘must avoid 2003 errors’
Independent nline – Oct 22, 2007
Speaking on the team’s return from six weeks in France when they went from no-hopers to finalists England’s director of rugby said it would take time before decisions were taken on issues like whether coach Brian Ashton would get a new contract. “We want to spend the next few weeks reflecting reviewing and then making sure we move forward in terms of the planning for the next World Cup” Andrew told a news conference. “Unfortunately that didn’t happen after the last World Cup and for two or three years English rugby got itself into a real mess. ‘They have had a lot of pride in how they perform.
RUGBY WRLD CUP: Record-breaking Pumas lament uncertain future
Taipei Times – Oct 22, 2007
PHT: AFP The future remains uncertain for Argentina’s Pumas despite producing the greatest effort in their history to finish third in the World Cup in France. Players and officials have warned that Argentinian rugby will go backwards unless the national team is admitted to a regular international competition such as the Six Nations in Europe or the Tri-Nations in the southern hemisphere. Travel costs have often been cited as reasons for Argentina’s relatively small number of Test matches and its absence from an international competition. But Pumas captain and scrumhalf Agustin Pichot set to join his second Paris team in Metro Racing after winning the French club championship with Stade Francais said the balance sheet could not be the only test. “Rugby at the moment has to make a very tough decision one in a more romantic non-profitable way” he said.
Rugby: Lam’s men not for slaughter this season
New Zealand Herald – Oct 22, 2007
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