The News Review:
- Aussie backpacker lines up for German national rugby team
- White: I won’t miss rugby
- Rugby: ‘I watch every game … but I haven’t watched that…
- Why rugby still has to fight the class war
- Hymie’s historical rugby memorabilia.(News)
- Hand-off handout sticks in rugby’s throat
Aussie backpacker lines up for German national rugby team
Taipei Times – Nov 25, 2007
University student Steve Williams 25 who plays for Sydney club Mosman in the city’s suburban competition stayed in Europe after watching Australia’s unsuccessful World Cup bid and contacted the German Rugby Union. Germany’s director of rugby Peter Ianusevici invited the tight-head prop who qualifies through his German mother for a trial with the national team on Thursday. The Romanian coach was so impressed with what he saw he named Williams in the starting line-up for the key European Nations Cup Division 2B clash against Moldova in Heidelberg. The show-down may well determine which of the two sides wins promotion next year to the first tier of the European Nations Cup which includes Romania and Georgia — both World Cup participants this year.
White: I won’t miss rugby
news24.com – Nov 25, 2007
"I am not going to get bored at all" White said. "I am going to enjoy the fact I can watch a Test match without getting emotionally involved. "I am going to spend some time watching my little boys play telling their coaches how poor their coaching is and just putting pressure on every single coach who coaches them to see if they can become captain" he joked. White who last month guided South Africa to a 15-6 World Cup final success over England in Paris is bowing out after four turbulent years at the helm.
Rugby: ‘I watch every game … but I haven’t watched that…
New Zealand Herald – Nov 25, 2007
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Why rugby still has to fight the class war
The bserver – Nov 25, 2007
It was the result of an ICM poll that revealed that after 10 years of New Labour 89 per cent of correspondents thought class still played an important part in British life. It was appropriate that the piece was published on the day of the Rugby World Cup final because if ever you wanted a microcosm of Britain’s unnatural obsession with class you had only to pick up a newspaper during the World Cup. In New Zealand and Australia class is an irrelevance in rugby union and in France – where I’ve been playing amateur rugby for three years – there are no class fault lines. ver here it is a geographical split with the north preferring football and the south rugby and I’ve yet to read a chippy piece in Liberation about rugby being the preserve of the bourgeoisie and let’s storm the Bastille etcetera.
Hymie’s historical rugby memorabilia.(News)
highbeam.com – Nov 25, 2007
find Sunday Tribune (South Africa) articles. BYLINE: Craig Lewis For as long as he can remember Kloof resident Hymie Sibul has been a rugby fanatic an.
Hand-off handout sticks in rugby’s throat
highbeam.com – Nov 25, 2007
find Scotland on Sunday articles. IT’S no wonder that the game of rugby suffered a sharp intake ofbreath when the judgment in the Aurelien Rougerie v Phi.