The News Review:
- Rugby: Deans shows a ton of class
- Waterhouse team firing – New Zealand’s source for sport rugby…
- … edge beseiged Hawks – New Zealand’s source for sport…
- Genesis report initiates IRFU shake-up
Rugby: Deans shows a ton of class
New Zealand Herald – Dec 17, 2007
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Waterhouse team firing – New Zealand’s source for sport rugby…
stuff.co.nz – Dec 17, 2007
The Waterhouse team has bounced back from equine influenza strongly with the team recording a treble at Rosehill yesterday. Pasikatera won the $A100000 ($NZ113314) race on the program and will be set for the Villiers Stakes and a rematch with Takeover Target who won at Randwick on December 1. Pasikatera finished third that day with her stablemate Dance Hero second. This week it will be Beauty Watch's turn to match it with Takeover Target and Dance Hero in Saturday's Listed Razor Sharp Quality (1200m).
… edge beseiged Hawks – New Zealand’s source for sport…
stuff.co.nz – Dec 17, 2007
The Kings (16-2) led by just two points at halftime but inched further ahead in the second half to win 99-92 at the Sydney Entertainment Centre. Livewire guard Dontaye Draper once again sparked Sydney supplying 22 points with skipper Jason Smith notching 21. Earlier this week Hawks board spokesman Richard Clifford revealed the club's shareholder group had kept the franchise going but they had reached their limit and the situation was serious. He said unless they found equity partners very quickly the Hawks would be lost to Wollongong.
Genesis report initiates IRFU shake-up
RTE.ie – Dec 17, 2007
He said: ‘The findings confirm that Management Players and the IRFU alike accept that individually and collectively we underperformed at the World Cup and fell well short of our expectations and the expectations of our supporters’. Based on the report the IRFU is set to introduce major changes to how the national team is run while several strategic areas requiring attention have also been put on the agenda. The three posts to be created are a manager with international rugby experience a dedicated backs coach and a psychologist. New manager: ‘person with international rugby experience’The new manager is to be according to IRFU Chief Executive Philip Browne whose comments on the report were released today by the IRFU ‘a person with international rugby experience as part of the Management Team to play a support role for the National coach’. The backs coach – a role that has up until now fallen directly under the remit of head coach Eddie ‘Sullivan – will ‘further strengthen the management team’ according to Browne while the third new man ‘will provide ongoing psychological support for the team and management’. The fourth ‘operational’ goal is to initiate more effective communication between ‘players coaches management and support staff’. Even more significant in the long-term could be the IRFU’s response to the reports ‘strategic’ recommendations which specifically mention the professional game’s role in the national side with the union set to strive for ‘improved alignment’ between the provinces and the national side.