The News Review:
- Year in Review (Rugby): Springboks rise to occasion as All Blacks fall
- Floodlights gift for rugby game
- Rugby: Chin up to face day of reckoning
- Don’t worry be happy – New Zealand’s source for sport rugby…
Year in Review (Rugby): Springboks rise to occasion as All Blacks fall
Jamaica Gleaner – Dec 23, 2007
LNDN (Reuters):SUTH AFRICA England and Argentina might beg to differ but the rugby story of 2007 was New Zealand’s all-too-familiar but still shocking World Cup implosion. The ruthlessly efficient Springboks were worthy winners of a World Cup where the success of Argentina and Fiji the exuberance of Tonga Namibia and debutants Portugal and a memorable quarter-final weekend overruled concerns about negative play to mark it as the best of the six played to date. That was good news as the World Cup casts a huge shadow over the rest of the game where almost all other Test matches are now seen merely as preparation. This is particularly true in New Zealand where the side’s domination of the sport between tournaments has become almost an irrelevance alongside their consistent failure on the biggest stage.
Floodlights gift for rugby game
BBC News – Dec 23, 2007
Los Angeles-based wen Glenn bought the lights after Heol y Cyw near Bridgend agreed to play his team Belmont Shore. Heol y Cyw’s former secretary said they now had “the best set of floodlights in Welsh rugby” and it was like playing “under the Blackpool illuminations”. Mr Glenn meanwhile said he was very happy to help Welsh grassroots rugby. The match between the two clubs took place early last year with Belmont Shore finishing 32-14 victors.
Rugby: Chin up to face day of reckoning
New Zealand Herald – Dec 23, 2007
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Don’t worry be happy – New Zealand’s source for sport rugby…
stuff.co.nz – Dec 23, 2007
Think happy thoughts and they might even have a train to get there that doesn't break down. While we may have lost Robbie Deans to Australia he will coach the Crusaders which makes it much more likely a New Zealand team will win the Super 14. At least England didn't win the Rugby World Cup. It wouldn't have been safe to open this paper for the foreseeable future in case Stephen Jones wrote another story that began "ur antipodean cousins could learn from the world champions. "If you're a greenie think of all the trees saved by all the books that weren't written when we didn't win the world cup in Paris. If you're feeling guilty about not working out more compare yourself to American golfer John Daly who said he couldn't lift weights at a gym "because they won't let me smoke there"… Little danger of that now. Life is a lot easier for the often-maligned judges at the Halberg awards. If we'd won the rugby and cricket world cups the world netball championship and the America's Cup there would have been tears before bedtime. Now it's rowing for the team award Valerie Vili for the individual and judging by the Lonsdale award this week Vili for the overall title. No fuss no bother and less wear and tear on the judges' phone lines and emails. Finally be grateful for the fact Napoli officials didn't make film star Sophia Loren keep her vow when their team won its way back into the top league in Italian football. Loren had promised to strip if her hometown heroes were promoted.