The News Review:
- BBC SPRT / RUGBY UNIN
- More cash for grassroots rugby
- BBC SPRT / RUGBY UNIN
- BBC SPRT / RUGBY UNIN
- Springbok gets its marching orders
- Caribbean Airlines supports rugby with rebate tickets
BBC SPRT / RUGBY UNIN
BBC News – Jan 19, 2008
Four penalties from outside-half Ronan ‘Gara and a late try from Denis Leamy sent Munster into the quarter-finals for the 10th season in a row. Wasps were well short of their best and never looked like scoring a try Danny Cipriani’s penalty their sole points. Clermont Auvergne’s bonus-point victory over the Scarlets relegated Wasps to third place in the group. 606: DEBATE Your view on the game on 606 The first half was tight and tense and in poor conditions free-flowing rugby was never possible.
More cash for grassroots rugby
News Wales – Jan 19, 2008
A new community initiative designed to engage more young people women and girls in rugby is set to take flight within the region opening up the opportunities to enjoy and play the game with an innovative programme of events. And with financial backing to the tune of £20000 from npower renewables £15000 from The Junction Morfa Shopping Park £4000 from the spreys themselves and £27160 from the Sports Council for Wales? Sportsmatch Cymru scheme the entire community will reap the rewards of their good fortune. Sportsmatch Cymru is a Welsh Assembly Government business incentive scheme for sport in Wales managed by the Sports Council for Wales. It is designed to encourage more business backing for grassroots sport by matching new or additional sponsorship.
BBC SPRT / RUGBY UNIN
BBC News – Jan 19, 2008
Irish topped Pool ne thanks to their bonus-point victory which also secures them a home tie in the next round. Three first-half tries from Peter Richards Tomas de Vedia and Peter Hewat gave them a 19-0 half-time lead with Hewat adding the fourth late on. Treviso staged a second-half comeback with a try through Benjamin De Jager and two penalties from Maruis Goosen. Exiles scrum-half Peter Richards failed to re-appear for the second half prompting concerns over his fitness as he joins the England squad on Monday for training ahead of the Six Nations.
BBC SPRT / RUGBY UNIN
BBC News – Jan 19, 2008
The French side started well and after Jean-Baptiste Elissalde’s penalty Vincent Clerc finished a superb break. Edinburgh replied through Phil Godman’s penalty but Clerc collected Elissalde’s grubber to score while Florian Fritz’s interception try made the score 22-3. Tries from Yves Donguy and Salvatore Perugini sealed victory but Ben Gissing claimed a consolation for the visitors. The win means that Toulouse finish top of pool six and the French champions look in fine shape to claim the trophy for a fourth time.
Springbok gets its marching orders
New Zealand Herald – Jan 19, 2008
But the springbok looks set to be kicked into touch as the national rugby union team’s emblem and replaced by a flower. The ruling ANC says it wants to unite all its sporting sides under one emblem and so the leaping antelope which has never been more popular in the republic looks set to get its marching orders. The graceful animal has featured on the green and gold rugby shirts of South Africa for 102 years since being adopted during a tour of Britain in 1906-07. It is said that the team’s first captain Paul Roos chose the springbok on an impromptu basis to prevent the British press from inventing their own name – nothing new there. The animal appeared on the left breast pocket and blazer of the green uniform a colour that had been adopted 10 years before. Commentators at the time said the tour created a sense of national pride back home and helped to ease bad feeling over the two Boer Wars. The first coloured national team used the springbok as its emblem in 1939 and the first black national team used it in 1950… He said: “The decision to unify the sporting codes under one symbol was taken last June and endorsed at our special conference at Polokwane last month. It will be discussed as part of our social transformation policy. Whether it is rugby cricket football or netball we want to see one symbol. “He would not be drawn on what that emblem would be but conceded that the protea or the country’s colourful flag could feature. “It is no different to your sides in England which have the red cross. We want our new Rainbow Nation to rally under one emblem which represents everyone but I am not going to pre-empt what that’s going to be. “It’s not the first time the ANC has wanted to get rid of the once-hated springbok emblem.
Caribbean Airlines supports rugby with rebate tickets
Stabroek News – Jan 19, 2008
Making a brief statement prior to handing over the tickets Worrell told those gathered including president of the Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) Noel Adonis president of the West Indies Rugby Union Kit Nascimento and the three players Theodore Henry Claudius Butts (who has been appointed captain) and Albert La Rose how pleased Caribbean Airlines (Guyana) Limited was to be making such a gesture. “From time to time we try as much as possible to support the development of sports in Guyana and this happens to be one of those times. I just want to take this opportunity to wish the team all the best and we at Caribbean Airlines hope that they bring home the bacon. ” In a brief statement Nascimento thanked Caribbean Airlines for their timely gesture.