The News Review:
- Time for rugby’s miscreants to grow up
- Win a trip to watch the Rugby World Cup Sevens in Dubai courtesy …
- Rugby-Habana sidelined for up to four weeks with broken hand
- Heat turned up on March rugby
- Springbok rugby player hospitalised with heat stroke
Time for rugby’s miscreants to grow up
Telegraph.co.uk
In England’s Six Nations games they have occurred at crucial times either robbing England of a chance to lead or extending their opponents’ total from leading to winning. In addition there are tangential costs applying not just to the contest but to fellow players and to the team in a wider sense. If the suspension occurs early in a game and the opposition rattle up points the rest of the game is spent playing catch-up rugby divorced from any plan A B or C that was envisaged in the hours of meetings and training for the game. To make matters worse the extra energy expended by the remaining players has a deleterious effect in the latter stages of the game. Whatever the quality of this year’s Six Nations games it is indisputable that they have been titanic physical encounters. A small lapse in concentration due to tiredness is all that is needed for a crucial tackle not to be made or a scoring pass to be dropped. For such lapses to be caused or significantly contributed to by indiscipline is a derogation of a player’s duty to his team-mates.
Win a trip to watch the Rugby World Cup Sevens in Dubai courtesy …
SkySports
The tournament attracts supporters from around the globe offering a three-day extravaganza of top class International rugby action from 5th – 7th March. This major sporting spectacle takes place in a new purpose-built venue with outstanding facilities. The lucky winner and their partner will receive a Season pass to the event allowing full access to all three days of action.
Rugby-Habana sidelined for up to four weeks with broken hand
Reuters
World Cup winner Habana sustained the injury on Saturdayduring the Bulls’ 16-9 victory over the Lions in Johannesburg. Habana the 2007 International Rugby Board Player of theyear could return to the team for their match against the tagoHighlanders in New Zealand on March 28. The Bulls top the Super 14 standings after three rounds. They host the Cape Town-based Stormers in Pretoria on Saturdaybefore leaving for their tour of Australia and New Zealand. Habana 25 was top try-scorer at 2007 World Cup in Franceequalling Jonah Lomu’s record of eight. (Reporting by Duane Heath editing by Alison Wildey).
Heat turned up on March rugby
Brisbane Times
The Reds face a mountain of recovery to be in any sort of shapefor Friday night’s derby game with the Waratahs in Sydney withplayers losing up to7kg during the contest and many vomiting due todehydration after the game. It was even worse for the Bloemfontein-based Cheetahs wholooked out on their feet just minutes into the 4pm clash and wereforced to rush captain Juan Smith to hospital after the matchsuffering heat stress. Springbok flanker Smith looked disoriented in a post-gametelevision interview and passed out in the change rooms hittinghis head as he fell and suffering a mild concussion. He spent thenight on a saline drip in hospital.
Springbok rugby player hospitalised with heat stroke
Sowetan
“It did take its toll on quite a few players” said Reds lock Van Humphries who shed 7kg. “I wouldn’t want to play too many games in that heat that’s for sure. ” Australian Rugby Union boss John ’Neill said he didn’t want to see any Super 14 matches day or night played before mid-March in future. ’Neill said he would raise the heat issue at a board meeting of the South African New Zealand and Australian Rugby Unions (SANZAR) in Dubai this week. “Personally I think we start Super rugby too early and that’s one of the things on the agenda for the SANZAR board meeting” he toldreporters before leaving for Dubai. “Late February early March in Brisbane is a very humid hot place and it was an afternoon game to boot. ” The match was moved to 4:00pm (0500 GMT) due to Football Federation Australia booking the venue months ago as a precaution against Queensland Roar hosting the A-League grand final on Friday or Saturday.
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