The News Review:
- Australian rugby player Justin Harrison banned eight months for …
- Australia’s ‘ugly parents’ face rugby touchline ban
- Wing’s yen for Japanese rugby opens the door for unsettled Hunt to …
- Rugby legends’ cricket fundraiser
- Historic London Welsh rugby club saved from financial ruin
- New Zealand beats Australia 22-16 in Tri-Nations rugby opener
- Rugby league great Dale Shearer faces commonwealth charges
Australian rugby player Justin Harrison banned eight months for …
The Canadian Press
The 35-year-old forward admitted three disciplinary charges relating to a trip to London with fellow Bath players in May. The RFU said Harrison must serve an eight-month ban from playing or coaching applied retroactively to run through Jan. He announced his retirement from the game within days of the incidentIn his ruling RFU disciplinary officer Jeff Blackett lamented that the World Anti-Doping Agency code did not regard Harrison’s offence to have occurred in competition and therefore subject to a two-year ban.
Australia’s ‘ugly parents’ face rugby touchline ban
AFP
In the latest example of so-called “ugly parent syndrome” the man suffered serious head injuries and remains in hospital after he tried to break up an argument between other parents at a game in Sydney. “When he’d been punched to the ground two others helped prop him up so they could keep punching him” the wife of victim Gary Harling Mandy told public radio. New South Wales Rugby League general manager Geoff Carr said his organisation which controls the sport in the state was considering sideline bans. “If it comes to that we will” he said.
Wing’s yen for Japanese rugby opens the door for unsettled Hunt to …
Sydney Morning Herald
"It was a difficult decision for the club but after careful consideration of his situation we understand that it is in Craig’s best interests that he be granted a release" Richardson said. "His personal issues have been well documented in recent months but I think that he also wants to experience a different lifestyle and is looking forward to learning a new language. "Wing spoke to his former Kangaroos and NSW teammate Craig Gower while he was in Australia recently with the Italian rugby team and noted how physically and mentally refreshed the former Penrith playmaker was after two seasons with French club Bayonne. Rather than convincing him to stay in the NRL Wing’s successful return to the Blues team for this year’s rigin series encouraged him to leave now while he was at the top. "I have thoroughly enjoyed my time back at the Rabbitohs and I am sad to be leaving both South Sydney and the NRL" said Wing who has played more than 250 NRL matches for Souths and the Roosters as well as 16 Tests and 12 rigins. "I am looking forward to finishing the season off strongly and I will be doing my best to ensure we make the finals. "After returning to the Rabbitohs last year following eight seasons at Bondi Wing has never quite fitted back in at the club he felt so passionate about when they were kicked out of the NRL in 1999 that he had a clause put in his Roosters contract allowing him to return to Souths if they were readmitted.
Rugby legends’ cricket fundraiser
BBC News
Rugby league legends will take on rugby union stars on 16 August at Alder Meadow in Pontblyddyn. Former England centre and World Cup winner Will Greenwood will captain the union side against a league team led by ex-Widnes and Wigan star Joe Lydon. It is hoped England rugby union coach Martin Johnson will also play in the Wooden Spoon charity fundraiser. Wooden Spoon is the children’s charity of British rugby and has raised more than £15m for disadvantaged children in its 25 year history.
Historic London Welsh rugby club saved from financial ruin
The Canadian Press
The Rugby Football Union which governs the game in England imposed the penalty on the 124-year-old club but said it was satisfied with the takeover terms proposed by new owner Red Dragon Rugby Limited. ne of the two Red Dragon directors is Neil Hollinshead chief executive of Saudex Global an investment firm owned by a member of the Saudi Arabian royal family. “London Welsh are once again solvent and so will continue to play in the (second-tier) Championship in the upcoming season” the RFU said in a statement. The governing body insisted that Red Dragon pay about 450000 pounds (C$820915) to existing creditors and prove it could fund the club for at least two years.
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New Zealand beats Australia 22-16 in Tri-Nations rugby opener
The Canadian Press
Donald narrowly beat Luke McAlister to the No. 10 jersey in the All Blacks starting lineup. He upheld his selection by kicking a conversion and five penalties to lead New Zealand’s comeback from a 13-3 first-half deficit. Donald’s conversion of captain Richie McCaw’s first half try cut the Wallabies’ lead to 13-10 at halftime and he added four penalties in the second spell answered by a single penalty from his opposite Matt Giteau to engineer New Zealand’s victory.
Rugby league great Dale Shearer faces commonwealth charges
Brisbane Times
We use an id here to be able to jump to this section. –> Rugby league great Dale Shearer faces commonwealth charges. –> David Barbeler July 21 2009 – 5:48PM BRISBANE – Rugby league great Dale Shearer will face court over two commonwealth charges after failing to comply with court orders relating to the liquidation of his business. Files lodged with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) reveal the firm Ferrier Hodgson was appointed by the Federal Court as the liquidator of Shearer’s Peregian Springs-based business Just Cruzin Pty Ltd in November 2008. In May 2009 the business’ accounts were presented to ASIC by Ferrier Hodgson liquidator Gregory Maloney indicating no money was expected to be paid to the company’s one creditor which it owed $183147. A Queensland justice department spokesman confirmed Shearer now faces one count of failing to deliver all books of a company to a liquidator and one count of “failure to comply with requirements to make out and verify report of the affair”.