The News Review:
- Drown victim was a standout rugby player
- Tasman relaxed about life on rugby’s ‘death row’
- Brumbies and Waratahs To Monopolise Australian Rugby
- Berrick Barnes move steals Queensland’s rugby heart
Drown victim was a standout rugby player
Philadelphia Daily News
29 2009 Drown victim was a standout rugby player By TM CLARKPhiladelphia Daily News. com 215-854-5924 Several coaches and friends watched Josias Sterling break free for long runs in rugby-highlight videos yesterday as they reminisced about the 19-year-old’s infectious smile his love for apple pie and his athletic talents. "At some point he became part of my family" said Bill Gregory whose son played rugby with Sterling at St. Joseph’s Prep where the men huddled around an office computer to watch YouTube videos of Sterling’s best plays. "I lost a son. ""I lost a brother" said Gregory’s son Ryan 19 who four days earlier was tossing a rugby ball with Sterling in knee-to-waist-deep water in cean City N.
Tasman relaxed about life on rugby’s ‘death row’
Stuff.co.nz
With four teams to be excluded from the Air NZ Cup’s new premier division next season the troubled joint venture between Marlborough and Nelson Bays appears a logical candidate for the drop. Tasman were on the brink of financial collapse last season and required a bail-out from the New Zealand Rugby Union to stay solvent. The sport’s governing body will not be as generous this season so the union faces multiple challenges to satisfy the NZRU’s criteria before the unsuitable provinces are axed on November 20. Fear for the future could be a natural distraction for the players but co-coach Bevan Cadwallader said the squad’s focus was squarely on improving on their quarterfinal finish in 2008.
Brumbies and Waratahs To Monopolise Australian Rugby
Bleacher Report
jpg” “id”: 594616 “tag_list”: “”} “page_count”: 2 “title”: “Brumbies and Waratahs To Monopolise Australian Rugby” “body”: “With the double signings of both Berrick Barnes and Drew Mitchell today by New South Wales it has become obvious that the Australian Super 14 hopes will be a two horse race in 2010. \nMore to the point both the Queensland Reds and Western Force will struggle to compete let alone finish in the top half of the table. \n \nBoth teams have not done this in recent Super rugby history. \n \nThe Force did finish seventh in their second year but placed one position worse this year and will not have the services of key players next year most notably Matt Giteau and Drew Mitchell. \n \nFortuitously for the three year old team they still are able to recruit shrewdly employing a strategy based on the fact that they are still a rugby state in genesis banking on the reputation of John Mitchell as a back to basics rugby coach—who is still highly regarded despite this year’s controversies—and pulling over players who are “stuck behind” other front line players in other teams. \n \nHeadlined by former Springbok Andre Pretorius the Force has also signed Brett Sheehan Nic Henderson Pek Cowan Tim Fairbrother Matt Dunning and Sam Harris. \n \nWhile all are solid signings these men are not championship winning additions.
Berrick Barnes move steals Queensland’s rugby heart
Courier Mail
Former Wallaby prop Andy McIntyre expressed his pain by saying: "You’re kidding. It starts with the administration and I’m wondering who should resign over this. "Losing Wallaby Barnes puts pressure on the job of Queensland Rugby Union chief executive Ken Freer. Barnes 23 had emerged as "Mr Reds" with his improved playmaking from flyhalf and inside centre and the high off-field standards which are just what midfield partner Quade Cooper needs to clone. NSW high-performance manager Scott Bowen met Barnes in Brisbane last Saturday before the retention team of coach Phil Mooney Daniel Herbert Tim Horan and Dan Crowley pushed the Reds’ case passionately for a final time last Sunday. In the end it did not come down to money because his contract offer from New South Wales is at the same level as the Reds with the Australian Rugby Union top-up. "I needed a spark-up probably personally" Barnes said from Sydney yesterday.
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