The captain of Samoa’s rugby team has blown the whistle on his side’s World Cup campaign, claiming some officials and team managers treated it as a “massive holiday” involving alcohol and mates.
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The captain of Samoa’s rugby team has blown the whistle on his side’s World Cup campaign, claiming some officials and team managers treated it as a “massive holiday” involving alcohol and mates.
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This month’s SASI contains some weird stats for that final.
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An obsession with winning the World Cup caused the NZRU to lose sight of the best interests of rugby in New Zealand.
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All Blacks coach Graham Henry has accepted that his controversial conditioning programme was a factor in the team’s quarter-final loss at the 2007 Rugby World Cup.
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Stormers’ coach Rassie Erasmus has a reputation of being one of the more intelligent coaches in the South African game. Yet there is very little evidence of his creative thinking in the play of the Stormers at the moment.
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Two thoughts occur on reaching the end of former South Africa coach Jake White’s autobiography: how on earth did the Springboks manage to win The Webb Ellis Cup and how can they possibly hope to stay on top?
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The chief medical consultant of the World Cup winning South African side has rubbished the science behind the now famous cryotherapy facility in Spala — visited by the Irish squad on a pre-tournament trip.
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Year in Review – All Blacks: Another classic choke, referee sabotage or just a coach’s master plan gone awry – whatever way you look at it 80 lousy minutes at a seething Millennium Stadium in Cardiff on October 7 defined the All Blacks’ test season in 2007.
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rugby365′s decorated and respected writer Paul Dobson tells us exactly how ugly an animal South African rugby has become, despite the glory of winning a second World Cup!
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A radical proposal to play the World Cup every two years instead of four should be resisted because it threatens to damage the game’s showpiece event, the Australian Rugby Union (ARU) said on Friday.
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Springbok coach Jake White has told SA Rugby’s board members to immediately adopt guidelines to keep everyone happy about transformation.
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New Zealand rugby has developed a remarkable ability to complicate simple issues.
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He may not have delighted British royalty, but Australian referee Stuart Dickinson says he sleeps well at night and can live with his much discussed decision to deny a try to England winger Mark Cueto in the recent rugby World Cup final.
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You and Victor Matfield were born in Polokwane. Did you miss parading the Webb Ellis trophy there? — Tumelo Moila, Muwaweni
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The Springboks will not be visiting Xhosa King Zwelonke Sigcawu next week, their manager Zola Yeye said on Friday.
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Man of the tournament: Agustin Pichot (Argentina). Statesmanlike. If only there was a Nobel prize for rugby, writes Stephen Jones for the Times.
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Hindsight is obviously easy – but interesting nonetheless when you look back and try and assess where certain teams failed, and others succeeded.
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Dennis Foo and his son, Gordon, are close and have a lot of things in common – especially a passion of certain sports. For example, they both like football and are diehard Manchester United fans. And they both love rugby.
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Port Elizabeth came to a standstill yesterday when the world champion Springboks made a whistle-stop visit to celebrate South Africa‘s success in the 2007 World Cup, reports The Herald Online.
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The Herald website has just reached an amazing threshold in debate in this country . In the biggest forum thread ever in NZ’s online history, our online Your Views debate about why the All Blacks failed in their 2007 World Cup rugby bid today passed 1000 pages in length – probably the biggest...
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It seemed as if the summer holidays would never end and then, overnight, without a moment to prepare, you are back at school and your favourite teacher has left and your best friend has a new best friend and the teacher you hated is in charge of your form and it’s raining and it’s...
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The Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) said on Friday that world champions South Africa would be almost at full strength for next month’s test match against Wales in Cardiff.
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The Springboks said during their victory parade, which started at the Union Buildings in Pretoria on Friday, that they never thought thousands of people would line the streets to celebrate their Rugby World Cup success.
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To the tune of “We are the Champions” the Springbok rugby team have walked down the red carpet at the Union Buildings on Friday.
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Ruggaworld member, although we should probably start calling him a Ruggaworld Columnist soon, TG has kindly given us his views on the mental aspect of the Springboks’ Rugby World Cup victory.
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The route directions and times for the Springbok World Champions “SA tour” to thank their fans have been released by Saru
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SA Rugby has confirmed details of the Springboks winning parade to honour the team’s World Cup winning performance at the IRB Rugby World Cup in France.
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Prop forward Os du Randt, whose adopted first name means ‘Ox’, has been invited along with his fellow Springboks to the ritual slaughter of one of his namesakes to mark South Africa’s World Cup win.
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