THIS
WEEKEND 7-8 JUNE Updated
15.06.2008
Southern Hemisphere rugby
gets underway this weekend with the first of the Southern Tour tests.
The Pacific Nations Cup
begins with traditional rivals Samoa and
It’s
The final matches of the
European Nations Cup are being played in
Rugbyinternational.net will
cover all these matches bringing to you the latest news of world international
rugby.
08.06.2008
Reviews
http://www.rugby.com.au/news/six_of_the_best_for_australia_a_against_japan,88666.html/section/21893
Reviews
This result saves
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07.06.2008
Reviews
The great and expected clash
between the Rugby World Cup champions and the Six Nations champions came to
very little. On the day the South Africans were superior in every department.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/low/rugby_union/welsh/7438459.stm
Previews
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_union/welsh/7437453.stm
http://www.planet-rugby.com/Story/0,18259,3551_3653387,00.html
Last Five Encounters
24.11.2007
19.11.2005
06.11.2004
26.06.2004
15.06.2002
GWC Rugby Rankings: World Table-South Africa 1st,
Prediction
Reviews
Previews
http://www.planet-rugby.com/Story/0,18259,3558_3655948,00.html
Last Five Encounters
17.06.2006
10.06.2006
12.11.2005
22.06.2002
15.06.2002
GWC Rugby Rankings: World Table-New Zealand 8th,
Prediction
On Saturday two teams in
different modes will play each other.
Argentina 21, Scotland 15 at Estadio Gigante de Arroyito, in Rosario
Reviews
Previews
Last Five Encounters
07.10.2007
12.11.2003
18.11.2001
21.08.1999
11.06.1994
Note: The
last time
GWC Rugby Rankings: World Table-Argentina 4th,
Prediction
Reviews
Previews
The lack of a sponsor and
the non availability of a number of top players may well hamper
http://rugby.fijitimes.com/pacific-rugby-cup/mammoth-task
Last Five Encounters
19.05.2007 Samoa 8-3 in
24.06.2006
30.07.2005
09.07.2005 Samoa 36-10 in
12.06.2004
GWC Rugby Rankings: World Table-Fiji 10th,
Oceania Table-Samoa 4th,
Prediction
Note:
NZ Maoris won by 11 points. I predicted the Maoris by
35.
Reviews
Previews
Last Five Encounters
08.11.1996 NZ Maoris 29-20
24.10.1992 NZ Maoris 33-10
in Nuku’alofa
13.06.1983 NZ Maoris 52-4 in
06.08.1983 NZ Maoris 28-4 in
Rotorua
25.05.1979 NZ Maoris 26-9 in
Nuku’alofa
GWC
Prediction
Nothing is known about the
make up of the Tongan side but they will surely be well below the strength of
the team that did so well at the 2007 Rugby World Cup. Perhaps a handful of
overseas players will make up a team consisting of mainly home-based or
New Zealand Maori by 35
points
Teams
15 Shannon Paku (
14 Zar
13 Jason Kawau (Southland)
12 Tamati Ellison, Co Capt., (
11 Hosea
Gear (
10 Callum Bruce (
9 Piri Weepu (
8 Thomas Waldrom (
7 Tanerau Latimer (
6 Liam Messam, Co Captain (
5 Jason
Eaton (Taranaki) New cap
4 Ross Filipo (
3 Clint
Newland (Hawke’s Bay) New cap
2 Hikawera Elliot (Hawke’s Bay) New cap
1 Keith
Cameron (Otago)
Replacements:
16 Aled de Malmanche (
17 Benjamin
May (Tasman)
18 Isaac
Ross
19 Daniel
Braid (
20 Chris Smylie (
21 Timothy
Bateman (
22 Glen
Horton (Otago)
Coach:
Donny Stevenson
Not available
Reviews
Previews
Last Five Encounters
18.05.2007
28.06.2003
21.06.2003
19.06.1982
15.10.1977
GWC
Prediction
As was the case last year
the English side will have too much experience, pace and skill throughout their
team to do anything but win easily.
England Saxons by 25 points.
Reviews
Previews
http://www.rugbycanada.ca/index.php?lang=en&page_id=10&news_id=4074
Previous Encounters
17.06.2006
25.05.1991
GWC
Prediction
The Canadians have a look of
experience about them and playing on their home turf should edge past an
unknown quantity that is the
Teams
Reviews
Previews
Very little is holding in
the balance with this match.
Previous Encounter
28.10.2006
GWC Rugby Rankings: Europe Table-Lithuania 24th,
Teams
1. Mindaugas Grigas
2. Gediminas Liutkus
3. Laurynas Tipelis
4. Rokas Daknys
5. Andrius Bridikis
6. Dainius Baltrukėnas
7. Justinas Vasiliauskas
8. Aleksandras Čiuchlėjus
9. Edmundas Ščavinskas
10. Darius Nosys
11. Donatas Streckis
12. Audrius Ramančionis
13. Tomas Zibulis
14. Kęstutis Marcišauskas
15. Egidijus Petronis
16. Andrius Martinskas
17. Mindaugas Misevičius
18. Marius Andrijauskas
19. Gediminas Marcišauskas
20. Maksimas Guseinovas
21 Mindaugas Šiumberevičius
http://www.litrugby.lt/ and
thanks to Quentin, http://www.fira-aer-rugby.com/forum2007/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2758
Stein Ove Kristensen
Andreas Fyri
Håkon Stengrimsen
Lewis Eaton
Johan Stoltz
Eivind Lunde
Stian Røstberg
Kristoffer
Borsheim
Pascal Raclin
Willie
Wilson
Knut Martin
Bårnes
Karl Harper
Ollie
Rogers
Andrew
Olsen
Trent Rowan
Wesley Chibaya
Roger Yttervik
Francis
Hunt
Espen Engevik
Criag
Olsen
Rob Grieg
http://www.rugby.no/les.asp?ID=607
and thanks to Quentin, http://www.fira-aer-rugby.com/forum2007/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2758
Reviews
Tanzania Twigas won a historic match against
It was the first international match between
Four minutes later, Moses Mwole scored
Three minutes after that,
Beckner put over a second penalty for
Just before the halftime whistle, Mose was denied a clever try after a quickly taken line out by Paul Oketch. As Mose lined up to take the conversion, referee Peter Trevor overruled the try after consulting his linesman. The reason was that Oketch had used a different ball from the one which had been kicked in touch! Earlier, a try by Benjamin Otieno was also denied after the referee consulted with his linesman.
In the second half, Beckner’s penalty in the 54th minute grazed the posts before going out. Twiga hooker Max Nightingale scored a try in the 57th minute and Beckner converted from the touchline as the lead changed hands for the second time, 13-12 in the Twigas' favour.
Beckner stretched the lead 16-12 with another
long penalty in the 60th
minute. A late rally by
Said
The Kenya A side will be retained and play the Twigas again later this year, possibly as a curtain-raiser before Kenya's senior squad takes on Uganda in August, at the Nairobi leg of this year's Elgon Cup series.
Thanks to Eric Odanga