France have awarded the Legion d’Honneur to Dr Millar to recognise his contribution to the Game of rugby and for overseeing the most successful Rugby World Cup to date as Chairman of Rugby World Cup Ltd. The decoration, which was established by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1802 to reward both soldiers and civilians for exceptional merit […]
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The answer to all those who cannot wait until 2011 is just 2 years away, The IRB Rugby Sevens World Cup. The 2009 World Cup will take place from the 5th to the 7th March in Dubai and will pit the 24 finalists against each other following selection from 83 sides in […]
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South Africa winger Bryan Habana has been named the International Rugby Board’s player of the year. Habana, 24, beat Argentina’s Felipe Contepomi and Juan Hernandez, All Blacks flanker Richie McCaw and French centre Yannick Jauzion to the award, probably helped by his equalling Jonah Lomu’s record of eight World Cup tries. At the same time […]
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Following the World Cup, we have a new order in the IRB World rankings, with South Africa now 1. The to ten are now as follows with their previous position on brackets. 1(2) South Africa, 2(1) New Zealand, 3(6) Argentina, 4(3) England, 5(5) Australia, 6(4) France, 7(7) Ireland, 8(8) Scotland, 9(9) Fiji and 10(10) Wales.
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As a lot of us expected it was no classic, but South Africa were worth the win 15-6. England gave them a game but always looked to be having to work that bit harder to win the ball, and create the space to attack. The key area of the lineout went to the Boks and […]
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As expected Bernard Lapasset has been elected the International Rugby Board’s (IRB) chairman, the French Rugby Federation president succeeds Dr Syd Millar, who did not seek re-election at the interim meeting of council held in Paris on Friday. The council re-elected former England captain Bill Beaumont for a second term as IRB vice chairman, while […]
Who said the 3rd place play off would be boring? What a game, full of fire and passion from two sides who wanted the win. France did everything but score in the early stages and so Argentina made them pay. Honiss and his touch judges had their work cut out keeping the lid on this […]
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Buy your own piece of history with the IRB World Cup Final Programme 2007 for England v South Africa in St Denis on October 20th 2007.This is a great opportunity to own a copy of this much sought after match programme. If you don’t have a ticket for the final to be played at the […]
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Jake White has named an unchanged starting XV for the game against champions England in the World Cup final on Saturday at the Stade De France Saint Denis, with KO at 2000 BST . There is just one change on the bench as Bobby Skinstad misses out with Wikus […]
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Argentina coach Marcelo Loffreda has made four changes in the pack for the third-place play-off game versus France on Friday night at the Parc des Princes Paris KO 2000 BST. Alberto Vernet Basualdo, Martin Durand, Omar Hasan and Rimas Alvarez Kairelis come in, whilst Mario Ledesma, Martin Scelzo, […]
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