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Remember the shirt Simon (the Saracens coach an ref) wore last Sunday (left)? Bit bright, colourful, garish, maybe mildly tasteless? You ain't seen nothing yet. It was a picture of sartorial elegance compared with the shirt on the right. Yes - it is a rugby shirt. Yes - as worn by a professional rugby team. This is - I kid you not - the shirt that will be worn by Stade Francais this season. Admittedly...
Its not been a great year for the Black Ferns - New Zealand's normally all-conquering women's rugby team. Successive defeats by England at Sevens was followed during our summer by their only scraping through to the World Sevens Cup finals by means of second place at the Oceania qualifer. What we don't know whether these slip-ups at Sevens are an indication of a decline in the strength of the full XV....
From International Rugby Board ( irb .com) : Sevens World Cup Qualifier Oct 23-27, 2008 - Nassau, Bahamas The USA and Canada will be favourites to take North America’s two places in the inaugural Rugby World Cup Sevens women’s competition, but they will not underestimate the threat posed by the likes of reigning Caribbean champions Jamaica along with Guyana and Trinidad & Tobago. The Women’s Eagles...
Mars are giving away money. Okay - its not quite as easy as that, but pretty close. Every month from now until the end of the year Mars will be giving away at at least 200 awards of up to £500 to sports clubs or individuals - all you need to do is say why they should give it to you. Simple. Just go here http://www.marsrefuel.com/refuel_fund/ and click on "apply".
After last night the Hall of Fame has been updated. If there are any awards or selections or anything else worth commemorating that I have missed please let me know.
Its been nearly four years since we last welcomed Stevenage to Legends Lane. In our first season we had a memorable home-and-away series with Stevenage either side of New Year 2005 where we came out ahead - just - but only because Carla could kick goals better than her opposite number. After that girls rugby at our two clubs went different ways and by 2005/6 there was no team at North Road for us to...
The annual Herts Sports Partnership's Service to Sport awards were presented at the University of Hertfordshire last night and it was a really good evening for rugby - in particular, girls rugby - with both Welwyn and Letchworth claiming awards. Congratulations to the following award winners from Herts rugby clubs (in the order they were announced) : Young Community Volunteer : 2nd place : Katie Alcock...
Word has reached us that this year's Rochford 10s may have been cancelled. Worcester have contacted us about a possible replacement fixture following news that has reached them that the the East Region's oldest girls 10s (and one of the country's longest running events) may not take place due to "double booking". This is after the tournament was moved a few months ago to avoid a clash with county dates....
A change in the criteria used to distribute sports grants to talented individuals and coaches was announced this evening at the Sport North Herts meeting. With a limited budget SNH had been concerned that the largest grants they could offer - even to international athletes - was only about £180, which seemed too small to be of any real help to those that needed funding help the most. As a result SNH...
We have all played touch rugby in one form or another, as warm-up, in a league, as a game at practice or as a drill during practice. While these short sessions seem to ramp up the energy on our team and is an excellent skill, I can't imagine just playing touch rugby. This video is from the European Championships of Touch Rugby and is a semi-final match between Scotland and Wales . I can't imagine just...
With 14 of the 16 qualifiers now known, IRB have released details of the seedings for the first Sevens World Cup, to be held alongside the men's event in Dubai in March. The qualification process have thrown up all kinds of surprise results, including the defeat of New Zealand by Australia (though the Kiwis still made it through their qualifier in second place), the failure of Wales to qualify from...
167. That's how many matches we seem to have played since 2004, and we've won roughly as many as we have lost while playing at least 54 different teams - I say "seem" because I am certain that there are a few games missing from the lists - the season totals look a bit low in some cases. You can see all the club-by-club details here . All tournaments are included, whether they are 15s, 10s or 7s. How...
Sasha and Jess's post match celebrations on one of the drier bits of Saracen's pitch. This, and 43 other pictures from the game can now be found on Phil's rugby archive (or in the slideshow ).
Out of the blue a threat to the "Not the RFUW" National 10s has emerged. As you will all know, the tournament was created in response to the RFUW's decision to cancel the 2008/9 National 10s due to a "lack of interest". Over the summer various emails were exchanged between several of last year's finalists unhappy at this decision, following which the Gloucester Girls Rugby Trust agreed to run a replacement...
Those of you who make it to region may find a familiar face managing one of the opposition teams. Apparently Joe, having returned to college, has now taken up the offer to help with the coaching of the Gloucestershire county team and the management of South West North. As Joe has already worked with East he now has a complete set of cardinal points for his CV! Seriously this is quite a coup for our...
