Rugby World Cup 2011
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After the success of its inaugural tournament back in 1987, the Rugby Union World Cup is now considered one of the most important sporting tournaments in the world. Held every four years, the Rugby World Cup is contested by 20 nations who are put in four groups of five teams each. The winner of the tournament is awarded the Webb Ellis trophy. The most successful World Cup nations have been South Africa and Australia who have won two tournaments each.
The next Rugby World Cup, the seventh in its history, will be staged in New Zealand over seven weekends between 9 September and 23 October 2011. The final will be played at Auckland’s Eden Park.
After considerable speculation, it was announced in November 2007 that the Rugby World Cup 2011 in New Zealand would again feature 20 teams rather than the 16 team format that had been mooted.
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by Spiro Zavos - February 10th 2012 @ 3:30am
During the 2011 Rugby World Cup tournament, the CEO of the ARU, John O’Neill, was surprised to be contacted by club directors of the English Premier League leaders, Manchester City. “Would you be interested in becoming chief executive of the club?”, he was asked. The offer was flattering. As Michael Cockerill, the excellent football writer [...]
by S120 - February 9th 2012 @ 3:47am
There has long been a view in the Southern Hemisphere that the best rugby is played exclusively below the equator. Visit any group of kids discussing the Six Nations, and get a diatribe about how that lot aren’t able score a try to save themselves. Dropping goals and drawing penalties, you’ll be told, are the [...]
by wre01 - February 1st 2012 @ 6:43am
Now the dust has settled following the 2011 Rugby World Cup, I see no better time to reignite the perennial ‘greatest side of the professional era’ debate. There were some splendid performances at the 2011 Rugby World Cupn> from the entire spectrum of players. Veterans showed that class is timeless. Even in losing, Victor Matfield [...]
by AFP - January 31st 2012 @ 1:56pm
by Rugby Fan - December 20th 2011 @ 5:31am
It is being widely reported in the press that some top club owners in England have been talking with their French counterparts about shifting the rugby union season in the north to the summer months. It isn’t clear whether a wholesale move is under discussion, or whether they just want to reschedule parts of the [...]
by Darren Walton - December 13th 2011 @ 7:32am
by John O'Neill - December 12th 2011 @ 8:16am
The Roar exclusive: John O’Neill, ARU Managing Director and CEO, reflects on the 2011 rugby year that was, including an explanation on why the current economic models for the Rugby World Cup is unsustainable: “The Tri Nations title was claimed for the first time in 10 years. An Australian team won the Super Rugby crown [...]
by Djrobinson - December 6th 2011 @ 6:17am
A promise was made before the Rugby World Cup 2011 that New Zealand would be a stadium of four million. But how close did we Kiwis come to making that dream a reality? I decided before the World Cup kicked off to keep track of crowd numbers and compare them to ticket sales just before [...]
by David Lord - November 25th 2011 @ 9:06am
I flagged crack openside flanker David Pocock as a Wallaby captain-in-waiting from the first time I saw him play, and he gets his chance to lead the Australians against the Barbarians on Sunday morning. I spotted Pocock in 2005, when he played for the Australian Schoolboys as a powerhouse 17-year-old, who went on to captain [...]
by Tom Wald - November 24th 2011 @ 8:49pm
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