Russia v USA, Stadium Taranaki, New Plymouth – 09:30 Russia: 15 Igor Klyuchnikov, 14 Vladimir Ostroushko, 13 Konstantin Rachkov, 12 Alexey Makovetskiy, 11 Vasily Artemyev, 10 Yury Kushnarev, 9 Alexander Shakirov, 8 Vyacheslav Grachev, 7 Artem Fatakhov, 6 Andrey Garbuzov, 5 Denis Antonov, 4 Alexander Voytov, 3 Ivan Prishchepenko, 2 Vladislav Korshunov (captain), 1 Sergey [...]
Scotland v Georgia, Rugby Park, Invercargill – 09:30 14 September 2011 Scotland: 15 Rory Lamont, 14 Max Evans, 13 Nick De Luca, 12 Graeme Morrison, 11 Sean Lamont, 10 Dan Parks, 9 Rory Lawson (captain), 8 Kelly Brown, 7 Ross Rennie, 6 Al Strokosch, 5 Jim Hamilton, 4 Nathan Hines, 3 Euan Murray, 2 Scott [...]
So you bought the newspaper especially the other day to get that pull-out RWC 2011 calendar. Well it probably sucks, right? Full of crappy looking ads? Printed on bad paper, its a newspaper after all? Well dispose of that sorry excuse of a Rugby World Cup calendar and send these two beauties to that fancy [...]
On Friday I predicted that up to 18 Springboks that went to France for the 2007 RWC will make the nod again. On the eve of coach Peter de Villiers’ squad announcement here is my prediction of the squad we’ll see fighting to retain the Web Ellis Trophy for the first time in history. I [...]