RUGBYINTERNATIONAL.NET
GETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT
JANUARY 2006
THE GAME OF RUGBY IS RAPIDLY EXPANDING WORLD WIDE. THIS WEB SITE'S MAIN FUNCTION IS THE RESEARCHING, COLLECTING, COLLATING, RECORDING AND UPDATING OF INTERNATIONAL RUGBY RESULTS AND RECORDS
Web sites I recommend this month
http://www.rugbyworldcup.com This site, an offshoot from IRB, looks to
have all the matches covered in scores but not so much in detail. A good
overview. In 3 languages.
http://www.melbourne2006.com.au/Sports+and+Venues/Rugby%207s The 7’s version of the game is being
represented again at the Commonwealth Games. My site does not cover the 7’s
game. This link appears to cover it well.
www.rugby.se The rugby
site for the game in Sweden. Has an English version. Once had a full team
listing for every Swedish game since 1949. Very good value.
http://www.rugby.gr/index.php The official Greek rugby site. Greece played
its first ever international rugby match v an Austrian XV last October. These
guys are so proud of their rugby and their team. Great site.
http://statistics.scrum.com/rugby_stats_01.asp
This is the place, I think, where Planet-rugby’s once famous results data base
ended up. It also has a player search as well. My PC is reasonably powerful so
for this site to take 30 seconds to load is too long to wait in this age of
technology. Is it as good a data base as Rugbyinternational.net? You be the
judge.
WELCOME
TO 2006. ALL THE BEST FOR THE YEAR AHEAD
The month of January is usually very quiet on the international
rugby scene. Therefore my efforts this month is to update as much of the data
on this site as possible and to set up the year ahead.
Updated 31.01.2006
04.02.2006
Ireland v Italy in Dublin (6
Nations International Championship)
England v Wales at
Twickenham (6 Nations International Championship)
Georgia v Russia in Tblissi
(European Nations Cup)
05.02.2006
Scotland v France at
Murrayfield (6 Nations International Championship)
JAPAN UPDATE (31.01)
From RiJ. The man in Japan.
The season ahead for the CBs
is taking a lot of shifts & turns with more details slowly emerging. The
announcement of the Pacific Five Nations (P5N) by the IRB on January 12 helped
greatly with planning the season. Now, the formal schedule is yet to be
announced, but RiJ has it that dates for the 4 Japan games are as stated below.
With the advent of P5N it also looks as though the Super (Powers) Cup that has
been held the last 3 years with Canada, USA, Japan & one other country is
dead in the water. Changing horses mid-stream? Further, it looks like the Asian
Qualifier against Arabian Gulf will be played in Tokyo to get away from the U19
World Championships happening in Dubai at the same time.
Late Feb – a provisional squad announced.
Early March – medicals
Late March – 2-week camp in France (full details yet to be
announced). Initially, there were plans for matches against Spain & Morocco
during this camp, though talk of this seems to be going cold. The camp is set
to be held in the spa town of Dax, situated in the south-west department of
Landes, on the River Adour not too far from the Atlantic coast. This would also
be the base camp for Japan during RWC 07, so it is not a bad idea to have an
early look around.
April 16 – RWC Asian Qualifier against Arabian Gulf in Tokyo.
April 23 – RWC Asian Qualifier against Korea, in Tokyo.
May – Early talk was that
Canada was set to tour Japan in May, but this too has run cold. Talk of
Portugal coming now, but the JRFU is looking for some other games for the CBs
over this month.
June 3 - P5N v
Tonga in Japan.
June 11 – v Italy in Japan.
June 17 or 18 – P5N v Samoa away.
June 24 or 25 – P5N v Junior ABs
away.
July 1 – P5N v Fiji in Japan.
Nov 20-26 – final Asian Qualifiers for RWC 07, in Sri Lanka.”
DATA BASE UPDATE (27.01)
The following countries have
had their list of international rugby results updated.
Arabian Gulf Argentina British Services Canada Czech Republic Denmark Georgia Ireland Italy Moldova Scotland Uruguay
Go to alphabetical listing
at the top of the page.
ONE GAME TOO MANY (27.01)
After receiving information
from the Danish Rugby Union, the match played 21.10.2005 Denmark v British Army
Germany has been deleted from all fixture lists as the union does not recognize
this match as a test match. Only matches against other countries are regarded
as ‘test’ matches by Danish Rugby Union.
RUSSIANS IN SOUTH AFRICA (25.01)
The Russian team is in South
Africa preparing for the European Nations Cup games and Rugby World Cup
qualifiers for 2006. They lost their first game (21.01) 7-63 to the Super 14
Blue Bulls in Pretoria. They next game, (28.01) will be against the Falcons in
Brakpan.
Links
http://www.planet-rugby.com/News/story_48490.shtml
http://www.rugby.ru/index.phtml?did=182_264_456
(How’s your Russian?)
Thanks to ‘Quentin’ and
‘Alfredas’ from FIRA-AER forum
FIXTURES-RESULTS 2006 (25.01)
This page now appears in the menu on the left. Please email
me if you have a fixture not listed. Please include the source.
NEW COMPETITION FOR PACIFIC REGION (15.01)
Article here http://www.planet-rugby.com/Tournaments/Pacific_Islanders/story_48343.shtml
DATA BASE UPDATE (15.01)
The following countries have had their list of
international rugby results updated.
Botswana China England 2001- Japan Morocco New Zealand XV Portugal Spain Ukraine
Go to alphabetical listing at the top of the page.
DATA BASE UPDATE (14.01)
The following countries have had their list of
international rugby results updated.
Australia 2001-
Azerbaijan Fiji France 2001- Netherlands New
Zealand South Africa Wales XV
Go to alphabetical listing at the top of the page.
DECEMBER NEWS PAGE (10.01)
The news page for December 2005 has now been uploaded into
the news archive menu to the left of the page. This archive goes back to April
2002 when this web site began its life.
TANA UMAGA RETIRES (10.01)
Skipper of the very successful 2006 New Zealand All Black
international rugby team Tana Umaga has announced his retirement from
international rugby.
Article here http://news.syd.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=74335
DATA BASE UPDATE (10.01)
The following countries have had their list of
international rugby results updated.
Andorra
Bulgaria Germany Israel
Kazakhstan Lithuania Malta
Norway Poland Sri Lanka
Go to alphabetical listing at the top of the page.