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

FEBRUARY 2007

Web sites I recommend this month

http://www.russianrugby.ru/

This Russian rugby site has a translation link for English. The translation is very literal so you will need to read between the lines. This is not the official site but the official site does not appear to have a translation function.

http://statistics.scrum.com/rugby_stats_01.asp

I use this excellent database as the basis for my international team data (ages and tests played-not available on the site). It is very slow but well worth having patience. It is not totally without fault but I use it to compare with the national unions player profiles that can be incorrect (don’t even bother with the Scotland RFU sites player profiles-hopelessly out of date!)-Unfortunately down at the moment

http://2rugby.com/

I haven’t come across this site before. It contains plenty of data, stats and news on world rugby. Looks to be covering the game for the top 10 nations. This site runs a portal for links to news.

Updated 28.02.2007

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Latest Results (Last two weeks)

24.02.2007

Italy 37, Scotland 17 at Murrayfield (6 Nations Int. Championship) Details

Ireland 43, England 13 in Dublin (6 Nations Int. Championship) Details

France 32, Wales 21 in Paris (6 Nations Int. Championship) Details

Germany 24, Welsh Districts 13 in Pontypridd

Algeria 8, Tunisia 7 in Tunis (Friendly, first test for Algeria)

11.02.2006

France 20, Ireland 17 in Dublin (6 Nations Int. Championship) Details

10.02.2006

England 20, Italy 7 at Twickenham (6 Nations Int. Championship) Details

Scotland 21, Wales 9 at Murrayfield (6 Nations Int. Championship)

Details

Tonga 85, Korea 3 in Auckland (WCQ Repechage 2)

Russia 39, Spain 14 in Madrid (ENC 1)

Coming Up

NEWS ARCHIVES 2006

As I am unable to upload these pages to the main index they are temporarily here.

News archives for May

News archives for June

News archives for July

News archives for August

News archives for September

News archives for October

News archives for November

New archives for December

A complete list of results for 2006

NEWS ARCHIVES 2007

As I am unable to upload these pages to the main index they are temporarily here.

News Archives for January

Alterations/additions to fixture list

2007 International rugby Fixtures-Results

CHURCHILL CUP-DATES AND VENUES (28.02)

18.05.2007

England Saxons v. USA at Edgeley Park (Sale)

19.05.2007

Ireland A v. Canada at Sandy Park (Exeter)

23.05.2007

Scotland A v. USA at Henley RFC

25.05.2007

New Zealand Maori v. Canada at Franklin's Gardens (Northampton)

28.05.2007

England Saxons v. Scotland A at Twickenham

29.05.2007

New Zealand Maori v. Ireland A at Sandy Park (Exeter)

02.06.2007

Barclays Churchill Cup Finals Day at Twickenham Stadium (all six teams)

http://www.barclayschurchillcuprugby.com/

IRB NATIONS CUP 2007 (22.02)(See news)

WORLD CUP QUALIFIER. FINAL PLACE (21.02.)

Repechage 1-Revised dates for Portugal v Uruguay.

10.04.2007

Uruguay v Portugal in Lisbon

17.04.2007

Portugal v Uruguay in Montevideo

LATEST NEWS

CANADA’S 2007 SCHEDULE (28.02)

http://www.rugbycanada.ca/index.php?page_id=114&lang=en&news_id=2662

THIS WEEKEND 24 FEBRUARY

24.02.2007

Italy 37, Scotland 17 at Murrayfield (6 Nations Int. Championship)

Italy won by 30 points. I predicted Scotland by 16.

A big upset win for Italy, their first away win after 6 seasons of trying.

Scotland Lock Scott Murray equalled Gregor Townsend’s record of 82 caps.

LAST FIVE ENCOUNTERS

18.03.2006 Scotland 13-10 in Rome (6 Nations Int. Championship)

26.02.2005 Scotland 18-10 at Murrayfield (6 Nations Int. Championship)

06.03.2004 Italy 20-14 in Rome (6 Nations Int. Championship)

23.08.2003 Scotland 47-15 at Murrayfield (Pre World Cup Friendly)

29.03.2003 Scotland 33-25 at Murrayfield (6 Nations Int. Championship)

GWC Rugby Rankings: World Table-Scotland 7^th, Italy 11th CHANGE

Europe Table-Scotland 4^th, Italy 6^th CHANGE

Details

Preview

http://www.federugby.it/news.asp?i=43376&s=2

Referee: Donal Courtney (Ireland)

Ireland 43, England 13 at Croke Park, Dublin (6 Nations Int. Championship)

Ireland won by 30 points. I predicted Ireland by 8

England have crashed and burned yet again. What a wonderful occasion for Irish rugby. A win at Croke Park against the old Foe. This will be a match that will be talked about forever and will go down in Irish rugby lore.

Reviews

http://www.planetrugby.com/sixnations/Story/0,19022,3820_1941271,00.html

http://www.irishrugby.ie/283_7515.php

LAST FIVE ENCOUNTERS

18.03.2006 Ireland 28-24 at Twickenham (6 Nations Int. Championship)

27.02.2005 Ireland 19-13 in Dublin (6 Nations Int. Championship)

06.03.2004 Ireland 19-13 at Twickenham (6 Nations Int. Championship)

30.03.2003 England 42-6 in Dublin (6 Nations Int. Championship)

16.02.2002 England 45-11 at Twickenham (6 Nations Int. Championship)

GWC Rugby Rankings: World Table-Ireland 2nd, England 4th

Europe Table-Ireland 2^nd, England 3rd

Details

Preview

This will be a remarkable rugby match even if only for the fact that an English rugby team will appear on historical Croke Park

France 32, Wales 21 in Paris (6 Nations Int. Championship)

France won by 11 points. I predicted France by 8.

France now has one hand on the Championship Trophy after this impressive win in Paris. Wales played well and scored 3 tries to France’s 2.

LAST FIVE ENCOUNTERS

18.03.2006 France 21-16 in Cardiff (6 Nations Int. Championship)

26.02.2005 Wales 24-18 in Paris (6 Nations Int. Championship)

07.03.2004 France 29-22 in Cardiff (6 Nations Int. Championship)

29.03.2003 France 33-5 in Paris (6 Nations Int. Championship)

16.02.2002 France 37-33 in Cardiff (6 Nations Int. Championship)

GWC Rugby Rankings: World Table-France 5^th, Wales 8th

Europe Table-France 1^st, Wales 5th

Details

Algeria 8,Tunisia 7 in Tunis (Friendly, first test for Algeria)

Algeria won by 1 point. I predicted Tunisia by 8

Algeria burst upon the international rugby scene with this very narrow win away against Tunisia.

Preview

Algeria will stride out onto turf in Tunis to play their first international rugby test match. Although my team lists is unofficial at this stage it looks like Tunisia is taking this match seriously.

http://www.magharebia.com/cocoon/awi/xhtml1/en_GB/sports/awi/newsbriefs/sports/2007/02/01/newsbrief-03

I did some research from my own records just to see how strong the Tunisian team for Saturday is, providing that this is the team.

Imed Adli (EC, Ken1, Nam1, Nam2

Akram Aouamri (EC, Ken1, Nam1)

Lotfi Ben M’sallem (EC, Ken1, Nam1, Ken2, Nam2)

Haithem Chelli (Ken1, Nam1, Ken2, Nam2)

Amara Dridi (Nam2)

Pierrik Gaillard (EC)

Imed Fhal (EC, Ken1, Nam1, Nam2)

Sabri Gmir (EC, Ken1, Nam1, Ken2, Nam2)

Mohamed Ben Hamida (EC, Ken1, Nam1, Ken2, Nam2)

Mohamed Zied Hlaili (Ken1, Nam2)

Mohamed Aziz Kassar (EC, Ken1, Nam1, Nam2)

Abbès Kherfani (EC, Ken1, Nam1, Ken2, Nam2)

Mokhtar Ktari (EC, Ken1, Nam1, Ken2)

Med Ali Kochlef (EC, Ken1, Nam1, Ken2, Nam2)

Kaïs Aissa(or Issa?) (EC, Ken1, Nam1, Ken2, Nam2)

Rabi Nafla (EC, Ken1, Nam1)

Bouraoui Rhouma (EC, Ken1, Nam1, Nam2)

Slim Sallam (EC, Ken1, Nam1)

Yousri Soughir (Ken1, Nam1, Ken2, Nam2)

Hédi Souid

Khaled Zegdène (EC, Ken1, Nam1, Ken2, Nam2)

21 Players (Where is No.22?)

Tunisia results 2006

3 June v England Counties in Birmingham L 7-35

10 June v Kenya (1) in Nairobi. L 21-25

1 July v Namibia (1) in Tunis. W 24-7

23 Sept. v Kenya (2) in Tunis W 31-12

7 Oct. v Namibia (2) in Windhoek L 15-23

This is not an experimental team Tunisia is putting on the field against the fledgling Algerians. Only one player has not played for Tunisia this year.

The Algerians look to be all France-based players whereas a few Tunisians are home-based. This will be an interesting contest!!

The Tunisia team list comes from ‘Quentin’ from FIRA-AER forum. He tells it came from a French rugby forum.

Algeria-all French clubs

Props

Benhamor Nasser (Cahors )

Benhassen Abdelkader (Gennevilliers)

Bouchour Adel (Aix en Provence)

Salhi Abdelkader (Stade Français)

Hookers

Belhocine Ali (Domont)

Boudi Karim (Massy)

Tébani Salim (Rumilly)

Lock Forwards:

Dougarem Mohamed (Domont)

Ammar Kader (Union Bordeaux Bègles)

Oubdallah Djamel (La Seyne/Mer)

Loose Forwards:

Aib Azzouz (Millau)

Allam Boumédienne (Blagnac)

Ameur Medhi (USAP)

Benhamouda Nabil (Brives)

Hireche Said (Stade Français)

Scrum half:

Yanina Aziz (Ireland)

Fly half:

Boukaloua Nadir (LOU)

Centres:

Brembi Foued (PRO D2)

Aib Jilali (Millau)

Wingers:

Ourak Rachid (St Saturnin)

Khamouche Samir (Castres)

Fullback:

Adjimi Fouad (Cergy Pointoise)

Germany 24, Welsh Districts 13 in Pontypridd Stadium, Pontypridd

Teams

Germany

15 Mathieu Franke (RC Orléans), 14 - Clemens von Grumbkow (RC Orléans), 13 Benjamin Simm (78/08 Hannover), 12 Colin Grzanna (Berliner RC), 11 Christopher Weselek (RG Heidelberg), 10 Lars Eckert (SC Neuenheim), 9 Mustafa Güngör (RG Heidelberg), 8 Jens Schmidt (Kapitän/TSV Handschuhsheim), 7 Gerrit van Look (Berliner RC), 6 Tim Kasten (RG Heidelberg), 5 Sascha Fischer (RC Le Bugue), 4 Benjamin Danso (DRC Hannover), 3 Benjamin Krause (78/08 Hannover), 2 Klaus Mainzer (SC Neuenheim), 1 Alexander Widiker (RC Orléans).

Replacements

16 Kristian Trochowski (Berliner RC), 17 Christian Baracat (SC Frankfurt 1880), 18 Michael Kerr (SC Neuenheim), 19 Sebastian Werle (RG Heidelberg), 20 Franck Moutsinga (Berliner RC), 21 Marten Strauch (SC Neuenheim), 22 Chris Parnham (Clifton RFC & Cardiff University).

http://www.rugby-journal.de/templates/meldung.php?ide=cp2007-02-23-2121

Uruguay v Buenos Ares in Buenos Aires (Non-test)

Uruguay is in Argentina to play some warm up matches against local opposition in preparation for the final World Cup place.

Last week Los Teros played and lost 12-29 to Cordoba.

Uruguay:

15 Alfredo Giuria (L'Aquila, Italy), 14 Francisco De Posadas (Old Boys), 13 Martín Crosa (Carrasco Polo), 12 Ignacio Conti (Carrasco Polo), 11 Rodrigo Capó (Castres, France), 10 Federico Capó (Carrasco Polo), 9 Juan Campomar (Old Boys), 8 Francisco Bulanti (Trébol), 7 Nicolás Brignoni (Montauban, France), 6 Juan Bado (Montauban, France), 5 Matías Arocena (Old Christians), 4 Carlos Arboleya (Trébol), 3 Rafael Álvarez (Old Christians), 2 Diego Aguirre (Carrasco Polo), 1 Sebastián Aguirre (Carrasco Polo)

Replacements: 16 Juan Labat (Carrasco Polo), 17 Pablo Lemoine (Montauban, France), 18 Juan Martín Llovet (Old Christians), 19 Juan Menchaca (Carrasco Polo), 20 Joaquín Pastore (Old Boys), 21 Juan Pérez (Old Boys), 22 Carlos Protasi (Carrasco Polo), 23 Rodrigo Sánchez (Carrasco Polo), 24 Guillermo Storace (Old Christians)

Coaches: Nicolás Inciarte, Fernando Silva

Preview

Italy has the opportunity to win its first game at Murrayfield, Wales will be desperate to gain its first win of the tournament in Paris, history will be made, firstly, when England runs onto Croke Park to play Ireland and Algeria plays its first international rugby test when they face Tunisia in Tunis.

IRB NATIONS CUP 2007 (22.02)

Last year this tournament was hosted by Portugal. This year it will be hosted by Romania. Also involved will be Georgia and Namibia, who along with Romania, will use the tournament as a World Cup warm up. Italy ‘A’ and ‘Argentina ‘A’ will return with a new team Emerging Springbox. The tournament will be played in early June.

IRB Nations Cup 2007 Fixtures

05.06.2007

Argentina A v Italy A

Georgia v Namibia

Emerging Springboks v Romania

10.06.2007

Argentina A v Namibia

Emerging Springboks v Georgia

Italy A v Romania

16.06.2007

Italy A v Georgia

Namibia v Romania

Emerging Springboks v Argentina A

http://www.planet-rugby.com./Story/0,18259,3551_1932947,00.html

RUGBY IN JAPAN Vol.4, No.8

IT’S NEW!

COUNTRY LIST UPDATES (16.02)

The following lists of country’s international rugby matches have been updated. Go to the alphabetical listing at the top of the page.

But each list when it is updated now has all the match data sheets that are available.

The country lists, when updated, will now look like this.

(England 2001-)

05.11.2006	NEW ZEALAND	TWICKENHAM	LOST	20 - 41
11.11.2006	ARGENTINA	TWICKENHAM	LOST	18 - 25
18.11.2006	SOUTH AFRICA (1)	TWICKENHAM	WON	23 - 21
25.11.2006	SOUTH AFRICA (2)	TWICKENHAM	LOST	14 - 25
03.02.2007	SCOTLAND	TWICKENHAM	WON	42 - 20	Calcutta Cup, 6 Nations International Championship
10.02.2007	ITALY	TWICKENHAM	WON	20 - 7	6 Nations International Championship

Scroll over the blue print, left click and the match data sheet will appear.

So, the first country lists to be thus updated are listed below

England2001- France2001- Ireland Italy Morocco Niger Portugal Romania Scotland South Africa South Africa XV Tanzania

Please note: There are many match data sheets not available. They involve an enormous amount of work. This is an on going project.

MATCH DATA SHEET UPDATES (16.02)

The following international rugby matches have either had their data sheets updated or new matches have been added. Go to fixtures-results in the menu.

4 November 2006 Serbia-Montenegro v Denmark (New)

11 November 2006 Scotland v Romania (New)

11 November 2006 Georgia v Portugal (New)

25 November 2006 Australia v Scotland (New)

25 November 2006 Portugal v Georgia (New)

RUGBY IN JAPAN Vol.4 No.7

More news items related to RiJ Vol.4 No.7 above

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/sports/20070206TDY22005.htm

The big surprise is the intended visit of the ‘Classic All Blacks’ to play ‘tests’ in Japan. The ‘Classic All Blacks’ is made up of ex-All Blacks who play various charity and promotion matches both in New Zealand and overseas. To my knowledge this is the first time they are to play a national rugby team.

http://www.classicallblacks.com/home.htm

CROKE PARK SEES RUGBY FOR THE FIRST TIME (14.02)

This is an amazing story involving the game of rugby union.

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/opinion/article2265446.ece

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sport/rugby/article2261915.ece

http://www.answers.com/topic/croke-park

MOROCCANS NOT HAPPY (14.02)

Morocco is unhappy about two of its French-based players not being available to play for their national team v Portugal in the second World Cup Repechage playoff. Portugal narrowly won 16-15.

Read more:

http://www.planet-rugby.com./Story/0,18259,3559_1901575,00.html

WEEKEND ROUNDUP 10-11 FEBRUARY

RUGBY IN JAPAN Vol.4, No.6

RUGBY IN JAPAN Vol.4 No.5

WEEKEND ROUNDUP 3-4 FEBRUARY

MATCH DATA SHEET UPDATES (01.02)

The following international rugby matches have either had their data sheets updated or new matches have been added. Go to fixtures-results in the menu.

28 October 2006 Poland v Croatia (Updated)

4 November 2006 Belgium v Ukraine (New)

11 November 2006 Wales v Pacific Islands (Updated)

18 November 2006 England v South Africa (New)

18 November 2006 New Zealand v France (New)

19 November 2006 Ireland v Australia (New)

25 November 2006 South Africa v England (New)