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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
MAY 2007
This site has excellent
coverage of rugby in the Czech Republic
http://www.fira-aer-rugby.com/
This site is the above body
that runs rugby on the continent. It has an excellent record of match reports
which I frequently use for my international rugby match data sheets. I also
highly recommend the forum on this site at http://www.fira-aer-rugby.com/forum2007/
WHAT’S NEW? The country lists above are now functional. They
will be gradually updated and with the match data sheets that are available.
Scroll down for the latest news
29.05.2007
New Zealand Maori 50,
Ireland ‘A’ 22 in Exeter (Churchill Cup)
28.05.2007
England Saxons 18, Scotland
‘B’ 3 (Non-Test) at Twickenham (Churchill Cup)
27.05.2007
Junior All Blacks 31, Samoa
10 in Apia (Pacific Nations Cup)
Hong Kong 27, Korea 20 in Hong
Kong (Asia Nations, Div.1)
26.05.2007
Australia 29, Wales 23 in
Sydney
South Africa 58, England 10
in Bloemfontein
Argentina 22, Ireland 20 in
Santa Fe
Fiji 30, Japan 15 in Lautoka
(Pacific Nations Cup)
Singapore 31, Malaysia 19 in
Kuala Lumpur (Asia Nations Div.3)
Morocco 20, Cameroun 6 in
Casablanca (Africa Cup, Div.1, North A)
Ivory Coast 12, Senegal 10 in
Dakar (Africa Cup, Div.1, North B)
Namibia 83, Zambia 10 in
Windhoek (Africa Cup, Div.1, South A)
South Africa Amateur 40, Zimbabwe
8 in Johannesburg (Africa Cup, Div.1, South B)
Uganda 29, Kenya 10 in
Kampala (Elgin Cup)
Slovenia 21, Finland 6 in
Helsinki (ENC 3C)
25.05.2007
New Zealand Maori 59, Canada
23 in Northampton (Churchill Cup)
Australia ‘A’ 60, Tonga 15
in Sydney (Pacific Nations Cup)
23.05.2007
Scotland ‘A’ 13, United
States 9 in Henley (Churchill Cup)
Barbarians RFC (UK) 52, Spain
26 in Elche
20.05.2007
Luxembourg 22, Israel 16 in
Cessange (ENC 3C)
19.05.2007
Samoa 8, Fiji 3 in Apia
(Pacific Nations Cup)
Ireland ‘A’ 39, Canada 20 in
Exeter (Churchill Cup)
Portugal 23, Czech Republic
3 in Prague (ENC 1)
Poland 36, Malta 3 in
Siedlce (ENC 2B)
Lithuania 27, Austria 0 in
Vienna (ENC 3B)
Bulgaria 25, Norway 10 in
Sofia (ENC 3B)
Slovenia 77,
Bosnia-Hertzegovina 5 in Ljubliana (ENC 3C)
China-Taipei 22, Thailand 3
in Bangkok (Asia Nations Div.4)
Barbarians RFC (UK) 33, Tunisia 10 in Tunis
18.05.2007
England XV 51, United States 3
in Stockport (Churchill Cup)
16.05.2007
China-Taipei 72, Pakistan 3
in Bangkok (Asia Nations Division 4)
12.05.2007
Russia 21, Portugal 13 in
Lisbon (ENC 1)
Malta 31, Andorra 24 in Marsa
(ENC 2B)
Greece 20, Slovakia 17 in
Thessalonika (ENC 3D Final)
Thailand 44, Pakistan 0 in
Lahore (Asia Nations Div.4)
11.05.2007
Kazakhstan 49, Arabian Gulf
9 in Dubai (Asia Nations Div.2)
02.06.2007
Australia v Wales in
Brisbane
New Zealand v France in
Auckland
South Africa v England in
Pretoria
Ireland v Argentina in
Buenos Aires
Italy v Uruguay in
Montevideo
Australia ‘A’ v Samoa in
Coffs Harbour (Pacific Nations Cup)
Tonga v Japan in Coffs
Harbour (Pacific Nations Cup)
Fiji v Junior All Blacks in
Suva (Pacific Nations Cup)
New Zealand Maori v England
‘A’ at Twickenham (Churchill Cup Final)
Ireland ‘A’ v Scotland ‘A’
at Twickenham (Churchill Cup Playoff 3rd/4th)
Canada v United States at
Twickenham (Churchill Cup Playoff 5th/6th)
Lithuania v Hungary in
Lithuania (ENC 3B)
Finland v Israel in Helsinki
(ENC 3C)
IRB Nations Cup starts June
5 (Argentina ‘A’, Italy ‘A’, Georgia, Namibia, Emerging Springbox, Romania)
2007
International results & fixtures
FIRA-AER Results and Points Table 2006-08
News Archives (Sorry but only these are available at present)
ADDITIONS
AND ALTERATIONS TO THE FIXTURE LIST
PORTUGAL TO TOUR CANADA (25.05)
As preparations for both
teams leading to the World Cup Finals in September, Canada and Portugal will
meet in Eastern Canada in August.
11.08.2007
Portugal v Canada Select
in Toronto
18.08.2007
Portugal v Canada in
Ottawa
http://www.rugbycanada.ca/index.php?lang=en&page_id=10&news_id=3113
2007 ELGIN CUP MATCHES (24.05)
Dates changed yet again
Looks like first leg is
this Saturday in Kampala
http://allafrica.com/stories/200705211431.html
Traditional rugby
rivalry between African neighbours Kenya and Uganda is expressed in a trophy
called the Elgin Cup. In the last two years this has become a home-away series
and used as a warm up for both nations as they prepared for their Africa Cup
matches. The series was previously set for August but now revised to June.
09.06.2007 Kampala
16.09.2007 Nairobi
“Dates of the first leg of Elgin Cup
coincide with the annual Safari Seven’s tournament and maybe revised because
Uganda and Kenya will be heavily involved in the Safari Sevens tournament.
Kenya is also scheduled to host Morocco on
June 23 in Nairobi before travelling to Yaounde to play Cameroon in the Africa
Cup assignments”
Kenya RFU Email
newsletter..
SOME VENUES CONFIRMED AND DATES CHANGED (11.05)
19 May Samoa v Fiji in Apia (Pacific Nations Cup)
25 May Tonga v Australia
‘A’ in Sydney (Pacific Nations Cup)
26 May Junior All Blacks
v Samoa in Apia (Pacific Nations Cup)
2 June Australia ‘A’ v
Samoa in Coffs Harbour (Pacific Nations
Cup)
2 June Fiji v Junior All
Blacks in Suva (Pacific Nations Cup)
9 June Tonga v Junior
All Blacks in Nuku’alofa (Pacific
Nations Cup)
16 June Fiji v Tonga in Lautoka
(Pacific Nations Cup)
16 June Junior All
Blacks v Australia ‘A’ in Dunedin
(Pacific Nations Cup)
23 June Samoa v Tonga in
Apia (Pacific Nations Cup)
23 June Fiji v Australia
‘A’ in Suva (Pacific Nations Cup)
2007 ENGLAND COUNTIES TOUR TO RUSSIA (02.05)
June 7: England Counties
XV v Krasnoyarsk XV in Krosnoyarsk;
June 12: England
Counties XV v VVA-Podmoskovie (Russian Club Champions) in Moscow;
June 16: England
Counties XV v Russia in Moscow.
LATEST NEWS
29.05.2007
New Zealand Maori 50, Ireland ‘A’ 22 in Exeter (Churchill Cup)
http://www.planet-rugby.com./Story/0,18259,3551_2155415,00.html
COUNTRY
LISTS UPDATED (27.05)
This part of the web
site has been unavailable since early March. Now that it is back in operation
many of the country lists need updating. I am also adding any available match
data sheets to these lists. This will take some time.
The following country
lists have been updated. See alphabetical listing at the top of the page.
France
XV Georgia Latvia Poland Portugal
Romania Russia Serbia
Switzerland Uruguay Wales XV
There are errors with
some of the match data sheets in the lists above-technical wobbles I believe.
Weekly
Results and News 25-27 May
CHANGES
IN TANZANIA RUGBY (23.05)
From John Kraft, President of Tanzania RFU
“Greetings
from East Africa. This is to inform you that at its Annual General Meeting held
on Saturday, 12 May 2007, the Tanzania Rugby Union elected the following
Officers to its 2007 Executive Board:
President:
John Kraft
Vice
President:-Christopher Hatty,
General
Secretary:-Ben Wiggins,
Treasurer:-Chantal
Cillié Trevor,
The
Tanzania Rugby Union expresses its deep gratitude to Retired President Tinus
Aucamp for his years of service to the sport in East Africa, and is pleased to
announce that Tinus was elected as a TRU Life member at its recent Annual
General Meeting. We are also happy to report that Steve Brown has been named
National Coach, replacing Tinus in that capacity.”
23.05.2007
Scotland ‘A’
13, United States 9 in Henley (Churchill Cup)
Scotland had plenty of woes
following their 6 Nations campaign earlier in the year. A big win against the
USA by the ‘A’ side was needed to boost confidence. With ten capped
international players Scotland ‘A’ could only manage a disappointing 13-9 win
against a team thrashed 51-3 by England Saxons last weekend. On the other hand
it was a much improved performance by the USA
http://www.planet-rugby.com./Story/0,18259,3551_2145726,00.html
Point scorers:
Scotland A:
Try: Lamont
Conversion: Ross
Penalty Goals: Ross (2)
United States:
Penalty Goal: Viljoen (3)
Teams:
Scotland A:
15 Rory Lamont, 14 Simon
Webster, 13 Calum MacRae, 12 Graeme Morrison, 11 Thom Evans, 10 Gordon Ross, 9
Rory Lawson (captain), 8 Johnnie Beattie, 7 John Barclay, 6 Steve Swindall, 5
Iain Fullarton, 4 Andrew Hall, 3 Bruce Douglas, 2 Scott Lawson, 1 Alasdair
Dickinson.
Replacements: 16 Fergus
Thomson, 17 Craig Smith, 18 Mark Rennie, 19 Alasdair Strokosch, 20 Rob
Chrystie, 21 Phil Godman, 22 Robbie Kydd.
USA:
15 Francois Viljoen, 14
Chris Wyles, 13 Paul Emerick, 12 Albert Tuipulotu, 11 Mike Palefau, 10 Valenese
Malifa, 9 Kimball Kjar, 8 Louis Stanfill, 7 Todd Clever, 6 Mark Aylor, 5 Mike
Mangan, 4 Hayden Mexted, 3 Chris Osentowski, 2 Mark Crick, 1 Mike MacDonald.
Replacements: 16 Blake
Burdette, 17 Mike French, 18 Inaki Basauri, 19 Dan Payne, 20 David Williams, 21
Vaha Esikia, 22 Salesi Sika.
Referee: Phil Smith (Canada)
http://www.barbarianfc.co.uk/latest_news.html
and then scroll down.
‘ A BRUISING IN BULGARIA LIKE NO
OTHER’ (21.05)
A good read. Makes me want to dust the old boots, find the liniment and go play a match in Bhutan.
Email to me any stories on the web like this.
SCOTLAND A SQUAD ANNOUNCED FOR CHURCHILL CUP (19.05)
Backs: Robert Chrystie
(Border Reivers), Simon Danielli (Border Reivers), Nick De Luca (Border
Reivers), Thom Evans (Glasgow Warriors), Phil Godman (Edinburgh Rugby)#, Robbie
Kydd (Northampton Saints), Rory Lamont (Glasgow Warriors)#, Rory Lawson
(Gloucester)*, Calum MacRae (Border Reivers)*, Mark McMillan (London Wasps),
Graeme Morrison (Glasgow Warriors)#, Gordon Ross (Castres), Simon Webster
(Edinburgh Rugby)#
Forwards: John Barclay
(Glasgow Warriors)*, Johnnie Beattie (Glasgow Warriors)*#, Alasdair Dickinson
(Edinburgh Rugby)*, Bruce Douglas (Border Reivers), Iain Fullarton (Saracens),
Andrew Hall (Newport Gwent Dragons), Craig Hamilton (Border Reivers), Ed Kalman
(Border Reivers), Scott Lawson (Glasgow Warriors)*#, Moray Low (Glasgow
Warriors), Donnie Macfadyen (Glasgow Warriors), Mark Rennie (Bourgoin), Craig
Smith (Edinburgh Rugby)#, Alasdair Strokosch (Edinburgh Rugby)*, Steve Swindall
(Glasgow Warriors), Fergus Thomson (Glasgow Warriors)*
*= Member of Scottish
Institute.
# Test players
NEW ZEALAND MAORI SQUAD FOR CHURCHILL CUP (19.05)
http://www.allblacks.com/index.cfm?layout=displayNews&newsArticle=5993
(Provincial Union followed
by tribal affiliation)
Callum Bruce - Otago, Ngati
Kahungunu
Keith Cameron* - Otago, Te
Whanau Apanui
Aled de Malmanche* -
Waikato, Tainui
Tamati Ellison - Wellington,
Ngati Porou
Hosea Gear - Wellington,
Ngati Porou
Glen Horton* - Otago, Tuwharetoa
Jason Kawau* - Southland,
Ngati Apa
Tanerau Latimer - Bay of
Plenty, Ngai Te Rangi
Angus Macdonald - Auckland,
Ngapuhi
James Rodley - North
Harbour- ?
Luke Mahoney - Wellington,
Te Ati Awa
Ben May* - Tasman, Tuhoe
Liam Messam - Waikato, Ngai
Tuhoe
Kristian Ormsby - Counties
Manukau, Ngati Maniapoto
Shannon Paku - Wellington,
Ngai Tuhoe
Isaac Ross* - Canterbury,
Kai Tahu
Chris Smylie - Otago, Ngati
Mutunga
Warren Smith - Bay of
Plenty, Ngati Kahungunu
Dwayne Sweeney* - Waikato,
Tainui
Anthony Tahana - Bay of
Plenty, Te Arawa
Pehi Te Whare - Southland,
Ngati Maniapoto
Hayden Triggs* - Manawatu,
Ngati Kahungunu
Rua Tipoki (captain) -
Canterbury, Te Whanau Apanui
Hoani Tui* - Wellington,
Ngati Apa
Scott Waldrom - Taranaki,
Ngati Porou
Craig West* - Waikato, Ngati
Apakura
Brendan Haami - Taranaki, Te
Ati Awa was originally selected but was replaced by Rodley
* Denotes new cap
JUNIOR ALL BLACK SQUAD FOR PACIFIC NATIONS (19.05)
http://www.allblacks.com/index.cfm?layout=displayNews&newsArticle=6013
John Afoa - Auckland
Stephen Brett - Canterbury
Daniel Braid (Co-captain) -
Auckland
Jimmy Cowan - Southland
Wyatt Crockett - Canterbury
Clarke Dermody - Southland
Stephen Donald - Waikato
Andrew Ellis - Canterbury
Ross Filipo - Wellington
Corey Flynn* - Canterbury
Rico Gear - Tasman
Scott Hamilton - Canterbury
Marty Holah (Co-captain) -
Waikato
Cory Jane - Wellington
Campbell Johnstone - Canterbury
Jerome Kaino - Auckland
Casey Laulala - Canterbury
Hoani MacDonald - Southland
Ma’a Nonu - Wellington
Greg Rawlinson - North
Harbour
Kieran Read - Canterbury
Mose Tuiali’i - Canterbury
Anthony Tuitavake - North
Harbour
Sam Tuitupou - Auckland
Derren Witcombe - Auckland
Rudi Wulf - North Harbour
*Corey Flynn will not
assemble with the squad immediately as he is on paternity leave.
A replacement hooker (to be
confirmed) will join the squad until Flynn’s return.
JOHN KIRWAN ANNOUNCES JAPAN SQUAD FOR PACIFIC NATIONS (19.05)
http://www.planet-rugby.com./Story/0,18259,3551_2134624,00.html
GRAHAM HENRY SELECTS INITIAL ALL BLACK SQUAD (19.05)
http://www.planetrugby.com/Story/0,18259,3551_2133425,00.html
All Black squad:
Dan Carter (Canterbury)
Jerry Collins (Wellington)
Nick Evans (Otago)
Troy Flavell (Auckland)
Carl Hayman (Otago)
Andrew Hore (Taranaki)
Doug Howlett (Auckland)
Chris Jack (Tasman)
Byron Kelleher (Waikato)
Brendon Leonard (Waikato)
Luke McAlister (North
Harbour)
Richie McCaw (Canterbury,
captain)
Leon MacDonald (Canterbury)
Chris Masoe (Wellington)
Aaron Mauger (Canterbury)
Keven Mealamu (Auckland)
Malili Muliaina (Waikato)
Anton Oliver (Otago)
Keith Robinson (Waikato)
Josevata Rokocoko (Auckland)
John Schwalger (Wellington)
Sitiveni Sivivatu (Waikato)
Conrad Smith (Wellington)
Rodney So'oialo (Wellington)
Reuben Thorne (Canterbury)
Neemia Tialata (Wellington)
Isaia Toeava (Auckland)
Piri Weepu (Wellington)
Ali Williams (Auckland)
Tony Woodcock (North
Harbour).
Coach: Graham Henry
Weekly
Results and News 18-19 May
16.05.2007
China-Taipei
72, Pakistan 3 in Bangkok (Asia Nations Division 4)
Pakistan is relegated to
Division 5 for the Asian Rugby Tournament to be held in November. China-Taipei
and Thailand meet in Bangkok Saturday to decide which team will be promoted to
Division 3.
WORLD CUP 2011 SET FOR NEW FORMAT (14.05)
Big changes are ahead
for future qualifying processes leading up to Rugby World Cup finals
Articles
http://www.planet-rugby.com./Story/0,18259,3551_2123636,00.html
JAPAN V CLASSIC ALL BLACKS (14.05)
Japan lost both its matches
against the New Zealand Classic All Blacks.
http://www.planet-rugby.com./Story/0,18259,3551_2124298,00.html
Weekly
Results and News 11-12 May
RUGBY IN JAPAN UPDATES (11.05)
These newsletters are an
update of the Japanese rugby scene as seen by resident Ian McDonnell.
Weekly
Results and News 5-8 May
ENGLAND COUNTIES ARE OFF TO RUSSIA (03.05)
Thanks to ‘bill’ from
FIRA-AER Forum http://www.fira-aer-rugby.com/forum2007/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2354
The England Counties
side is set for a 3 match tour of Russia in June.
http://www.england-rugby.com/englandrugby/index.cfm?fuseaction=News.News_Detail&storyid=16724