Graham Rowntree and Stuart Lancaster Interviews
England interim head coach Stuart Lancaster and coach Graham Rowntree spoke to Russell Hargreaves of the RFU.com Podcast earlier today. In the interviews both talk about Danny Care's suspension, Ben Morgan's decision to opt for England and recent injury worries.They also talk about their general preparations and ethos as we build up to the 2012 Six Nations Championship at the start of next month. Stuart Lancaster announces his Elite and Saxons performance squads a week today (11th January).
England Press Conference ahead of Six Nations
Nick Heath from Rugby Media was at the England interim coaching team press conference and in the video below Stuart Lancaster discusses why he dropped Danny Care from the England squad and he also looks ahead to the Six Nations.
Credit: Nick Heath/Rugby Media
Credit: Nick Heath/Rugby Media
Rugby on the Box: Sky Sports vs ESPN
One of the big battles going on in the world of modern rugby
union is the battle of the television channels. In a new media age, rugby fans
have become ever reliant on watching games on the box. The two main channels currently showing rugby union are Sky Sports
and ESPN.
Sky has been around a while with Simon Lazenby being the main man along with a host of ex-rugby playing experts but ESPN is “the new kid on the block”
having agreed a deal with the Premier Rugby back in 2009 with Mark
Durden-Smith fronting up the ESPN presenting team.
Post-match reaction: London Wasps 0-6 Worcester
Former Aviva Premiership champions, London Wasps, have slipped to second bottom of the table after losing for the fifth straight time in the league. Worcester now climb above them in the table after winning a game with the joint-lowest overall scoreline in Premiership history. After the game at Adam's Park, Russell Hargreaves spoke to Wasps lock Richard Birkett and Worcester's former England scrum half Shaun Perry.
Top 10 Rugby Union Blogs of 2011
After another incredible year of rugby, the digital age is ever-growing and more and more blogs and websites have been developed for people to give their opinions, provide news stories and more.We have selected ten blogs that have stood out amongst a lot of opposition and we hope you will enjoy checking them out and reading them as much as you do reading ours! Don't forget to post a comment with your favourite blog from our list and why!
2011 - Review of the Year
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2011 has provided the rugby community with so many wonderful highs but also some bitter lows. The highs certainly came for the Rugby World Cup hosts, New Zealand, and of course Wales who stunned the world with their RWC campaign.
2011 has provided the rugby community with so many wonderful highs but also some bitter lows. The highs certainly came for the Rugby World Cup hosts, New Zealand, and of course Wales who stunned the world with their RWC campaign. However, the bitter lows would have come for England fans and the Irish and South African rugby supporters who would have expected far more from their star studded sides, who, before the tournament had been tipped as potential winners, if not, semi-finalists for certain.
But those sides failed to perform and whilst Ireland and South Africa were unlucky, fundamental problems inside the RFU were blamed for England’s World Cup meltdown.
But those sides failed to perform and whilst Ireland and South Africa were unlucky, fundamental problems inside the RFU were blamed for England’s World Cup meltdown.
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Salary Cap - Is it keeping the League competitive?
The Aviva Premiership Salary cap was introduced in the late 1990's to keep the league competitive and ensure all clubs had a fair chance at winning rugby’s biggest prize inside of England. I would argue all its done is hamstrung the leagues big boys in European competition. Since the game went pro only 5 clubs have won the league with Wasps and Leicester being the only multiple winners. This suggests to me the big clubs will always rise to the top domestically; the best players always want to play for the clubs with the most revered histories.
The New England Starting 15?
Andy Farrell is currently coaching with Saracens so he will certainly have knowledge about the vast array of youngsters that are on offer to England in the Saracens camp. Stuart Lancaster was the England Saxons coach prior to his interim appointment meaning he knows about the young talent that England have already produced with the Saxons and Graham Rowntree was of course a coach during Martin Johnson's era so knows about the current batch of players. Put together, these three men have more knowledge about current English players than any other.
The #RugbyUnited Community
Just one week ago, #rugbyunited was launched. Many of you reading this will already be involved with the project or, if not, you will probably have heard of it.
The aim is to connect all rugby fans on Twitter through a simple hashtag, #rugbyunited. 70+ people are currently involved and Scrum Five is supporting the idea. If you have just joined Twitter and have maybe 10 followers or simply want a few more followers, send a Tweet that includes the club you support, a "please RT" message and of course the hashtag #rugbyunited!
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