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Six Nations 2011 review

March 21st, 2011 · No Comments

newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz wrote this article. And the moral of the story is, don’t count your chickens…..
Grand slammers: no-one.Winners of the Six Nations: England.Most emotional moment: Italy beating France and Nick Mallet’s tears of joy.Best try: Imanol Hardinordoquy for France against Scotland.Peter de Villiers award for craziest coaching speech: France’s Lievremont announcing that his team has […]

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Tags: Chris Patterson · Sergio Parisse · Sam Warburton · Richie Gray · Lievremont · Andrea Masi · Tommy Bowe · Chris Ashton · Toby Flood · nick mallett · Six Nations 2011 · Paul O'Connell · Brian O'Driscoll

England V Ireland - Six Nations 2011

March 19th, 2011 · No Comments

newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz wrote this article.
An amazing performance by Ireland - if they could play like that in October, the World Cup could well be theirs…
Poor old England rugby team. I actually felt a bit sorry for them in the end. Poor old Nick Easter was so dejected in his after match captain’s interview. Losing to Ireland in a rather […]

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Tags: Tommy Bowe · Ireland V England Grand Slam · Six Nations 2011 · Martin Johnson · Brian O'Driscoll

England - rugby world cup favourites 2011

March 11th, 2011 · No Comments

newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz wrote this article.
There’s something not quite right with this picture
I didn’t write the following…but there’s a prize for guessing who did…
“England have gladdened the heart with their three consecutive victories, and if two of them (those over Italy and France) could easily have been won by my Grandmother’s Select XV, then good […]

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Tags: Scotland rugby · England rugby world cup favourites · Six Nations 2011 · Stephen Jones Sunday Times · Andy Robinson · All Blacks

England V Ireland - Six Nations 2011 - Stephen Jones Times

March 4th, 2011 · No Comments

noreply@blogger.com (slugso) wrote this article. It was impossible to detect among the tumult of tens of thousands of enraptured Irish in the Aviva stadium but somewhere was the sound of chickens coming home to roost. Ireland destroyed England’s aspirations of a Grand Slam and real World Cup contention, and the final scoreline did not […]

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Tags: Ireland V England Grand Slam · Six Nations 2011 · Stephen Jones Sunday Times