Tag Archives: RWC 2011
Team of the 2011 Rugby World Cup tournament
The 2011 Rugby World Cup is over; while the All Blacks are still celebrating their victory, it’s time for us to reflect on the tournament itself, which players stood out or could have done so should their team had performed better? True, why would individuals pay for a poor team performance if they have showed that they were [...]
NZ win Final thriller against France 8-7 and become 2011 RWC champions
Many, many, many rugby followers, New Zealanders or not, punters and bookies, commentators and ‘experts’, will be relieved today; their team, the team they love/ put money on/ respect most (too much?), has won the 2011 Rugby World Cup. As expected. As mots of us expected. There is a sort of justice in All Blacks victory. After all, [...]
2011 RWC 3rd place Final: Australia beat Wales 21-18 and get bronze
2011 RWC Bronze Final: Friday 21 October 2011, Eden Park, Auckland, 8.30pm kick off NZT, 13deg – dry. Attendance: 52000. Full-time result: Australia 21 - 18 Wales Well, as expected it wasn’t the most intense rugby match ever. Both teams had clearly left a lot of envy and passion in last w-e’s losses and just wanted to get this [...]
2011 RWC Top tries & points scorers: Clerc, Dagg, O’Connor & Weepu still in it
Besides 2011 RWC winners, runner-ups and Bronze medalists, the next 2 games will also decide of the world cup highest try-scorer as well as points-scorer. Wanna have a last bet? Everything is still up for grabs and a few players will be on the deck this w-e: Vincent Clerc and Israel Dagg with 6 and [...]
2011 RWC: Australia v Wales & NZ v France preview, latest betting odds & tips
That’s it. Last 2 games of the competition this w-e, starting with the first North v South battle today, Australia v Wales. Difficult to tell what will be the mindset on the pitch but one can think that the Welshmen might want it a bit more than Aussies who are still struggling to comprehend what [...]
AB sub’ Adam Thomson the only new face for NZ v France RWC Final
No changes in All Blacks starting XV named on Friday morning, the only new face being back row Adam Thomson who replaces Victor Vito on the bench. This is a rather solemn Graham Henry who announced his final line up of the tournament, the intensity clearly peaking up: “This is the biggest game of the players’ lives and [...]
Dan Carter on the 2011 RWC Final, his rehab and the future…
Dan Carter spoke to the media before Sunday’s RWC Final against France: Injury & rehab’ “Basically there’s no rush. My direction is towards next season. That’s not for another four months or so, so I will be well rehabbed and ready to play by then. That was part of the reason for having surgery, the [...]
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Higginbotham & Barnes named in Wallabies starting XV v Wales…at last.
Robbie Deans has announced the 22 Wallabies who will take on Wales for the 2011 RWC Bronze medal Final. At last, players like Higginbotham, Berrick Barnes and Nathan Sharpe are given a starting XV jersey. It won’t change the fact that they will be playing the only ‘Final’ no one wants to play but it will [...]
Lievremont names same starting XV for Sunday’s RWC Final against NZ
Marc Lievremont has announced an unchanged starting XV for Sunday’s 2011 RWC Final against the All Blacks. He will name the reserves at the end of the week. Sunday 23 October, 9pm kick off NZT. Eden Park, Auckland. New Zealand v France France: 15 Maxime Médard, 14 Vincent Clerc, 13 Aurélien Rougerie, 12 Maxime Mermoz, [...]