http://www.eurekastreet.com/aboutrugby Ideas and opinions About: Rugby now and in the future Tue, 29 Jul 2008 21:34:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Great news! Because we've recently reached our preliminary sales target for GRASSROOTS RUGBYкомпютри we can now offer the CD for the unbeatable price of £9.95 or $19.50 which is, close as dammit, a 50% reduction! Please note that this price still includes delivery costs WORLDWIDE. Just click the GRASSROOTS RUGBY banner ... http://www.eurekastreet.com/aboutrugby/archives/117 While whiling away these drear days of not quite Christmas by sifting through my Mediazone video downloads to try to answer some of my outstanding technical questions about the 2007 World Cup (What happened to Ireland? Did England actually change their game after the South Africa debacle?) I suddenly found ... http://www.eurekastreet.com/aboutrugby/archives/116 In this series of critical review of rugby websites there will be no winners or losers. My links are to be found at Media Links Worldwide . Rugby Heaven: Australia and New Zealand - Fairfax Digital |News 9| Analysis 2| Coaching 2| Gossip 4 | ... http://www.eurekastreet.com/aboutrugby/archives/112 Excerpt from an article by DUNCAN JOHNSTONE - co-editor of Rugby Heaven.co.nz - in Stuff.co.nz Sunday, 25 November 2007. Unbelievable? Inconceivable? Just plain stupid? A great idea that failed? How many games do players need to play to reach their peak? "Some startling statistics reveal how Graham Henry's controversial reconditioning and rotation ... http://www.eurekastreet.com/aboutrugby/archives/111 The more one thinks about the offload ( there was a time when I called it "passing out of the tackle" or "POOTT" before the term "offload" simplified all our lives) the more complicated it becomes. Statistics show clearly, as if we needed to be convinced, that a team's determination ... http://www.eurekastreet.com/aboutrugby/archives/109 For all of us who have spent long nights wondering what the life of a top professional coach is really like I can heartily recommend the blockbuster movie "Any Given Sunday," a gritty and obviously totally authentic picture of coaching at the top of the tree complete with all the ... http://www.eurekastreet.com/aboutrugby/archives/106 I thought I was fairly familiar with the world's rugby websites but recently I discovered one I'd never seen before. SARugby.com is a South African site and while it seems (on short acquaintance, I must admit) not very remarkable in other respects it has a Stats Center ... http://www.eurekastreet.com/aboutrugby/archives/105 In this series of critical review of rugby websites there will be no winners or losers. My links are to be found at Links Planet Rugby |News 9| Analysis ... http://www.eurekastreet.com/aboutrugby/archives/103 Excerpt from the Commentary section. "...the one question that was critical therefore was whether an expansive approach would stand up under the pressure of a winner take all knockout competition. It did not – and this has never been more dramatically illustrated than in the France v New Zealand quarter final game. ... http://www.eurekastreet.com/aboutrugby/archives/102 The most basic injunction in ball retention is, "Never to let an opposition player touch the ball." This may seem utterly obvious and, I have to admit, somewhat simplistic but it is apparently often forgotten. How often we have seen the ball literally taken away from a player who isn't ... http://www.eurekastreet.com/aboutrugby/archives/100