This tournament shall include teams of England, France, Wales, Ireland, Scotland and Italy. Ever since 5 teams became six in the year 2000, only 3 teams which are England, France, and Wales have great chances of winning. The other three teams have realistically very little chance of winning. Wales will be looking to defend their title.Teams which will win all their matches will also collect the grand slam along with the prestigious Six Nation’s Rugby Trophy.The tournament will begin on Saturday with first match between England vs. Italy on the 7th February 2009 and Ireland vs. France on the same day. The match scheduling is as follows:England vs. Italy Sat 7thIreland vs. France sat 7thScotland vs. Wales Sun 8thFrance vs. England 14thWales vs. England 14thItaly vs. Ireland 15thFrance vs. Wales 27thScotland vs. Italy 28thIreland vs. England 28thItaly vs. Wales 14th MarScotland vs. Italy Sat 14th MarEngland vs. France Sun 15th MarItaly vs. France Sat 21st MarEngland vs. Scotland Sat 21st MarWales vs. Ireland Sat 21st MarDetailed Overview of the TeamsWales: There is no argument that Wales are the clear favorites with none of their rival having improved their performance recently; their retaining the Championship is easy. With arguably the worlds best finisher in Williams, coupled with a strong team across the board, it would take a very good side to match the Dragons over 5 games. The match in France shall be the biggest threat to another Grand Slam title.England & Martin Johnson are in desperate need of a positive campaign after being hammered in the November Internationals. Much will rest on the shoulders of Andy Goode, the fly-half recalled for his first game in over 2 years in the absence of both Danny Cipriani & Toby Flood.They do have 3 home games this time around but must travel both to Wales & Ireland; they haven’t won in either country since they last won the tournament in 2003.France: They can win or lose to anyone on their day and that will never change. The home loss to England last year hurt Les Bleus, however, and they will be looking for revenge at Twickenham on day 4 match. With the pressure on coach Marc Livrement after consecutive defeats to South Africa & Australia, the notorious Parisian crowd may also work against the French if they do not try to take early leads in their home gameIreland: They haven’t won this competition since 1985 and there is no reason to believe that the Shamrock is any better than their rivals this time. They do have one of the best fixture lists, with home games against England.Get set for the excitemen and try ScoresPro.com for Rugby Livescore or Rugby Results
A Rugby union match of Guinness Premiership had taken place at Adams Park on 22 February at daytime 3:00 pm between Northampton and Wasps. Wasps had been doing hard work for many days to get dominance over Northampton. They had made two changes at their side to come up with strong stand up team to face Northampton in that match. Rob Webber replaced Joe Ward. Some replacements were also done to bring positive livescores. Finally after forceful fight, Wasps got victory over Northampton with 9-5 lead.
A forceful striker, Danny Cipriani, who omitted from England’s RBS 6 Nations side, kicked the three penalties which helped Wasps to earn a Guinness Premiership victory over Northampton. But Danny Cipriani seemed eclipsed by the exciting young player of Northampton who managed to score only in one try in the match. Another player Foded came in place of Johnson took pass from Stephen to burst over a point in the 55th minute of the match. But Myler had experienced off day, missing three attempts of penalty and it made them to get first premiership victory of the season in a match as they tried for it for a long time. The performance of Cipriani kicked Wasps in to lead of 6-0 with some penalties in the fifth and tenth minute of the game, just failed to land another point in the second half. In a nutshell, we can say that Wasps performed well in this match.
The coach of Wasps also credited the players in great words for playing well in the match as it will increase the confident of their players for coming matches. Wasps have good impact and strength over bench and the attitude of the club is positive and healthy due to the win of Wasps over Northampton last week. You can review live rugby results to explore more about the current status of Wasps over Northampton. This victory has brought more self confident in the players of Wasps as they are certain sure about their victory in the coming match as well which will be helpful for their strong display on the ranking table chart.
You just notice that Northampton also showed better opening half after the threat of former international star Serge Betsen from the Wasps side. He stroked a powerful run down in the middle but his attempt lacked some clinical finishing converting territorial benefit into points. After this victory, Wasps’ players are quite confident that their fans will get behind them madly one more time. Last time their excellent performance in the match inspired their fans. It also made them more inspirational heroes in the eyes of their fans after facing tough side of Northampton with flying colors. But Northampton should play well in the second half to earn good points over Wasps. Both teams had battle of 40 minutes to get back into full match. Do not miss this excited match review that will bring surprise and suspicion for you.
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After a number of cities and locations put in bids to host USA Rugby Championship Series events, final decisions have been made as to where a number of championship events will be held in 2008. One of the biggest changes to the schedule will be the move to centralize all preliminary levels of the collegiate playoffs. In past years, the first rounds of the collegiate national tournament, for both men and women, were held in different locations across the country which did not allow for “on the bubble” teams to plan trips far in advance. For 2008, the first rounds will be held in Albuquerque, N.M., at the Balloon Fiesta Park. The semifinals and the finals of the collegiate playoffs will be held in their usual home of Stanford, Calif., in May of 2008. The men’s national club playoffs will be held in Austin, Tex., at the Austin Rugby Consortium, which is an organization comprised of three local rugby outlets. The location was deemed fit to host the 40-plus-team tournament after playing host to the women’s club playoffs in 2007 and handling the turnout admirably. The final tournaments to approach approval under the recent announcement are the boys high school national tournament and the boys and girls national U-19 tournaments. The youth events will be held in Pittsburgh, Pa., and will be hosted by the local club team, the Pittsburgh Harlequins.
The event will last a total of 12 weeks, that is, from March 14 to May 30, 2009. The event will kick off with a match between Charlotte and Potomac Athletic Club on the Blue side and between Chicago Lions and Belmont on the Red side. As indicated by the results every year and specially by the rugby results 08, this is going to be as exciting a tournament as ever.The Rugby Super League was developed in 1996 so that the game of Rugby could be taken to new heights and be given professional status throughout America. The 13 teams that compete in 2 groups of Red and Blue Conference represent 13 main markets all through the United States and have helped in a major way in the exposure of the game to the world and in generating an interest in it.The competition is held in spring every year since its beginning in 1996. Weekly matches are held that lead towards a playoff and quarterfinals, semifinals and the final championship match deciding the champion of the year is played in May-June. Last year New York Athletic Club won the championship match against Belmont Shore. They scored 31-28 in a thrilling, nail biting match that had everyone sitting on the edge of their seats.The last championship final played in Infinity Park, Glendale, CO on May 31 was one befitting the most popular event in American Rugby. It went into two overtimes and had to be decided through penalty kicks at the end. NYAC finally put an end to the game by winning a sudden death round. NYAC’s Luke Milton kicked in the match winning goal.NYAC had made it into the finals by beating No. 5 Denver Barbarians at their home turf on Travers Island. The Belmont Shore team, who also played host at the semi-final, beat rivals No. 8 Chicago Lions 34-15.This was the second time that New York Athletic Club had won the title. The first time had been back in 2005. That time too they had played the final against Belmont Shore in Hartford, CT beating them by a very narrow margin.Personally, I believe, it is going to be an exciting season as always. Fans from all over the United States have been waiting in anticipation for the Rugby Super League season to start this year. All major TV networks will be broadcasting the matches live. But in case you are also one of those unfortunate ones like myself who is living abroad and can not watch the matches live, you can do what I always do; log on to an online site that gives live results of the game.As a fan of ScoresPro i recommend it to all of you for keeping yourself up to date with rugby Rugby Super League Livescore.
In the half time, Paul Sackey’s try and an drop-goal attempt of Andy put England in crucial trail just 9-8, Wales’ points were increased by Leigh Halfpenny and Stephen Jones. While in second half try, Wales were in crucial position due to England indiscipline letting that made them successful to get side lead. Rugby Livescore could tell you excited position of the match.Delon Armitage had scored with fine try to give some hope to England, but Wales held firm. Rugby results could be seen to review how many times Wales proved strong defend to protect their lead. England expectation were high at the start of the match due to the on form performance and full fledge confidence in their last victory over Italy, but early signs against Wales were not encouraging. Armitage struggled hard for a long-range and was able to drop-goal just in 30 seconds, but his poor attempt ended up well and simply handed over good possession to Wales. The home team performed well, speeding up their performance in different phases to threaten the visitors, in that time Phil Vickery managed to give up a penalty at a ruck and Jones had given a hard kick for a 3-0 lead.But the moments become more interesting to the audience in the field when that lead went on double in just on eight minutes. It was the time when Wales were on the greater range with the performance Halfpenny’s boot from 47 meters, anyhow his efforts brought good fruits for Wales. Throughout the game, Wales were seen in full of attacking pace, with their soldiers Lee Byrne, Mike Phillips and Jamie Roberts all attempting half-breaks against England. It seemed that it was very tough for England to hold the procession over Wales as they do not loss any single to counter with ball holding in hands. Referee Jonathan Kaplan had already delivered some suggestion to England captain Steve Borthwick on his sides persistent at the breakdown.But trilled and suspense reached at its peak when Mike Tindall had used his hands moments in the ruck, with Jones changing the penalty to give Wales margin of a 6-0 within16 minutes. England was not able to get even a single respite from Wales’s side as Kaplan penalized Vickery due to dropping the scrum. It was happened when Halfpenny stepped up to change the penalty of 40-meter.At the fourth penalty Wales were able to get 20-8n lead over England while 25 minutes were still remaining at that time. It was very crucial time for England but they were never able to get greater confidence to win the game as they did over Italy. These are some highlights that will make you aware about the sensation and excitement of the match.If you want to know more about match results, you need to bookmark ScorePro.com at your internet browser to keep yourself updated with Rugby livescore. You also watch online highlights of this great match.