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Wilkinson Helps Toulon Beat ACT Brumbies Wearing New Puma Toulon Home Shirt
Toulon beat former Super 14 champions The ACT Brumbies last night which completed their four-match French tour with a 20-6 loss to at the Stade Mayol on Thursday.
Toulon stood out wearing their new Puma home rugby shirts for the upcomming season. This will be available exclusively to Lovell Rugby on the 15th of August along with their away rugby shirt and Biaritz home, away and European rugby shirts.
England Fly Half Jonny Wilkinson played an hour and kicked four penalties in a pleasing performance gearing up for the start of the French season, due to Begin with an all star Opening league game of Stade Francais vs Toulon.
Wilkinson, who was without team-mate Sonny Bill Williams for the match, took little time to impose himself, pushing a drop goal attempt wide in the opening minute of the match before landing a penalty three minutes later when Brumbies scrum-half Nic White was sin-binned for a ruck infringement.
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Steyn The Record Breaker Sinks All Blacks in Shark Tank
South Africa recorded their second win in a row against the All Blacks in Durban on Saturday evening, in wet conditions.
Morne Steyn (Wearing his Nike Vapor 4 Rugby boots) scored every single one of his team’s points with a terrific display of place-kicking. He broke the record for most points against the All Blacks, most points in a tri nations game and earned the World record for most points scored by a player! Steyn has scored all their team’s points and the most penalties by a South African in a game. In doing so, he beat the 7 achieved by kicking coach and world cup winner Percy Montgomery.
The All Blacks had challenged themselves to respond from last week’s defeat in Bloemfontein, but performance was error ridden from start to finish.
Tags: South Africa Rugby
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Rugby Match Report from South Africa: British and Irish Lions v Sprinboks 1st Test From Durban
Lovell Rugby was lucky enough to have the chance to head of to Durban for the First test Between the Brtish and Irish Lions against the reigning world champions South Africa.
The match was a fight to the death, and high drama as the tourists produced a great final quarter to narrow the gap to within a score. But the game had long been lost in a dreadful first half - in reality, it was the multiple changes that stumped the Boks’ rhythm and nearly cost them their win, rather than any inherent superiority.
The Lions started poorly though? The scrums, so talked up as the focal point of the Lions efforts, were annihilated. Phil Vickery alone was destroyed on five occasions against Tendai ‘Beast’ Mtawarira. The Boks got six points from that alone. Here at Lovell Rugby we think Adam Jones should have come on far earlier. (more…)
Tags: British and Irish Lions, South Africa Rugby, Tour to South Afirca 2009
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France Shock New Zealand All Blacks At House Of Pain
France scored their second consecutive win against New Zealand with a well deserved 27-22 victory on their first ever visit to Carisbrook on Saturday.
The visitors scored first and never trailed, eventually outscoring an under-strength All Blacks three tries to two.
A massive defensive display from France was contrasted by a below-par performance from the home team, who were dominated for most of the match. (more…)
Tags: All Blacks, France Rugby
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Argentina Gain Revenge Over England
Argentina enacted revenge for their defeat to England in Manchester last week, with a bullying 24-22 win in Salta on Saturday.
Hernandez landed a stream of first-half penalties to compound an early English error at the line-out that led to a simple try for Juan Manuel Leguizamon, with Andy Goode only able to reply with one as the Pumas held their line and their nerve.
That last bit was also important, in the face of some stiff provocation from the English side, whose loss of discipline under presasure will have likely infuriated Martin Johnson more than the result. (more…)
Tags: Argentina Rugby, England Rugby, Stade Francais
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The British and Irish Lions prevail in the opening game of the tour
It started with a win, not the best performance but a win none the less! The British and Irish Lions beat the Royal XV 37-25 on Saturday, having trailed 18-10 at the break.
It could have been a lot worse. The Lions trailed 25-13 with 13 minutes remaining, as Riaan Viljoen’s conversion of Bees Roux’s try sailed over.
Lee Byrne (wearing his Adidas predator powerswerve rugby boots) produced a moment of individual genius to bring his side back into things though, and once Alun-Wyn Jones had crowned the return of the driving maul with a try, the result was safe. (more…)
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Leicester Tigers Beat Cardiff Blues in Semi Final Thriller
Leicester Tigers will face Leinster in the final of the Heineken Cup after resisting one of the greatest comebacks in the history of the game to win on a place-kick penalty shoot-out after grinding out a 26-26 draw in 100 minutes of play at the Millennium Stadium on Saturday.
A game as brilliant as this one should not have been ended by such ludicrous means.
The climactic lottery was brought to an abrupt end as Martyn Williams of Cardiff missed his sudden-death pop at goal and Jordan Crane managed to see his response over the crossbar. (more…)
Tags: Cardiff Blues, Heineken Cup, Leicester Rugby
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Lovell Rugby Match of the Week: Bristol vs Worcester Warriors
An emphatic 37-18 victory over Worcester, their nearest rivals, has given Bristol belief that they might yet avoid the dreaded drop from the Guinness Premiership.
Defeat for the locals would have condemned them to relegation three games inside the distance after a miserable season.
But they conjured up an unlikely bonus-point victory against the 11th-placed Warriors, recording only their second Premiership success of the campaign.
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Lovell Rugby Match of the Week: England v France 15th March 2009
Is this a sign of England under Martin Johnson turning a corner? From the evidence of Sunday over 80,000 certainly hope so as England blew France away in the first half.
It was the day England had been searching for all tournament. Limited against Italy, awkward against Wales, tighter against Ireland, the English brought all the defensive attributes they had developed over the past month, added to it some precise and high-speed running lines and zippy handling, and removed the stupidity which had dogged them at breakdowns.
They also got the rub of the green on countless occasions. 50-50 passes stuck unerringly. Andy Goode dropped a pass in the second half and managed to volley it into a team-mate’s hands. A downfield kick, bounding its way into in-goal and possibly dead, instead struck a post and forced Cedric Heymans to clear under pressure. You can’t buy or train that kind of thing; even in terms of good luck, England completely outplayed the French. (more…)
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Lovell Rugby Match of the Week: Scotland v Ireland 14th March 2009
Ireland’s dream of ending 61 years of Grand Slam hurt remains on the cards as they eked out a scrappy 22-15 win over Scotland at Murrayfield on Saturday.
There wasn’t much to separate these two in-form nations in the end, but Declan Kidney’s men provided sufficient grit and determination to muscle past their opponents with substitute Jamie Heaslip’s try proving the difference.
Scotland had started the stronger as they looked to add to their own improving efforts over the past six months. And with a late switch to the right-hand side just five minutes in, powerful winger Simon Danielli (Wearing his Mizuno Morellia rugby boots) looked set to open the scoring until a stray Irish hand brought him to his knees ten metres from the whitewash. (more…)
Tags: Ireland Rugby, Rugby Match Reports, Scotland Rugby
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