Some great news – the Vuvuzelas are likely to be banned from the World Cup. Bit late for the football world cup, but who cares about them? The Rugby World Cup, the one that matters, have them banned for all of the games in New Zealand – following on from certain venues banning them in the Tri-Nations
Any one who has tried to sit through the football World Cup will welcome the banning of the vuvuzelas with open arms. Those bloody awful plastic trumpets (best I can think …

Continuing on in our series of things that we already knew but will pretend we learned on the tour (yesterday’s was dedicated to Gavin Thomas) we have the panic that sets in to the Welsh rugby team. And not just any panic (though we will be covering defensive problems later in the series) – this is the panic we get when we look like we are going to score.
One try. One try in 3 games vs New Zealand. You think that would tell you all you need …

Things We Learned From The Tour… #1 Gavin Thomas
As part of a series studying what we learnt from the Wales tour to New Zealand, let’s call is a vain attempt at salvaging something from such a pointless trip, we are going to look at things that we ‘learnt’ from the tour.
To be honest in most cases we knew them already and things will have simply been reinforced by this tour. But we may as well get something to talk about after such an abject showing.
Gavin Thomas
The most obvious thing …

New Zealand have named their team to take on Wales on Saturday evening – and superstar outside half Dan Carter overcomes a calf injury to take his place out outside half for the All Blacks.
Elsewhere there are 6 changes, 2 enforced due to suspensions to Sivivatu and Woodcock, from the team that beat Australia in Tokyo – including a debut for Zac Guildford on the wing.
New Zealand Team vs Wales
Mils Muliaina; Cory Jane, Conrad Smith, Ma Nonu, Zac Guildford; Dan Carter, Brendan Leonard; Wyatt Crockett, Andrew Hore, Neemia Tialata, Brad …

Here in Wales we love the New Zealand Haka. Well we love talking about it anyway!
Forums such as Rugby Rebels and Gwlad are, yet again, awash with people talking about the Haka. should it be done? Should Wales be allowed to respond how they like? Should we just tell them to stop prancing around like sissys? Is it good theatre? Should grown men really stick their tongues out.
So to put such thoughts into perspective, and because I can’t be bothered to come up with …

Let’s not get ahead of ourselves, facing New Zealand is a difficult task, even if they are not at the top of their game right now. And facing them whilst missing some very important, very influential, players makes life even more difficult.
But I have seen on forums, twitter, etc people saying this is an impossible task… and I have to disagree.
In my mind rugby at international level is as poor as it has been for quite a long time. Australia are struggling, New Zealand don’t look anywhere near …

No, not Sly Stalone, but one of the many nicknames that Mike Phillips has picked up on various online rugby forums such as Rugby Rebels.
That’s right, Mike Phillips will be playing for the Barbarians against New Zealand on December 5th.  Now as an Ospreys fan that is a bit of a worry to me, Spikey Mike (see, another nickname) is vital to our game plan (and the Welsh rugby one) and risking him in an exhibition game vs a hard hitting side like New Zealand is, well, risky!  But the …

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