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"New Zealand rugby doyen Bob Howitt pairs with a top international photographic agency to bring you the ultimate souvenir for rugby fans. In this must-have souvenir record of the 2011 tournament, one of rugby's most respected commentators, Bob Howitt, provides definitive commentary to a stunning array of images from leading international photo library TRANZ. The book follows the competition through New Zealand's four pool games with statistics for all four pools, the quarter-finals, the semi-finals, the play-off for third, and the final. There are profiles of key tournament players, a world rugby dream team, intimate insights into All Black coach Graham Henry, and statistics wrap. In addition to photographs of key on-field moments throughout the competition, there is a selection of colourful spectator photos from around the venues."--Publishers description.
He features in the International Rugby Board Hall of Fame, the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame, and the New Zealand Business Hall of Fame. He is Sir Wilson Whineray, one of New Zealand's favourite sons, a legendary achiever in both rugby and business. this is the man who had all of Cardiff Arms Park standing, singing 'For He's a Jolly Good Fellow' at the conclusion of the epic All Black tour of 1963-1964. He was a gifted, natural leader who, following his celebrated rugby career, became an iconic business leader, chairing the board of Carter Holt Harvey for 10 years. His amazing story has never before been told.Reluctant to be seen to be blowing his own trumpet, over the years Sir Wilson has turned down countless offers to have his life story published, but was finally coaxed out of his reticence by Bob Howitt, one of the country's most highly respected rugby writers and biographers. Bob has extracted myriad enthralling stories from Sir Wilson's rugby and business colleagues and the people closest to him, to produce a work of magical quality without which no rugby library will be complete.
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Explosive and controversial - this is the must-read autobiography of one of the world's most successful sporting coaches. Although he would eventually be knighted in recognition of one of the most remarkable coaching careers in the history of rugby, Graham Henry experienced his share of crushing setbacks and disappointments. this was the man responsible for restoring the glory days of the All Blacks and reinvigorating the spirits of an entire nation, but also the one held accountable for a disastrous 2007 World Cup campaign. When the team crashed out, humiliatingly at the quarter-final stage, Sir Graham thought his time as an international rugby coach was up. the New Zealand Rugby Union had ...
Inga talks about the coaches and captains who have influenced his career, the famous players that he has opposed, racism, and the league offers that lured him in 1993.
Final Word is an honest and reflective look at the life and career of a truly remarkable and often controversial leader in world rugby.
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This book explores the expansion of rugby from its imperial and amateur upper-class white male core into other contexts throughout the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The development of rugby in the racially divided communities of the setter empire and how this was viewed are explored initially. Then the editors turn to four case studies of rugby's expansion beyond the bounds of the British Empire (France, Italy, Japan and the USA). The role of women in rugby is examined and the subsequent development of women's rugby as one of the fastest growing sports for women in Europe, North America and Australasia in the 1980s and 1990s. The final section analyses the impact of commercialisation, professionalisation and media on rugby and the impact on the historic rugby culture linked to an ethos of amateurism.
This policeman turned rugby referee creates a biography full of events, conversations and insightful anecdotes. After a disastrous refereeing performance at the 1999 Rugby World Cup he turns his career around and rebounds in 2003.
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