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Author: Eric Lemon
Publisher: Eric Lemon
Published: 2024-05-11
Total Pages: 470
ISBN-13: 0645362662
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A remarkable compilation of over 400 pages of statistics and records of every match and every player for the Wales national Rugby Union team from the first match in February 1881 up to December 2023.
Author: Eric Lemon
Publisher: Eric Lemon
Published: 2024-04-12
Total Pages: 528
ISBN-13: 0645362638
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Over 500 pages of facts, statistics, and records of every match and every player for the Australian national Rugby Union team from the first match in June 1899 up to December 2023.
Author: Seimon Williams
Publisher: Y Lolfa
Published: 2023-11-16
Total Pages: 82
ISBN-13: 1800995407
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The glory days of Welsh rugby seem long ago now. Mortifying defeats, threatened strike action, institutionalized sexism, racism and homophobia in the WRU, bad financial management – this book examines key events from the 1980s to today which have brought Welsh rugby to its present crisis.
Author: Alun Wyn Jones
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Published: 2021-09-16
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 1529058112
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →'People think they know him but unless you read this book you will never know the REAL Alun Wyn Jones' – Warren Gatland ‘One of the greatest, and seemingly indestructible, players in history' – A Daily Mail Book of the Year Belonging is the story about how the boy from Mumbles became the most capped rugby union player of all time. It is the story of what it takes to become a man who is seen by many as one of the greatest ever Welsh players. What it takes to go from sitting cross-legged on the hall floor at school watching the 1997 Lions tour of South Africa, to being named the 2021 Lions captain. But is it also about perthyn – belonging: playing for Wales, working his way through the age grades and club rugby and his regional side. How to earn the right to be there, and what it feels like to make the sacrifices along the way. Feeling the connection to players who have come before, and feeling the ties to the millions in front rooms and pubs across the country, coast to coast. Knowing that deep down you want to belong, as everyone does. From playing on the rain-swept pitches of Swansea to making his test debut against Argentina in Patagonia in 2006; from touring with the Lions in 2009, 2013, 2017 and 2021 to dealing with loss and creating a family – Belonging is the autobiography of one of the most compelling figures in world rugby. Told with characteristic honesty, this is his unique personal story of what it takes and what it means to play for your country: what it means to belong.
Author: Gordon Bray
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2024-06-25
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 1923009389
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Fully illustrated profiles of the most legendary Australian rugby union players. Hardcover and jacket gift book which names a best of the best 15-strong line-up of Australian rugby union players. Each Immortal player named is profiled in a dedicated chapter with career stats and multiple action images. There is also a group of honourable mentions and an Immortals Wallaby side. Features 100 photographs and key statistics. The Immortals of Australian Rugby Union celebrates the greatest players to wear the green and gold for the Wallabies. It takes the Immortals concept made famous elsewhere in the sporting world and applies it to the 15-player game. Gordon Bray, the voice of rugby in Australia, chooses his XV Immortals, telling the remarkable stories behind pioneering and modern-day Wallabies.
Author: Mike Carlton
Publisher: Random House Australia
Published: 2023-08-15
Total Pages: 450
ISBN-13: 1761042017
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →When the Second World War broke out in September 1939, the British asked Australia for help. With some misgivings, the Australian government sent five destroyers to beef up the British Royal Navy in the Mediterranean. HMAS Vendetta, Vampire, Voyager, Stuart and Waterhen were old ships, small with worn-out engines. Their crews used to joke they were held together by string and chewing gum; when the Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels heard of them, he sneered that they were a load of scrap iron. Yet by the middle of 1940, these destroyers were valiantly escorting troop and supply convoys, successfully hunting for submarines and indefatigably bombarding enemy coasts. Sometimes the weather could be their worst enemy - from filthy sandstorms blowing off Africa to icy gales from Europe that whipped up mountainous seas and froze the guns. Conditions on board were terrible - no showers or proper washing facilities; cramped and stinking sleeping quarters; unpleasant meals of spam and tinned sausages, often served cold in a howling squall. And always the bombing, the bombing. And the fear of submarines. When Nazi Germany invaded Greece, the Allied armies - including Australian Divisions - reeled in retreat. The Australian ships were among those who had to rescue thousands of soldiers. Then came the Siege of Tobruk - Australian troops holding out in that small Libyan port city. The Australian destroyers ran 'the Tobruk Ferry' - bringing supplies of food, medicine and ammunition into the shattered port by night, and taking off wounded soldiers. But the four destroyers now left were struggling, suffering from constant engine breakdowns, with crews beleaguered by two years of bombings, wild seas and the endless fear of being sunk. In late 1941 the ships were finally sent home, staggering back to Australia, proudly calling themselves the Scrap Iron Flotilla in defiance of the Goebbels' sneer. That flotilla is now an immortal part of Australian naval legend, and this is its story.
Author: Huw Richards
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2011-09-30
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 1780573286
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Rugby union has undergone immense change in the past two decades - introducing a World Cup, accepting professionalism and creating a global market in players - yet no authoritative English-language general history of the game has been published in that time. Until now. A Game for Hooligans brings the game's colourful story up to date to include the 2007 World Cup. It covers all of the great matches, teams and players but also explores the social, political and economic changes that have affected the course of rugby's development. It is an international history, covering not only Britain and France but also the great rugby powers of the southern hemisphere and other successful rugby nations, including Argentina, Fiji and Japan. Contained within are the answers to many intriguing questions concerning the game, such as why 1895 is the most important date in both rugby-union and rugby-league history and how New Zealand became so good and have remained so good for so long. There is also a wealth of anecdotes, including allegations of devil-worship at a Welsh rugby club and an account of the game's contribution to the Cuban Revolution. This is a must-read for any fan of the oval ball.
Author: Bunko Watkins
Publisher:
Published: 2014-05-01
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9781902719405
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Mewn hunangofiant gonest, mae Mike 'Spikey' Watkins, cymeriad brith ond hoffus ym myd rygbi Cymru yn yr 1980au yn codi'r clawr ar fywyd a gyrfa lliwgar iawn. -- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
Author: Glenn Webbe
Publisher:
Published: 2019-10-18
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781912631155
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The autobiography of rugby union star Glenn Webbe: the first black player to play for Wales, the first black British player to appear in a Rugby World Cup and the first of any color to score a hat-trick of tries. A real ground-breaker in the sport in Britain, and a black icon, Webbe talks in depth about the experience of being a black rugby player in the 1980s, what it was like to be the first person of his race to represent Wales, his attitude to the ignorance and racism which can still rear its ugly head in the sport today, and the good humor with which he faced the prejudice he encountered in his career. The son of Windrush generation parents, Webbe played for Bridgend for 14 seasons and his 250+ tries in 404 matches for them gave him a strike rate second to none. Capped 10 times for Wales and loved by teammates and supporters alike, he is also famous for his trademark humor and practical jokes, and reveals many hilarious behind-the-scenes stories.
Author: Tony Collins
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2015-08-27
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 1408843722
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Rugby has always been a sport with as much drama off the field as on it. For every thrilling last-minute Jonny Wilkinson drop-goal to win the world cup or Jonah Lomu rampage down the touchline for a try, there has been a split, a feud or a controversy. The Oval World is the first full-length history of rugby on a world scale – from its origins in the village-based football games of medieval times up to the globalised sport of the twenty-first century,now played in well over 100 countries. It tells the story of how a game played in an obscure English public school became the winter sport of the British Empire, spread to France, Argentina, Japan and the rest of the world and commanded a global television audience of over four billion for the last world cup final. And how American football – and other games such as Australian, Canadian and Gaelic football – emerged from rugby and highlight just how much the modern gridiron game owes to its English cousin. Featuring the great moments in the game's history and its great names – such as Jonah Lomu, David Duckham, Serge Blanco, Billy Boston and David Campese alongside Rupert Brooke, King George V, Boris Karloff, Charles de Gaulle and Nelson Mandela – The Oval World investigates just what it is about rugby that enables it to survive and thrive in countries with very different traditions and cultures. This is the the definitive world history of a truly global rugby.
