Small news

[Canalina Profile]

34-13, according to
https://www.facebook.com/UgandaRugby/
https://www.facebook.com/UgrugbyFanzone/

In the second link you find also the scorers (not all of them)

By the way, it was French Army in the Pacific Ocean. So, I guess, also players from French Polynesia

[Thomas Profile]

34-13, according to
https://www.facebook.com/UgandaRugby/
https://www.facebook.com/UgrugbyFanzone/

In the second link you find also the scorers (not all of them)

By the way, it was French Army in the Pacific Ocean. So, I guess, also players from French Polynesia

Cannot find the teams line ups

Uganda 34: 13 French Military Pacific Army
Man of the Match Ivan Magomu

[Canalina Profile]

The little Kyadondo stadium was full and passionate,
https://www.facebook.com/UgandaRugby/ph ... =3&theater

There was also a gentle commercial billboard saying "Men with balls use Vaseline!"

[IanCleverly Profile]

The Inter (Defence) Services game between the UK's Royal Air Force and Royal Navy from Twickenham this Friday (Women's game also) will be livestreamed via forces.net

[Canalina Profile]

Strangely the world ranking has still not been updated (usually it happens on monday at noon), despite in the weekend a game affecting the ranking points, Lithuania v Portugal, was played

https://www.world.rugby/rankings/mru

[m.map Profile]

the new ranking after Lit-Por match (score 7-48)
22 (↑23) Portugal 60.50 (+0.71)
23 (↓22) Namibia 60.34
24 Brazil 58.42
25 Hong Kong 58.11
26 Netherlands 57.60
27 Belgium 57.35
28 Germany 55.79
29 Chile 54.04
30 Korea 53.59
31 Kenya 52.79
32 Switzerland 52.67
33 (=) Lithuania 50.82 (-0.71)

[FLIDTA RISXVA Profile Website]

I CAN'T COMPREHEND
WHY *RE* ARE DOING THIS YEAR IN YEAR OUT

JUST TO HINT | SHOW | PROVE | EMPHASIZE THAT
THEY ALSO HAVE A SAY INTO WORLD MATTERS | DON'T OBEY DUBLIN


1. *U18 MANUAL*
https://www.rugbyeurope.eu/sites/defaul ... _final.pdf

p 15

Replacements
16 - Loose Head Prop
17 - Hooker
18 - Tight Head Prop

2. *REC MANUAL*
https://www.rugbyeurope.eu/sites/defaul ... 019_v2.pdf

P 87

... FRONT ROW SUBSTITUTION NUMBER 16, 17 AND 23 ...

:::

AS PER *WORLD RUGBY* RULES AND GENERALLY ACCEPTED PRACTICE,
16 is HOOKER, 17 LOOSE HEAD, 18 TIGHT HEAD

:::

[getienne Profile]

Denmark 26, Gibraltar 22 in Odense (Test Friendly)
Venue : RK Speed Rugby Club

https://www.facebook.com/RUGBYdk
https://www.facebook.com/GibraltarRugby ... f=mentions

[mcruic Profile]

Denmark 26, Gibraltar 22 in Odense (Test Friendly)
Venue : RK Speed Rugby Club

https://www.facebook.com/RUGBYdk
https://www.facebook.com/GibraltarRugby ... f=mentions

Wrong island. Match was in Tårnby, near Copenhagen.

[Canalina Profile]

San Marino Rugby have a new chairman after some internal quarrels.
Davide Giardi takes the chair of the resigning Marc Lazzari.
The whole or almost the whole new executive group is composed by still active players (included a woman).
Apparently San Marino will have no international activity in 2019: they're not part of the Euro 7s and they never played a XV test match. The local Club seems having just 7s and touch activity in this season

http://www.libertas.sm/notizie/2019/04/ ... erale.html

[RugInt Profile Website]

Denmark 26, Gibraltar 22 in Odense (Test Friendly)

Denmark XV according to Danish web site. On facebook they also mention it as a 'training game'. Gibraltar still see it as a 'test' match for them. On their FB page they list half a dozen making their debut.

[Canalina Profile]

This Namibian girl became (a bit) famous in her country after hitting a rugby post with her bike. She assured that the incident wasn't staged, that she felt often and that her mother has to say "My fok, Marlieze!" several times per day...

[Canalina Profile]

Again about San Marino: the new president David Giardi says that the aims of the new board are to expand the number of players and to restore the national team activity, frozen in the last year and an half.
Nowadays San Marino Rugby has just 50 players (the number includes underage players and some girls, I think) but the new San Marino sport rules request to have at least 70 recorded active players before 2021, or the board will lose its status of "Federation".
With similar numbers, the hope to see a XV national team seems still very far

[carbonero Profile]

Servette RC achieved their fifth consecutive promotion in French rugby without dropping a game. Now it gets interesting in Fed 3.

[Armchair Fan Profile]

Here it comes, one of the funniest moments of the year... World Rugby annual report and its lottery of playing numbers!


To stick to what I know, Spain apparently suffered a loss of 4,000 registered players between 2017 and 2018 in spite of all national official sources declaring an increase.

[4N Profile]

China with 100k registered players. They’re funny guys.

[Armchair Fan Profile]

China with 100k registered players. They’re funny guys.

A 130% increase from 2017 World Rugby annual report. Easy.

[victorsra Profile Website]

Brazil has more than Argentina 174k! Yeah! kof kof kof kof ......seriously embarassing report...........

[rey200 Profile]

Solomon Islands: 12k registered players and no international since 2015.

Best rugby performance

[Canalina Profile]

Italy lost 4,5 K registered players, according to those data. It would be -5,5% in a year, a big loss. But who knows how those numbers are composed?

Burkina Faso and Lebanon are the new associated members

So 18 associated members now: British Virgin Islands, St.Lucia / Guatemala / Burkina Faso, Burundi, Mali, Mauritania, Tanzania, Togo / Azerbaijan, Cyprus, Slovakia / Brunei, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Mongolia.

[Canalina Profile]

There are also the usual little geographical mistakes: Turkey, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan should be blue in the map. So Israel. West Papua should be yellow. French Guyane and maybe Suriname should be light blue. Interesting to see that Belize is light blue as the north-american nations; but this could be not really meaningful

[thx Profile]

Polish Rugby Union will be holding a trial at Rosslyn Park RFC in London from 3pm on Sunday 5th May 2019. More details:

https://www.therugbypaper.co.uk/guest-b ... in-london/

http://www.pzrugby.pl/news/aktualnosc/R ... dynie,5086

[Canalina Profile]

We may think we are minor-rugby-results addicted but this man is incredible, he keeps updating the results of many european minnow clubs' tournaments, plus several international competitions.
It's not a case that he is italian, there must be something strange in our blood

http://www.rugbyarchive.net/Default.aspx

[grande Profile]

We may think we are minor-rugby-results addicted but this man is incredible, he keeps updating the results of many european minnow clubs' tournaments, plus several international competitions.
It's not a case that he is italian, there must be something strange in our blood

http://www.rugbyarchive.net/Default.aspx

Holy crap! There's a tonne of detail in here!

[RugbyLiebe Profile]

Wow that is truely an awesome find of an even more awesome page. Thanks for sharing!