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2019 National Rugby Championship
The 2019 National Rugby Championship was the sixth season of the top flight of Australian domestic rugby union. The competition began on 31 August and concluded on 26 October. The match of the round was broadcast live each week on Fox Sports and Kayo Sports, with all matches streamed on rugby.com.au live. The championship featured eight professional teams, seven from Australia and one from Fiji. Teams The eight teams for the 2019 NRC season include two from New South Wales, two from Queensland, and one each from Australian Capital Territory, Victoria, Western Australia, and Fiji: Television coverage and streaming One NRC match per round is broadcast live via Fox Sports. All matches are also shown live on the Kayo Sports and Rugby.com.au streaming platforms. Experimental Law Variations Two new trial variations were included for the 2019 NRC. * A 50:22 kick, whereby a team kicking the ball indirectly into touch (i.e. not on the full) is awarded the resulting lineout throw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, smaller islands. With an area of , Australia is the largest country by area in Oceania and the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, sixth-largest country. Australia is the oldest, flattest, and driest inhabited continent, with the least fertile soils. It is a Megadiverse countries, megadiverse country, and its size gives it a wide variety of landscapes and climates, with Deserts of Australia, deserts in the centre, tropical Forests of Australia, rainforests in the north-east, and List of mountains in Australia, mountain ranges in the south-east. The ancestors of Aboriginal Australians began arriving from south east Asia approximately Early human migrations#Nearby Oceania, 65,000 years ago, during the Last Glacial Period, last i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fijian Drua
The Fijian Drua (currently known as the Swire, Swire Shipping Fijian Drua for sponsorship reasons) is a professional rugby union team based in Fiji that competes in the Super Rugby. The team was created by the Fiji Rugby Union and launched in August 2017, shortly before the 2017 National Rugby Championship. The team previously competed in the Australian National Rugby Championship competition between 2017 and 2019, when the tournament was disbanded. On 14 April 2021, New Zealand Rugby Union confirmed the side had been granted a licence to join the Super Rugby competition. National Rugby Championship In July 2017, the Fiji Rugby Union announced that they would enter a team in the Australian domestic National Rugby Championship from the 2017 National Rugby Championship, 2017 season onwards following successful negotiations with the Australian Rugby Union, with home matches being played in Suva as well as regional cities Lautoka and Sigatoka, Fiji, Sigatoka. On 25 July, Senirus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angus Scott-Young
Angus Scott-Young (born 23 April 1997) is an Australian rugby union player who plays for the Northampton Saints in Premiership Rugby. He previously has played for in the Super Rugby competition. He also played for Bay of Plenty in New Zealand's National Provincial Championship. His position of choice is loose forward. He is the son of former Wallaby Sam Scott-Young Samuel Joseph Norman Scott-Young (born 7 April 1967) is an Australian former rugby union international. Biography Scott-Young, a native of Townsville, is the son of Queensland state politician Norman Scott-Young. He finished his schooling at M .... References Australian rugby union players Australian expatriate sportspeople in England 1997 births Living people Rugby union players from Brisbane Rugby union flankers Queensland Country (NRC team) players Queensland Reds players Bay of Plenty rugby union players Northampton Saints players {{Australia-rugbyunion-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rod Seib
Rodney Seib (born 1975) is an Australian professional rugby union coach and a former player for Queensland Reds and Glasgow Warriors. He also played for Australia in rugby sevens. Family and early life Rod Seib attended Brisbane State High School, graduating in 1992. His father, Ian Seib, played first-class cricket for Queensland in the 1970s. Rugby career Australian Sevens and Queensland Seib joined the Sunnybank rugby club in Brisbane. He played for the Queensland Under-21 team in 1995, and was capped for the Australia 7s side, touring in 1999 to Uruguay and Argentina. Later that year, after a standout season with Sunnybank for which he was awarded Queensland Rugby Union's XXXX Medal for player of the year (shared with Richard Graham of Easts), Seib was selected to play for the Queensland Reds in the Ricoh National championship. He was capped three times for Queensland, including a match against on their 2000 tour. Aberdeen and Glasgow Seib moved to Scotland the follow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queensland Country (NRC Team)
Queensland Country is an Australian rugby union football team that competes in the National Rugby Championship (NRC). The team is one of two Queensland sides in the competition, the other being . Queensland Country is organised and managed by the Queensland Rugby Union (QRU), with the coaching and training programs used at the Queensland Reds extended to players joining the team from the Reds, Queensland Premier Rugby, Premier and Queensland Country Championships, Country rugby teams. The Queensland Country team in the NRC draws its identity from the Queensland Country Heelers, Queensland Country representative team that has played in regular City-Country fixtures in Queensland since 1902. The same colours have been adopted for the team in the NRC competition and, while the Heelers' Australian cattle dog, cattle dog logo is not used, an emblem based on the traditional Vappodes phalaenopsis, Cooktown Orchid logo of the Queensland Country Rugby Union has been adopted. The Queensla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fraser McReight
Fraser McReight (born 19 February 1999) is an Australian rugby union player of Irish descent who plays for the Queensland Reds in Super Rugby and Australian rugby union team, the Wallabies. His playing position is flanker. International career McReight made his international debut in the first round of the 2019/20 Rugby Championship against New Zealand when Harry Wilson (rugby union) was substituted off for him in the 67th minute of the game in which the Wallabies lost 43 to 5. McReight scored his first test try against Argentina in round one of the 2021/22 Rugby Championship. International Tries ''As of 27 August 2022.'' Reference External links Fraser McReightat Wallabies A wallaby () is a small or middle-sized macropod native to Australia and New Guinea, with introduced populations in New Zealand, Hawaii, the United Kingdom and other countries. They belong to the same taxonomic family as kangaroos and so ... * {{DEFAULTSORT:McReight, Fraser 1999 bir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim McKay (rugby Union)
Jim McKay is an Australian professional rugby union football coach. He is currently the head coach of the Brisbane City team that plays in the NRC competition, and also assistant coach of the Queensland Reds assisting the Reds to premierships in 2011 and 2021. Former assistant coach Australian Wallabies Rugby Union Football team. McKay had previously coached the Cornish Pirates UK and Kobelco Steelers The Kobelco Kobe Steelers are a Japanese rugby union team owned by Kobe Steel, and based in Kobe. They were the first ever Top League champions when the League started in the 2003-2004 season. The team rebranded as Kobelco Kobe Steelers ahead of ... Japan. References Living people Australian rugby union coaches 1966 births {{Australia-rugbyunion-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brisbane City (rugby Union)
Brisbane City is an Australian rugby union football team based in Brisbane that competes in the National Rugby Championship (NRC). The team is one of two Queensland sides in the competition, the other being . Brisbane City is organised and managed by the Queensland Rugby Union (QRU), with the coaching and training programs utilised by the Queensland Reds being extended to players joining the team from the Reds and Queensland Premier Rugby teams. The Brisbane City team in the NRC takes its identity from the metropolitan rugby team that has represented Brisbane for more than a century. The representative team's colours and a similar logo were inherited for the NRC. The Brisbane City uniform is yellow and blue, with a crest of the City Hall logo within Queensland Rugby's traditional 'Q' on the jersey's chest. The NRC was launched in 2014, reinstating the national competition after the Australian Rugby Championship (ARC) was discontinued following the first season in 2007. The Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lalakai Foketi
Lalakai Foketi (born 22 December 1994) is an Australian rugby union player who currently plays as a centre for the in Super Rugby. Career Foketi first came to prominence in 2013 with some impressive displays while playing for the Manly Marlins colts side. As a result, he was named in the Melbourne Rebels extended playing squad for the 2014 Super Rugby season. He was not expected to feature much during his debut season, however a spate of injuries to Rebels backline players saw him earn a first Super Rugby cap against the on 23 May 2014. International Foketi was an Australia Schoolboys representative in 2012, and played four matches for the Australia Under 20 side at the 2013 IRB Junior World Championship in France. He also played four matches in the 2014 File:2014 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Stocking up supplies and personal protective equipment (PPE) for the Western African Ebola virus epidemic; Citizens examining the ruins after the Chibok schoolgi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Whitaker
Chris Whitaker (born 19 October 1974) is an Australian professional rugby union coach and former international player. he is head coach of the Sydney Rays in Australia's National Rugby Championship, and the interim head coach of Super Rugby side the New South Wales Waratahs, Whitaker began his professional playing career in 1997 as a scrum-half for the Waratahs, where he remained for ten seasons. He also played for the Wallabies, but his Test career there was constrained for many years by the incumbent scrum-half and Australian captain, George Gregan. As such, he got minimal international game time but was in the match-day squad for many a year. He captained the Wallabies in a World Cup Match against Namibia in Adelaide in 2003. In 2006 Whitaker moved to Ireland where he played four seasons for Leinster before hanging up the boots and taking up coaching. Early life and career Whitaker was born in Sydney and started playing rugby at Sydney Boys High School, where he gradu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sydney (NRC Team)
Sydney is an Australian rugby union team that competes in the National Rugby Championship (NRC). Formerly known as Sydney Rays, the team is one of two sides from New South Wales in the competition; the other being the NSW Country Eagles. The current team plays as the all-of-Sydney side in the NRC and wears the traditional blue and yellow colours of Sydney's representative rugby teams. It draws on the metropolitan sides that have represented the city for more than a century. In 2019 the NRC side adopted as its logo the anchor insignia of the Sydney Rugby Union, which dates back to at least 1970. The team was known as the North Harbour Rays before 2016. It was renamed Sydney during a consolidation which reduced the number of NRC teams in the city from three in 2014 to eventually just one by 2018. The North Harbour Rays had been formed as consortium of four Sydney clubs; Gordon, Manly, Northern Suburbs, and Warringah in 2014. North Harbour took its identity from the Central ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ned Hanigan
Ned Hanigan (born 11 April 1995) is an Australian professional rugby union player who currently plays for the in the Super Rugby competition and the Australian Wallabies. His preferred positions are blindside flanker or lock. Early life and career Hanigan was born in Dubbo and raised in Coonamble in the central-west part of New South Wales. After high school, he began studying science at University of New South Wales alongside Shute Shield rugby with Randwick, winning Premiership Rugby title with their Colts side before progressing on to their first team. During this time, he also represented New South Wales at Under-20 level in 2014 and 2015 and played for the New South Wales Country Eagles during the 2015 National Rugby Championship. Professional career Hanigan trained with the Waratahs wider training group in 2015 and then made the full squad ahead of the 2016 Super Rugby season. As a youngster competing against Wallaby internationals such as Dean Mumm, Will Skelton a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
