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Gareth Delve
Gareth Leon Delve (born 30 December 1982) is a former Wales international rugby union player, and former captain of Gloucester. In late 2010, he moved to Australia where he went on to captain the Melbourne Rebels. His usual position is number 8. Career Wales and England Delve was a pupil at Rumney High School in Cardiff and accepted a Rugby scholarship from Colston's Collegiate School in Bristol before signing a professional contract with Bath in 2001. After a few frustrating seasons at Bath, he was named in the Welsh squad for the 2006 Six Nations Championship, and earned two caps during the tournament, making his debut against Scotland. He was also called up for the summer tour to Argentina in June 2006, and earned another two caps, as well as scoring a try in the second Test. In the summer of 2007, he moved from Bath to Gloucester Rugby. He was appointed joint captain of Gloucester in 2009, a position he held in 2010, before he moved to Australia. In March 2010, he was re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cardiff
Cardiff (; cy, Caerdydd ) is the capital and largest city of Wales. It forms a principal area, officially known as the City and County of Cardiff ( cy, Dinas a Sir Caerdydd, links=no), and the city is the eleventh-largest in the United Kingdom. Located in the south-east of Wales and in the Cardiff Capital Region, Cardiff is the county town of the historic county of Glamorgan and in 1974–1996 of South Glamorgan. It belongs to the Eurocities network of the largest European cities. A small town until the early 19th century, its prominence as a port for coal when mining began in the region helped its expansion. In 1905, it was ranked as a city and in 1955 proclaimed capital of Wales. Cardiff Built-up Area covers a larger area outside the county boundary, including the towns of Dinas Powys and Penarth. Cardiff is the main commercial centre of Wales as well as the base for the Senedd. At the 2021 census, the unitary authority area population was put at 362,400. The popula ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australia National Rugby Union Team
The Australia national rugby union team, nicknamed the Wallabies, is the representative national team in the sport of rugby union for the nation of Australia. The team first played at Sydney in 1899, winning their first test match against the touring British Isles team. Australia have competed in all nine Rugby World Cups, winning the final on two occasions and also finishing as runner-up twice. Australia beat England at Twickenham in the final of the 1991 Rugby World Cup and won again in 1999 at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff when their opponents in the final were France. The Wallabies also compete annually in The Rugby Championship (formerly the Tri-Nations), along with southern hemisphere counterparts Argentina, New Zealand and South Africa. They have won this championship on four occasions. Australia also plays Test matches against the various rugby-playing nations. More than a dozen former Wallabies players have been inducted into the World Rugby Hall of Fame. Hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Age
''The Age'' is a daily newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, that has been published since 1854. Owned and published by Nine Entertainment, ''The Age'' primarily serves Victoria (Australia), Victoria, but copies also sell in Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory and border regions of South Australia and southern New South Wales. It is delivered both in print and digital formats. The newspaper shares some articles with its sister newspaper ''The Sydney Morning Herald''. ''The Age'' is considered a newspaper of record for Australia, and has variously been known for its investigative reporting, with its journalists having won dozens of Walkley Awards, Australia's most prestigious journalism prize. , ''The Age'' had a monthly readership of 5.321 million. History Foundation ''The Age'' was founded by three Melbourne businessmen: brothers John and Henry Cooke (who had arrived from New Zealand in the 1840s) and Walter Powell. The first edition appeared on 17 October 1854. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Introduction Of Regional Rugby Union Teams In Wales
Welsh regional rugby is the top tier of professional Welsh club rugby and is composed of the Scarlets, Ospreys, Cardiff Rugby and the Dragons which compete in the United Rugby Championship. The regions were established for the start of the 2003/04 rugby union season. From this date, Wales was represented by a smaller number of regional teams in both the Celtic League and European Cup competitions, where previously the top club sides were entered into them. Current regions Cardiff Rugby/Rygbi Caerdydd Based in Cardiff, the capital of Wales, Cardiff Rugby (Welsh: ''Rygbi Caerdydd'') play at Cardiff Arms Park and are owned by Cardiff Rugby Ltd, who also own and run Cardiff Rugby Football Club. From 2003 to 2021 the club were known as the Cardiff Blues before changing their name to Cardiff Rugby prior to the start of the 2021-22 season. Cardiff Rugby are responsible for developing rugby in the city of Cardiff, Vale of Glamorgan, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Merthyr Tydfil and south Powy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Top League
Japan Rugby League One (formerly the Top League) is a rugby union competition in Japan. It is the highest level of professional rugby competition in the country. The Japan Rugby Football Union created the competition in 2003, by absorbing the Japan Company Rugby Football Championship, to drive up the overall standard and popularity of the sport and improve the results of the Japan national rugby union team. The chief architect of the league was Hiroaki Shukuzawa who strongly felt the urgency of improving Japanese domestic company rugby to a professional level which would allow Japan to compete more convincingly at Rugby World Cups. Until 2022, it was an industrial league, where many players were employees of their company and the teams were all owned by major companies. While the competition was known for paying high salaries, only world-class foreign players and a small number of Japanese players played fully professionally, which meant most of the players still played in an a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Kingi
Richard Kingi (born 17 March 1989 in Tauranga, New Zealand) is an Australian professional Rugby union footballer. While his usual position is half back, he often plays on the wing and sometimes at fullback. Career Brought up in Te Puke near the Bay of Plenty, Kingi's family moved to Australia when he was 15 years old. He played for Sunnybank rugby club, before going onto representative football that included the Queensland U19s, U20s, the IRB Junior World Championships and the Australian Sevens. He travelled with the Wallabies spring tour of Japan and Great Britain in 2009, and made his Wallabies debut against the Cardiff Blues. In 2009–10 Kingi was reserve halfback for the Queensland Reds, behind Will Genia. He signed a two-year deal with the Melbourne Rebels in March 2010, and in 2011 his competitors for the Rebels halfback role were Nick Phipps, and former Wallaby Sam Cordingley Sam "Rat" Cordingley (born 20 March 1976 in Sydney, New South Wales) is a former Austral ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Davidson
Tim Davidson (born 3 November 1982, in Young, Australia) is a rugby union footballer. His regular playing position is either flanker or eighthman. He represented the Melbourne Rebels in Super Rugby having previously played for the Western Force The Western Force is an Australian professional rugby union team based in Perth, Western Australia, currently competing in Super Rugby Pacific. They previously played in Super Rugby from 2006 until they were axed from the competition in 2017. F ... and Waratahs. Davidson's association within the Shute Shield and at Sydney University Football Club (SUFC) stems back to his first season of playing in 1st Colts in 2002. In 2005, Davidson became SUFC 1st Grade captain, a position he held up until his last season playing rugby in 2013. During this time he captained SUFC to eight Shute Shield titles, including six in concession, and is the most capped SUFC 1st Grade forward in the club's history. Beyond SUFC, Davidson held a Super Rugby ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James King (New Zealand Rugby Union Player)
James King (born 16 March 1987) is a rugby union player. His regular playing position is lock. King was born in Pukekohe, New Zealand. He previously represented the Rebels and the Blues in Super Rugby. In 2014 King left the Rebels for a contract in Japan, playing for the Yakult Levins. The King debuted for the United States national rugby union team at the 2016 Americas Rugby Championship The 2016 Americas Rugby Championship was the first series of the Americas Rugby Championship (sometimes informally called the "Americas Six Nations", a reference to Europe's Six Nations Championship), a new annual western hemisphere rugby union c .... He qualified through his American mother. References External links Rebels profile 1987 births [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nic Henderson
Nic Henderson (born 1 May 1981), is an Australian rugby union player. He played with the Brumbies before joining the Melbourne Rebels for the 2011 and 2012 Super Rugby seasons. He also has three test caps. Henderson retired after the 2013 Super Rugby season. Henderson holds a Super Rugby record for playing the most games without scoring a try (119 games). Henderson previously played rugby league, joining the Melbourne Storm ahead of the 2001 NRL season, playing for feeder club Norths Devils in the Queensland Cup The Queensland Cup, currently known as the Hostplus Cup for sponsorship reasons, is the highest-level regional rugby league football competition in Queensland, Australia. It is run by the Queensland Rugby League (QRL) and is contested by four .... References External links Melbourne Rebels Player Profile {{DEFAULTSORT:Henderson, Nic 1981 births Living people Australian rugby union players Australia international rugby union players Melbourne Rebels players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Phipps (rugby Union)
Nicholas James Phipps (born 9 January 1989) is an Australian rugby union player who played for the Australia national team and plays for Green Rockets Tokatsu in the Japan Rugby League One competition. Early life Phipps was educated at The King's School and in 2009 captained Sydney University's premiership-winning 1st Colts team. He is currently studying a Masters of International Business at Sydney University. Rugby playing career Club level Phipps signed to the Melbourne Rebels in July 2010. Phipps mentors for the 2011 Super Rugby season included former Wallaby halfback Sam Cordingley. Phipps said he was looking forward to learning from his fellow halfbacks, Cordingley, and Kingi, and also from Rebels centre (and former Wallaby) Julian Huxley. In May 2012 Phipps combined with Kurtley Beale in the halves (9 & 10) against the Bulls from South Africa. Beale had been moved from fullback to flyhalf following Danny Cipriani's unexpected departure from the Rebels. Phipps sco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ged Robinson
Ged Robinson (born 20 June 1983 in Wellington, New Zealand) is a rugby union footballer. His regular playing position is Rugby union positions#2. Hooker, hooker. He formerly represented the Melbourne Rebels in Super Rugby, and he formerly played 5 games for the and mostly on the bench the Wellington Lions in New Zealand. Melbourne Rebels In 2011 Super Rugby season, 2011, the Rebels first season in Super Rugby competition, Robinson played in every match. In 2011 Super Rugby season, 2012 he played 14 of a possible 16 games. He will leave the Rebels after the 2013 Super Rugby season to return to New Zealand and join ITM Cup side . He joins Rebels head coach Damien Hill and fellow Rebels players James O'Connor (rugby union), James O'Connor, Cooper Vuna, Gareth Delve, Nick Phipps (rugby union), Nick Phipps, Nic Henderson, James King (New Zealand rugby union player), James King, Tim Davidson and Richard Kingi on the list of departing Rebels at the end of the 2013 season. His last game ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cooper Vuna
Kerry Cooper Vuna (born 7 May 1987) is a professional rugby footballer who plays on the wing for Newcastle Falcons in Premiership Rugby. He played rugby league as a for the New Zealand Warriors and Newcastle Knights in the National Rugby League competition, before switching to rugby union to play Super Rugby for the Melbourne Rebels. Early years Cooper Vuna is of Tongan descent. He was born in Auckland, New Zealand and grew up in Otahuhu with his family. He has three sisters, and four brothers. He is the older brother of Joseph Vuna. Vuna played high school rugby union until he was 15, switching to rugby league after being scouted by the New Zealand Warriors. His junior club was the Otahuhu Leopards. And he represented the Auckland Lions in the Bartercard Cup and NSWRL Premier League. Rugby league career Vuna signed with the New Zealand Warriors and made his National Rugby League, first grade debut late in 2004, in Round 24 against the Parramatta Eels. Vuna went on to play f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
