Coupe du Monde de Rugby 2007 France

[Douai]

http://www.france2007.fr/images/fr/logo_irb.gif
From September 7 to October 20

Venues
Location Country Stadium
Saint-Denis (Paris) France Stade de France
Cardiff Wales Millennium Stadium
Edinburgh Scotland Murrayfield
Marseille France Stade Vélodrome
Paris France Parc des Princes
Lens France Stade Félix Bollaert
Lyon France Stade Gerland
Nantes France Stade de la Beaujoire
Toulouse France Stadium de Toulouse
Saint-Étienne France Stade Geoffroy-Guichard
Bordeaux France Stade Chaban-Delmas
Montpellier France Stade de la Mosson

News
"Qualifications
Et de 19 avec les Tonga !
Grâce à leur large succès (85-3) sur la Corée du Sud, les joueurs du Pacifique disputeront la Coupe du Monde de Rugby 2007 dans la poule A. Le dernier qualifié sera le Portugal ou l’Uruguay. Verdict le 24 mars .

L’identité du Repêchage 2 est désormais connue : comme on pouvait s’y attendre, les Tonga ont décroché le 19e billet qualificatif pour la Coupe du Monde de Rugby 2007 en France. Les aigles des mers, qui ont participé à quatre des cinq les éditions précédentes (à l’exception de 1991), ont survolé les débats face à des Sud-Coréens novices en la matière, inscrivant 13 essais sur la pelouse d’Auckland.
Les Tonga sont ainsi le troisième représentant de la zone Océanie à se qualifier pour le rendez-vous en France après les Fidji et les Samoa. Ils retrouveront d’ailleurs leur voisin samoan dans la poule A, en compagnie de l’Angleterre, de l’Afrique du Sud et des Etats-Unis.
Une seule place à prendre

A sept mois du coup d’envoi de la Coupe du Monde, il ne reste plus qu’une seule place à prendre : celle du Repêchage 1, que se disputent le Portugal et l’Uruguay en match aller-retour. Verdict les 10 et 24 mars prochains."

source: http://www.france2007.fr/rugby_article.php?id_rubrique=3&id_article=526&lang=fr

[Douai]

"Road to 2007"
http://www.france2007.fr/images/en/equipe.jpg

source: http://www.france2007.fr/rugby_equipes.php?id_rubrique=8&lang=en

[Breakwood]

In 1991, Canada played it's group matches in France and progressed to the quarter-finals (our best finish). Let's hope the french soil brings us some more good luck. I figure we should be able to beat Japan, and could beat Fiji, if our top team shows up that day. I'm not holding much hope for the matches against Wales and Australia however.

[Catel]

Pouh. On va se faire massacrer.

Enfin, notre performance contre l'Angleterre au Tournoi va être déterminante je pense.

[Pierre-Henri]

Ireland can beat us, the Pumas can beat us. We'll have to take the 1st round seriously, while it will be nothing but a warm-up for the big teams in other groups.

[Real Madrid rocks!]

J'ai toujours voulu suivre le rugby mais quand j'ai regardé quelques matches sur TV5 Monde j'ai eu du mal à comprendre les règles. J'ai acheté un livre pour en apprendre mais il me semble toujours difficile.

Quelle est la meilleure façon de l'apprendre? What's the best way to learn rugby?

Thanks, merci.

[guignol]

Quelle est la meilleure façon de l'apprendre? What's the best way to learn rugby? Thanks, merci.juste regarder! je connaissais rien de rien au début, mais au bout de qqes matches je suivais sans problème. c'est quand même un sport assez simple.

ceci dit, la meilleure façon d'apprendre une langue étrangère est de trouver une copine qui la parle... donc, on peut toujours draguer des rugbywomen...

http://athletics.vassar.edu/rugby/w-pics/Sealy1.jpg

[Pierre-Henri]

wikipédia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugby_union

en français : http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugby_à_XV

Another site is rugbyrugby.com

Always impressive: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QC_aB7vzmEw

Note 1 :

Rugby Union (game with 15 players) uses the official IRB set of rules. These are the rules for all major international events.

"Sevens" is a variant with 7 players a side, also endorsed by IRB.

Rugby League is an unofficial (ie. non-IRB) variant with 13 players.


Note 2 (VERY IMPORTANT !) :

You can't compare international rugby with international soccer. Soccer, as a team sport, is a great equalizer. Even a mediocre team can beat a good one.

Rugby is the complete opposite : big teams outrageously dominate smaller ones. It's important to know this if you support a 2nd tier team (like USA or Canada). Don't ask if USA can beat a 1st tier team. They can't. It won't happen. All they can offer is a gallant stand -- "good defeats" are important in rugby. Even among 1st tier teams, the gap between Italy and Australia, for example, is gigantic.

http://www.irb.com/en/World+Rankings/world+rankings+full.htm

-----------------------------------
Ok, basic rules of rugby :

- the main idea is to bring the ball in the opposite endzone.

- you can't pass forward with hand. You can pass forward with feet, but since the ball is oval, it has almost no accuracy.

- Offsides is called when a player is ahead of the ball AND commits an interference. Ideally speaking, the team should look like an arrow head, with the ball carrier at the point. However, since the ball moves a lot, players are very often offsides, but replace all alone. So, to get a call, you need offside + interference.

- Ball must always be "alive". It means a player can't block or hide the ball under his body.

- a try (= touchdown) is worth 5 points. The player really has to touch the ball down. The subsequent conversion is 2. A drop goal (= field goal) is 3 points.

- a minor penalty leads to a scrum. A scrum is when the two teams big guys push together to get the ball.

- a major penalty is, roughly speaking, a free ball. On choice, the team can attempt a field goal, kick out of bounds, ask for a scrum, or play the ball immediatly.

- A yellow card leads to play 10 minutes short-handed. A red card is for all the game.

- Tackling has its own set of rules, but most of them are self obvious. Imagine some sort of collective wrestling.

-------------------------------------
Now, the line-out.

Numbers 1 to 8 are the forwards (aka the pack). They are the big guys.
Numbers 9 to 15 are the backs. They are the fast players.

1-2-3 : the first row. The strongest players. 1-3 are the props (=big muscles). Number 2 is the hooker.

4-5 : the second row, aka the locks. They specialize in taking high balls and are, most of the time, the tallest players in the team.

6-7-8 : the third row. In defence, they play like linebackers, in offence, like runners.

9 : the scrum half. He is the passer of the team.

10 : the fly half. He is the punter/kicker. In most teams, it's the key player.

11-14 : the wingmen.

12-13 : the centres.

15 : the fullback.
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If you want the french names, or have any question, just ask. And don't be afraid if you don't understand everything. Rugby is a really complicated sport but, all in all, it's all about the most wonderful pleasure in life : bumping into brits :D .

----------------

edit, to Guignol : date a rugbywomen ? a prop or a fly-half ?

[Catel]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XtN_gEQIFs

:cool: :cool: :cool:

[guignol]

sorry i can't rep you catel! that wasn't just a great match for france, it was one of the great rugby matches of all time. one of the great sporting moments of all time! a victory of intelligence over brawn, of imagination over routine, of desire over pride.

you have to know that the all blacks were as big favorites that year as this, and that they had a commanding lead when the hurricane started. but france started dominating the 'best side in the world" so completely that you had the feeling the match could have gone another 40 minutes and it would have only getten worse for NZ. they were all out of gas and france looked stronger by the minute.

what i love most about this video? look at the way lamaison puts down his first try... after all, he has to kick the conversion! he comes back in a circle and is almost teasing the all black... "you and i could run all the way to cardiff like this and you'll never catch me!" :D

[Real Madrid rocks!]

juste regarder! je connaissais rien de rien au début, mais au bout de qqes matches je suivais sans problème. c'est quand même un sport assez simple.

ceci dit, la meilleure façon d'apprendre une langue étrangère est de trouver une copine qui la parle... donc, on peut toujours draguer des rugbywomen...

http://athletics.vassar.edu/rugby/w-pics/Sealy1.jpg

Merci! J'esssayerai de les draguer alors! Mais, comme elles sont très musclées j'espère qu'elles ne me donneront pas de claques sur la gueule! :D

[Real Madrid rocks!]

wikipédia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugby_union

en français : http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugby_à_XV

Another site is rugbyrugby.com

Always impressive: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QC_aB7vzmEw

Note 1 :

Rugby Union (game with 15 players) uses the official IRB set of rules. These are the rules for all major international events.

"Sevens" is a variant with 7 players a side, also endorsed by IRB.

Rugby League is an unofficial (ie. non-IRB) variant with 13 players.


Note 2 (VERY IMPORTANT !) :

You can't compare international rugby with international soccer. Soccer, as a team sport, is a great equalizer. Even a mediocre team can beat a good one.

Rugby is the complete opposite : big teams outrageously dominate smaller ones. It's important to know this if you support a 2nd tier team (like USA or Canada). Don't ask if USA can beat a 1st tier team. They can't. It won't happen. All they can offer is a gallant stand -- "good defeats" are important in rugby. Even among 1st tier teams, the gap between Italy and Australia, for example, is gigantic.

http://www.irb.com/en/World+Rankings/world+rankings+full.htm

-----------------------------------
Ok, basic rules of rugby :

- the main idea is to bring the ball in the opposite endzone.

- you can't pass forward with hand. You can pass forward with feet, but since the ball is oval, it has almost no accuracy.

- Offsides is called when a player is ahead of the ball AND commits an interference. Ideally speaking, the team should look like an arrow head, with the ball carrier at the point. However, since the ball moves a lot, players are very often offsides, but replace all alone. So, to get a call, you need offside + interference.

- Ball must always be "alive". It means a player can't block or hide the ball under his body.

- a try (= touchdown) is worth 5 points. The player really has to touch the ball down. The subsequent conversion is 2. A drop goal (= field goal) is 3 points.

- a minor penalty leads to a scrum. A scrum is when the two teams big guys push together to get the ball.

- a major penalty is, roughly speaking, a free ball. On choice, the team can attempt a field goal, kick out of bounds, ask for a scrum, or play the ball immediatly.

- A yellow card leads to play 10 minutes short-handed. A red card is for all the game.

- Tackling has its own set of rules, but most of them are self obvious. Imagine some sort of collective wrestling.

-------------------------------------
Now, the line-out.

Numbers 1 to 8 are the forwards (aka the pack). They are the big guys.
Numbers 9 to 15 are the backs. They are the fast players.

1-2-3 : the first row. The strongest players. 1-3 are the props (=big muscles). Number 2 is the hooker.

4-5 : the second row, aka the locks. They specialize in taking high balls and are, most of the time, the tallest players in the team.

6-7-8 : the third row. In defence, they play like linebackers, in offence, like runners.

9 : the scrum half. He is the passer of the team.

10 : the fly half. He is the punter/kicker. In most teams, it's the key player.

11-14 : the wingmen.

12-13 : the centres.

15 : the fullback.
------------------------------

If you want the french names, or have any question, just ask. And don't be afraid if you don't understand everything. Rugby is a really complicated sport but, all in all, it's all about the most wonderful pleasure in life : bumping into brits :D .

----------------

edit, to Guignol : date a rugbywomen ? a prop or a fly-half ?

Thanks a lot. And I'm right there with you about bumping into the British. I hope one day the USA beats them. Ireland just did, and that was good.

[Nanbawan]

- Offsides is called when a player is ahead of the ball AND commits an interference. Ideally speaking, the team should look like an arrow head, with the ball carrier at the point. However, since the ball moves a lot, players are very often offsides, but replace all alone. So, to get a call, you need offside + interference.

- Ball must always be "alive". It means a player can't block or hide the ball under his body.



Most of the time, when the ref makes a call and you don't know why, it's usually one of those.

Brilliant post PH BTW.

[Pierre-Henri]

Thanks, Catel. Christophe Dominici is eternal.

[AfrcnHrbMan]

donc, on peut toujours draguer des rugbywomen...

http://athletics.vassar.edu/rugby/w-pics/Sealy1.jpg

:eek: gross. LOL ah guignol, I prefer women who wont punch me in the throat when im least expecting it. Isn't it true more women play rugby than football in france? I remember reading that somewhere on the site.

[toulousain]

I can't wait for the Rugby World Cup !
Rugby is my favorite sport (with soccer of course).

I have tickets for the game Fiji-Japan in Toulouse. It was impossible to get tickets for the games of the French or The All Blacks.

[Pierre-Henri]

SHAAAAME ! SHAAAAME ! SHAAAAME ! The worst thing that can happen to us in any sport season has happened. We lost. As usual, the British, masters of deceit, used all their wicked tricks to beat us with their petty cheats, shameless piracy, unfair behaviour and lousy chicanery (1).

Just bring me a british front row, so I can tell what I REALLY think about them to this bunch of sickly cheaters, and slap them right to the face !

http://www.england-rugby.com/EnglandRugby/images/News/p_front_row1105.jpg

Yeah ! Bring them to ME ! SISSIES !



(1) while, when we win, it's always thanks to our knightly attitude, of course.

[from the plaines]

Any thoughts on saturdays game v Scotland? The scots as of so far havent been very impresive. Regardless I am looking foward to watching this one after missing the chance to watch the other 2 :D

[Breakwood]

Six Nations Champions!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Nanbawan]

Just bring me a british front row, so I can tell what I REALLY think about them to this bunch of sickly cheaters, and slap them right to the face !

http://www.england-rugby.com/EnglandRugby/images/News/p_front_row1105.jpg

Yeah ! Bring them to ME ! SISSIES !



If you keep calling English men Brits, we may face difficulties gathering enough DNA for identification purposes with what will remain from you...