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2004 Rugby League Tri-Nations
The second Rugby League Tri-Nations tournament (known as the Gillette (brand), Gillette Tri-Nations due to sponsorship) was contested between October 2004 in sports, 16 October and November 2004 in sports, 27 November of 2004 in sports, 2004. The format of the competition differed from the 1999 Rugby League Tri-Nations, previous event in that the teams played each other twice, rather than once, prior to the final. The tournament final of the tournament was predicted by some to be a close affair, with the British team heralded as slight favourites after finishing at the top of the league table. Instead, it was a one-sided match as Australia produced their best performance of the tournament. The game was effectively over by half-time when Australia led by 38–0. Participating teams Each team was to play the other three twice during the round robin tournament. The top two finishing teams would then contest the final. Officials One referee from each participating nation was app ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darren Lockyer
Darren James Lockyer (born 24 March 1977) is an Australian television commentator and former professional rugby league footballer. Lockyer was an Australian international and Queensland State representative captain, who played his entire professional career with the Brisbane Broncos. He is considered one of the greatest players of all time in two positions, fullback and five-eighth. During his 16-year career he set appearance records for his club, state and country, and also set additional all-time records for most National Rugby League appearances, most State of Origin appearances, most games as captain and most tries for the Australian national team. As a , Lockyer won three grand finals and one as a five-eighth with the Broncos, a World Cup with Australia, and the Golden Boot Award for the world's best player. He was named in Queensland Rugby League's Team of the Century (1909–2008) at fullback. He switched positions to in 2004 and went on to win a fourth grand final ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russell Smith (referee)
Russell Smith is a former rugby league referee who now administers and coaches match officials. Smith controlled his first Rugby Football League Championship match on 9 September 1990, a match between Featherstone Rovers and Hull Kingston Rovers. His first international was between Australia and New Zealand on 20 June 1993. He controlled matches in the 1995 and 2000 Rugby League World Cups, as well as five Challenge Cup finals. In 2004 he was named the international referee of the year. He moved to Australia in 2005, becoming a National Rugby League referee. He retired at the end of the 2006 NRL season. After retiring, Smith became a video official and, after a stint as the interim boss, acted as a senior advisor to the referees boss, Daniel Anderson. He was a match officials coach at the 2017 Rugby League World Cup The 2017 Rugby League World Cup was the fifteenth staging of the Rugby League World Cup tournament and took place in Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Gui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kingston Upon Hull
Kingston upon Hull, usually shortened to Hull, is a historic maritime city and unitary authorities of England, unitary authority area in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It lies upon the River Hull at its confluence with the Humber Estuary, inland from the North Sea. It is a tightly bounded city which excludes the majority of its suburbs, with a population of (), it is the fourth-largest city in the Yorkshire and the Humber region. The built-up area has a population of 436,300. Hull has more than 800 years of seafaring history and is known as Yorkshire's maritime city. The town of Wyke on Hull was founded late in the 12th century by the monks of Meaux Abbey as a port from which to export their wool. Renamed ''Kings-town upon Hull'' in 1299, Hull had been a market town, military supply port, trading centre, fishing and whaling centre and industrial metropolis. Hull was an early theatre of battle in the First English Civil War, English Civil Wars. Its 18th-century ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wigan
Wigan ( ) is a town in Greater Manchester, England. The town is midway between the two cities of Manchester, to the south-east, and Liverpool, to the south-west. It is the largest settlement in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan and is its administrative centre. The town has a population of 107,732 and the wider borough of 330,714. Wigan is part of the Historic counties of England, historic county of Lancashire. Wigan was in the territory of the Brigantes, an ancient List of ancient Celtic peoples and tribes, Celtic tribe that ruled much of what is now Northern England. The Brigantes were subjugated in the Roman conquest of Britain and the Roman settlement of was established where Wigan lies. Wigan was incorporated as a Borough status in the United Kingdom, borough in 1246, following the issue of a charter by Henry III of England, King Henry III of England. At the end of the Middle Ages, it was one of four boroughs in Lancashire established by royal charter. The Industrial Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Huddersfield
Huddersfield is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England. It is the administrative centre and largest settlement in the Kirklees district. The town is in the foothills of the Pennines. The River Holme's confluence into the similar-sized Colne is to the south of the town centre which then flows into the Calder in the north eastern outskirts of the town. The rivers around the town provided soft water required for textile treatment in large weaving sheds; this made it a prominent mill town with an economic boom in the early part of the Victorian era Industrial Revolution. The town centre has much neoclassical Victorian architecture. An example is , which is a Grade I listed building described by John Betjeman as "the most splendid station façade in England". It won the Europa Nostra award for architecture. Huddersfield hosts the University of Huddersfield and three colleges: Greenhead College, Kirklees College and Huddersfield New Coll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Of Manchester Stadium East Stand
A city is a human settlement of a substantial size. The term "city" has different meanings around the world and in some places the settlement can be very small. Even where the term is limited to larger settlements, there is no universally agreed definition of the lower boundary for their size. In a narrower sense, a city can be defined as a permanent and Urban density, densely populated place with administratively defined boundaries whose members work primarily on non-agricultural tasks. Cities generally have extensive systems for housing, transportation, sanitation, Public utilities, utilities, land use, Manufacturing, production of goods, and communication. Their density facilitates interaction between people, government organisations, government organizations, and businesses, sometimes benefiting different parties in the process, such as improving the efficiency of goods and service distribution. Historically, city dwellers have been a small proportion of humanity overall, bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loftus Road 5
Loftus may refer to: People * Loftus (surname), a list of people with the surname * Loftus (given name), a list of people with the given name Places * Loftus, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney, Australia * Loftus, North Yorkshire, a town in Redcar and Cleveland, England * Loftus Glacier, Victoria Land, Antarctica Titles * Viscount Loftus, a title created three times in the Peerage of Ireland * Baron Loftus, a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom * Loftus baronets, two baronetcies in Ireland Transportation * Loftus Street, a major north-south road the Perth suburbs of Subiaco and West Perth, Western Australia * Loftus railway station, Sydney, Australia * Loftus railway station, Yorkshire, a disused railway station in Redcar and Cleveland, England Arts and entertainment * Loftus (band), an American indie rock band * Professor Geoffrey Loftus, a character in the British comedy series ''Doctor in the House'' See also * Loftus Hall, a building in County Wexford, Ireland, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Harbour Stadium
North Harbour Stadium is a stadium situated in Albany, in North Shore City, New Zealand. It was opened in 1997, after nearly a decade of discussion, planning and construction. Rugby union, association football, rugby league, and baseball are all played on the main ground. The neighbouring oval plays host to the senior cricket matches. The stadium also hosts large open-air concerts. History It is the home ground for Moana Pasifika, which became the first Super Rugby team to make the stadium its fulltime home with an announcement in 2024. The team will begin playing its home games at the ground in 2025. Since the stadium opened in 1997, it has been used by the North Harbour side in the National Provincial Championship, taking over from North Harbour's previous home venue, Onewa Domain in Takapuna. From 1997 to 1998 it hosted home games for the Chiefs when the Hamilton-based side represented North Harbour for a short time. In 1999, North Harbour fell under the Auckland Blues ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Of Manchester Stadium
The City of Manchester Stadium, currently known as Etihad Stadium for sponsorship reasons, and commonly shortened as The Etihad, is the home of Premier League club Manchester City F.C., Manchester City, with a domestic football capacity of 53,600, making it the List of English football stadia by capacity, 7th-largest football stadium in England and List of stadiums in the United Kingdom by capacity, 11th-largest in the United Kingdom. Built to host the 2002 Commonwealth Games, the stadium has since staged the 2008 UEFA Cup final, England national football team, England football internationals, rugby league matches, a boxing world title fight, the England rugby union team's final group match of the 2015 Rugby World Cup and summer music concerts during the Season (sports)#Off-season, football off-season. The stadium, originally proposed as an athletics arena in Manchester bid for the 2000 Summer Olympics, Manchester's bid for the 2000 Summer Olympics, was converted after the 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loftus Road
Loftus Road, currently known as MATRADE Loftus Road Stadium for sponsorship reasons, is a football stadium in Shepherd's Bush, West London, Greater London, England, which is home to Queens Park Rangers F.C., Queens Park Rangers Football Club, with a capacity of 18,439. In 1981, it became the first stadium in British professional football to have an artificial turf, artificial pitch of Omniturf installed. This remained in use until 1988, after which a natural grass pitch was reintroduced. Rugby union team Wasps RFC, London Wasps shared the ground with QPR between 1996 and 2002 and Premier League football club Fulham F.C., Fulham shared it from 2002 to 2004 while Craven Cottage was closed for reconstruction. AFC Wimbledon started the 2020–2021 season sharing the ground while they waited for Plough Lane, their new stadium in Merton to be finished. Other users of the stadium have included the Jamaica national football team, Jamaican and Australia men's national soccer team, Austr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Harbour Stadium
North Harbour Stadium is a stadium situated in Albany, in North Shore City, New Zealand. It was opened in 1997, after nearly a decade of discussion, planning and construction. Rugby union, association football, rugby league, and baseball are all played on the main ground. The neighbouring oval plays host to the senior cricket matches. The stadium also hosts large open-air concerts. History It is the home ground for Moana Pasifika, which became the first Super Rugby team to make the stadium its fulltime home with an announcement in 2024. The team will begin playing its home games at the ground in 2025. Since the stadium opened in 1997, it has been used by the North Harbour side in the National Provincial Championship, taking over from North Harbour's previous home venue, Onewa Domain in Takapuna. From 1997 to 1998 it hosted home games for the Chiefs when the Hamilton-based side represented North Harbour for a short time. In 1999, North Harbour fell under the Auckland Blues ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manchester
Manchester () is a city and the metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England. It had an estimated population of in . Greater Manchester is the third-most populous metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, with a population of 2.92 million, and the largest in Northern England. It borders the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and the neighbouring city of Salford to the west. The city borders the boroughs of Trafford, Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Stockport, Tameside, Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Oldham, Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, Rochdale, Metropolitan Borough of Bury, Bury and City of Salford, Salford. The history of Manchester began with the civilian settlement associated with the Roman fort (''castra'') of Mamucium, ''Mamucium'' or ''Mancunium'', established on a sandstone bluff near the confluence of the rivers River Medlock, Medlock and River Irwell, Irwell. Throughout the Middle Ages, Manchester remained a ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
