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Brodie Retallick
Brodie Allan Retallick (born 31 May 1991) is a New Zealand rugby union footballer, who currently plays as a lock for Kobelco Kobe Steelers in the Japan Rugby League One competition. He previously played for the Chiefs in Super Rugby and in New Zealand's National Provincial Championship. Retallick made his international debut for New Zealand in 2012 and has been a regular starter ever since, with over 100 test caps. He was a key member of the 2015 Rugby World Cup-winning team, the winner of World Rugby Player of the Year in 2014 and is the award's youngest winner to date. Retallick has earned frequent comparisons to the late former All Black lock, Sir Colin Meads. Career Early career Retallick played for the Hawkes Bay Magpies in the 2010 and 2011 ITM Cup. He represented New Zealand under 20 in the 2011 IRB Junior World Championship. Retallick earned a contract with the Chiefs for the 2012 Super Rugby season and had become a regular starter for the Chiefs by the end of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rangiora, New Zealand
Rangiora is the largest town and seat of the Waimakariri District, in Canterbury, New Zealand. It is north of Christchurch, and is part of the Christchurch metropolitan area. With an estimated population of Rangiora is the 30th largest urban area in New Zealand, and the fifth-largest in the Canterbury region (behind Christchurch, Timaru, Ashburton and Rolleston). Toponymy The name of the town comes from the Māori language. The components of the name are (meaning sky) and (meaning wellness). The name can be interpreted as meaning "good weather", "a sick person recovering from an illness", or "a day of wellbeing." The origin of the name is not clear, but may originate with the Māori name for ''Brachyglottis repanda'', or refer to a peace agreement between Ngāi Tahu and Kāti Māmoe. The town is often nicknamed "Goon" by locals. The origin of the nickname is unclear, but one possibility is that it's a contraction of the name ''Rangoon'', which was the romanised name of My ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023 Rugby World Cup Squads
The 2023 Rugby World Cup was held in France from 8 September to 28 October 2023. Twenty teams qualified and each named an initial squad of 33 players, two more than at the previous World Cup. Squads were submitted before the tournament, and replacement players could be added during the tournament on injury grounds. Note: The age and number of caps listed for each player is as of 8 September 2023, the first day of the tournament. Pool A New Zealand New Zealand announced their squad on 7 August 2023. 1 On 10 September 2023, Emoni Narawa was ruled out of the World Cup, after sustaining a back injury. He was replaced in the New Zealand squad by Ethan Blackadder. Head coach: Ian Foster France France announced their squad on 21 August 2023. 1 On 1 September 2023, Paul Willemse was ruled out of the World Cup, after sustaining a thigh injury. He was replaced in the France squad by Bastien Chalureau Head coach: Fabien Galthié ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2012 Ireland Rugby Union Tour Of New Zealand
In June 2012, Ireland national rugby union team, Ireland toured New Zealand playing three Tests against the New Zealand national rugby union team, All Blacks. The Irish tour was one in a 2012 mid-year rugby test series, series of tours by northern teams to be hosted by southern hemisphere nations. It was marketed as the 'Steinlager Series'. In planning the series, it was anticipated that Ireland would also face provincial and Māori opposition, however, to allow Ireland to focus on the Tests, the Irish Rugby Football Union, IRFU decided that there would be no mid-week fixtures. New Zealand won the series 3–0. In the third and final Test in Hamilton, New Zealand, Hamilton on 23 June, the All Blacks won 60–0, inflicting upon Ireland their largest-ever defeat. Test matches First Test * Three players made their full international debut for New Zealand: Brodie Retallick, Julian Savea and Aaron Smith (rugby union), Aaron Smith. * Three players made their full international d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ireland National Rugby Union Team
The Ireland national rugby union team is the men's representative national team for the island of Ireland in rugby union. The team represents both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Ireland competes in the annual Six Nations Championship and in the Rugby World Cup. Ireland is one of the four unions that make up the British & Irish Lions. They have players eligible to play for Ireland and the Lions. The Ireland national team dates to 1875, when they played their first international match against England. Ireland reached number 1 in the World Rugby Rankings for the first time in 2019; the team returned to number 1 for a second time on 18 July 2022 and did not relinquish the top spot until 2 October 2023. Twelve former Ireland players have been inducted into the World Rugby Hall of Fame. History Early years: 1875–1900 Dublin University Football Club, Dublin University was the first organised rugby football club in Ireland, having been founded in 1854. The club was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2012 Super Rugby Season
The 2012 Super Rugby season was the second season of the Super Rugby Super Rugby is a men's professional rugby union club competition involving teams from Australia, Fiji, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands. It has previously included teams from Argentina, Japan, and South Africa. Super Rugby started as the S ... competition, an annual rugby union competition that involves teams from Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, in its 15-team format. For sponsorship reasons, this competition is known as FxPro Super Rugby in Australia, Investec Bank, Investec Super Rugby in New Zealand and Vodacom Super Rugby in South Africa. Including its past incarnations as Super 12 and Super 14, this was the 17th season for the Southern Hemisphere's premier transnational club competition. The conference games took place every weekend from 24 February until 14 July (with a three-week break between rounds 15 and 16 for 2012 mid-year rugby test series, international matches), followed by the fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2011 IRB Junior World Championship
The 2011 IRB Junior World Championship was the fourth annual international rugby union competition for Under 20 national teams, this competition replaced the now defunct under 19 and under 21 world championships. The event was organised by rugby's governing body, the International Rugby Board (IRB). The winners were New Zealand, who won all the competitions held since the inaugural year in 2008. Venues Four stadia will be used for this world cup. There will be four double header match days at the three smaller venues with the final to be played in Stadio Euganeo. Teams Pool stage ''All times are local (UTC+2).'' Pool A : ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- Pool B : ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- Pool C : ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- Knockout stage 9–12th place play-offs Semifinals ---- 11th place game 9th place game 5–8th place play-offs Semifinals ---- 7th place game 5th place game Finals Semifinals ---- Third place game Final Statist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ITM Cup
ITM may stand for: Education * ITM Law School, one of the professional graduate schools of ITM University * ITM-IFM, Mumbai, India * Institut Teknologi Mara, a public university in Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia * Institute for Information, Telecommunication and Media Law, educational organization in Münster, Germany * Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp, research and training in tropical medicine, Belgium * Information technology management * International Tourism Management Music * In This Moment, a female-led metalcore band * Irish traditional music * ''In the Meantime'' (Alessia Cara album) Science and Engineering * Irregular Terrain Model, an algorithm to estimate radio frequency propagation pathloss (a.k.a. the "Longley-Rice" algorithm). Other * Independent Timber Merchants, a New Zealand building supplies and hardware retailer * ITM Cup, a rugby union professional competition for New Zealand unions * ITM Power, manufactures integrated hydrogen energy solutio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin Meads
Sir Colin Earl Meads (3 June 1936 – 20 August 2017) was a New Zealand rugby union player. He played 55 test matches (133 games), most frequently in the lock forward position, for New Zealand's national team, the All Blacks, from 1957 until 1971. Meads is widely considered one of the greatest players in history. Nicknamed 'Pinetree' due to his physical presence, he was an icon within New Zealand rugby, and was named the country's Player of the Century at the NZRFU Awards in 1999. Early life and family Colin Earl Meads was born to Vere Meads and Ida Meads (née Gray) on 3 June 1936, in the town of Cambridge in the Waikato region. His father Vere was a descendant of early settlers Joseph Meads and Ann Meads (née Coates), who emigrated to New Zealand from England in 1842. Vere's grandfather Zachariah Meads was among the first British children to be born in Te Aro, Wellington, in 1843, and his grandmother Elizabeth Meads (née Lazare) was the daughter of an Irish minister who h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Rugby Player Of The Year
The World Rugby Men's 15s Player of the Year is an award presented annually by World Rugby at the World Rugby Awards. It is given to honour "the achievements of those involved at the highest level of the world game on the field". First presented in 2001, it was initially named the IRB International Player of the Year; from 2007 until 2014 it was the IRB Player of the Year and in 2014 it was titled World Rugby Player of the Year, before being given its current name in 2016. The winner receives a trophy at an annual awards ceremony. The voting panel select a list of nominees who can then be voted for by players, coaches, media representatives and the public via Twitter. Informed by the vote, the panel then select the winner. the voting panel comprises John Smit, George Gregan, Melodie Robinson, Maggie Alphonsi, Clive Woodward, Brian O'Driscoll, Richie McCaw, Thierry Dusautoir and Fiona Coghlan. The first winner of the award was Ireland hooker Keith Wood. The winner fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Provincial Championship (2006–present)
The National Provincial Championship (NPC) is an annual, men's Round-robin tournament, round-robin rugby union competition organised by New Zealand Rugby. First played in National Provincial Championship (1976–2005), 1976, it is the second highest level of professional rugby in New Zealand. The Ranfurly Shield is also played for during the season. In 2021, Bunnings became the naming rights sponsor and the competition has been known as the Bunnings NPC since. A concurrent women's rugby union, women's tournament is also held, called the Farah Palmer Cup. Following the 2005 National Provincial Championship, 2005 season the league was restructured into a two-tier competition. The National Provincial Championship would include professional and semi-professional players, and consist of the top fourteen financial and sporting best performing regional teams. For sponsorship reasons it was rebranded as the Air New Zealand Cup. The remaining teams would form an amateur competition know ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Super Rugby
Super Rugby is a men's professional rugby union club competition involving teams from Australia, Fiji, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands. It has previously included teams from Argentina, Japan, and South Africa. Super Rugby started as the Super 12 in the 1996 Super 12 season, 1996 season with 12 teams from Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa, building on competitions dating back to the South Pacific Championship in 1986. The Super 12 was established by SANZAAR, SANZAR after the sport became professional in 1995. After the COVID-19 pandemic forced the competition to split into three, the reformed competition in 2021 only included teams from Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific islands. The name was changed to Super 14 with the addition of two teams for the 2006 Super 14 season, 2006 season, and with expansion to 15 teams for the 2011 Super Rugby season, 2011 season, the competition was rebranded as Super Rugby (with no number). In 2016 two new teams, the Jaguares (Sup ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
