1. Rugby World Cup 2011... The
pening
The Outs tanding O
the Ceremony
wro ng with
What is e position?
First Fiv
The Opening Ceremony was
definitely a highlight of the RWC
2011! The celebration of
Dan Carter, as the all impo cultures uniting really showed
rtant First Five position is what the RWC was all about, and
pulled out of the World Cu
p because of a groin
injury when doing kicking
practice. It is interesting
to see that after that disas
ter the First Five position
has had some sort of curse
.
Colin Slade, took up Dan’s
position as kicker, but
later in the NZ v Argentina
game, he also had a
terrible groin injury.
After that, Piri Weepu took
up the position of the
FIrst FIve. Weepu however
did not have much luck The Insulting Fren
when it came to the final ag
ainst France. He missed ch?
kicks which was worrying
for the All blacks, so his
Because
the Fren
the All B ch advan
lacks in ced on
Final, th the Haka
ey were in the
$5,000. surprisin
People t gly fined
Good Old just the hink tha
t it was
Richie! Zealand.
‘final ins
ult’ to N
I believe ew
French w that all t
ere tryin he
accept th g to do w
e All Bla as
cks chall
Amazing captain Richie MaCaw enge, bu
t
finally got his reward for all his
hard work when he was awarded a
cap for 100 test matches. I think it
was really just another confidence VIVA LA NEW
burster for him to strive to the
ZEALAND!!!!!
The great struggle we went
through
the whole Rugby World Cu
p, finally
summed up in the final ho
w much we
wanted it. Some would say
winning by
one point is not as good as
a
thrashing, but it only make
s the win
so much sweeter. LONG LIV
E THE ALL