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Everyone was waiting for the All Blacks and Wallabies to exalt the game of the World Cup. After five matches, one team really brings a breath of fresh air in the competition: Wales. The spirit of group XV of Leek – scheduled for four months – is well established. “They feel really confident, even in

“A little gay!” Thirty seconds after being seated face to reporters, Vincent Clerc tries to wake up the audience. In the living room a bit sparse at the Crowne Plaza, the home of the Blues on Albert Street, journalists slow to launch their questions. The atmosphere is a bit effete. Nobody really knows what issues

“It is very important for the team because it puts pressure on the opposing side in the rucks. It is very effective for us to quickly release the balloons because it is very good in areas of confrontation. Just look at the team play with or without him! It makes a huge difference. “Who is

Four Blue honor Four players XV of France are the team kind of quarter-finals of the World Cup made by the New Zealand Herald: Maxime Medard, Imanol Harinordoquy, Thierry Dusautoir and Lionel Nallet. The Blues have as many representatives as the Welsh and New Zealanders. Vincent Clerc is credited with the finest test quarts. Team

Tuesday afternoon Onewa Domain. After fifteen minutes to mistreat huge rolls, the Blues meet in a circle around Marc Lievremont. Since the defeat by Tonga (19-14), El Tri have the need to preserve their communion concentration. Three hours earlier, Aurelien Rougerie joked in a relaxed face reporters with William Servat, Dimitri Szarzewski, Julien and Maxime

England in the fog losing to France (19-12), the latest vintage 2003 world champions have probably said goodbye to the XV de la Rose. But nothing has been officially announced, either from Jonny Wilkinson, Lewis Moody, Mike Tindall, Simon Shaw and Steve Thompson. Martin Johnson, also titled in 2003, is no more advanced. “I'll spend

unbeaten in group stage for the first time in its history, Ireland was a nice card to play in the quarterfinals. Alas, the XV Clover failed to win against Wales (22-10) and missed his appointment with history. Missed the win against Australia (15-6). The golden generation Irish will have to turn the page by just

The Blues move the Spencer on Byron Takapuna and Sky City in downtown Auckland, the Blues will stay in a new hotel: the Crowne Plaza. Le XV de France moved Monday morning, leaving his former home to the Welsh. So far, the Crowne Plaza was occupied by the British. For drives, however Tricolores gather Onewa

that it should have been on vacation in Disneyland. Instead, Aaron Cruden finds himself holds the hopes of a nation. There he became the first New Zealand opener with a people who count on him to win the World Cup. Not bad considering that Cruden was not even selected in the first group sent by

XV of France Marc Lievremont is constructed in a dramarturgie often disconcerting. A shot trivial once frankly mediocre, then suddenly untouchable, the team wrote its own story according to the wish of the breeder. It could also imitate his predecessors in 1999 and 2007 the awesome of a game only to be caught up by

“I told them that we were not ready to return home immediately.” To see their mines réjouites arriving in Auckland on Sunday, the Welsh Warren Gatland seem quite willing to do overtime 'New Zealand. Tap their feet, smiling and lame in the lobby of Sky rhythmic Clity: XV players from the past five weeks Leek

is to lose the South! Saturday, on the same lawn, at the same time but not with the same time (rain and wind so) bright sunshine and calm weather, the Welsh and the Irish had offered us a high-flying spectacle, full of intentions involved, emotions. In short, a production as this stage was used to

Berrick Barnes (central Australia): “It's really a great performance. It was not pretty but it was tripe, I can tell you. In the last twenty minutes, several times we thought we would lose but we managed in the last ten to return to their own half. We were confident before entering this game, we knew

His mustache growing fine until maybe discover his skull coach Marc Lievremont has always modest triumph. After the victory of the XV of France in the quarter finals against England (19-12), the coach of the Blues is still lucid. Shoulders drooping, his arms folded on the table in the press room, the coach is wise.

Dan Carter is more than the best flyhalf in the world. It is the indispensable guide the All Blacks. Deprived of its opener until the end of the competition (groin injury), New Zealand tremble. The victory against Argentina in the quarterfinals (33-10) has a little more stressed the hesitations of the team without the metronome.