They Played Rugby for Australia 2023 edition

They Played Rugby for Australia 2023 edition

Author: Eric Lemon

Publisher: Eric Lemon

Published: 2024-04-12

Total Pages: 528

ISBN-13: 0645362638

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Over 500 pages of facts, statistics, and records of every match and every player for the Australian national Rugby Union team from the first match in June 1899 up to December 2023.


They Played Rugby for Wales, 2023 edition

They Played Rugby for Wales, 2023 edition

Author: Eric Lemon

Publisher: Eric Lemon

Published: 2024-05-11

Total Pages: 470

ISBN-13: 0645362662

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A remarkable compilation of over 400 pages of statistics and records of every match and every player for the Wales national Rugby Union team from the first match in February 1881 up to December 2023.


Welsh Rugby

Welsh Rugby

Author: Seimon Williams

Publisher: Y Lolfa

Published: 2023-11-16

Total Pages: 82

ISBN-13: 1800995407

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The glory days of Welsh rugby seem long ago now. Mortifying defeats, threatened strike action, institutionalized sexism, racism and homophobia in the WRU, bad financial management – this book examines key events from the 1980s to today which have brought Welsh rugby to its present crisis.


Pacific Island Women and Contested Sporting Spaces

Pacific Island Women and Contested Sporting Spaces

Author: Yoko Kanemasu

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-06-26

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 1000902862

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This book focuses on the variety of strategies developed by women athletes in the Pacific Islands to claim contested sporting spaces – in particular, rugby union, soccer, beach volleyball, recreational sports and exercise – as a prism to explore grassroots women’s engagement with heavily entrenched postcolonial (hetero)patriarchy. Based on primary research conducted in Fiji, Samoa, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu, the book investigates contested sporting spaces as sites of infrapolitics intersected primarily by gender and also by other markers of inequality, including ethnicity, sexuality, class and geopolitics. Contrary to historical and contemporary representations of Pacific Island women as victims of gender injustice, it explores how these athletes and those who support them actively carve out space for their transformative agency. Pacific IslandWomen and Contested Sporting Spaces: Staking Their Claim focuses on a region underexamined by sport or gender studies researchers and will be of key interest to scholars and students in Gender Studies, Sport Studies, Sociology and Pacific Studies as well as sport practitioners and policymakers.


The Australian Rugby Companion

The Australian Rugby Companion

Author: Gordon Bray

Publisher:

Published: 2003-01-01

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13: 9780670041459

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Guide to Australian rugby, revised and updated for the 2003 World Cup. Describes facets of the game, the 15-player code, the way rugby is played today, the way it has been played throughout history, major rugby venues in Australia, the laws of the codes, and information on where to discover rare rugby memorabilia. Contributors include Brother Anthony Boyd, Bob Dwyer, George Gregan, Rod Macqueen, Gary Pearse and Spiro Zavos. Foreword by John Eales. Includes profiles and fact sheets on all players in the Wallaby team, colour photos and index. Editor is Chief Rugby Commentator on the Seven network in Sydney and writes for the 'Daily Telegraph'.


Playing It Tough

Playing It Tough

Author: Amy Andrews

Publisher: Entangled: Brazen

Published: 2023-04-17

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 1649374410

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Cosmetic tattoo artist Orla Stewart doesn’t do anything in half measures. She went from being the ultimate party animal to living a life that’s ridiculously straight and narrow. Turns out, cancer can change a girl. A lot. Adios to delicious cheeses, boozy dance parties and easy men. Hel-lo to celibacy and a sweet house-sitting gig with a massive pool. Until one very hot, very unwelcome intruder turns things upside down. American rugby import Ronan Dempsey’s partying is trashing both his reputation and his game—and risking his chances for making the US Olympic team. He needs to clean up, and the pool house belonging to a family friend is the perfect place to hideaway. No. More. distractions. Which is exactly when a gorgeous, pink-haired hellion knocks Ronan on his ass... The chemistry is instantaneous, charged, and absolutely, completely, totally off-limits. Proximity makes temptation nearly impossible to resist. Now it’s a deliciously torturous game of pushing boundaries and holding out. It’s just a matter of time before someone breaks... Each book in the Sydney Smoke Rugby series is STANDALONE: * Playing By Her Rules * Playing It Cool * Playing the Player * Playing With Forever * Playing House * Playing Dirty * Playing It Safe * Playing It Tough


The Scrap Iron Flotilla

The Scrap Iron Flotilla

Author: Mike Carlton

Publisher: Random House Australia

Published: 2023-08-15

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13: 1761042017

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When the Second World War broke out in September 1939, the British asked Australia for help. With some misgivings, the Australian government sent five destroyers to beef up the British Royal Navy in the Mediterranean. HMAS Vendetta, Vampire, Voyager, Stuart and Waterhen were old ships, small with worn-out engines. Their crews used to joke they were held together by string and chewing gum; when the Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels heard of them, he sneered that they were a load of scrap iron. Yet by the middle of 1940, these destroyers were valiantly escorting troop and supply convoys, successfully hunting for submarines and indefatigably bombarding enemy coasts. Sometimes the weather could be their worst enemy - from filthy sandstorms blowing off Africa to icy gales from Europe that whipped up mountainous seas and froze the guns. Conditions on board were terrible - no showers or proper washing facilities; cramped and stinking sleeping quarters; unpleasant meals of spam and tinned sausages, often served cold in a howling squall. And always the bombing, the bombing. And the fear of submarines. When Nazi Germany invaded Greece, the Allied armies - including Australian Divisions - reeled in retreat. The Australian ships were among those who had to rescue thousands of soldiers. Then came the Siege of Tobruk - Australian troops holding out in that small Libyan port city. The Australian destroyers ran 'the Tobruk Ferry' - bringing supplies of food, medicine and ammunition into the shattered port by night, and taking off wounded soldiers. But the four destroyers now left were struggling, suffering from constant engine breakdowns, with crews beleaguered by two years of bombings, wild seas and the endless fear of being sunk. In late 1941 the ships were finally sent home, staggering back to Australia, proudly calling themselves the Scrap Iron Flotilla in defiance of the Goebbels' sneer. That flotilla is now an immortal part of Australian naval legend, and this is its story.