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Rome learns to love rugby

  • Nick Mullins - 大象传媒 Sport commentator
  • 9 Mar 07, 05:04 PM

Nick MullinsRome - There is money at stake for Italians tomorrow.
If they can beat Wales and record their second win of the championship then they will each pick up a bonus of 拢15,000.

Forget the pride of recording back-to-back victories in the Six Nations for the first time, this is also about pounds and pence, or euros and cents.

No-one is entirely sure why they have that . Andrea Scanavacca might not be Dan Carter but he did the business against Scotland.

Having said that Ramiro Pez was banging them over from his own half in the sunshine at the this lunchtime.

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Lies, damned lies and statistics

  • Gareth Lewis - 大象传媒 Wales Sport presenter
  • 9 Mar 07, 12:56 PM

Gareth Lewiswal_badge.gifCardiff - It occurred to me as I was browsing through the match data on the 大象传媒 Sport website before this weekend's round of games that rugby didn't used to revolve around statistics.

Now we have stats for everything - time in possession, scrums wons, line-outs lost, free-kicks conceded. Free kicks! Always the difference between winning and losing that one.

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Le Crunch - but not as we know it

  • Rob Hodgetts - 大象传媒 Sport journalist
  • 9 Mar 07, 12:30 PM

Rob HodgettsLondon - Brace yourself then, England and France fans. Sunday is fast approaching and we all know what that means - "Le Crunch". Two teams in glorious form on collision course in a potential Six Nations decider.

Er, except that it's not, really. If at all, in fact. Technically, the title is still up for grabs but the only thing slightly crunchy about the fixture is whether England can convince us they are not actually as bad as they were in Dublin (that's not to denigrate Ireland by the way). And whether France can maintain their push for a fourth title and third Grand Slam in the last six seasons.


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