Bonjour! Kevin Swiryn

Published: Wednesday, 31. December, 1969 in category What the Papers Say

Wednesday, December 21

Bonjour! An Interview With Kevin Swiryn - This is American Rugby - This Is American Rugby sat down with Eagles and Agen back Kevin Swiryn to answer a few question about life in France and rugby in the U.S.

Plenty of ills to fix, but scrapping the scrum is simply not the answer in rugby union - The Telegraph - To those who say that the scrum needs to be downgraded or streamlined or depowered or given a spell in the naughty corner for repeated misdemeanours, many of us say ‘clear off and follow another sport’.

Scrums fall flat as Ospreys-Saracens misery makes the heart sink - The Guardian - The dire festive fare witnessed in the Heineken Cup may further persuade the IRB that the scrummaging laws need changing

Jeremy Guscott Q&A - BBC - BBC pundit on Stuart Lancaster, Bath and the Heineken Cup

Total Flanker Awards 2011 - Total Flanker - My Lords, ladies and gentlemen, it gives me great pleasure to welcome you all to the 5th Annual Total Flanker Awards ceremony.

Transferring that winning feeling - Scrum.com - "Harlequins' stunning win away to Toulouse in the Heineken Cup has had pundits pencilling in several of their Englishmen for Six Nations duty." Hugh Godwin writes

One false move and we'll be punished by Ospreys once again - London Evening Standard - The stakes could hardly be higher against Ospreys tonight. Win and we will be in pole position to top Heineken Cup Pool Five and secure a home quarter-final tie but lose and we'll find ourselves in a dog fight to qualify from one of the strongest pools.

Why there will be no respite for Jonny Wilkinson, ever the perfectionist, in the Toulon sunshine - The Telegraph - Don’t worry, this is not purely another Jonny Wilkinson eulogy. They’ve been done to death, and he’s deserved every last scrap of the veneration.

Wilkinson was a unique talent - BBC - BBC's Alastair Eykyn sums up career of World Cup winner