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Players face sin-bin if they dive at Rugby World Cup

ITV will broadcast 20 highlights programmes on their main channel (tomorrow’s show will be on ITV4).

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The event was attended by the Australian squad, their families and friends.

It’s a daunting challenge and one that by general consensus was until recently seen as too big for a relatively small country.

New Zealand’s team, the All Blacks, is the reigning champion.

Having travelled to the event in 2011, IRFU officials returned home impressed.

To test the water, the IRFU drafted in Deloitte’s dedicated sports unit, based in Manchester.

The only legitimate way to live-stream the Rugby World Cup in Australia is through the Foxtel Go or Foxtel Play apps.

– As we mentioned earlier, play doesn’t stop when a ballcarrier is tackled. While that sounds like a Rugby version of “The A-Team” its premise is a little less exciting and much more practical.

The tournament kicks off tonight with host nation England taking on Fiji.

And he has no intention of simply making up the numbers. Forty-eight games spread over almost seven weeks means visiting fans are around for longer than with a soccer world cup or Olympics.

Grey agreed with the tournament’s motive to promote a justly rugby game, saying that such tactical plots is not in each team’s rugby culture, but admitted that such actions cannot be controlled.

But the global body’s chief acknowledged rugby’s image problem.

Cataffo, Linda Stout’s flagship location near Madison Square Garden will be showing World Cup matches live throughout the tournament.

For the successful realisation of Rugby World Cup, it is important that we partner technology providers that understand that our risk adverse nature is a strategic decision and can support us accordingly.

For the IRFU, the main source of income from a world cup is ticket revenue.

Interesting. So, what do I need to know before I check out a game?

The name of this midtown spot all but gives away its unique identity.

“We have the punishment in rugby that you can march somebody back 10 metres”, the former Scotland flanker added.

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The generosity of rugby fans will be matched by the Government after ministers agreed to donate up to £5 million to a World Cup campaign to tackle hunger.

Divers 'to be sin-binned' at Rugby World Cup