Twickenham Tickets

Twickenham Stadium is the home of England rugby and the host site of the 2010 Autumn Internationals. Seating a staggering 82,000 spectators, it’s the largest dedicated rugby union venue in the world. Nevertheless, don’t expect those 82,000 Twickenham tickets per event to be around for long because they have nearly sold out for each of the four dates already.

• 06-Nov vs. New Zealand
• 13-Nov vs. Australia
• 20-Nov vs. Samoa
• 27-Nov vs. South Africa

Through Seatwave and lastminute.com, available England Autumn International tickets range from £93.50 in the Upper Tier to £300.00 in the Lower Tier as well as for premium East and West Middle Tier seats. However, the majority of seating is at family-friendly prices, and fans will find it easy to buy England rugby tickets through Seatwave and lastminute.com at or below £100, if they act now.

England Rugby Tickets 2010

The Autumn Internationals, or the End of Year Rugby Tests as fans outside of the Northern Hemisphere know it, are a series of rugby union matches were teams from the Six Nations Championship play against the Tri Nations teams as well as other teams around the world. England is one of the home teams, and in this year’s event will play their matches against Australia, New Zealand, Samoa, and South Africa.

England Rugby Tickets Autumn Internationals – Previews

England vs. New Zealand

Autumn Internationals coordinators had originally set this match as the last of the four, but then moved it due to a request by the All Blacks. Last year, England’s struggles against the All Black continued. Will this year bring new fortune? Get your England rugby tickets 2010, and find out in person.

England vs. Australia

Last year, a decimated England team opened this event against Australia. A healthier, more talented England team will attempt to get their revenge in 2010.

England vs. Samoa

England did not play Samoa in last year’s series, which adds a little excitement to a matchup that will no doubt prove to be one of the most challenging of the series for England.

England vs. South Africa

England will close out the series against South Africa in one of the games oldest rivalries. The last time England defeated South Africa was at the World Cup Quarter Finals in 2007, so they will certainly have a lot to prove.

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Andrew wants England to show progress in meetings with Australia, Argentina and New Zealand despite the squad being shorn of several leading lights.

A full British & Irish Lions capped front-row, Andrew Sheridan, Lee Mears and Phil Vickery, is joined on the treatment table by flanker Tom Rees, fullback Delon Armitage and centre Riki Flutey.

Andrew, England’s director of elite rugby, sees the injury cloud as an opportunity to showcase the strength-in-depth of English rugby.

Last season’s November series represented a low ebb for Martin Johnson’s youthful regime, with hammerings dished out by the three Tri-Nations powers at Twickenham.

“By the end of the autumn, we’ll have an idea of where this group of players is,” he said. “More than anything, it will prove how much strength in depth we have. That’s now being tested in certain parts of the team.

“There is a lot of experience coming back into the group, players who are playing well. It will be great to see some of them back in the squad. As always, there are challenges – that’s the nature of the international game. I think there is a lot of enthusiasm.

“Yes, there are injuries. But that goes with the territory, and the players are raring to go. We will know by the end of the autumn how much progress has been made.

“We’ve made a lot of progress in the last 12 months – and we want to start where we left off at the end of last season as quickly as possible. This has been made more challenging by the amount of changes we’ve had to make.”
England parted company with former head coach Andy Robinson in 2006 following a disastrous autumn. But Andrew reports Johnson will remain place until 2011, whatever unfolds next month.
“We have made it very clear Martin is here to take this team through to the World Cup. We are building,” he said.

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Investec’s involvement with the RFU dates back to 1998 when Investec sponsored the England v South Africa match.

Investec has been sponsoring the Investec Challenge Series since 1999.
Raymond van Niekerk, Global Head of Marketing at Investec, said “We are pleased to continue our sponsorship of England Rugby, who we have supported over the past ten years.
The quality of rugby and intensity of competition between England and the visiting southern hemisphere teams is spectacular, and sets the tone for the challenges England will face in the next Rugby World Cup. Our ongoing association also works well alongside our other current rugby sponsorships, the Investec Super 14 tournament in Australia and the Investec International Rugby Academy in South Africa. Rugby is aligned with our specialist banking focus and it is a fantastic platform for Investec to strengthen brand awareness in our three main geographies, the United Kingdom, South Africa and Australia.”

England Autumn International Fixtures 2009

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Scotland Autumn International Fixtures

Autumn Tests – Scotland v Fiji
Autumn Tests – Scotland v Australia
Autumn Tests – Scotland v Argentina

Scotland coach Andy Robinson OBE has today named eight uncapped players in a 44-strong squad for a Scotland training camp at St Andrews later this month.

Seven of the eight were part of the victorious Scotland A squad who captured the IRB Nations Cup in Bucharest in June – namely centre/wing John Houston, openside flanker Alan MacDonald, full-back Jim Thompson and loose-head prop Kyle Traynor (all Edinburgh), stand-off Ruaridh Jackson and No 8 Richie Vernon (both Glasgow Warriors) and the Worcester Warriors and Scottish Exiles centre Alex Grove.

Robinson congratulates Richie Vernon who ensured Scotland’s success at the IRB Nations Cup with the only try in the final.

Completing the newcomers for the camp from 17-19 August will be Richie Gray, the 6ft 9ins, 19st 9lbs, 19-year-old Glasgow Warriors lock, who played in all ten of Scotland under-20’s international matches last season.

The squad also includes the four Scots who were involved in the British and Irish Lions summer tour of South Africa – Mike Blair, Ross Ford, Nathan Hines and Euan Murray.

Missing from the squad is the 60-times-capped back-row forward Simon Taylor (Stade Francais) who turns 30 on the first-day of the camp.

Robinson said: “I have spoken at length with Simon and he has requested not to be involved with Scotland at this stage. I am agreeing to his request but the door remains open for Simon to be involved with Scotland at a later stage and I will be monitoring his form over the next few months.”

Robinson regards the camp as integral to setting the tone ahead of Scotland’s opening matches of the season – the Bank of Scotland Corporate Autumn Tests against Fiji, Australia and Argentina at Murrayfield in November.

He said: “It’s good to have a three-day get-together before the season starts where we will discuss our objectives and how we are going to work together. Our themes will be developing leadership, game understanding and improving individual skills and fitness.”

He explained that any player not chosen in this squad could still be involved in the Autumn Tests.

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The Autumn Internationals return in October. Wales will take on the best southern hemisphere teams at the Millenium Stadium. First off is Wales v New Zealand on 7th November 2009, the NZ games should be a great start , then Saturday 14th November 2009 Wales take on Samoa, following Saturday Argentina take on the welsh. The final game sees wales v Australia.

Wales Autumn International Rugby Fixtures.

Saturday 7th November 2009 Wales v New Zealand
Saturday 14th November 2009 Wales vs Samoa
Saturday 21st November 2009 Wales v Argentina
Saturday 28th November 2009 Wales v Australia

The All Blacks kick-start a four match series which sees the world’s third and sixth best sides – according to IRB World Rankings – Australia and Argentina respectively, take on a Warren Gatland Wales team set to be peppered with returning
Lions hot on the back their final Test series victory over South Africa this summer.

The Pumas are in Cardiff on Saturday 21st November (KO 1430) the week after a Friday night fixture with Samoa on the 13th November – priced at a family freindly £15 and £10 (U16 concession) – with the higher price tickets of £20 for the visit of the South Sea Islanders also sold out.

Just a few hundred tickets remain for the Wallabies match, which contests the James Bevan Trophy – created in honour of and named after the Aussie-born first captain of Wales – although these are mainly single seats for the 17.15pm kick-off.

“The take-up for tickets through our club priority system and through pre-registration for the public has meant, for the second season in a row, we are able to announce a sell out months in advance of our Invesco Perpetual Series of fixtures, with more surely to follow,” said WRU group head of marketing Gwyn Dolphin.

“This shows that the appetite is there in Wales for more top class rugby, hot of the back of a Lions victory which saw many of our star players and coaches excell themselves and fans are hungry for more.

“If it’s more top clash rugby you want you need look no further than three teams who feature above us in the world rankings and a Samoan side which will be a true test in their own right.

“Warren Gatland will be looking to meet the Southern Hemisphere superpowers head on, but both Argentina and Samoa will also relish the challenge of coming to Wales, so it all adds up to the prospect of another exciting series at the Millennium Stadium this autumn.”

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BRYN PALMER BLOG
Shane Williams, Ugo Monye and Phil Vickery all have a bit of restoration work to do on reputations partially tarnished by recent events
“Sport takes you to the greatest peaks and drags you down into the darkest troughs,” said the 26-year-old Harlequins flyer.
“Getting picked for the first Test was the proudest moment of my life but I was absolutely gutted afterwards, not just to lose it but contributing to that as well.
“You do wonder if you will get another opportunity with the other great wingers out here but I am very fortunate. I have another chance and I am looking to grab it with both hands. I am certainly not doubting myself.”
When the final analysis is done on the reasons the Lions narrowly lost, rather than won, the first two Tests, Monye’s contribution is bound to be highlighted.
Eight minutes into the first Test, with the Lions 7-0 down, he went over in the left corner only for the television match official to finally rule he had not grounded the ball, with Springboks centre Jean de Villiers getting his hand under it.
“I am not sure you will ever see a tackle like that again,” Monye said. “I was six inches from the ground, God knows how he got his arm under the ball, it is just beyond me.”
When the Lions staged a stirring last-quarter fightback, Monye again seemed destined to score with eight minutes left, only for Morne Steyn to knock the ball out of his grasp over the line.

Monye crossed twice in the 74-10 win over the Golden Lions on 3 June
“To be perfectly honest I didn’t see Steyn coming out of my blind spot, which was disappointing,” he noted. “I have just got to have a bit more respect for the ball.
“It was really frustrating but you have to credit the guys who made the tackles.
“I have been the one who has done that before this season [for England on Thom Evans in the Six Nations match with Scotland, and for Harlequins on Brian O'Driscoll in a Heineken Cup quarter-final against Leinster at The Stoop].
“I know how happy I was as a defender to stop those tries, but as an attacker, you are desperate to score them. That is the winger’s job. I had a couple of opportunities I didn’t take but fortunately I have got another opportunity to put things right.”
Monye admits being omitted altogether from the 22 for last week’s second Test in Pretoria “was a tough pill to swallow”.
But with Bowe moving to centre in the wake of injuries to O’Driscoll and Jamie Roberts, he has been recalled on the right wing for the final Test at Ellis Park, where the Lions succumbed 35-16 on their last tour in 1997, having already won the series.
This time the roles are reversed, but Monye – one of six Englishmen in the starting line-up – insists Saturday’s clash between two much-changed teams is far from a ‘dead rubbber’.
“There has been a lot of heartache over the last couple of weeks in the manner we have lost the two Tests but there is still a lot to play for,” he added.

Martyn Williams column
It is going to be a full-on Test match

Martyn Williams
“Motivation is not difficult to find for this game. Training has been good this week and every time you put on that Lions jersey you want to give a great account of yourself and this week is no different.
“The series is gone and we are gutted about that but it is still a Lions Test against South Africa and it would be great to give our fantastic supporters something to cheer about.
“We have got massive belief and trust in our system and if we continue to do that, and hopefully get a few breaks going our way, we will definitely be there or thereabouts.”

Played annually, the format of the Championship is simple: each team plays every other team once, with home field advantage alternating from one year to the next. Two points are awarded for a win, one for a draw and none for a loss. Unlike many other rugby union competitions the bonus point system is not used.
If a team wins all its games, they are said to have won a ‘Grand Slam’. Back to back Grand Slams have been achieved on five occasions, by Wales in 1908 and 1909, by England in 1913 and 1914, 1923 and 1924 and 1991 and 1992, and by France in 1997 and 1998. England holds the record for the number of Grand Slams won with 12, followed by Wales with 10, France with 8, Scotland with 3 and Ireland with 2.
Victory by any Home Nation over the other three Home Nations is a ‘Triple Crown’. The Triple Crown has twice been won on four consecutive occasions, once by Wales in 1976, 1977, 1978, and 1979 and once by England in 1995, 1996, 1997, and 1998. England hold the record for the number of Triple Crowns won with 23, followed by Wales with 20, Scotland with 10 and Ireland with 10. Although this achievement has long been a feature of the tournament, it was not until 2006 that a physical trophy, commissioned by the Royal Bank of Scotland, was awarded.
At the end of the tournament a team that finishes at the bottom of the table is said to have won the Wooden Spoon.
Several individual competitions take place under the umbrella of the tournament. The oldest such regular competition is for the Calcutta Cup, contested annually between England and Scotland since 1879. It is named the Calcutta Cup as it is made from melted-down Indian Rupees. Since 1988, the Millennium Trophy has been awarded to the winner of the game between England and Ireland. Since 2007, France and Italy have contested the Giuseppe Garibaldi Trophy; it was created for the 200th anniversary of the birth of Giuseppe Garibaldi, the Italian hero who helped unify Italy. Garibaldi was born in Nizza (now the French city of Nice) in 1807.
Prior to 1994, teams equal on points shared the championship. Since then, ties have been broken by considering the points difference of the teams. The rules of the championship further provide that if teams tie on both match points and points difference, the team which scored the most tries wins the championship. If even this decider is tied, the tying teams share the championship.[2] To date, however, match points and points difference have been sufficient to decide the championship.

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