Rugby category: 302 books

‘Brian has spent his life learning from the best and trying to transfer their talent into his own work and life. This is a remarkable, unique handbook...’ STEVE TAPPIN (CEO) & HUGH LLOYD JUKES (DIRECTOR) OF XINFU Brian Noble has led rugby teams from adversity to triumph over and again and...

Kicking Essentials is a fully illustrated, step-by-step guide to developing kicking technique and in-game performance. Designed by Kicking Coach and Sports Performance Specialist Gareth Ashton for Rugby Players and Coaches, it covers the success factors and key points for the most common types of...

AFL, Football, NRL and Rugby: Modern Failings Of Football's Finest. We read about footballers every day. We celebrate their physical feats, their freakish athleticism, their guile and poise. We rejoice in their glories. We feel their hurt. We share their tears. But more and more, football...

For the past ten years the Canterbury-Bankstown Rugby League Club (the Bulldogs) has reeled from one crisis to the next. Once known as the 'Family Club' and the 'Entertainers', the Bulldogs have since figured in many off-field dramas including rape allegations, executive reshuffles and rorting the...

31/10/1978 Thomond Park. One of the greatest days in rugby history, Munster beat the All Blacks. More than 100,000 people claimed to have watched the game, even though the ground could only hold 12,000. In this 40th anniversary edition of the widely acclaimed Stand Up and Fight, Alan English...

In 1987, when we first and last held the Webb Ellis Trophy aloft, I was young and healthy and full of dreams. My hair was lush and reached all the way to my forehead and I knew exactly how I was going to be rich, famous and happy. By 2007 I was forty-mumble, fat and fatigued. My hair had slipped...

Wales were written off as no-hopers at the start of the 2008 Six Nations. They had failed to reach the World Cup quarter-finals the previous October and had reacted by appointing their 13th coach in 19 years, New Zealander Warren Gatland. On the opening weekend, success appeared unlikely when...

The laws of the game are made simple - for players, referees, coaches and spectators. This is a book packed full of useful information and advice on how the modern game is played and how it all began. Now all players, novice referees and school coaches seeking to understand more about the rules and...

“Sognando la meta” è un vortice di emozioni che avvolge i vari protagonisti della storia. C'è dentro la passione per il rugby, la ricerca di sé, i Sud che si incontrano (l'Etiopia e la Calabria), la voglia di riscatto, la lotta contro la 'ndrangheta, la precarietà emotiva e lavorativa, le...

In The Streak, Paul Connolly takes a lively look back at Queensland’s history-making eight-year dominance of rugby league’s State of Origin between 2006 and 2013. From last-gasp field goals to stirring comebacks, from spectacular tries to a couple of punches that changed the game, The Streak recounts...

My name is Bert Holcroft, and I am a world-accredited northern and southern hemisphere coach. I have spent a lifetime developing specialist fitness, dietary, coaching and training techniques for some of the world’s leading sports people in all-contact sports. May we offer you the opportunity to...

Il primo è Javier, ripescato dalle acque del Rio della Piata con le mani lesate dietro la schiena da due giri di fil di ferro. Il Turco e Mariano li ritrovano dentro una macchina scassata ai margini della Carretera Norte, con un buco nella nuca grosso come una noce. Poi tocca agli altri: Otilio,...

“Racchonti”. Tecnicamente per scrivere “Racconti con la H” sa-rebbe bastato fare uno strafalcione, una anomalia. Ma la anomalia che è alla base del Rugby è ben più profonda, e parte da lontano. Parte da uno sport il cui obiettivo è avanzare e la cui regola principale è passare la palla...

John Kirwan, mitica ala degli All Blacks ed ex-Commissario Tecnico della Nazionale azzurra di rugby, è una delle più celebri e celebrate figure della storia di questo sport. Ma da quando nel 2006 ha dichiarato pubblicamente di aver vissuto un periodo di depressione, è diventato anche uno dei testimonial...