England vs New Zealand Official Final Matchday Programme
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IRB Rugby World Cup Final 2015 Time 20h00 Date October 20, 2015 Game Final Match 48
Page 3-4 Welcome to the
Stadium Twickenham Stadium Rugby Road Twickenham TW1 1DZ
World Cup Final
Directer Of English Rugby Rob Andrew
Page 7-10 Today’s teams
England Rugby Coach Martin Johnson
Page 14 History of the
New Zealand Rugby Coach Graham Henry England Rugby Captain Tom Wood
Page 5-6 Exclusive Interviews
World Cup
Page 15-16 England’s
Captain Fantastic
New Zealand Rugby Captain Ma’a Nonu
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Welcome
Firstly, Welcome to the 2015 World Cup Final, which promises to be an awesome spectacle, between the two best teams in the world. These two teams have overcame obstacles to get here through blood, sweat and trys! Game On!
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Lastly, Welcome to Twickenham Stadium, the home of England rugby, and the venue for the World Cup Final 2015 between England and New Zealand. This Stadium seats an impressive 82,000 spectators, Twickenham is the largest dedicated rugby union venue in the world. It’s hard to believe that this historic venue began life as a humble cabbage patch, but that’s exactly what it was before the RFU purchased the land for just over £5,500 in 1907. The first game was played in 1909 - a battle between local sides Harlequins and
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Richmond - and here we are, over 100 years later, still going strong. These days, Twickenham offers much more than just top flight sport and has become a destination for fans around the world to experience the excitement of a match day
sample the history of a stadium tour, visit the superb World Rugby Museum, take a trip to the Rugby Store or watch some of the biggest names in music perform. Easily accessible by road, air, train and foot, Twickenham truly is a stadium for the people. During matches, we pride ourselves on our sporting atmosphere, where the most ardent of rugby fans sit happily alongside families and children. Banter is often exchanged between rival fans but this merely adds to the inspiring atmosphere and our friendly
staff will happily help you with any problems or queries that are not covered in our stadium FAQ’s
Take a look at our What’s on page. Martin Johnson became the New England team
to back-to back Heineken Cup victories and won the league six times. Following the All Blacks’
“Biggest Event in World Rugby” Twickenham is also a very versatile venue. When the England boys and the Aviva Premiership finalists take time off, the stadium opens its doors to some of the finest musical talents around. so The likes of U2, R.E.M, Bon Jovi and The Rolling Stones have all performed here over recent years.
manager on 1 July 2008 replacing the previous manager Brian Ashton. He’s regarded as one of the greatest Locks to have ever played. He toured three times with the British and Irish Lions becoming the only man to have captained them on two separate tours. He also led his club Leicester Tigers
England coach Martin Johnson
semi-final loss to Australia in the 2003 Rugby World Cup the All Blacks coaching job was advertised. Apart from incumbent coach John Mitchell, Henry was the only applicant. After winning the 2006 Tri-Nationas and winning all end-of-year Tests in the tour of England, France, and Wales/.
All Blacks Wizard, Graham Henry 4
Toby Flood Exciting few weeks ahead – ready for the bruising encounters against the All Blacks in the World Cup Final? Definitely, there is nothing like tests against the best in the world and the guys are really looking forward to it. We’ve had a good couple of weeks training so hopefully we can get out and play with in good spirits and win the gold. The fans want to see some of the flair that can be seen in the Premiership – Is there a feeling that the squad will play a more expansive style this summer? I hope so, I think we’ve got the personnel to do it, obviously weather depending, it’s the summer so it always difficult but we like to think we can go out there and chuck the ball around and have a real good crack at them so it’s definitely the plan. Who would you like to have playing alongside you at 12? I don’t really mind. There has been a few knocks and bumps from the last premiership games so we’ll have to wait and see, but obviously it’s always pretty competitive there so it’s up to the coaches. I’ll just keep my head down and see who it is! Thankyou to All the fans for the support and we hope to bring home the gold today!
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d Dan Carter New Zealand rugby star Daniel William Carter, made his debut at the 2002 Under 21 World Cup in South Africa and found himself in an All Blacks jersey soon after. As the All Black’s Fly Half, arguably the most flashy and eye-catching position in rugby, Carter is constantly under the spotlight. Carter is currently on tour with the All Blacks in England on world cup duty. In this World Cup Final Programme, he gives CNN’s Anjali Rao a rugby kicking tutorial, giving out top tips for aspiring All Blacks players and demonstrating kicks from a professional fly half. An soon to be member of the Super 14 team Canterbury Crusaders, he also shares his thoughts on moving to France in the upcoming season, hopes for the next World Cup and feelings about being a “sex symbol’. “I have certain cues that keep me in the same place whether I’m at practice or out on a match day or in a field.” says Carter about in-game jitters: “So I get to the back of my run up and that’s when I take a big deep breath in and tell myself to relax because this is when the nerves can really really kick in... so I sort of take a deep breath in and tell myself to relax because this is when the nerves can really really kick in... then i take another deep breath in, tell myself to relax and then that’s when I look up at the post and being a left footer I get a little bit of a natural left to right curve.”
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26/03/91
Ben Foden Northampton Saints
23/02/89
Dan Cole Leicester Tigers 09/05/87
Billy Twelvetrees Leicester Tigers 15/11/88
Danny Care Harliquins 02/01/87
15/12/83
Dylan Hartley Northampton Saints
24/03/86
Courtney Lawes Northampton Saints
25/07/85
Andy Short Worcester Warriors
30/08/88
Delon Armitage London Irish
20/03/87
05/09/89
Alex Corbisiero London Irish
09/04/85
Chris Ashton Northampton Saints
Ben Youngs Leicester Tigers
Davis Wilson Bath Rugby
England World Cup 2015 Profiles
29/09/89
02/04/85
Jordan Crane Leicester Tigers
Leicester Tigers 18/05/91
Matt Kvesic Worcester Warriors 14/04/92
Paul Doran-Jones Gloucester 02/05/85
Leicester Tigers 08/08/85
Tom Croft Leicester Tigers 07/11/85
Tom Wood Northampton Saints 03/11/86
13/04/83
03/06/86
James Haskell Stade Francais
Graham Kitchener Leicester Tigers
Manu Tuilagi
Toby Flood
Ugo Monye Harliquins
Liam Messam Chiefs
John Afoa
16/09/1983
25/04/84
Anthony Boric Blues
25/10/85
06/06/83
Blues
Hakawera Elloit Chiefs
Kieran Read Canterbury Crusaders
Joe Rokocoko Blues
27/12/83
22/01/86
16/03/84
20/03/79
Hosea Gear
Hurricanes
Keven Mealamu Blues
Jerome Kaino Blues 06/04/83
05/03/82
Dan Carter Canterbury Crusaders
12/10/81
Conrad Smith Hurricanes
21/02/84
Andrew Ellis Canterbury Crusaders
New Zealand World Cup 2015 Profiles
03/12/83
Steve Donald Chiefs
Richie McCaw Canterbury Crusaders
Tony Woodcock Blues
27/01/81
03/02/85
31/12/80
17/09/83
Piri Weepu Hurricanes
23/12/87
Sonny Bill Williams Canterbury Crusaders
12/10/88
Owen Franks Canterbury Crusaders
Sam Whitelock Canterbury Crusaders
15/07/82
Neemia Tialata Hurricanes
31/07/80
Mils Muliaina Chiefs
21/05/82
Ma’a Nonu Hurricanes
Statistics and Tables Team England South Africa Scotland Romania Nambia
Pld 4 4 4 4
Team New Zealand Argentina Ireland Georga Portugal
Pld 4 4 4 4
Quater Final England 24 Fiji 9 South Africa 12 Australia 15 New Zealand 24 France 15 Argentina 32 Wales 5
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W 4 3 2 1
D 0 0 0 0
L 0 1 2 3
TF 46 14 8 5
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W 4 3 2 1
D 0 0 0 0
L 0 1 2 3
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PF PA +/- BP Pts 309 35 +274 4 20 14 116 66 +50 2 9 85 117 -32 1 40 161 -121 1 5 38 209
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TF PF PA +/- BP Pts 16 143 33 +110 4 20 14 24 188 37 +151 2 9 1 9 64 82 -18 5 50 111 -61 1 5 30 212
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Semi Final
England Australia
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England V New zeland
New Zealand 21 Argentina 9
Top World Cup Try Grabbers Name
Team
Apps
Trys
Chris Ashton
England
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7
Hosea Gear James O’Connor
New Zealand Australia
6 5
6 6
Bryan Habana
South Africa
5
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Andy Short
England
6
5
Malili Muliaina
New Zealand
6
5
Vincent Clerc
France
4
5
JP Pietersen
South Africa
5
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Ma’a Nonu
New Zealand
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Drew Mitchell
Australia
5
4
Ben Foden
England
6
4
Dan Carter
New Zealand
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History Of The World Cup The first rugby world cup was held in 1987, hosted by Australia and New Zealand who pushed for the tournament to be approved. Since the first tournament, there have been five others, at fouryearly intervals. The most recent tournament was hosted by New Zealand in September / October 2011. International competition prior to the World Cup Apart from regular test matches and touring sides, tournaments that resembled a world cup format - albeit not of its scale, but in terms of international nations competing, are competitions such as the summer Olympics and the Home Nation championship/Five Nations championship. Rugby union was played at the Summer Olympics on four occasions, 1900, 1908, 1920 and 1924. Although these competitions did not involve full national sides, and usually only had three
South Africa Celebrating the First World Cup or four participating nations at any individual event. The International Championship/Five Nations has been played since 1883, it is one of the oldest international rugby tournaments, involving only European nations. The first tournament The 1987world cup was hosted by both Australia and New Zealand. 32 matches were played from over a period of May 22 to June 20. The tournament
featured one African nation, three Americas nations, one Asian nation, seven European nations and four Oceanic nations. One notable omission was the Springboks who were not competing due to the international sports boycott. Seven places were automatically filled by the IRFB members, with invitations being sent out to fill remaining places. In total there were 16 nations in the competition.
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In Focus
Tom Wood:
Captain Fantastic Tom Wood who was born 3 November 1986 in Coventry is an English Rugby union player for Northampton Saints in the Aviva Premiership. He plays as Flanker but can also play at number eight. Wood, who was educated at the Woodlands School and Sports College,
2010, Wood agreed to join the Northampton Saints. Later that month, he made his debut for the England Saxons against Ireland A. Tom Wood made his debut for England against Wales in Cardiff in the opening game of the Six Nations, on 4 February 2011. He then played in
lead England out in the World Cup one Again” He went on to say “Hopefully we can bring home the gold!” AS A skinny nine-year-old Tom Wood posed in his rugby kit with England legend Dean Richards. The city schoolboy never dreamed that 15 years later he would follow in
“Im proud to be leading England out in the World Cup Final” Coventry, made his debut for Worcester Warriors against Bath in the opening round of the Guinness Premiership 2006-2007. Earlier in his career he spent some time in New Zealand and played for provincial team North Otago. Wood was on the losing side in the final of the 2007-2008 European Challenge Cup. In January 15
the victories against Italy and France. Later on in his rugby career he went on to Captain his side in the 2011 World Cup in New Zealand, finishing a respectable 3rd Place. Since then he has never missed an International cap and leading England in them all. Tom Told BBC Sport that he will be “Delighted to
his hero’s footsteps. But tonight back-row behemoth Tom will make his Next England Cap in one of the biggest fixtures in world rugby – the World Cup Final against New Zealand. His delighted dad Andy said: “Tom was more of a doer than a dreamer. “He loved playing rugby but he was never fanatical
about watching it on the television or knowing all the teams and players. “I remember once he came home from school and he couldn’t tell me who he’d played against or what the score was, just that they had won.” Coming from such proud rugby stock it was almost inevitable that Tom – now a towering 6ft 5in tall – would pick up an eggshaped ball. His dad and his uncle Gary Wood led city side Barkers Butts into the National Leagues in the early 1990s. And his younger brother Rob is now a member of the Worcester academy where Tom launched his Premiership career four years ago. But Tom, aged 24, is the first of the family to represent his country. Andy said: “It’s a fantastic vote of confidence to start him in Cardiff in his first match. “But Tom isn’t the kind of person to be phased by who he’s playing. “He won’t be satisfied with
getting an England shirt. He’ll want to win and prove he should be in the World Cup squad later this year.” Tom has followed a well-
trodden path from Coventry Kid to international rugby star since starting out at Barkers Butts in Meriden when he was just five years old. Fellow Barkers boys Danny Grewcock, Leon Lloyd and Bill Gittings all played for England, while Jim Hamilton is a current Scotland stalwart. Ex-Bablake schoolboy Shane Geraghty also has six England caps. But Tom’s career most closely shadows that of World Cup winner and England great Neil Back.
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Can We Do It Again?
England
New Zealand
Ben Foden 15 Chris Ashton 14
Full Back
Wing
Manu Tuilagi 13
Center
Andy Short 12
Center
Ugo Monye 11
Wing
Toby Flood 10 Ben Youngs 9 Alex Corbisiero
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Dylan Hartley 2 Dan Cole 3
Fly Half
Scrum Half
Prop
Hooker
Prop
15 Malili Muliaina 14 Hosea Gear 13 Ma’a Nonu 12 Conrad Smith 11 Joe Rokocoko 10 Dan Carter 9 Andrew Ellis 1
Neemia Tialata
2 Keven Mealamu 3 Owen Franks
Tom Wood 4
Lock
4 Sam Whitelock
Grahm Kitchener 5
Lock
5 Anthony Boric
Tom Croft 6
Blindside
6 Jerome Kaino
James Haskell 7
Openside
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Jordan Crane 8
No.8
Richie McCaw
8 Kieran Read
Dave Wilson 16
Sub
16 John Afoa
Paul Doran - Jones 17
Sub
17 Hakawera Elliot
Courtny Lawes 18
Sub
18 Tony Woodcock
Matt Kvesic 19
Sub
19 Liam Messam
Billy Twelvetrees 20 Danny Care 21 Delon Armitage 22
Sub
Sub
Sub
20 Piri Weepu 21 Stephen Donald 22 Sonny Bill Williams