The Latui participated in four Pacific Showcase matches in 2019. World Rugby has made the difficult decision to recommend the postponement of Rugby World Cup 2021, scheduled to be hosted in New Zealand between 18 September-16 October, until next year. 02/03/2021 18:25 [23] Live streaming and video on demand services reach additional viewers within some Asia-Pacific countries, while Rapid Rugby's own website provides live streams and highlight packages to other regions worldwide. Western Force, Western Australia. NFL chief medical officer Dr Allen Sills says his sport is trying to "share knowledge in a more rapid fashion" with World Rugby and other contact sports. The Malaysia Valke are based in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur and feature top local talent from Malaysia and South Africa. This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. They have employed several Hong Kong rugby players at the firm including former solicitor and professional rugby player Rowan Varty, current Co-Head of Employment Kim Boreham and their COO Pete Spizzirri. Excessive and rapid increases in training loads are likely responsible for a large proportion of non-contact, soft-tissue injuries. Eight former rugby players with early onset dementia are planning to launch negligence claims against World Rugby, the Rugby Football Union, and the Welsh Rugby Union over the effects of concussion and repeated blows to the head. Global Rapid Rugby has unveiled the China Lions as the final team in its inaugural home-and-away competition this year.China Rugby Football Association and New Zealand’s domestic championship winning Bay of Plenty have formed an exciting joint venture.. “Global Rapid Rugby” is the brainchild of Australian mining billionaire Andrew Forrest and starts next February. Ed Teliczan was playing with the Kalamazoo Harlequins and decided to start his own team in Grand Rapids. The South China Tigers is a professional rugby union team from Hong Kong that plays in the Global Rapid Rugby competition.. [2] [5] In Samoan colloquial speech, a kagifa refers to an enormous wild fish or shark that wreaked havoc in Polynesian mythical legend, [2] and which is more formally referred to as tanifa . The China Lions is a joint venture between the China Rugby Football Association and the Bay of Plenty Rugby Union in New Zealand. Players to Adapt to Global Rapid Rugby’s Rules: O’Connor GRR matches are slightly shorter than the traditional 80 minutes and have other variations from standard rugby laws with the intention to increase the speed of the game. If training load is an important determinant of injury, it must be accurately measured up to twice daily and over periods of weeks and months (a season). Success quickly followed for the club, and we have since acquired several national championships in both 15’s and 7’s play. It was devised after the Western Force rugby team based in Perth, Western Australia was dropped from the Australian Super Rugby Conference. The Fijian Latui is based in Suva with a squad drawn mainly from players based locally in Fiji. CHINA JOINS RUGBY REVOLUTION January 31, 2020 . However, the matches in 2018 World Series Rugby – the precursor to Rapid Rugby – had a comparable 'ball-in-play' time almost 30% greater. Matches last 70 minutes (compared with 80 minutes under the standard rugby union laws), This page was last edited on 4 February 2021, at 05:23. Racing 92 (French pronunciation: [ʁasiŋ ka.tʁə.vɛ̃.duz]) is a French rugby union club based in suburban Paris that was formed in 2001 with the collaboration of the Racing Club de France and US Métro.They were called Racing Métro 92 between 2001 and 2015, when they changed the name to Racing 92. Global Rapid Rugby is redefining the allure and appeal of a century old sport to traditional audiences, while introducing the beauty of the game to the most populated part of the planet. GRR said, “negotiations are nearing completion with a sixth team to be based in Asia.” There are lots of rumours about the team, from Japan, Sri Lanka and more nations being mentioned but the omission of the Asia Pacific Dragons based in Singapore was an interesting one. [23], National broadcaster SBS showed all nine of these matches live on free-to-air television across Australia via its SBS Viceland channel and also streamed through SBS on Demand. Submit your details and we'll send you updates from Global Rapid Rugby. Billed as a Rapid Rugby Showcase, the match will act as a prelude to the recently announced 2019 Global Rapid Rugby Showcase which commences Friday week in Perth. Tanner De Witt have proudly supported the rugby community for more than two decades and the Hong Kong Rugby Union for the majority of this time. Time limits for scrums (1 minute) and lineouts (45 seconds to set). The New Zealand Herald reported over the weekend NZR had signed a memorandum of understanding with Rugby Australia to support the Rapid Rugby competition, the brainchild of Western Australian billionaire Andrew Forrest. [23], For the 2019 showcase series, nine of the fourteen matches over the season were televised. Global Rapid Rugby … [3] It was devised after the Western Force rugby team based in Perth, Western Australia was dropped from the Australian Super Rugby Conference. The Western Force is based in Perth with the bulk of its squad home-grown talent from Western Australia. [1] Rapid Rugby matches are slightly shorter than the traditional 80 minutes and have other variations from standard rugby laws that are intended to increase the speed of the game. Kafiga Samoa play Swire Shipping Fijian Warriors tomorrow at Churchill Park, Lautoka in the first ever Global Rapid Rugby fixture. [23], The 2019 showcase series does not currently have a principal naming rights partner, but major official partners include IHG Hotels & Resorts, K&L Gates and Harvey Beef. The Force has been a catalyst for the development of the Global Rapid Rugby tournament and took part in a Showcase Series featuring teams from Fiji, Samoa and Hong Kong in 2019. [21], Global Rapid Rugby aims to attract about 20 of the world's top 100 rugby players with marquee contracts to be spread across the eight franchises. Kicking to touch from inside the 22 is the same as the World Rugby law for outside the 22. Global Rapid Rugby. In the following month, Perth-based businessman Andrew Forrest announced that he would create a new tournament called the Indo Pacific Rugby Championship which would include the Western Force and five other teams from the Indo-Pacific region. New Zealand Rugby has pledged its support to a competition taking players away from the grass-roots and bleeding clubs of players. Valke embrace new horizons August 8, 2019 . Global Rapid Rugby originally planned a full home and away tournament followed by finals, with eight teams competing in 2019. The competition was conceived and is supported by the Australian billionaire Andrew Forrest. RWC 2021 Rugby World Cup 2021 statement. Its squad predominantly includes players based in Samoa and Samoan-eligible players based in Australia and New Zealand. The paucity of research on contemporary elite rugb … Games in Asia, the Pacific and Australasia; Fast-paced, 70-minute matches; Innovative new laws rewarding a free-flowing, high-scoring style Global Rapid Rugby from the onset has said that expansion to new territories will be key. [23][24] Other Rapid Rugby media partners included Kayo Sports in Australia, Sky Sport in New Zealand and Fiji TV. The way players train needs to be addressed "very quickly", says the head of the Rugby Players' Association, after ex-professionals said the sport has given them permanent brain damage. With teams playing each team in their own conference twice (home and away) except Western Force played teams in both conferences. Like all sports, rugby needs to evolve. [5], For the 2018 season, the competition was launched as World Series Rugby, played as a series of exhibition matches as the precursor to a wider Asia-Pacific competition planned for 2019. All of the players, who include the World Cup winner Steve Thompson and the former Wales international Alix Popham, are under 45 and blame their condition on … [6][7][8], The competition was re-branded in November 2018 as Global Rapid Rugby,[9] and the Hong Kong Rugby Union was appointed the governing body for the competition ahead of the 2019 season. But now Fale believes Global Rapid Rugby is the way forward for the 15-a-side game. Twiggy Forrest targets world’s best players for Rapid Rugby. [25], The official rugby ball supplier is Rhino Sport. Currently we have a Men’s Division III. [6] The newly reformed Western Force played international teams from Hong Kong, Samoa, and Tonga along with Super Rugby teams the Crusaders and Melbourne Rebels, Japanese Top League team Panasonic Wild Knights, and the Fiji Warriors, the second-tier national side. [24] Fox Sports in Australia and related companies Star Sports and Fox Sports Asia will provide the live coverage. league and the Greater Bay Area. [22], Rapid Rugby currently has live broadcast television coverage in 18 countries across Asia and Oceania. [4], Following SANZAAR's decision to reduce the number of Super Rugby teams for 2018, the Australian Rugby Union (now Rugby Australia) announced in August 2017 that the Western Force would be one of the teams cut from the 2018 competition. Increased professionalism in rugby has elicited rapid changes in the fitness profile of elite players. Allowing us to deliver more rugby for the fans, and more rugby for the players, Rapid Rugby will incorporate innovative new laws and competition rules designed to increase ball-in-play time and reward attacking, free scoring play. The South China Tigers are based in Hong Kong with their squad drawn "So that's a new challenge for the team and the players they needed to be really fit mentally and physically. The Gazelles compete in club competition regulated by USA Rugby. A former Hawaii congressman, Richard Fale heads a consortium that previously flirted with plans to buy the New Zealand Warriors rugby league team and launch a Pacific Island Super Rugby side. [2], The competition was conceived and is supported by the Australian billionaire Andrew Forrest. A 9-point 'power try' for attacks launched within 22 meters of the scoring team's own try line. There is no salary cap in place for the competition. This often includes commercial and media terms for tournaments ranging from 15s and 7s, men’s and women’s and age-grade competitions. “It’s been a long journey, a massive learning process,”Fale told … On their website , it says “Expansion is a key part of our planning and in 2020 we will look to the east coast of Australia, representation from New Zealand (either playing from a NZ base or potentially in Asia), as well as Japan and Hawaii. For the naming of the team, South China tigers are considered as the most distinctive of all tiger subspecies. “These rapid tests will be another tool that will help us to identify cases of Covid-19 and prevent onward transmission. [1], The 2020 Global Rapid Rugby season was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic after only one completed round of competition. Manuma Samoa is based in Apia at the Samoa Rugby Union headquarters. from the Hong Kong Elite rugby program, National 15s & 7s teams, domestic [10] A season of fourteen matches was played in 2019,[11] featuring the Western Force playing a Pacific Showcase Series in a round-robin format with teams from Fiji and Samoa, as well as an Asian Showcase Series in a round-robin format with teams based out of Hong Kong and Singapore. The Showcase series is a forerunner to the Global Rapid Rugby Series, to be introduced in 2020, and will be played under a set of experimental rules, endorsed by World Rugby that reward attacking, free-scoring play, and are designed to entertain crowds, make the game faster and showcase spectacular rugby. The earlier we can identify these cases the fewer people will be infected. International Rugby Players works with World Rugby and other governing bodies to ensure that player welfare is paramount when the tournament rules and regulations are being put in place. It isn’t every day that a new international rugby competition backed by one of Australasia’s leading businessmen is launched, so when Global Rapid Rugby was announced in November 2018 the reverberations were felt far and wide. The Kagifa Samoa team was established in 2019 and competed in the Pacific Showcase series during the inaugural year of Global Rapid Rugby. Law variations for Rapid Rugby included:[18][19][20], Super Rugby in Australia averages around 30-minutes of ‘ball-in-play’ per match. 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[13] The Singapore-based team, the Asia Pacific Dragons, did not continue in Rapid Rugby after the 2019 season [14] and was replaced by the China Lions in 2020.[15]. Global Rapid Rugby is an international rugby union competition that launched a showcase series for six professional teams in 2019, played in locations across the Asia-Pacific region. Southland Stags player Lio Tosi is converting positions from No 8 to prop and will line up for the new China Lions team in the Global Rapid rugby competition. The 2019 Global Rapid Rugby season was a showcase series for seven rugby union teams played in locations across the Asia-Pacific region. The Lions are the sixth team to be announced as part of Global Rapid Rugby … Australian rugby embarks on a new era in 2021 with its shift to Nine and Stan Sport. Games will be just 70 minutes long, packaged into 90-minute broadcasts. "That's how the Drua played last year, running rugby from the 22 to the tryline and that's one of the new rules in Rapid Rugby: if you run the ball in multiple phases from the 22 you get nine points straight away," he said. From the Shute Shield, to the fringes of Super Rugby, the National Rugby Championship, a short stint with Irish club Connacht and, now, in spearheading Western Force in Global Rapid Rugby… One-off matches were also played against a World XV coached by Robbie Deans,[12] and the Malaysia Valke. Pacific Rugby Players chief executive, Aayden Clarke, who has been involved with the contracting of both Pacific Islands teams believes Rapid Rugby has taken a step forward after being cancelled last season and is providing an opportunity for players to earn some money while playing in a semi-professional competition. Teams cannot gain ground when kicking direct to touch, even from within their 22. The team was launched in 2018 to participate in the inaugural Global Rapid Rugby season. The Force has been a catalyst for the development of the Global Rapid Rugby tournament and took part in a Showcase Series featuring teams from … The Western Force is based in Perth with the bulk of its squad home-grown talent from Western Australia. In 2019, 5 teams played in 2 conferences. Super Rugby stars in mid-February and ends in early July. The series began on 4 May 2018. The competition launch was postponed by a year, however, due to the short time frame following World Rugby approval in … The winner of each conference is awarded a home final. Recent research, focusing on the physiological and anthropometrical characteristics of rugby players, and the demands of competition are reviewed. Innovations proposed for Rapid Rugby would include reducing the game to 70 minutes, through 35 minute halves, and rolling substitutions. It will breathe a sigh of relief for Samoa Rugby Union chief executive officer Richard Fale.