Rugby biography
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My Life and Rugby : The Autobiography by Eddie Jones
Brilliant, honest, combative – Eddie Jones is a true legend of world rugby and remains an enigmatic figure in the game. In My Life and sport he tells his story for the first time, including the full inre account of England’s 2019 World Cup campaign. He describes his experience growing up in a tough working-class area of Sydney, where he first played rugby, and how he learnt from the extreme highs and lows of his own playing career – the numerous successes but also the painful disappointment of never playing for Australia.
He tells how he then embarked on a coaching career that has seen him become one of the most experienced and decorated coaches in sport Union, spanning four World Cups and three finals. His successes have included masterminding England’s spectacular victory over New Zealand in the 2019 World Cup and engineering the sport’s most stunning upset when Japan beat South Africa in 2015.
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Head On: An All Black's memoir of rugby, dementia, and the hidden cost of success
Carl Hayman, All Black #1000, once the most highly prized player in world rugby and a giant of the game in every sense - someone who was always respected, even feared. But at the end of seventeen years as a professional rugby player, the last eight played with the sole aim of setting up his family's future, Hayman's life began to unravel in nightmarish fashion.
Head On is about the pressures on the modern athlete, where physical performance and commerce collide, and players become victims of their own success.
Exploited then left out in the cold, Hayman is now left counting the hidden cost of the achievements that would have exceeded any young rugby player's wildest dreams. He now fears both the known and the unknown with equal trepidation as he looks for answers to dementia and a degenerative brain condition called CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy). Experimental treatments, family, hope,
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Books - "rugby"
The Rules of Rugby Football
N/A
paperback (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: A.H. & A.W. REED Ltd 1952
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history sports rugby
Sporting Relations
MCGOUGH, ROGER & GILLIAM, TERRY (Illus.)
First edition, super octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples.Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: Eyre Methuem Ltd 1974
KEYWORDS: literature humour rugby sport new zealand memoir
Inside French Rugby: Confessions of a Kiwi Mercenary
DANIEL, JOHN
Imperial octavo