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My Life and Rugby: The Autobiography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as rugby-union)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,021 ratings — published 2019
My Name'5 Doddie: The Autobiography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as rugby-union)
avg rating 4.49 — 566 ratings — published 2018
Loose Head: Confessions of an (Un)professional Rugby Player
by (shelved 3 times as rugby-union)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,463 ratings — published
Pride and Passion: My Autobiography (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as rugby-union)
avg rating 4.12 — 280 ratings — published 2019
Open Side: The Official Autobiography (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as rugby-union)
avg rating 4.30 — 837 ratings — published
The Real McCaw: The Autobiography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as rugby-union)
avg rating 3.98 — 693 ratings — published 2012
Proud: My Autobiography (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as rugby-union)
avg rating 3.99 — 758 ratings — published 2014
Beware of the Dog: Rugby's Hard Man Reveals All (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as rugby-union)
avg rating 3.99 — 504 ratings — published 2010
Nigel Owens: The Final Whistle (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as rugby-union)
avg rating 4.06 — 168 ratings — published
Unholy Union: When Rugby Collided with the Modern World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as rugby-union)
avg rating 3.81 — 58 ratings — published 2019
Graham Henry - Final Word (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as rugby-union)
avg rating 3.78 — 85 ratings — published 2012
Talk of the Toony: The Autobiography of Gregor Townsend (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as rugby-union)
avg rating 4.47 — 15 ratings — published 2009
Dan Carter: My Autobiography (Jack Lark)
by (shelved 2 times as rugby-union)
avg rating 4.02 — 522 ratings — published 2015
Jonny: My Autobiography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as rugby-union)
avg rating 4.13 — 836 ratings — published 2011
Raging Bull: My Autobiography (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as rugby-union)
avg rating 3.97 — 99 ratings — published 2010
Nobody Beats Us: The Inside Story of the 1970s Wales Rugby Team (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as rugby-union)
avg rating 4.03 — 72 ratings — published 2009
Once Were Lions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as rugby-union)
avg rating 3.68 — 19 ratings — published 2009
Half Time: My Autobiography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as rugby-union)
avg rating 3.82 — 380 ratings — published 2008
Straight 8: The Autobiography (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as rugby-union)
avg rating 4.08 — 111 ratings — published 2019
Call It Like It Is: The Jonathan Kaplan Story (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as rugby-union)
avg rating 3.58 — 52 ratings — published 2014
What a Flanker: The funniest sports biography you’ll ever read (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as rugby-union)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,982 ratings — published
When Lions Roared: The Lions, the All Blacks and the Legendary Tour of 1971 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as rugby-union)
avg rating 4.46 — 131 ratings — published 2017
Willie Anderson: Crossing The Line (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as rugby-union)
avg rating 3.99 — 137 ratings — published
This is Your Everest: The Lions, The Springboks and the Epic Tour of 1997 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as rugby-union)
avg rating 4.56 — 180 ratings — published
Graham Price: Price of Wales (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as rugby-union)
avg rating 2.67 — 3 ratings — published 1984
Delme - The Autobiography (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as rugby-union)
avg rating 4.75 — 8 ratings — published 2015
Lions Triumphant: The Captain's Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as rugby-union)
avg rating 3.49 — 41 ratings — published 2013
Gareth Edwards : The Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as rugby-union)
avg rating 3.58 — 31 ratings — published 1999
Me and My Mouth: The Austin Healey Story (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as rugby-union)
avg rating 3.78 — 205 ratings — published 2006
Behind the Dragon: Playing Rugby for Wales (Behind the Jersey)
by (shelved 2 times as rugby-union)
avg rating 4.60 — 35 ratings — published
Rugby: The Game of My Life: Battling for England in the Professional Era (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as rugby-union)
avg rating 3.73 — 30 ratings — published
Matt Dawson: Nine Lives (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as rugby-union)
avg rating 3.66 — 73 ratings — published 2004
Jeremy Guscott Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as rugby-union)
avg rating 3.26 — 19 ratings — published 2001
Behind the Scrum: The Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as rugby-union)
avg rating 3.71 — 7 ratings — published 2004
Martin Johnson Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as rugby-union)
avg rating 3.70 — 423 ratings — published 2003
The Rugby Union Manual (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as rugby-union)
avg rating 4.18 — 11 ratings — published 2008
My World (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as rugby-union)
avg rating 3.58 — 153 ratings — published 2004
Rugby Union for Dummies (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as rugby-union)
avg rating 3.74 — 53 ratings — published 2006
Running Rugby (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as rugby-union)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 1995
Cliff Morgan: The Autobiography - Beyond the Fields of Play (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as rugby-union)
avg rating 4.33 — 3 ratings — published
The RFU Guide For Coaches: Fitness And Conditioning (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as rugby-union)
avg rating 4.25 — 4 ratings — published 2005
101 Youth Rugby Drills (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as rugby-union)
avg rating 3.73 — 11 ratings — published 2006
Crusade On! - Celebrating 25 Years of The Crusaders (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as rugby-union)
avg rating 4.57 — 7 ratings — published
Tag Rugby (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as rugby-union)
avg rating 4.67 — 3 ratings — published 2006
The RFU Guide to Coaching Positional Skills (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as rugby-union)
avg rating 4.17 — 6 ratings — published 2010
Around the World in 80 Minutes: In Search of Rugby Greatness – A WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as rugby-union)
avg rating 3.95 — 43 ratings — published
Marie Antoinette: A Life From Beginning to End (French Revolution)
by (shelved 1 time as rugby-union)
avg rating 3.95 — 488 ratings — published
“The Manhandling of Gilbert Gripes by Stewart Stafford
Scrummage in a birch wood,
Pyrrhic rut for an oval prize,
Grinning studs rake my face,
A flayed Garryowen as sport.
Cauliflower ears throb with fear,
Thunderous hooves charging,
Poleaxed by a car crash tackle,
Nosebleed kiss tickles my lips.
The rite of passage staggers on,
A butcher's initiation of brothers,
Cutthroat razors kindly supplied,
Wealthy primates whoop in safety.
© Stewart Stafford, 2024. All rights reserved.”
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Scrummage in a birch wood,
Pyrrhic rut for an oval prize,
Grinning studs rake my face,
A flayed Garryowen as sport.
Cauliflower ears throb with fear,
Thunderous hooves charging,
Poleaxed by a car crash tackle,
Nosebleed kiss tickles my lips.
The rite of passage staggers on,
A butcher's initiation of brothers,
Cutthroat razors kindly supplied,
Wealthy primates whoop in safety.
© Stewart Stafford, 2024. All rights reserved.”
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“Archie Henderson has won no awards, written no books and never played any representative sport. He was an under-11 tournament-winning tennis player as a boy, but left the game when he discovered rugby where he was one of the worst flyhalves he can remember. This did not prevent him from having opinions on most things in sport.
His moment of glory came in 1970 when he predicted—correctly as it turned out—that Griquas would beat the Blue Bulls (then still the meekly named Noord-Transvaal) in the Currie Cup final. It is something for which he has never been forgiven by the powers-that-be at Loftus. Archie has played cricket in South Africa and India and gave the bowling term military medium a new and more pacifist interpretation. His greatest ambition was to score a century on Llandudno beach before the tide came in.”
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His moment of glory came in 1970 when he predicted—correctly as it turned out—that Griquas would beat the Blue Bulls (then still the meekly named Noord-Transvaal) in the Currie Cup final. It is something for which he has never been forgiven by the powers-that-be at Loftus. Archie has played cricket in South Africa and India and gave the bowling term military medium a new and more pacifist interpretation. His greatest ambition was to score a century on Llandudno beach before the tide came in.”
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