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In 2002, the prominent Conde Nast Traveler Magazine’s People’s Choice Awards named the Adare Manor Hotel & Golf Resort as the number one European resort. Just looking at the pictures of this luxurious place would make anyone agree and have the urge to pack up their bags and go straight to the airport, even though you’re not even a golfer.

Set in County Limerick in Ireland, the Adare Manor Hotel & Golf Resort is a luxurious five star golf vacation spot that has a championship golf course- it is the host of the 2007-09 Irish Open, world class suites and dining facilities, sight seeing, shopping, fishing and numerous other activities that will make your stay here most memorable and pleasant.

With the ultimate high standards in facilities and service plus some of Ireland’s most amazing views and landscapes, the Adare Manor Hotel & Golf Resort is a vacation destination that many people will never pass up.

In the Adare Manor Hotel & Golf Resort 840 acre property, you will find that there is no idle time. Its deluxe castle-hotel provides any visitor with the feeling of being royalty, its Robert Trent Jones Sr. designed golf course can offer the ambience of pro golfing, and the Adare manor Spa, Adare Manor Equestrian Center, cross-country trail, a number of fine dining restaurants and bars will provide round the clock activities you, your family and your friends will truly enjoy.

For serious golfers, the accommodations and the many facilities are great bonuses, but their sights are certainly set on the 18-hole championship golf course that was opened in 1995. Measuring a total of 7,125 yards, the Adare golf course was designed by celebrated golf enthusiast and designer Robert Trent Jones Sr. and this was the last course he designed. Many claim, in an international level, that this was one of his finest designs and creations.

The superb landscape is dotted with glorious mature trees, and Irish flora and a number of aquatic features like a 14 acre man made lake with nine holes alongside its shores.

Setting aside its astounding golf course, although it’s a bit hard to do, the first thing you will see and take your breath away is the castle hotel that provides sophisticated settings and exclusive accommodations. Setting your foot inside the manor, you will immediately notice the wood and stone hallways, and the high ceilings covering the sky. As you enter your room, you will definitely gasp in awe as the rich wood furniture and elegant decorations welcome you in. Each room has world class five-star amenities which includes an elegant marble bathroom, cable TV, direct dial telephones, and 24-hour room service for starters.

When you want luxury, sophistication, comfort and a great round of golf each day, a vacation to the Adare Manor Hotel & Golf Resort would be the best decision you’ll ever make in your life.

Not every one of us will be able to play like pros and win championships. But we can play in courses that they prefer to play in and live life like the pros. This is what the Adare Manor Hotel & Golf Resort can give to you, the chance to live like champions.

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Australian Rugby sure needs to take a good hard look at itself. The results over the last few years on the International arena have been poor to say the least.

In 2006 the formally mighty Wallabies produced dismal results against some of the world’s lower ranked northern hemisphere teams.

The new coach John Connolly, who took over from ousted Australian coach Edie Jones, has managed to reproduce the same dismal results by doing more of the same.

It was clear to many a fanatical Wallabies supporter that every time they had thrown the game away and bought on the reserves such as Matt Rogers the team lifted and actually started scoring.

Why the coaching staff never picked up on this is beyond belief after all trying the same thing time and time again and expecting a different result is surly a form of insanity.

The team always manages to play as poorly or as good as the opposition it faces. If they are playing teams like the All Blacks or South Africa it brings out the best and the result, while not always in favor of the Wallabies, are at least respectable. Putting the team up against less fearsome competition such as Ireland usually results in the Wallabies being dictated to and not following a game plan, other than to let the other team gain confidence and eventually take any self belief away from the team.

The Wallabies’ past track record in the modern era of the game has been impressive. Competing in all five of the Rugby Union World Cups the team won the World Cup on two occasions, in 1991 and 1999 and lost in the final match in extra time to England in 2003.

Rugby union in Australia has always taken a back seat to its big cousin rugby league. This could have been broken when rugby league went through turmoil in the 90s when the opposite code started Super League. After this, Rugby League was fragmented and its supporter base was left reeling.

Why did the ARU not capitalize on this and invest in heavy campaigning to convert these valuable fans?

To think it can’t be done was naive to say the least. One only need to look at the rise and rise of Australian Rules Football (AFL) in what was once a Rugby League strong hold state, Queensland.

So what is needed at the ARU to get the results it surly deserves?

1. Don’t bring in a coach that has not produced results. The Queensland Reds finished a dismal 12th in the Super 14 competition in 2006 under the watch of Connolly. How could he do any better with the Wallabies?

2. Don’t put players in unnatural positions. Let the player’s natural game shine through by enabling them to do what they do best.

3. Practice as they play. All the Wallabies are currently being rested from Super 14 matches to save them for the 2007 World Cup and in the past they have trained at half pace to avoid injury. Practice as you play or you will invariably play as you practiced.

4. Take away the stigma that Rugby Union is for toffee nosed wimps. In New Zealand everybody plays union, rich, poor, black or white.

5. Get Rugby Union on free to air television. Even if it’s delayed coverage.

6. Convert New Zealand supporters to Australian supporters. There are some 1 million New Zealanders living in Australia and I would bet the majority still follow their New Zealand teams.

The Wallabies play a great game when they believe in themselves, they just need the backing from the coaching staff, ARU and the Australian public and they can pull another Rugby World Cup out of the bag.

Spain was only one step to win over Romania, one of the teams that recently participated in the 2007 France World Championship ranked seventh amongst the European powerhouses disputing the Rugby Six Nations tournament.

The Romanian team has clearly been a strong force as they have won twenty-four of the twenty-five games played in the tournament; the team is completely renewed after the Rugby World Championship.

During the first part of the game the Spaniard team played one of their best games in the last seasons; being able to take advantage over the Romanians, but remained without forces in the second part. At the end they did not know how to pull through their best tricks despite the rival had one less player.

The Romanian forward always kept one step ahead of the Spaniard player. Gratton failed two blows and a transformation in the first part but overall the Spaniards knew to put up a fight against the Romanians. Spaniard Bohorquez, who was injured, had to be replaced by Serrano.

During the first twelve minutes Poparlan opened the scoreboard for the Romania and Camacho answered with the first point for Spain before the first half an hour. The Romanian coach changed his two midfielders, Calafeteanu and Dimofte, and opened the entrance for Andrei and Dumbrava, and he proved to be right.

On the other hand, Spain’s forces failed in the second half. Spain’s English Coach Ged Glynn tried to change strategies but were the Rumanians who managed to do it the task. The Spaniards not ready to yield yet were on the verge of adding five points but were stopped just one meter from the mark line.

One of Romania’s players Mersoiu was asked to leave the field but this wasn’t too advantageous for Spain that continue to struggle and returning the ball to the Rumanians.

At the end of the game, the Spaniards had the last opportunity to score, Sempere shot the ball out the band and the Rumanians recovered the ball again.

In spite of the loss, Spain gave again a good image and a great environment and managed to show that the road ahead since the arrival of the English coach is the right move for the sport of rugby at a national level.

The International Rugby Board (IRB) has announced the kick-off times for the 48 matches of Rugby World Cup 2007 to be played in France in September and October.

Host nation France will kick-off the sixth Rugby World Cup Tournament against Argentina at the Stade de France Stadium in Paris at 9pm local time on Friday, September 7, while England will begin its defence of the Webb Ellis Cup against the USA in Lens the following day with the match kicking-off at 6pm local time.

The next Rugby World Cup will be hosted in France from 7 September to 20 October 2007.

The games will be held at several venues in France (Lens, Montpellier, St-Etienne, Montpellier, St-Denis, Nantes, Lyon, Bordeaux, Paris, Toulouse and Marseilles). Some of the key pool matches will be played in Cardiff (Wales) and in Edinburgh (Scotland).

Toulouse, in the Aude, Languedoc, is one of rugby’s major epicentres. The Stade Toulousain team, which has provided a good many international players down the years, has been champion of France 17 times and went down in the history of the sport by becoming the first European clubs champion in 1996, a title that it won again in 2003.

Students began playing rugby locally in 1890 and it was in 1907 that Stade Toulousain was established. It won the first French championship title two years later, in 1909.

Have a look at the French team.

Colours: Blue, white and red?Nicknames: Les Bleus, Les Tricolores?Honours: Six Nations Grand Slam (2004, 2002), Five Nations Grand Slam (1968, 1977, 1981, 1987, 1997, 1998), World Cup runners-up (1987, 1999).

Coach: Studious Bernard Laporte has endured a see-saw existence since taken the reigns prior to the 1999 Rugby World Cup. World Cup finalists to fifth in the Six Nations, Grand Slam champions to losing a Test series to Argentina. Laporte has brought discipline and organisation to a traditionally volatile and flamboyant side, but has had trouble trying to mix the perfect cocktail time after time.

Captain: Back in the captaincy saddle after the retirement of Fabien Galthié, Toulouse star Fabien Pelous is no stranger to leadership. A star performer in the second row or the back of the scrum, his presence in the French side is sometimes taken for granted.

Player(s) to watch: Toulouse centre Florian Fritz won both 2005 Player of the Year and 2005 Newcomer of the Year awards at the French ‘Night of Rugby’ in December 2005, and was first choice to partner Yannick Jauzion in both of November 2005′s high-profile Tests against Australia and South Africa. He is also Jauzion’s partner in the Toulouse centres as well, and Toulouse’s back-line creativity needs little embellishment.

Have a look at the current French Squad: ( Jan 2007)

Backs: Jean-Baptiste Elissalde (Toulouse), Pierre Mignoni (Clermont), Dimitri Yachvili (Biarritz), Benjamin Boyet (Bourgoin), David Skrela (Stade Français), Damien Traille (Biarritz), Romain Cabannes (Biarritz), Florian Fritz (Toulouse), Yannick Jauzion (Toulouse), David Marty (Perpignan), Vincent Clerc (Toulouse), Christophe Dominici (Stade Français), Cédric Heymans (Toulouse), Aurélien Rougerie (Clermont), Thomas Castaignède (Saracens/ENG), Anthony Floch (Clermont), Clément Poitrenaud (Toulouse)?

?Forwards: Pieter de Villiers (Stade Français), Laurent Emmanuelli (Clermont), Sylvain Marconnet (Stade Français), Nicolas Mas (Perpignan), Olivier Milloud (Bourgoin), Jean-Baptiste Poux (Toulouse), Benoît August (Biarritz), Sébastien Bruno (Sale/ENG), Raphaël Ibañez (Wasps/ENG), Dimitri Szarzewski (Stade Français), Grégory Lamboley (Toulouse), Lionel Nallet (Castres), Pascal Papé (Castres), Fabien Pelous (Toulouse), Jerome Thion (Biarritz), Serge Betsen (Biarritz), Julien Bonnaire (Bourgoin), Sébastien Chabal (Sale/ENG), Thierry Dusautoir (Toulouse), Imanol Harinordoquy (Biarritz), Rémy Martin (Stade Français), Yannick Nyanga (Toulouse), Elvis Vermeulen (Clermont)

The south of France features very strongly- with well over half coming the region, and the majority of those coming from the Languedoc.

France is looking very strong to win in the RWC in 2007.

Tickets can be bought ahead of the match- mostly from Carrefour as well as many good web sites.

People of everywhere in the world like playing tennis for many various reasons. Some like to play daily tennis to obtain the exercise so that they remain in good health. Other players of tennis need simply something to occupy their time and to think that which plays tennis is a good option because it enables them to make new friends in the process.

Some think that they can meet a new friend if they played a place where a good number of people always seem to be. The people most athletically occupied will emigrate towards a center of tennis because there are always people around whom are very actively implied in a play. They estimate that if they show enough interest for the play, they have a good luck to form new friendships too.

The manufacture of new friends in a center of tennis is a thing very easy to make. Each set of tennis is dependent to have spectators and that presses people could have somebody in him which has pleasure to play the game of the tennis right as much that the people which is outside on the court. It is very easy to strike to the top of a conversation and to make a proposal to play fast congelation with somebody who was moments from only front abroad.

The atmosphere around a court of tennis usually is very slackened and friendly. People always shout some words of the support with people which play a game on the court. This atmosphere which surrounds a court of tennis is perfect to form friendships, and after several services it is completely possible so that a person feels as they knew their adversary during years.

Natured to rib good and a little useful councils are used to still solidify the friendship other. Before the first play finished, it is completely possible that the people improve how they play tennis if they attentively listen to the comments which are made about the manner that they serve or handle the ball sometimes. The will of some go in addition to court of tennis with a new friend and have a date assured another set of tennis.

The circle of friendship is dependent to become larger with each play of the tennis which is played. All the new friends are sure to have their own circle of the friends and some of these friends will play tennis. It y will have much occasions to meet others while playing of various sets of tennis. Some people could be better to play tennis but it should not be fears. Their knowledge can be shared without interruption while on the court and if people listen and learn from each experiment then their own play certainly will improve appreciably.