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Sports: Q&A – Georgian Coach Milton Haig on His Journey from Invercargill to Eastern Europe
Alexander Bisley has a soft spot for the Lelos, the Georgian national rugby team. And now, thanks to a first up victory over Tonga, so does most of the rugby world. Here The Spinoff’s man-at-large at the Rugby World Cup chats to their kiwi coach Milton Haig about shovelling snow, learning the lingo, lazy bastards, and heavy drinking.
So, is rugby pretty much Georgia’s national sport now?
It’s considered by a lot of people as the national sport because it’s been the most successful team sport for ages now. Their soccer’s not that great here and it’s full of corruption. Because rugby’s got great values behind the game the Georgian people have really taken to it. It’s become really, really popular.
Your Lelos play and train in some cold, elemental weather?
My first week in Tblisi we were training in the snow. I said to the manager, “there’s a foot of snow out there”. He replied, “Oh, that won’t matter.” Next minute, there were about thirty people with shovels [laughs].
It’s cool see Kiwi coaches doing well with teams all around the world – seven of the 20 teams at RWC have kiwi coaches.
We have such an understanding of the game and New Zealand Rugby does a very good job
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Tom English
BBC Scotland's chief amusements writer
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Foreign-Born Players in Six Nations
Following the popularity of ARN’s Foreign-Born Players at Rugby World Cup , the hot topic of debate regarding player eligibility is to be looked at again. In this piece we take an in-depth look into the foreign-born players in each Six Nations squad for
All told, the Six Nations Championship will have a grand total of 20 nations represented. The Americas contributes to this list through Argentina, Canada, St. Lucia, and the USA.
The Celtic nations each have players born in England. In total 16 English players will play for other countries in the tournament. The next highest producers, by birth, are New Zealand and South Africa who have 10 and 9 respectively.
SCOTLAND (18) Unsurprisingly it’s the Scots who have the most players in the group. The number of foreign-born players, though as risen from 14 a year ago to 18 today. It would have been one more had WP Nel not withdrawn from the squad with injury. With the smallest pool of players to choose from, Scotland is often forced to look beyond its borders to seek out eligible prospects. Avoiding an unfavorable draw for Rugby World Cup has seen Vern Cotter selecting many who did not play youth rugby for Scottish clubs. The result is Scotland has just under double the number of