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England's May 2005 in Review
By Kath 6/6/05
June 7 2005
England's May 2005 in review. Well it was rather like an end of term for the Zurich Premiership but that did not last long on the international scene as the Baa Baas swung into town.

 May  2005 - In Review!

England's May 2005 - Well it was rather like an end of term for the Zurich Premiership but that did not last long on the international scene as the Baa Baas swung into town.

 

The month kicked off with England naming their 29 man squad in preparation for the Tibco Challenge on the 28th May 2005. Some big names  featured in this game both for England and the Baa Baas England Squad v Baa Baas   England v Barbarians Preview  some super photos here folks  Pictures here sent to us from Patrick & Tracywilko England v BaaBaas Review

 

 

photo copyright of unofficialenglandrugby.co.uk

Then we had the star studded even of the PRA Computacenter Awards -  Players’ Player of the Year 2005 was Leicester Tigers’ Martin Corry voted for by his fellow players after a tremendous season for both club and country.

England Awards Winners  

 

 Nigel Melville - Our Claire reviews his thoughts from his article in The Guardian where he strongly questioned the current England plans for the Churchill Cup and coaching support for the Lions tour. Melville’s argument is compelling – he states that the English national side stopped progressing on 22 November 2003. Team England’s Priorities

 

  Because of the amount of rugby during the coming months we thought it would be a good idea to make a list of the TV coverage England Rugby d by the various channels in 2005. Eng Rugby TV Coverage   Just a taster of what is in store for June with England of course lots with the Lions on Sky! 

11/06/05

11:00 AM  

Emirates Airline Bordeaux Sevens  Day 1

ITV 2

19/06/05

7:00  PM. 

England v Canada Churchill Cup - KO 2200hrs

Sky Sports 1

 

Sportnetwork.net announced a competition to win a limited edition rugby shirt signed by the game's biggest legends, Martin Johnson and Jonah Lomu, simply by predicting the score between the Johnno XV and Jonah XV when the two teams go head-to-head at Twickenham - winner to be announce shortly.

Win with Johnno & Jonah!


 

And of course we had the build up to the Lions' Tour to New Zealand - check out the fans blogs here.....  Lions Fans Blogs

 

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