Letchworth Girls' Rugby: Rugby goes Hollywood

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The Letchworth Girls' Rugby 'blog originally contained news and information about girls' rugby section based at Letchworth Garden City RUFC between 2004 and 2010, but these days is mainly a source of information, discussion and speculation about women's and girls' rugby in England and overseas.

Though the girls have moved on the blog continues in order to preserve and honour the memories of the greatest bunch of young people to have ever played the game (IMHO!). It is aimed at players past and present, as well as anyone else interested in women's rugby who might be trying to make sense of what on earth is going on, even if that meant going to an unofficial and uncensored source of speculation, debate and discussion about the game.

It has no official connection with any girls' or women's teams currently representing Letchworth GC RUFC is NOT an official website within the meaning of RFU Regulation 5.

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Other sites of interest

Scrum Queens (The first independent women's international rugby website)

Women's Rugby NZ (Brilliant independent blog from the land of the World Champions - written by Black Ferns!)

Your Scrumhalf connection (Currently the best women's rugby blog on the 'net)

Women's rugby historyHow newspapers have covered women's rugby

Ladies Rugby from Heavensgame (New women's rugby dedicated news service from an established rugby website)

Put me in coach (Blog by a US women's team coach, majoring on coaching)

US Women's Rugby 7s (The inside story of a national rugby team's world cup campaign)

Total Flanker (Entertaining blog with occasional review of women's rugby news)

Learn rugby laws (Free guide to the Laws, including an interactive quiz)

FIRA Women's rugby forum (The most active and well-informed women's rugby forum - all questions answered here)

Women's international rugby (The only complete list of every women's rugby international)

Divasport (New women's sports kit company majoring in rugby. Includes rugby news and contacts)

Frauenrugby (Official German women's rugby blog)

Rugby for the Girls (Rugby for a female audience, more than rugby for female players, but professionally done.)

Daily Telegraph Rugby (Little women's coverage, but at least they have the taste to list us in their links ) Blog /

Thursday, April 24, 2008

Rugby goes Hollywood

Amazing but true - Hollywood has made a rugby movie. Forever Strong is due to open in the USA in the Autumn (here - who knows, but we get loads of crummy baseball and gridiron films so one assumes British distributors will pick it up) and is apparently based on the true story of a very successful US college team. The Hollywood schmaltz is added through "a talented-but-troubled rugby player" who "must play against the team his father coaches at the national championship", but despite that- going by the preview below - it may turn out to be passably watchable.