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News.com.au (Free subscription) | 10/31/2008
... the game changed, he hasn't. Dan Vickerman's departure has given Sharpe a lifeline on this tour. James Horwill, Dean Mumm and Hugh McMeniman are the up-and-coming men in the second row, while Peter Kimlin and Tom Hocking are the vanguard of the next generation of Australian locks. Sharpe was certainly jolted out of his complacency when he was originally omitted from the squad for...
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IOL (Free subscription) | 10/31/2008
... Luke Burgess being called up as replacements. Lote Tuqiri, Wycliff Palu, Hugh McMeniman and James Horwill are all injured. TeamsAustralia: Adam Ashley-Cooper, Peter Hynes, Ryan Cross, Stirling Mortlock (capt), Drew Mitchell, Matt Giteau, Luke Burgess, Richard Brown, George Smith, Dean Mumm, Nathan Sharpe, Mark Chisholm, Al Baxter, Stephen Moore, Benn Robinson. New Zealand: Isaia Toeava,...
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Planet Rugby (Free subscription) | 10/30/2008
... are flanker Dean Mumm and second row Mark Chisholm, who take the places of Hugh McMeniman and James Horwill. "There's been carnage through the middle row so that will test us," Deans said. "We've obviously got Dean and George Smith and beyond that our stocks in that area have been battered."
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Sydney Morning Herald (Free subscription) | 10/29/2008
... the injured Wycliff Palu, and Mark Chisholm becoming Nathan Sharpe's second-row partner through James Horwill's unavailability.The most compelling tussle is between Smith, Waugh and Pocock for the No.1 openside flanker position, and the pecking order is bound to be one of the most fascinating issues of this five-week Wallabies tour. Pocock was informed he was on the bench at Tuesday...
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Planet Rugby (Free subscription) | 10/28/2008
... alongside Stirling Mortlock. Chisholm had not planned on featuring as a starting player, but with James Horwill and Dan Vickerman both missing he gets a rare start. "The last couple of years I was getting that feeling," said Chisholm, who played the most recent of his 35 Tests at last year's World Cup in France. "I got put in at six a fair bit, but the last couple of years I've really...
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News.com.au (Free subscription) | 10/28/2008
... flanker and lock in recent seasons, before getting his big chance due to a foot injury to James Horwill and Dan Vickerman's career sabbatical. "The last couple of years I was getting that feeling," said Chisholm, who played the most recent of his 35 Tests at last year's World Cup in France. "I got put in at six a fair bit, but the last couple of years I've really concentrated on being...
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News.com.au (Free subscription) | 10/27/2008
... Barbarians side, without established forwards Rocky Elsom, Dan Vickerman and the fast-improving James Horwill. The six-match campaign starts with the dead rubber Bledisloe Cup Test against world No.1 New Zealand in Hong Kong on Saturday. The itinerary continues with Tests against Italy and the three highest-ranked northern hemisphere sides, England (fifth), Wales (sixth) and France...
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News.com.au (Free subscription) | 10/27/2008
... Barbarians side, without established forwards Rocky Elsom, Dan Vickerman and the fast-improving James Horwill. The six-match campaign starts with the dead rubber Bledisloe Cup Test against world No.1 New Zealand in Hong Kong on Saturday. The itinerary continues with Tests against Italy and the three highest-ranked northern hemisphere sides, England (fifth), Wales (sixth) and France...
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News.com.au (Free subscription) | 10/23/2008
Coach Robbie Deans will have to find replacements for blindside flanker Rocky Elsom (Leinster) and second-rower James Horwill (foot injury), who will not be on the six-week tour of the northern hemisphere. Dean Mumm is likely to start at blindside flanker with second-rower Mark Chisholm making his first Test appearance this year. The return of half-back Luke Burgess (knee) and inside...
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Planet Rugby (Free subscription) | 10/23/2008
... in every Test since his debut against Ireland in June, and Matt Giteau's efforts to set up James Horwill for a try against France in June won him the Try of the Year award. Brother Bob Wallace, a leading figure in Australian Schoolboys Rugby for more than 30 years, won the Joe French Award for outstanding contribution to the game. He received an AM in 1996 for service to Education...
