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Rugby is the catalyst but plans for a nationwide festival during Rugby World Cup 2011 will also showcase Kiwi culture, food and wine, and passion for the outdoors.

As the countdown to RWC 2011 continues, the New Zealand public has had a first glimpse of the six-week festival - scheduled to run in the lead-up to and during the tournament - with the unveiling this week of the first confirmed events.

From wild foods and adrenalin hits to fine wine and waka-racing - locals and visitors to Rugby World Cup 2011 will have the chance to experience the full spectrum of Kiwi life and culture, ensuring a non-stop party atmosphere throughout New Zealand.

According to the official coordinating body - the New Zealand 2011 office, the festival will be the biggest ever staged in New Zealand and will feature more than 1000 events.

While the New Zealand 2011 office is a government organisation, the festival will be largely driven by the regions.

Festival Director Briony Ellis says every region is taking the opportunity to showcase the best of its culture, people and landscapes, as well as local flavours and attractions.

She says the festival will touch every part of New Zealand, well beyond the 23 centres hosting games and teams.

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On the South Island’s West Coast, locals are planning to serve up an exciting new food fest - the Great West Coast Whitebait and Wildfoods Challenge - that promises to put some of New Zealand’s iconic and unusual wild foods on the plate.

Visitors will be invited to sample and judge the challenge dishes that will be created at restaurants and eateries the length and breadth of the West Coast - from huhu grub bruschetta to the regional must-have fresh whitebait pattie sandwich.

Wellington is planning a rugby village, centred around a giant wharewaka - or canoe house - on the waterfront. The new development, scheduled for completion in early 2011, will be close to Te Papa national museum and the civic centre. Auckland is also planning a central city waterfront development.

Rugby will also dominate central Christchurch as the city turns Cathedral Square into a World Cup playground, featuring a giant dome and rugby field, for up to 10,000 fans.

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David Beckham 'can swing England's 2018 bid in South Africa'

David Beckham's presence in South Africa this summer could prove a decisive factor in helping England win the bid to host the 2018 World Cup finals, according to the head of this year’s tournament, Danny Jordaan.

The chief executive of South Africa 2010 said he expected Beckham to accept Fabio Capello’s offer to travel with the England squad, even though he has been ruled out through injury from playing.

“I think David Beckham will still come,” Jordaan said. “There is already an indication that he will be part of the team and also England is making a bid for 2018 and I’m sure that the bid team will use him during the World Cup. He’s an important factor.

Beckham is already a bid ambassador for 2018 and Jordaan added that he felt England had a “realistic” chance of being successful.

With just 80 days to go now until this year’s tournament kicks off in Johannesburg, Jordaan conceded that there would be fewer fans around 100,000 fewer attending than as originally estimated. He said that an assessment of how many supporters would travel was currently being carried out by the organisers with a report expected to be submitted next month ahead of a final drive to push ticket sales.

However Jordaan dismissed claims that security fears and the lack of infra-structure adequate transport links and accommodation had led to fans’ considering missing the event. Instead he blamed the cost a lack of spending money brought about by the economic crisis.

“We did our calculations in 2004-05 and then in 2008-09 we had a global economic crisis which reduced the amount of spare cash people had,” he said.

“So we are now making an assessment of what the impact of that will be. The original figure was that we expected 450,000 visitors and we have asked for a new assessment. We are probably now looking at around 350,000.”

So far 65,000 tickets for matches have been sold in the United Kingdom the highest figure is the 120,000 sold in the United States although Jordaan estimates there are around 2.5 million England supporters already living in South Africa.

“The major tasks have been complete, all the stadia are complete,” Jordaan said adding that the transport plans were being “fine-tuned”. He said: “We are playing matches, all the countries have chosen their base camps and the training pitches are being put in, everything will be fine.

“We want to present it as an African World Cup. The continent of Africa has supported us and there were huge celebrations when we were awarded the event. In many of the countries they understand the importance of a successful World Cup in South Africa because the world is not only going to judge South Africa but the whole of Africa.

“It will help Africa for the world to look at Africa through different eyes not as just one big block where everyone is blamed for everything on every corner of the continent and also to show that Africa can deliver on its promises, can perform and host the biggest event on the earth. If we can do that successfully then the world will have to re-examine the way in which calculations, opinions are made.”

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England coaching team to remain unchanged for summer tour of Australia and New Zealand

England's coaching team is expected to remain intact until after the summer tour of Australia and New Zealand, despite a record of just eight wins from 19 games under Martin Johnson's tenure.

It is understood that a full review by the Rugby Football Union looking at the performance of Johnson, the England manager, and his coaching team of John Wells, Mike Ford, Brian Smith and Graham Rowntree will not take place until July, despite widespread frustration at the team's performance during the Six Nations Championship.

By that time England will have completed a five-match trip to Australia and New Zealand, their longest tour since the excursion to South Africa 10 years ago.

Johnson's position is understood to be safe, while a significant upturn in performance and results for England, who will be taking a massive squad of 44 players on tour, would also be likely to secure the positions of his coaching team until after the World Cup in 2011. If the tour was deemed a failure, however, some changes are expected.

England will play two Tests against Australia, in Perth on June 12 and Sydney on June 19, and three midweek games, two against the Australian Barbarians, on June 8 in Perth and June 15 in Gosford, and the New Zealand Maori on June 23 in Napier.

Armitage's replacement, Ben Foden, scored the only try of the night and made a widely-acclaimed first start for England.

"I was disappointed in myself," Armitage said. "I haven't been playing well. Fair play, Foden has been putting his hand up for a while and he deserved his chance and he took it.

"That is disappointing for me but I am really happy for him because I think it is about time they gave him a shot and he played really well.

"It is just going to make me a stronger player and I want to get back into that England squad. Maybe I was taking it for granted and I wasn't working as hard as I promised myself I would once I had the shirt.

"Now that I am back at London Irish, I know where I need to go to get back into the squad and work on the stuff that wasn't firing during the Six Nations."

Wasps lock Simon Shaw is expected to be out of action for three weeks after damaging his right shoulder during the first half in Paris.

Shaw has injured his A/C joint, the same injury he sustained in his left shoulder during the match against Ireland, which forced him to miss the Calcutta Cup game in Edinburgh.

Ireland full-back Geordan Murphy, 31, is likely to finish his career at Leicester after agreeing in principle to a new three-year contract.

Leinster are hopeful that their centres Brian O'Driscoll and Gordon D'Arcy, who were both injured in Ireland's 23-20 defeat by Scotland, will be available for their Heineken Cup quarter-final against Clermont Auvergne on April 9. O'Driscoll has a knee problem, while D'Arcy injured his groin.

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Novelty and nostalgia reign as England v Australia goes back to the BBC

England may need something from the BBC highlights reel if they are to beat Australia in autumn internationals 2009.

Richie Myler would have been just five years old during England's 1995 World Cup campaign, which marked the end of regular terrestrial coverage. Photograph: Richard Sellers/Sportsphoto


Remember Jason Robinson scoring two tries on his Great Britain debut against New Zealand in 1993? Or Ellery Hanley chipping, regathering and linking with Daryl Powell to send Paul Eastwood over for a crucial try in the historic home victory against Australia three years earlier? Or perhaps best of all, Jonathan Davies rounding Brett Mullins to score the match-winning try in the first Test of the 1994 Ashes series for a Lions team who had been reduced to 12 men by the first-half dismissal of Shaun Edwards for a high tackle?


Those three rousing rugby league occasions had a few things in common which have been all too rare in recent years: they were all at Wembley; they each involved British victories over southern hemisphere opposition; and they took place on Saturday afternoons in front of a terrestrial television audience.


Those memories will be stirred this weekend as England play Australia in Wigan with a 2.30pm kick-off in the first international to have been screened live by the BBC for nine years, and only the second since 1995. That has left the older players in the squad grappling with a strange combination of novelty and nostalgia – while most of them grew up watching Ashes Tests on Grandstand, only the captain, Jamie Peacock, has played in a Saturday afternoon international.


Even then, it was an afternoon he would rather forget, as he came on as a substitute in the humiliating 49-6 defeat by New Zealand in the 2000 World Cup semi final. (Adrian Morley, the only other thirtysomething in the current England squad, was ruled out of that game by a rib injury.)


It is an even more chastening thought that the youthful majority of the current squad may struggle to recall the pre-Sky and Super League days when the national team were seen regularly on terrestrial TV. Kyle Eastmond and Sam Tomkins were all of six during the 1995 World Cup that was effectively the end of the era of live international league on the Beeb; Richie Myler and Tom Briscoe, the two teenagers in the current squad, were just out of nursery school.


It is dangerously simplistic to suggest that Messrs Hanley, Davies, Edwards, Robinson and Martin Offiah were bigger stars in Britain than any rugby league player has been over the last decade or so, just because their deeds were seen more regularly by a terrestrial television audience than those of the likes of Andy Farrell, Sean Long, Keiron Cunningham and Robbie Paul. But the reversion to a Saturday afternoon international on the BBC, especially against Australia, could provide a major boost for the game in this country – if England can at least be competitive this weekend.


That's a worryingly big "if", given the most recent evidence – England's performances at last year's World Cup, including the 52-4 humiliation by the Aussies in Melbourne, and their unconvincing victory over France last weekend. Any danger of Australian complacency was blown away by New Zealand in their 20-20 draw at The Stoop, and the Kangaroos will surely be more cohesive for their second match of the tournament.


In Morley, Peacock, Sam Burgess, Gareth Ellis, James Graham and James Roby, England have the players to be reasonably hopeful of matching them in the pack.


But if they are to convert that into the sort of stirring performance and result that the likes of Hanley, Edwards and Davies managed late in the last century, they will need Shaun Briscoe to be heroic on his return to Wigan as the country's No1 full-back – another one in the eye for his home-town club; Lee Smith to make a real nuisance of himself against Greg Inglis; Ryan Hall to avoid any of the defensive errors that have marred his recent performances for club and country; Danny McGuire and Kevin Sinfield to reproduce their confident, dominant Super League performances on the international stage; and the three bright young half-back talents of Eastmond, Myler and Tomkins to respond positively to the greatest challenge of their brief careers.


If you want a pre-match pep-talk, I can steer you towards the Gareth Ellis quotes that appeared in the Guardian earlier this week, the Sam Burgess piece we'll be carrying on Saturday morning, and perhaps also the following names: Eastwood, Carl Gibson, Paul Loughlin and Allan Bateman, all backs who appeared in previous against-the-odds British wins against Australia.


The stakes for British rugby league would be huge anyway, but are raised another notch by the terrestrial exposure. Your best (and worst) CHG rugby league memories are welcome below – in fairness to Sky, we shouldn't pretend it was a golden era, and my earliest recollection is that the Beeb could only be bothered showing the second halves of the landmark 1982 Ashes series. Also any thoughts on the England team to be announced around the time this blog appears, or even the Pacific Cup and European Cup competitions, both of which will be shown on Sky this weekend as they build towards a decent climax.


It's certainly going to be a good feeling driving into Wigan on Saturday lunchtime, hoping for something approaching a rugby league miracle. The only thing missing now is the crumbling terraces and river caves of Central Park.

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