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Paul Wellens to miss opening game
St Helens look certain to launch the defence of their engage Super League title without Man of Steel Paul Wellens.
The Great Britain full-back is virtually guaranteed to miss Sunday's game at Huddersfield after picking up a leg injury in last Saturday's pre-season friendly against Leigh.
"He's had an X-ray today and (has been) cleared of any fracture, which is good news," said coach Daniel Anderson.
"He's currently undertaking an MRI scan to determine what ligament or soft tissue damage has occurred, so he's by no means out of the woods.
"I'd name him in the team today but the doctors are likely to rule him out later in the week."
Saints are also without skipper Paul Sculthorpe, twice a winner of the Man of Steel award, as he continues his rehabilitation from major knee surgery, and they have a major doubt over loose forward Jason Hooper, who sustained a shoulder injury on the club's training camp in Dubai.
With centre Willie Talau facing the threat of suspension following his dismissal against Leigh, the champions could be significantly below strength as they build towards the February 23 World Club Challenge clash with Brisbane Broncos.
Young full-back Ian Hardman is set to deputise for Wellens against Huddersfield and Lee Gilmour is likely to switch from second row to centre if Talau is suspended at tomorrow's meeting of the League's disciplinary committee.
Huddersfield will be without winger Martin Aspinwall, who is recovering from knee surgery, and they are also waiting on the outcome of tomorrow's disciplinary meeting, with former St Helens prop Keith Mason facing a charge of striking Great Britain captain Jamie Peacock in last Friday's friendly defeat to Leeds. Sporting Life
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Working up a dance
Mike Colman
PRE-season is in full swing. All over sweltering Brisbane people are seeking refuge from the heat in airconditioned shopping malls or backyard pools but the Broncos are pumping iron and working on their combinations.
So are their cheerleaders.
It's Sunday afternoon and the mercury is around 34C, while inside a southside gym 30 girls and women aged between 16 and 30 are being put through their paces.
There's no tackling practice, but it's hard work nonetheless. Anyone doubting that is invited to take part and see just how much of the two-hour sweat-fest they can survive.
For team director-choreographer Kim Skelton and squad captain Angeli Chupungco the effort being put in by the girls is every bit as important as anything Wayne Bennett or Dean Benton are demanding at their sessions across town.
Like the Broncos, the cheergirls are aiming at a spectacular, error-free season. Like the players, they will work their hearts out behind the scenes to put it all together on the night.
And just like Darren Lockyer and the rest of his team, they know they will cop plenty from the critics before the year is out.
There is a stigma attached to cheer squads in this country.
In the US, cheerleading is a respected competitive sport, practised and supported by millions. Here it is perceived by many as sexist and demeaning to women. Only one or two rungs up the ladder from lap dancing.
Kim Skelton is well aware of the scepticism. She has seen the raised eyebrows and heard the snide comments for years. Which is why she has tailored the girls' routines to suit the broadest possible audience. The greatest testament to her success is that the Broncos cheergirls haven't attracted one complaint about their performances for the past two years.
"The girls are all trained dancers," she said. "They're all beautiful and fit, but they know what they're doing. They've been going to dance schools since they were five years old. Some of them still compete in eisteddfods.
"The people who really understand what we are doing are the parents of kids who dance," she said. "They know what modern dance is all about; they know what sort of dancing the kids want to do these days."
As one of those parents, I know what she's saying. Anyone thinking cheergirls are out of step with modern trends obviously hasn't spent years wearing down their tyres traipsing between dance classes, concerts and competitions or sitting in darkened car parks waiting for rehearsals to end.
The only difference between the performances of a group of 13-year-old girls at their end-of-year concert and a cheer squad warming up the crowd at a top-of-the-table rugby league clash is about 35,000 people.
If anything, the cheergirls can appear a trifle tame in comparison.
"You see it on the music videos on TV every Saturday morning," Kim said. "That's the current trend."
Even so, Kim has steered clear of the more risque grind and bump of hip-hop and funk and based the group's routines on a cross ballet-modern hybrid. In dance terms, she has bent, but hasn't broken.
"I think what a lot of people don't like are the uniforms, but that's just what we wear to dance in," she said. "You look at the skimpy outfits that netballers or beach volleyballers wear and no one says a word about that.
"Look, we're not stupid. We know it's a family game and we are appearing in front of people of all ages and tastes. We're also in the process of trying to attract a new sponsor. We're not going to do anything inappropriate. We're there to add to the occasion and the girls do it because they love to dance. They've been training all their lives and this is just one way they can get an opportunity.to perform."
It's also an opportunity to compete. Anyone who thinks that cheerleading isn't a contact sport doesn't watch The Footy Show. Last season the program presented a cheerleading competition fought out between squads from all over the country.
The girls took it as seriously as any of the footy teams they represent.
The Broncos got to the final but fell just short of emulating their male counterparts and bringing home the premiership.
"We were up against Sydney teams in Sydney and it was decided by phone-in votes," Kim said. "People in Sydney voting for the Broncos? We were never a hope."
Spoken like a true Brisbane supporter. Courier Mail
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Leigh mourn loss of two legends
Leigh Centurions are mourning the loss of two of the greatest players in the club's history.
Goal-kicking full-back Jimmy Ledgard and Australian Trevor Allan passed away over the weekend.
Ledgard, who scored 36 tries and kicked a record 1043 goals in 334 appearances, was a member of the Great Britain team which won the first World Cup in 1954.
Allan, the former Australia rugby union captain who joined them in 1951, made 97 appearances and scored 52 tries. BBC Online
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Broncos seeking Olympic edge at AIS
By Dan Koch
January 30, 2007 LAST year Operation Harden Up instilled a resilience in the Broncos that carried them to the National Rugby League summit; this season they are hoping a more scientific approach will keep them there.
The defending premier gathered in Canberra yesterday morning for a week-long pre-season camp at the Australian Institute of Sport.
It is effectively the starting point of the Broncos' campaign to become the first team in 14 years to win back-to-back titles in a united competition.
Youngsters Karmichael Hunt and Darius Boyd have muscled up while young props Corey Parker and Ben Hannant are fitter and faster. And after a good break, veterans Brad Thorn and Petero Civoniceva look refreshed, despite off-season additions to their families.
Now the battle for places in the Broncos' starting 17 begins in earnest.
"A lot of pre-season training is individual," said Brisbane football manager and former Queensland prop Andrew Gee.
"All the guys have their own programs and goals. The rep guys only started back training a couple of weeks ago. Everyone is working on different things at different times to get themselves ready for the year.
"The camp set-up gives us a chance to bring everyone in together to start working on the things as a team and see where everyone is at."
Rather than being a radical cross-training escapade, the team, minus injured pair Justin Hodges (wisdom teeth) and David Stagg (shoulder reconstruction), will stay on site for the week training alongside the 700 AIS scholarship-holders who live there.
Performance co-ordinator Dean Benton said the camp marked the next step towards striving for the athletic peak he believes the Broncos are capable of reaching.
Formerly a coach on the national track and field team based at the AIS, Benton is fully aware of the benefits gained from training at the multi-million-dollar facility, surrounded by other world-class athletes. But he said the players were not the only ones who would be going to school this week.
"It's great for the guys to interact with athletes involved in the Olympic sports and see how they train, how they eat and how they look after themselves," Benton said.
"It takes them out of their comfort zone a little and opens their eyes to a lot of things they probably hadn't seen or considered previously.
"It's the same for the staff as well. We are here at what is arguably the best multi-sport training facility in the world and we would be crazy not to take advantage of that.
"While the camp is mostly about getting the guys together, really for the first time this season, it doubles as a professional development for all the staff because you are talking about working with people who are the best in the world at what they do."
One of the survivors of last season's torturous boot camp, hooker Shaun Berrigan, welcomed the change in venue and said the week would give the squad the chance to welcome some new members following the departures of Shane Webcke, Casey McGuire, Brett Seymour and Neville Costigan.
"You are just surrounded by sport, so there is a very professional feeling around the place," Berrigan said.
"But it is good to get into camp like this. We have a few young guys coming into the squad who don't know many of the boys that well, so this will give us the chance to all mix together."
Berrigan said talk among the players had already turned to the World Club Challenge against St Helens on February 23. Gee said Brisbane would take its best available squad to Britain. Fosxports
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Titans tickets on sale for the public
Eight years of blood, sweat and tears will come to fruition tomorrow when tickets go on sale for the Gold Coast Titans' historic opening-round blockbuster against St George Illawarra.
Tickets for the round-one NRL clash at Suncorp Stadium had previously been made available only to Titans members, but will be released to the general public for the first time from 9am tomorrow.
The match, to be played on Sunday, March 18, will mark the first time a Gold Coast rugby league team has contested a competition fixture since the Gold Coast Chargers lost to Cronulla 20-18 at Carrara Stadium in August, 1998.
The Chargers were axed by the Australian Rugby League at the end of the 1998 season.
The Titans elected to move the clash against the Dragons to the 52,000-seat Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane rather than play it at their home base of Gold Coast Stadium, (formerly Carrara Stadium), which has a capacity of only 17,000.
Tickets for the match will be sold through Ticketek, with adult prices ranging from $25 through to $43 for gold tickets and $12-25 for kids aged between five and 12.
Free transport to Brisbane from the Gold Coast is included with every ticket purchased.
Tickets are also on sale for the Titans' final pre-season trial match against Penrith at Gold Coast Stadium, which is set to feature a full-strength Gold Coast line-up. Gold Coast Bulletin
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Chris Thorman retains Giants captaincy
Chris Thorman has retained the captain's armband for Huddersfield Giants' engage Super League XII campaign.
The 26-year-old stand-off told www.giantsrl.com: "It is a great honour once again to be named as captain.
"It's nice to be acknowledged by the coaches as captain and be the leader of this formidable squad that we have put together.
"It's also great to have Drewy (Brad Drew) as vice-captain again and, after the hard work that we've put in pre-season, I know how much everyone in the squad is looking forward to the new season.
"The senior players in the squad are always a great help to me and when we've got the likes of John Skandalis, who has done pretty much everything in the NRL and is a natural leader on the field, it makes my job that much easier." RFL
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Channel M Returns
Channel M's code XIII show returns this season with a feast of top quality amateur rugby league on offer.
Starting at Monday nights at 8.30pm, the programme will include highlights from a top Halifax Home Insurance National Youth League game and action from two recent games in the National Conference League.
The show is also repeated nine times in various slots over the next seven days.
Manchester based Channel M, can be found on Sky channel 203.
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Inaugural ARL National Masters - Queensland's fabulous Gold Coast March 2007
The Inaugural ARL National Masters event will be held in March 2007, and what better place to launch this exciting new event on the Rugby League calendar than in Queensland's fabulous Gold Coast.
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Fiji trio chase league scholarships Down Under
By Zanzeer Singh
NADI Eels utility Emosi Ugavule is hoping to impress Saint George Illawarra Dragons club selectors in a bid to secure a scholarship with the top National Rugby League (NRL) club.
Ugavule, Mesake Seavula Nauque and Ratu Tobia Nailesu Viravu flew out to Australia yesterday to attend a five-day training camp.
The 17-year-old was excited about the trip saying he would do his best to impress the selectors.
The form six student said it was a great opportunity which could open up doors for him in the sport. Ugavule says he hopes to follow the footsteps of his uncle and namesake who played for Honsby in Australia.
"I want to play overseas," Ugavule said. "I'm so excited to get this opportunity to trial with the Dragons. My goal is to get an NRL contract. This is a big break for me. I hope to put in all the effort to impress he selectors."
The trio Nauque, Viravu and Ugavule were spotted by the Dragons scouts during their visit in August last year.
They have been offered free airfare and accommodation for the duration of the camp. The training camp will be held in Wollongong.
It will run until Friday. Former Fiji National Rugby League development officer, Steve McLellan, said the players could earn scholarships if they perform to the required level.
"It does not always happen whereby local Fijian boys are called up to trials by NRL teams," McLellan said.
After the training camp a squad will be picked to face the Parramatta Eels in a trial match.
If the local boys impress the selectors during this game then they secure scholarships and will play for the Dragons junior team.
Fiji Times
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St Helens advise how to succeed at sport
Sports stars of the future were taught how to succeed in sport thanks to some sports stars of today.
Up and coming sporty youngsters from Chorley and Leyland were invited to Runshaw College to take part in a sport open day to find out how to get the best from their talents.
Special guests from St Helen's Rugby League side, who were recently voted team of the year, attended the day to give advice to youngsters.
St Helen's coach Daniel Anderson, who was awarded Coach of the Year in the BBC's Sports Personality of the Year Awards last year, was also on hand to talk to students.
Budding sports stars and coaches also had the chance to meet the staff, check out the facilities and take part in exciting 'master class' workshops.
There was also a special question and answer session and a chance to talk to careers advisers on the day. Leyland Today
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Whitehaven move clear of drop zone
By John Walsh
Whitehaven picked up a vital win to move out of the relegation zone in North Lancs Cumbria but there's a long battle ahead to stay clear of the drop.
Only two points separate the bottom five clubs and in an any three from five scenario both west Cumbrian clubs - Whitehaven and St. Benedict's - are involved in a tough battle to escape.
For while Whitehaven were edging home 8-5 at home to Rossendale, the Saints were slipping to a 37-8 defeat at Upper Eden.
Whitehaven coach John Gaffney was delighted and relieved to see his side collect their fourth win of the season.
"I think Rossendale came expecting to turn us over. They had a couple of Australians, who had arrived during the week and three Fijians who have been here for a while.
"But we responded really well and I was particularly pleased with our defensive effort. There were some good performances and we deserved to win it.
"We didn't have a lot of ball up-front because we were often going backwards at the scrums and our line-out ball was often a bit iffy so we needed a lot of work in defence," said Gaffney.
Lock forward David Kinrade won the sponsors man of the match award for his non-stop work in the second-row but Gaffney also had a word for speedy winger Paul Lancaster.
"He had another very good game and was always a threat. He scored our try from a great piece of work and ran very well throughout," said Gaffney.
Lancaster gave Whitehaven the lead on 18 minutes when he broke through and beat three defenders before chipping the ball over the full-back. He re-gathered cleanly to score a fine try.
Stephen McConnell missed the conversion but he increased the Whitehaven lead before half-time with a penalty.
Rossendale had the breeze behind them in the second half but for much of the time the main action area was in the centre of the field. However the visitors did get away to score a try ten minutes from time.
"We were a bit disappointed because Paul Lancaster had got across to cover well and made his tackle in the corner. Our touch judge put up his flag but the referee disallowed him and awarded the try," said Gaffney.
That meant a few last nail-biting minutes before Whitehaven could celebrate another win and the fact that they had moved out of the relegation zone.
Now looking increasingly anxious are St. Benedict's as they slipped to defeat again, this time at Kirkby Stephen.
They are level on points with Whitehaven from the same number of games but do have a vastly superior scoring differential.
Rugby development manager Steve Nicholson said: "It was all going well for 20 minutes or so but I'm afraid once we fell behind a few heads dropped and we looked a different side.
"We were only 12-8behind at half-time but when they scored the first try in the second period it was as good as all over.
"We have just hit a really bad spell and confidence is at a low ebb. We seem to have got into a habit of losing and we need to break it quickly or we really will be in relegation trouble."
The game had started well enough for the Saints as they went in front after only two minutes when centre Craig Halligan burst past several tackles to score a fine try.
Although Upper Eden responded with a converted try Saints briefly regained the lead with a penalty from Craig Fisher.
The home side scored a second try just before the break and although three half-time substitutions seemed to have freshened-up the Saints in key areas, Upper Eden got the next score and went on to win easily.
Leaders Wigton continued their impressive run with a 45-0 home win over Trafford MV - and there was double delight as one of their title rivals Fleetwood lost at Blackburn.
That gave Wigton ten straight victories and their unbeaten run is now 11 games as the sequence began with a draw.
Coach Malcolm Brown said: "We are playing with a lot of confidence at the moment and the pleasing feature has been the defensive effort. That was the fifth consecutive league game in which we have prevented the opposition from scoring a try.
"Trafford are fighting relegation but they were a stubborn, gritty side and well organised. But I thought our superior fitness told in the end as we were dominant in the final quarter of the game.
"We scored seven tries in total and four of them came in the last 15 minutes."
Wigton played against the wind in the first-half and it took them ten minutes to get their noses in front.
Good drives from the forwards ended with Norman Reilly forcing his way over for his first Wigton try.
Tane Manihera put over a penalty on 22 minutes but some clever kicking by Ben Cromley kept Wigton pinned back and they didn't score a second try until three minutes before the break.
From a five metre scrum on the Trafford line Wigton exerted tremendous pressure which ended with them being awarded a penalty try, converted by Manihera.
Manihera started-off proceedings in the second-half by putting over his second penalty and then on 55 minutes full-back Mark Thompson joined the line to go in for an unconverted try.
Trafford hung-in grimly and prevented any further scoring until the 65th minute but then the floodgates opened.
Scrum-half Johnny Proudlock nipped down the blindside to score; centre David Warwick finished-off a good backs move; replacement Stephen Carruthers finished off a catch and drive while a length of the field move put top try scorer Gareth Smith in for the last score of the game. Manihera only converted one.
Paul Branthwaite, coming back from a long injury lay-off, scored a hat-trick of tries as Wigton A beat Creighton A 53-0 at Lowmoor Road. News and Star Online
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Inaugural ARL National Masters
Queensland's fabulous Gold Coast March 2007
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Wayne Pearce's son to do it his way
Highly rated teenager Mitchell Pearce gets annoyed and embarrassed about comparisons with his famous father Wayne, but hopes to establish his own credentials by breaking into the Roosters first grade rugby league team this year.
An Australian Schoolboys representative in 2005 and 06, halfback and five-eighth Pearce 17, has left school and is training fulltime with the Roosters.
He was man of the series in Australia's 2-0 sweep over England last year during the schoolboys' undefeated tour of the northern hemisphere.
His performances and bloodlines have inevitably provoked questions and comparisons with his father Wayne, one of Australia's great locks, who played 18 Tests and 15 Origin games for NSW.
"It's a bit annoying sometimes, a bit embarrassing to be honest because sometimes you just want to prove yourself," said Mitchell at this week's NRL Rookie Camp in Sydney.
"It's something that you've probably got to deal with I suppose."
He said his dad hadn't really briefed him yet on the pressures he could expect to face over the coming years.
"He hasn't really said anything like that, but I've learnt off him a bit over the years, just watching how he does things," Pearce said.
His talent combined with positional and personnel changes on the Rosters roster could well see Pearce break into first grade at some stage of the coming season.
Last season's senior halfback, Brett Finch, has moved to Parramatta, leaving the relatively inexperienced trio of Pearce, Josh Lewis, 21, and Jamie Soward, 22, to contest for the number seven shirt.
"There's probably a bit more of an opening, everyone is just sort of fighting for a spot," Pearce said.
"The three of us there are going for the spot, so there's still a bit of competition," he said.
An opportunity might also eventuate at five-eighth, Pearce's preferred position, with last season's pivot Braith Anasta moving to lock, though experienced utility Chris Flannery should get first crack.
Pearce felt the change of style introduced by new coach Chris Anderson would suit him.
"He just wants all the halves playing straight at the line, so we've changed the style a bit, but it's probably better for your game, not running cross field, it will probably suit me better," Pearce said.
The youngster is also benefiting from the advice of legendary former Roosters five-eighth Brad Fittler.
"He's been good for working on all the different techniques, he's always picking up on things and he's always teaching you new things that you've got to work on, he's awesome," Pearce said of Fittler.
Pearce's work ethic and attitude earned the praise of Roosters skipper Craig Fitzgibbon.
"He's going really well, he's quite a humble young kid for the amount of pressure that's on him at the moment," second rower and NSW and Australia representative Fitzgibbon said.
"He's already got a little bit of a profile going there, but he's quite grounded, he works hard, he's keen to succeed and he puts a lot of extra work in to his football.
"Half the battle these days in doing well is the hard work and he seems to have that down pat."
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An Approach to Skills Development - Performing to the best of your ability
Written by Ray Unsworth
Director of Coach Education - The Rugby Football League
Great performances don't just happen. Indeed performance in any sport at the highest level is the result of paying attention to three specific areas:
The extent to which your athletes are physically prepared
Their psychological readiness to compete
The level of skill that your players or team are capable of performing at.
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Having acquired or developed an arsenal of skills, then how easy are they to retain?
Once developed, even with a minimum of practice, skills can be maintained, but a word of warning - skills will not stay with you forever - you must practice.
Lack of practice will affect skill retention - practice is vital in developing or maintaining skills.
Use them or lose them
The skills drill is a useful coaching tool and has a role to play in the development of skills.
Let's take a simple example. I call it the Auckland square.
It begins with four players at each corner of the grid.
Two balls, With players commuting across the grid and exchanging a pass.
It's a warm up drill that requires and assists in the development of:
Communication
Timing
Good peripheral vision
Handling skills
Indeed there are several ways of executing it:
Pass to right
Pass to left
Pop a pass
Low passes
High passes
Mixture of passes etc.
And it goes on. You can make it a conditioner - by the length of time you run it for, or by instructing your players to come in at different stations.
Pressure can be further added to the drill in several ways:
Reducing the size of the grid
Adding additional equipment
More balls
Introduce opposition (shields)
In fact:
When using skill drills, imagination is the only limit.
So when planning your sessions, you really are the key to it all.
Skills practices that cater for individuals and the team as a whole must be carefully thought out.
And all skills sessions should be of an intensity, duration and frequency that allow you to achieve your objectives.
Why?
Because inappropriate practice is just as bad as no practice at all.
Once in motion, all skills practices must be coached throughout, otherwise poor techniques may well be practised over and over again.
Skills that your players can't master in their complete form should be broken down to their component values and eventually, piece by
piece, be put back together again.
Never sacrifice quality within your sessions.
Perfect demonstrations are a must.
Allow players to practice and learn when they are fresh mentally and physically.
Make sure practices are realistic and wherever possible developed to be game related.
Unopposed practices are useful, but ours is a confrontational sport and once you are confident that your players can perform a skill adequately then an element of opposition is an obvious development.
There is also conclusive proof that practising skills mentally, developing the ability to visualise certain game situations and carrying out skills positively is another way of supplementing physically learning skills.
And finally - feedback:
How am I doing?
What do I do well?
What do I need to work on?
Why do I need to work on it?
How do I work on it?
This is undoubtedly where you, the coach, play your most important role in having the ability to:
Identify player deficiencies
Prioritise them
Work on one area at a time
Set logical and progressive tasks that facilitate correction, skill development and advancement.
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