In pictures: England's rugby tours from hell... and some trips that
Tour from Hell
Tour from Hell
In pictures: England's rugby tours from hell... and some trips that
Tour from Hell
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1998 England rugby union tour of Australasia and South Africa
The 1998 England rugby union tour of Australasia and South Africa was a series of matches played in June and July 1998 by England national rugby union team. Matches. The tour is often referred to in rugby culture as "The Tour of Hell" due to the number of heavy defeats suffered by the England team. This was caused principally because England ...
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Twenty years on, the name still resonates. Talk of the Tour from Hell and there is rarely any doubt what is meant -- England's visit to Australia, New Zealand and South Africa in 1998.
The Tour from Hell
The Tour from Hell. When rugby union embraced professionalism at the end of the 1995 Rugby World Cup in South Africa, a sea change took place in the nature and number of contacts and matches for players, clubs and international teams. Entrepreneurs started to invest in clubs in the UK and France and players migrated to Europe to play their club ...
Jeff Probyn: Tour from Hell did English rugby the power of good
Like all the fuss made about this summer's tour to New Zealand and the impact it could have on our developing England team and endless comparisons with the so called 'Tour of Hell' in 1998. First, a little history lesson for those who say that the 1998 tour was "conceived by some madman at the RFU and seemingly designed to humiliate and ...
England marched to the gates of hell
Sat 26 Jun 2004 19.32 EDT. It wasn't quite as bad as the Tour of Hell of 1998, but this was a trip far from paradise. In Brisbane six years ago at the start of an inglorious circumnavigation of ...
Woodward on mission to hell
As Woodward admitted yesterday, the so-called "Tour of Hell" was the darkest hour English rugby has known. ... England tour: Mon Jun 9 v New Zealand Maori; Sat Jun 16 v New Zealand; ...
Tour of Hell in 1998 will never happen again
Tour of Hell in 1998 will never happen again - but England can learn lessons from our experience. Eddie Jones' squad is a million times better than the one that travelled 24 years ago but England ...
Tour from Hell
Pool-Jones had chances to tour with England again in 2001, but he turned it down due to his club commitments with Stade Francais. ... stage as he became a victim of the 'Tour of Hell', making ...
Woodward's way or the highway after Tour of Hell
The Rugby Paper. Woodward's way or the highway after Tour of Hell BRENDAN GALLAGHER looks at how the infamous tour in 1998 helped turn England into world beaters 2018-06-10 - Can it really be 20 years ago that the Tour from Hell was underway in all its gory, ill-begotten, awfulness?
In pictures: England's rugby tours from hell... and some trips that
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England head to South Africa hoping for no repeat of past nightmares
England rugby union team. ... So painful was the 1998 Tour of Hell that almost half the squad's international careers never recovered and the record margins of defeat still stand. It still seems ...
Phil Edwards on Eddie Jones' mind-games, Melbourne and the Tour from Hell
England were beaten 76-0 by Australia in 1998 during the Tour from Hell Phil Edwards looks at England's first-Test win, Eddie Jones' bout with the media, and Australia's city of sport, Melbourne...
'Smoked by Burger and de Villiers': The England debut from hell
Brown pulled no punches in his Rugby Roots appearance with Jim Hamilton on RugbyPass when recounting his baptism of fire with England which left him waiting until Martin Johnson's first summer tour in charge in 2008 before he was recalled to the set-up. "It was an absolute tour of hell," said Brown, recounting his England introduction. "Back then it a lot of Leicester and Wasps players ...
Jonny Wilkinson take positives from infamous 'Tour From Hell'
Jonny Wilkinson is back in Dunedin for the first time since England's infamous 1998 Tour From Hell, which he recalls as a bitter experience but one of the most valuable of his life. A shadow ...
'Tour to Hell' proved a blessing in disguise
In the four Tests, England conceded 28 tries and scored only four, a ratio of 7:1. They also recorded their three worst results in 127 years of international rugby. And yet Wilkinson looks back on ...
From the archives: Jonny Wilkinson's baptism of fire on the tour of
Times Radio. Saturday May 21 2022, 12.01am. N ot for want of trying, I have never found any footage of England's 76-0 defeat by Australia in 1998. Is the RFU so powerful that it has successfully ...
List of England national rugby union team tours and series
That was the original 'Tour of Hell', so-called because England were thrashed 76-0 by Australia and 64-22 and 40-10 by New Zealand. In fact so low did expectations sink down south that it was considered something of an achievement when they restricted the Springboks to an 18-0 victory in the fourth and final Test of the tour.
Everything you need to know about England's tour of Australia
12 April, 2022. · 4 min read. One of the oldest rivalries in international men's rugby will be reprised when England visit Australia for a three-test series in July. Since their first encounter 113 years ago, the sides have met a total of 52 times with Australia winning 25, England 26 and the teams playing out a 15-15 draw in 1997.
Le Crunch? England's humiliation by France was Le Crumble
It could yet prove to be like their 1998 Tour of Hell where Australia hammered England. Five years later, England won the World Cup in Australia against the Wallabies. This should be the same ...
Brendan Gallagher: We've had hell and miracles, so what next for England?
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'Big things were ahead' of John McCall
Ferris was a team-mate of McCall's that day in Durban and believes his fellow back-rower possessed vast potential. "Big things were ahead of him," said the former Ulster, Ireland and Lions flanker.
Steve Borthwick begins planning England's attack on the All Blacks
England rugby union team. ... With England searching for a first win on tour against the All Blacks since 2003 Borthwick pledged to take a full-strength squad on the summer tour rather than rest ...
Real Talk: England rugby international Henry Slade opens up on how he
Speaking on the Sky Sports Real Talk podcast, England and Exeter Chiefs player Henry Slade opens up about having obsessive compulsive disorder and how he blamed his leg injury on tying his laces ...
'One hell of a way to start'
In two of the five Tests England fielded Hartley, Shoaib Bashir and Rehan Ahmed as a spin trio. Hartley played the whole series and finished with 22 wickets at 36.13 after stunning with 7 for 62 ...
Nathan Lyon's Lancashire game time slashed by Australia
Cricket Australia has severely capped Nathan Lyon's availability for Lancashire, handing an unlikely boost to England and their young spinner Tom Hartley. Lancashire confirmed the signing of ...
Rugby union: New captain has no fear of another tour from hell
Donald McRea: Pat Sanderson on an England team who will be looking for more than survival this time in Australia.
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The 1998 England rugby union tour of Australasia and South Africa was a series of matches played in June and July 1998 by England national rugby union team. Matches. The tour is often referred to in rugby culture as "The Tour of Hell" due to the number of heavy defeats suffered by the England team. This was caused principally because England ...
Twenty years on, the name still resonates. Talk of the Tour from Hell and there is rarely any doubt what is meant -- England's visit to Australia, New Zealand and South Africa in 1998.
The Tour from Hell. When rugby union embraced professionalism at the end of the 1995 Rugby World Cup in South Africa, a sea change took place in the nature and number of contacts and matches for players, clubs and international teams. Entrepreneurs started to invest in clubs in the UK and France and players migrated to Europe to play their club ...
Like all the fuss made about this summer's tour to New Zealand and the impact it could have on our developing England team and endless comparisons with the so called 'Tour of Hell' in 1998. First, a little history lesson for those who say that the 1998 tour was "conceived by some madman at the RFU and seemingly designed to humiliate and ...
Sat 26 Jun 2004 19.32 EDT. It wasn't quite as bad as the Tour of Hell of 1998, but this was a trip far from paradise. In Brisbane six years ago at the start of an inglorious circumnavigation of ...
As Woodward admitted yesterday, the so-called "Tour of Hell" was the darkest hour English rugby has known. ... England tour: Mon Jun 9 v New Zealand Maori; Sat Jun 16 v New Zealand; ...
Tour of Hell in 1998 will never happen again - but England can learn lessons from our experience. Eddie Jones' squad is a million times better than the one that travelled 24 years ago but England ...
Pool-Jones had chances to tour with England again in 2001, but he turned it down due to his club commitments with Stade Francais. ... stage as he became a victim of the 'Tour of Hell', making ...
The Rugby Paper. Woodward's way or the highway after Tour of Hell BRENDAN GALLAGHER looks at how the infamous tour in 1998 helped turn England into world beaters 2018-06-10 - Can it really be 20 years ago that the Tour from Hell was underway in all its gory, ill-begotten, awfulness?
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England rugby union team. ... So painful was the 1998 Tour of Hell that almost half the squad's international careers never recovered and the record margins of defeat still stand. It still seems ...
England were beaten 76-0 by Australia in 1998 during the Tour from Hell Phil Edwards looks at England's first-Test win, Eddie Jones' bout with the media, and Australia's city of sport, Melbourne...
Brown pulled no punches in his Rugby Roots appearance with Jim Hamilton on RugbyPass when recounting his baptism of fire with England which left him waiting until Martin Johnson's first summer tour in charge in 2008 before he was recalled to the set-up. "It was an absolute tour of hell," said Brown, recounting his England introduction. "Back then it a lot of Leicester and Wasps players ...
Jonny Wilkinson is back in Dunedin for the first time since England's infamous 1998 Tour From Hell, which he recalls as a bitter experience but one of the most valuable of his life. A shadow ...
In the four Tests, England conceded 28 tries and scored only four, a ratio of 7:1. They also recorded their three worst results in 127 years of international rugby. And yet Wilkinson looks back on ...
Times Radio. Saturday May 21 2022, 12.01am. N ot for want of trying, I have never found any footage of England's 76-0 defeat by Australia in 1998. Is the RFU so powerful that it has successfully ...
Rugby World Cup Qualifiers: England: 2 2 0 0 133 15 Qualified (1st) Autumn Internationals : England: 2 1 1 0 24 19 - 1999 Five Nations: England Ireland: 4 3 1 0 103 78 2nd In Australia: Australia: 2 (1) 1 1 (1) 0 54 (15) 36 (22) - RWC Warm-Up Tests : England: 2 2 0 0 142 19 - Rugby World Cup: England France: 5 3 2 0 250 115 Quarter-Finals 2000 ...
That was the original 'Tour of Hell', so-called because England were thrashed 76-0 by Australia and 64-22 and 40-10 by New Zealand. In fact so low did expectations sink down south that it was considered something of an achievement when they restricted the Springboks to an 18-0 victory in the fourth and final Test of the tour.
12 April, 2022. · 4 min read. One of the oldest rivalries in international men's rugby will be reprised when England visit Australia for a three-test series in July. Since their first encounter 113 years ago, the sides have met a total of 52 times with Australia winning 25, England 26 and the teams playing out a 15-15 draw in 1997.
It could yet prove to be like their 1998 Tour of Hell where Australia hammered England. Five years later, England won the World Cup in Australia against the Wallabies. This should be the same ...
News, features and match reports from The Rugby Paper, the UK-based newspaper which specialises in rugby union at all levels ready for your viewing every Sunday of the year.
Ferris was a team-mate of McCall's that day in Durban and believes his fellow back-rower possessed vast potential. "Big things were ahead of him," said the former Ulster, Ireland and Lions flanker.
England rugby union team. ... With England searching for a first win on tour against the All Blacks since 2003 Borthwick pledged to take a full-strength squad on the summer tour rather than rest ...
Speaking on the Sky Sports Real Talk podcast, England and Exeter Chiefs player Henry Slade opens up about having obsessive compulsive disorder and how he blamed his leg injury on tying his laces ...
In two of the five Tests England fielded Hartley, Shoaib Bashir and Rehan Ahmed as a spin trio. Hartley played the whole series and finished with 22 wickets at 36.13 after stunning with 7 for 62 ...
Cricket Australia has severely capped Nathan Lyon's availability for Lancashire, handing an unlikely boost to England and their young spinner Tom Hartley. Lancashire confirmed the signing of ...
Donald McRea: Pat Sanderson on an England team who will be looking for more than survival this time in Australia.