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Tackling Rugby Myths: Rugby and New Zealand Societ by Greg Ryan

ISBN: 9781877276972 PUBLISHER: Otago University Press FORMAT: Paperback

PUBLICATION DATE: 1.04.2005 DIMENSIONS: 150mmX230mm 400grams

DESCRIPTION: The All Blacks' 'failure' to win the 2003 Rugby World Cup led many devotees of the New Zealand game to question old certainties and the current direction of the 'national game'. Central to these debates has been a sense that the continuity and invincibility of New Zealand rugby has been somehow eroded, mirroring similar changes within society as a whole. Rugby and New Zealand identity have been bundled together for over a century, with both nation and game endowed with qualities of egalitarianism, innovation and rural pragmatism that have been useful on the world stage. The book tackles some of the myths surrounding this image of the game, disentangling assumptions from historical fact and coming up with some interesting angles on rugby's past.

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