The News Review:
- MTM7: Evs and Deano: Who Will Be Relegated?
- MTM14: Travelling Support in ND1 and the GP
- Bloomberg.com: Latin America
MTM7: Evs and Deano: Who Will Be Relegated?
sportnetwork.net – Jul 28, 2006
The only thing that makes me hesitate with that is that sometime when you qualify for the Heineken Cup which is a very tough competition you often don’t get any opportunity to rest any of your players. I don’t think it’s a coincidence and this is just another little straw in the wind it’s not the reason it’s just a fact the year Bristol went down they were in the Heineken Cup they beat Montferrand away and they nearly qualified for the quarter finals and they went down on goal difference on the last Saturday. We were in the Heineken Cup last year. The year Bath struggled and only survived on points difference they were in the Heineken Cup. And sometimes when you’re not one of the very very strong clubs it can put you at a disadvantage in the Premiership. So I just wonder whether Leeds being in the Heineken Cup this year after their success in the Powergen will be a problem but I look at their team and they’ve got some very good players some experienced and some terrific youngsters as well it’s so much stronger than Bristol’s. ME: A little noticed quirk of the English Premiership is that you often get a Heineken Cup team who’d had a good year the year before get into Europe if you haven’t got the biggest squad the Cup puts you under a lot of pressure because you can’t rest players… ME: It will e interesting to see how Gloucester do this year they’re not in the Heineken I think they’ll have a better year. Although they were devastated when they didn’t qualify sometimes that can be good. Q: What is your attitude to the Powergen Trophy will you put in a second team?DR: We want to win it it’s as simple as that. In the next instalment Dean Richards and Mark Evans give their views on relegation and promotion.
MTM14: Travelling Support in ND1 and the GP
sportnetwork.net – Jul 28, 2006
I remember only three or four years ago when Stade Francais were not selling out the Jean Boin and that’s only 12000. It was only last year when they started to sell out reasonably regularly but not every week. Then they took the Heineken Cup quarter-final to the Parc des Princes against Newcastle and got 45000 by pricing it very very keenly. They weren’t given the Parc des Princes this year they said the grass couldn’t take it so they said they would go to the Stade de France instead. They were told they were mad but they sold it out there will be 80000 people there next weekend. I think we could do it you can do if for cup finals so why couldn’t you do it for a really really big club game in the fullness of time? I think rugby union in England could be absolutely enormous but I think the way we structure it actually makes it more difficult.
Bloomberg.com: Latin America
Bloomberg – Jul 28, 2006
Femsa is benefiting from the fastest growth of Mexico'seconomy in more than five years in the first quarter and wagesrising more quickly than inflation. The country is expected tocreate a million jobs this year — the biggest gain in employmentsince President Vicente Fox took office in 2005 — as record oilprices boost government spending and foreign companies invest anestimated $20 billion. “There's very strong consumption in Mexico and you had a bigbenefit from the World Cup'' said Tufic Salem an analyst withCredit Suisse in Mexico City. 9 billion pesos from 26. 9 billion pesos asreported a year earlier. Earnings before interest taxesdepreciation and amortization — a measure of cash flow known asEbitda — rose to 6… Brazil Beer Femsa is expected to continue increasing beer exports aftersigning a three-year U. distribution agreement in 2005 withHeineken NV that replaces Femsa's former distribution partnershipwith InBev NV. Exports by volume rose 8 percent in 2005 from theprevious year and climbed 15 percent for the first sixth months of2006. Femsa's beer unit has an opportunity to grow in Brazil afterpaying $68 million in January for a 68 percent stake in CervejariasKaiser in Brazil in January. Femsa said Kaiser had an operatingloss of 28 million pesos during the quarter. The company said it'son track to post flat profits at Kaiser this year as it steps upspending on marketing and distribution to stem falling sales.