 13 venues, each representing a very different element of New Zealand, will host matches during the 2011 World Cup. With the draw announced, it’s game on. The Cup is Coming Home and, we predict, it looks like it just might be staying...
 The commentators called all those up-and-unders that marred yesterday’s rugby international between Ireland and England at Croke Park ‘low-risk rugby’. But The Cup is Coming Home argues that the risks were actually very high indeed.
 The Cup is Coming Home’s article on the Munster-All Blacks match at Thomond Park last November has generated a phenomenal reaction in Ireland. Almost all of it was favourable. But an anonymous commentator from the Kildare Nationalist instead reached for the sick bucket...
 "Harry is a competitive guy and we did not think it was malicious in any way. It's something that happened." Leicester Tigers' defence of the spear tackle on Perpignan's All Blacks stand-off half Dan Carter is as risible as the silence emanating from the New Zealand rugby authorities when Lions skipper Brian O'Driscoll was maimed back in 2005. There is simply no place - and thereby no excuses for - spear tackles in rugby, we believe.
 It’s certain to be a highly valuable item of rugby memorabilia – and it’s going to a tremendous cause. The Cup is Coming Home is delighted to reveal that the triumphant All Blacks Grand Slam squad of 2008 all signed a team jumper to help raise funds for the Stuart Mangan appeal. Stuart, a promising young club player, was paralysed from the neck down by a rugby injury in a match in London on 5 April 2008.
 The BBC said Joe Rokocoko’s late, late try “spared the All Blacks’ blushes” against Munster last night. Sorry, no it didn’t. There would have been no blushes in defeat because there would have been no embarrassment in losing to the inspired, electrified, relentless, passionate and ultimately magnificent team of Munster men on this unforgettable autumn night at the legendary Thomond Park.
 The Cup is Coming Home is delighted to welcome onboard our first international correspondent, Leroy G. Based in Dublin, Leroy G is a former member of his local village's under 7 Irish Dancing ‘C’ team, since when his sporting career has been strictly downhill, and we’re not talking skiing. A part-time chocolate salesman, Leroy has a soft centre when it comes to things Irish, especially its national rugby team. He is convinced that new Irish coach Declan Kidney's stake on Ireland won't turn pie-eyed and that the Rugby World Cup in 2011 is indeed coming home – to Ireland. Read on for the first ramblings of a clearly deranged man.
 The Cup is Coming Home reviews some of the press coverage emanating out of the Northern Hemisphere tours by the All Blacks.
 The Cup is Coming Home is pleased to champion an onging appeal to support a young Irishman, Stuart Mangan, who was paralysed from the neck down by a rugby injury on 5 April this year. Read on for full detaills.
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