24-500: Freier may refer to: People [ edit ] Adam Freier (born 1980), Australian rugby footballer, son of Laurie Laurie Freier , Australian rugby footballer and coach Paul Freier (born 1979), German footballer Philip Freier , 13th Archbishop of Melbourne, Australia Rachel Freier (born 1965), Civil Court judge in New York Recha Freier (1892-1984), founder of
48-462: A specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Freier&oldid=1176219787 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description is different from Wikidata All set index articles Adam Freier Adam Freier (born 20 March 1980)
72-586: Is a former rugby union footballer. In 2011 and 2012 he played for the Rebels in the Super Rugby competition, and retired at the end of 2012 from professional rugby. In 2015 he came out of retirement to play Shute Shield for Randwick until this day. His usual playing position is hooker . Son of Sydney rugby league footballer and coach Laurie Freier born 20 March 1980, in Paddington, NSW , Australia , he made
96-663: The Sydney Morning Herald his reasons for approaching the Rebels included: "Mutual respect, a coach he admires, the challenge of new team." Freier was sidelined in September due to complications from a 2008 back injury. Rebels coach Rod Macqueen reported Frier to be undergoing rehabilitation. Frier wasn't fit to compete in pre-season trials against teams from Tonga and Fiji, and the Crusaders from New Zealand; he remained in doubt for
120-705: The Sydney Morning Herald and/or the Melbourne Age . Freier is also a regular panellist on the ABC Offsiders sports program. Freier is president of RUPA, the Rugby Union Players Association . Cook Cup The Ella-Mobbs Cup (formerly the Cook Cup from 1997 to 2021) is a rugby union trophy contested between Australia and England . The Cook Cup was established in 1997 when
144-482: The 1970s; with the home team always victorious. England won 20–3 at Twickenham in 1973, Australia won both of the 1975 tour matches 16–9 at the Sydney Cricket Ground and 30–21 at Ballymore Stadium , Brisbane, then England won 23–6 in 1976 at Twickenham. The two nations would meet six times during the 1980s, the first encounter being in 1982, with England defeating Australia 15–11 at Twickenham. Two years later
168-578: The 1990s before the Cook Cup was introduced. The first match was in 1991 at the Sydney Football Stadium, and Australia won 40–15. Later that year, Australia won the final of the 1991 Rugby World Cup 12–6 at Twickenham. The last pre-Cook Cup match was a quarter-final of the 1995 Rugby World Cup played at Newlands Stadium in Cape Town, South Africa. England dramatically won 25–22 with the last kick of
192-659: The Australian Schoolboys in 1998 as well as the under-19s, which he captained the following year. In 2000 he signed with the Brumbies and made his state debut against Queensland . He went on to play for the Australian under-21s, including captaining them at the 2001 under-21 Rugby Championships, in which they finished runner-up to New Zealand. He made his debut for the Wallabies in 2002, in a Test against Argentina . Freier left
216-646: The Brumbies and signed with the Waratahs for the 2003 season, and was selected to captain the Waratahs tour of Argentina in post-season 2004, and was voted player of the tour. In 2005 he was selected for the final match of the 2005 Tri Nations Series . After he was selected as the run-on hooker in the second Cook Cup match in 2006 . In April 2010 Freier signed on with the Rebels for the 2011 season of Super Rugby . Freier told
240-652: The Cook Cup by winning a single match at Twickenham 28–14. This match formed part of the Autumn test matches . They repeated the feat in 2009, this time with an 18–9 victory. There were three matches in 2010: first, the teams played a two-match series in Australia in June, winning one match apiece, and then a single test in London in November, which England won. No match was scheduled for 2011, which
264-494: The Cup in 2003 with a 25–14 victory at Melbourne's Telstra Dome – their first test victory over Australia in Australia. Later that year, although not part of the Cook Cup, the two nations met in what was one of their most famous encounters, the 2003 Rugby World Cup Final at Stadium Australia , Sydney. Jonny Wilkinson landed a drop goal in extra time that saw England win 20–17 to claim their first Rugby World Cup . The 2004 Cook Cup
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#1732868700408288-467: The Rebels' season opener against the Waratahs. Freier played three Rebels games for the 2011 Super Rugby season . In May 2012 , he expected to play his 100th Super Rugby game. In 2019, he played one game for Randwick against Argentina. Freier writes about the Wallabies, Melbourne's crowded sporting landscape, and his own squad the Melbourne Rebels. Fairfax Media publishes his articles in
312-567: The Wallabies and England contracted to play each other bi-annually for a decade, playing matches on a home and away basis. Since the first two years the format has only been adhered to once (in 2004, even though respectively in 2010 and 2016 there was a Test Series in Australia and an Autumn International in England), World Cup matches are not counted. The cup was named after Captain James Cook , representing an English–Australian connection. The cup, which
336-416: The Wallabies broke the trend when the magnificent Grand Slam team of 1984 won away from home at Twickenham by 19–3. They were drawn against each other in the 1987 World Cup at Sydney's Concord Oval, with Australia winning 19–6. The nations played 3 times in 1988, with Australia winning at home 22–16 at Ballymore and 28–8 at Concord Oval, and England winning 28–19 at Twickenham. The sides met three times during
360-486: The Youth Aliyah organisation Shalheveth Freier (1920–1995), World War II soldier Tom Freier , American politician Music [ edit ] Freier Fall , Christina Stürmer 's debut album See also [ edit ] Frier (disambiguation) Freer (disambiguation) [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with the surname Freier . If an internal link intending to refer to
384-441: The affair 11–0. It would then be another decade until the two nations played another test against one another. In 1958, they met again at Twickenham, and England won 9–6. England and Australia played each other twice during the 1960s, with the first match in Australia in 1963. The Wallabies defeated England 18–9 at Sydney's Sports Ground, and again in 1967 by 11–23 at Twickenham. The nations played each other another four times during
408-613: The heritages from Mark Ella and Edgar Mobbs. Designed by aboriginal artist Natalie Bateman, the trophy incorporates mullet, song lines and indigenous battle symbols for Mark Ella, while Edgar Mobbs is represented with the English rose, a fox, footsteps and the Northampton castle symbol he wore on his lapel in battle. The wood at the base of the trophy was sourced from Ella's home nation, in the shape of an abalone shell, and also English Oak, sourced to represent Edgar Mobbs' homeland. The Cup itself
432-601: The match. The first Cook Cup match was played at Sydney Football Stadium on 25 June 1997. Australia won the match 25–6. The series was decided through two tests, and with the second match at Twickenham resulting in a 15–15 draw, Australia were crowned champions. In 1998, Australia ran out record 76–0 winners at Lang Park in Brisbane, playing a severely depleted England side. The Wallabies were captained by John Eales and scored 11 tries. The subsequent meeting at Twickenham in December
456-510: The two teams did meet in the Rugby World Cup in October. In June 2016, England retained the trophy by winning every encounter in a three-match series in Australia, the first-ever such series between the two countries. In December 2016, England retained the cup with a 37–21 victory. In November 2017, England retained the cup with a 30–6 win, and on 24 November 2018 England held onto the Cup with
480-404: Was a World Cup year. In 2012, Australia reclaimed the trophy with a 20–14 victory in a one-off test at Twickenham. The result was viewed as something of a surprise, since Australia had come into the match following a 33–6 loss to France. England regained the Cup in November 2013 with a 20–13 win at Twickenham, and retained it in 2014 with a 26–17 win. There was no Cook Cup match in 2015, although
504-473: Was a much closer affair, with Australia winning 12–11 thanks to a late Eales penalty. In June 1999, Australia retained the trophy by beating England 22–15 at Stadium Australia . In 2000, England won the Cook Cup for the first time, beating Australia 22–19 at Twickenham with an injury-time try by Dan Luger. In each of the next two years, the Cup was also decided in a single match at Twickenham, with England winning 21–15 in 2001 and 32–31 in 2002. England retained
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#1732868700408528-444: Was contested over two matches, Australia winning 51–15 at Brisbane in June and 21–19 at Twickenham in November. England won the Cup back in 2005 with a 26–16 victory at Twickenham. In 2006, the teams played a two-match series in Australia, with the home team winning both games comfortably. There was no Cook Cup in 2007, owing to the 2007 Rugby World Cup , although the teams did meet again in this competition. In 2008, Australia retained
552-577: Was designed by Royal Doulton in London , is made from crystal. In 2022, ahead of England's 3-test series tour to Australia, the Cook Cup was retired in favour of a new trophy that better represented both countries. The "Ella-Mobbs Cup" was named after Indigenous 25-cap Wallabies great Mark Ella and English war hero Edgar Mobbs , who played nine Tests for England before being killed on the World War I western front in 1917. The Cup reflected intricate details of
576-663: Was made of plated silver and was first contested by the series winners of the England v Wallabies series in Perth (July 2), Brisbane (July 9) and Sydney (July 16), 2022. The first test between England and Australia was played on 9 January 1909 at Blackheath 's Rectory Field in England The Wallabies won the match 9–3. The two nations next met in 1928, at Twickenham , and England won 18–11. Twenty years passed and England and Australia met again at Twickenham in 1948, with Australia winning
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