Yes the Boks shouldn't have lost on Saturday. Yes they performed poorly. Yes they let Australia off the hook with some poor decisions after great work in midfield. Yes they didn't bring their usual fiery intensity to the match. But no, this is not th...
The rugby world was recently rocked by a turn of events that screams of realism, the art of carrying a bigger stick than the other guy.
The Springboks, the current world champions (which we love bragging about to the consternation of our Kiwi cous...
Here we go — January 2009 and the Super 14 warm up games have started in New Zealand. They are so organised their squads were announced mid November 2008.
As we are four weeks out of the start of the Super 14 tournament on February 13, I tho...
Here we are a few days away from the Tri-Nations final with South Africa as spectators to the clash in Brisbane on Saturday between the All Blacks and Wallabies and all we read about in South Africa are sex, lies and video tape.
I am tracking the ...
How many hundreds of thousands of different opinions and versions are out there of what the Springboks need to do to win at home? It is a veritable blizzard of furious opinions and passionate theories of player combinations and styles that makes the ...
C'mon, are you really surprised that the Springboks are last on the Tri-Nations table?
Think about it! Really, are you?
If you answer that you are surprised that the Springboks are last on the table, then you must never take up poker or any for...
When PdV started talking about creating a culture of responsibility amongst our players and teaching them to think on their feet and play the situation, he was derided.
The All Blacks first try was a direct consequence of an antipodean player doing ...
Was it or was it not a try of Ma'a Nonu shortly after the restart of the All Blacks-Wallabies Tri-Nations clash at Eden Park?
Mark Lawrence, one of the world's best referees, referred the decision to Shaun Veldsman, a fellow South African who was ...
“Fair is foul and foul is fair!”
So wrote Shakespeare in Macbeth four centuries ago, but frankly those words could very easily apply to the ongoing accusations and counter-accusations, whinging and bickering that has characterised the Tri-Nat...
Peter De Villiers has a diabolical taste in fashion, judging by his outlandish ties, garish shirts, and the cricket-styled pullovers he seems to be so fond of wearing. He has a rather outdated moustache, resembling a life-like Yosemite Sam, or a thro...
