The Golden Lions Rugby Union (GLRU) has finished the year in an exceptional manner. After an underwhelming Super 15, where the team didn't win a single home game, the Lions surprised the South African rugby community by winning the Currie Cup last mo...
Week 14 of the 2011 Super 15 is fast approaching, and with only a few weeks left till the "finals series" (feels like a bastardised PR word to me) the chaff is being separated from the wheat. The Brumbies are now certain to be the running punch line ...
For South African rugby fans, the current Super 15 log isn't the most pleasant thing to look at. The Stormers do lie in "third" place but their inability to secure bonus points, with just one thus far, has seen the Blues move above them, meaning they...
Note: This was written on a Friday, before the weekend's carnage fully materialised.
Click goes the remote as a Lions fan has to absorb yet another loss in the Super 14. There is some spilt beer on the floor, a King Carlos moniker on a dart board ...
The Sharks and Western "Problems" are in.
The Bulls are a shoo-in and Griquas should be able to do enough to make it. I'm backing Griquas over the Cheetahs because with the Sharks needing a full house of points, the game is surely to open up and G...
I'll keep this one brief, Mondays are rough enough hey? Four weeks in, here's what I've figured:
Bulls: Stick to your knitting and you'll be just fine. These ELV malarkeys don't forbid kicking it long and keeping it tight. Keep Fourie du Preez fit...
The Sharks Currie Cup win over the Lions this past weekend was, in all honesty, an unattractive, long, hard grind but I do believe that in time, the importance of this victory will come home to roost.
After heavy losses to the Bulls and Cheetahs...
What is the leadership of Sanzar thinking by announcing a proposed expansion of the Super 14 finals to a Top Six play-offs series next year? This certainly does not address the problematic issues of the tournament.
The problem with the Super 1...
And in the sport:
There are concerns over Bryan Vodacom Habana’s pace after a Sasol/British Airways Bok training session in which he was chased down by the entire Wildeklawer Onions Griquas squad. Speculation is rife that after interference from n...
Almost three years ago to the day, on June 8 2005, SA Rugby's presidents' council put in motion a unanimous council resolution -- a transformation charter of sorts that was a groundbreaking plan to fast-track transformation and representativeness in ...
