It is with much amusement that I see the conundrum of the Southern Kings is yet to be solved. Slated to join Super Rugby in 2013, the SA Rugby Union (Saru) is no closer to figuring out a way to squeeze the Eastern Cape franchise into the competition ...
When the first overseas team to tour South Africa in 1891 arrived they carried with them a particularly precious bit of cargo. They had a golden cup given to the British Isles squad by Sir Donald Currie, owner of Union-Castle Lines, the shipping comp...
I was watching my son’s rugby team play Kasselsvlei on Saturday morning and so I missed the televised All Black/Springbok Tri-Nations clash at Westpac Park in Wellington. The night before, I had chuckled at a Facebook warning sent to a friend liv...
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...
The Super Rugby universe has known the Bulls as the most feared South African team, with their large pack of forwards and unwavering devotion to the boot epitomising what many from Australasia think is the "typical" South African style of rugby. With...
Leo Tolstoy wrote War and Peace, arguably one of the most celebrated pieces of fiction in the Western world. War and Peace is a story, grossly simplified, about five aristocratic families and how Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812, including the s...
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 ...
We have witnessed five very interesting games, in which the British & Irish Lions have played and beaten:
1. The Royal XV -- 25-37
2. The Lions -- 10-74
3. The Cheetahs -- 24-26
4. The Sharks -- 3-39
5. Western Province -- 23-26
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So with the Super 14 pretty much done and nearly dusted, South African attention now turns to the -- impending/looming/choose own hyperbolic adjective here -- incoming tour by the British and Irish Lions. Now as is the nature of such, every man, dog ...
