A while ago and a few times on air I have said that I believe the Australian rugby team looks perfectly poised to rob the Rugby World Cup from the favourites and hosts, the New Zealand All Blacks. I have, at the same time, also felt much contempt for...
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...
By Langa Sigodi
From the moment that Pieter de Villiers was announced as Springbok coach in 2008, it was evident that win or lose, his tenure would be remembered for one thing, his race. After a dismal Tri-Nations, the calls have been loud for him...
Team of the Year -- Close one between the *choke*Bulls*choke* and the Bokke here. I'll go for the Bokke purely on the fact that a Lions Series is a real era-defining win.
Player of the Year -- He calls the shots like no other and leaves an imprint...
I had a feeling that the "Springboks" were going to lose to the Leicester Tigers on Friday night. The fixture reminded me of the torrid time the Irish club side Connacht gave the Boks in the lead up to the 2007 Rugby World Cup. Match feedback from th...
Ruan in for Frans Steyn.
Big talking point this is for Saturday's Test. But let's get some perspective here. What the Boks are losing is a long (though no more accurate) boot and dominating defence. What we are gaining is a great ball player that ...
Is Pieter de Villiers playing discordant musical chairs with Ruan Pienaar and Francois Steyn? Will these two players' amazing versatility and prodigious talent prove to be a curse?
I ask this because it was under Jake White that the curse first ca...
The Springboks’ 43-17 victory over Six Nations and Triple Crown champions Wales in Bloemfontein last Saturday is certainly reason to celebrate -- but to go into complete euphoria and claim that it ushered in a new era of a different brand of South ...
