I am, if you have not noticed by my past articles, a rugby enthusiast. I have had the privilege of coaching this game at some very competitive and talented levels. I usally revel in the July rugby week which is the U18 Craven Week, named after SA rug...
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 ...
The rugby universe, using the words of Alternative Rugby Commentary's Jed Thian (search it on YouTube ... a very funny series of cartoons from a New Zealand perspective on rugby), is set to go to war once more with the best of the north heading south...
So Heinrich Brussouw is out of rugby till next year. While it is indeed bad news for Cheetahs and the Springboks, it is important to look at the factors that contributed to his injury rather than the superficial circumstances of it.
I say this hav...
South African rugby enjoyed a great season in 2009, with the Springboks beating the British Lions, clean sweeping the All Blacks on the way to Vodacom Tri-Nations glory (including both the Freedom Cup and Mandela Plate) and the Springboks Sevens team...
1. The Stormers will win the Super 14. That is the local pre-season tourney for the top 14 clubs in the Province/Boland area.
2. Rassie will dictate on field moves via strobe lights from the top of Table Mountain.
3. The Bulls machine will rumb...
You might ask what do the Springboks and Stuart Tinner have in common.
If your answer is £250 000 (about R3.1 million) you would be right.
Each received £250 000 for last night's performance and some may argue that Tinner ...
Congratulations to the Australian Rugby Union who against all odds have managed (read carefully and meticulously choreographed) to bring the 15th Super Rugby franchise to Melbourne, especially when ARU has 80 000 registered rugby players an...
Melbourne or Mandela Bay?
The decision as to which franchise gets the 5th Australian-based and 15th Super Rugby franchise, will be announced on October 21 by Sanzar. This has not been a simple bid process in which prospective Super Rugby franc...
Well well well. As much as we wanted to believe SA Rugby about the Southern Kings' chances of making it into the expanded Super 15, there was always a little voice in the back of our minds, referred to as Cynical Sam (as mentioned to me by a friend),...
