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...
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...
Tiaan Liebenberg, the fiery and popular Stormers hooker, has been ruled out for the rest of the season due to a torn anterior cruciate ligament muscle, which is one of four muscles that connect the bones of the knee joint. It will mean nine months on...
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 Bulls: Take probably the best provincial/regional team ever assembled, lose probably the best winger of the last five years, add two returning heroes, plus Heyneke Meyer back pulling the backroom strings and what do you get? A very likely repeat....
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...
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...
