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...
While SA Rugby deals with charges from the IRB about bringing the game into disrepute and receives a sanctioning or fine regarding the senseless "masking-tape protest" there are distractions like the roll-out of the Currie Cup around the country,...
The good news is that the South African government and Eastern Cape government, along with the Nelson Mandela Bay municipality, have collectively spent R2 billion in developing a magnificent and spectacular multipurpose sports facility in t...
The Southern & Eastern Cape were awarded a Super 14 rugby franchise on June 8 2005 with a unanimous SA Rugby Union Presidents Council resolution, which allowed the South Eastern Cape franchise to prepare for the Super 14 by playing Currie ...
Rugby is barreling along at 100 miles an hour on and off the field. With so much critical stuff going on it can sometimes pass you by and the next 60 days are massive -- Rugby World Cup bids for 2015 and 2019, the Sanzar expansion of Super Rugb...
While many local rugby fans, players, supporters and administrators are preoccupied with the poor SA Super 14 form; are going through the motions of the Vodacom Cup; thinking about the British & Irish Lions tour starting the end of May and p...
Here we are at exactly 43% of the Super 14 tournament done. There are upsets galore and the Bulls and Sharks are still up there with 22 and 21 points respectively as number 1 and number 2. A great achievement and a wonderful place to be for the b...
South Africa, New Zealand, Australia, Argentina, Fiji, Tonga and Samoa. could make southern hemisphere and Super Rugby more valuable to sponsors and broadcasters with an attractive rugby spectacle by introducing a coherent rugby inventory...
