This past Saturday saw the Wallabies taking on the Welsh Dragons in Cardiff, what a great prospect I felt in the offing. The Welsh most certainly one of the form teams of the Rugby World Cup (RWC) and the Wallabies proving to be the most inconsistent...
Any punter who suggests that the All Blacks beating France in Sunday’s Rugby World Cup final is a "sure thing" has obviously forgotten that if there is one thing that you can always bank on when it comes to Les Tricolores rugby, it’s that there i...
If betting odds are any indication, then New Zealand will play England in the final of RWC 2011. The weekend’s results have caused a major shuffle at the New Zealand TAB. While Australia and South Africa remain as second and third favourites respec...
Unlike the Fifa World Cup where even a favourite team can be eliminated in the pool stages, the outcome of rugby's premier tournament is far more predictable. The winner must be one of New Zealand, Australia or South Africa, with England and France i...
Don't let the Springbok spin-machine or scribes who don't have the option to piss in the pot tell you otherwise: the Springboks didn't deserve to beat Wales as the Welsh outplayed South Africa. They dominated every facet of the game, except on the sc...
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...
After the Springboks’ overwhelming 53-8 victory over the Wallabies, the question must be asked: Why did it take so long? Why did they wait till their last match in the Tri-Nations competition to dish up such outstanding rugby and inflict the bigges...
Dan Carter is to play with five South Africans (Percy Montgomery, Philip Burger, Gerrie Britz, Steve Meyer and Gavin Hume) at Perginan at the end of the year.
Now, Leicester Tigers, one of Europe's heavy weights in rugby, have announced forme...
Peter de Villiers’ style of coaching adds a unique dimension of team togetherness and camaraderie, that surpasses previous recent Springbok coaches.
Previously, the Springbok teams were treated like a constellation of stellar individuals playing...
With their 26-0 win over Six Nations bottom-enders Italy at Newlands on Saturday, the Springboks have now achieved their third consecutive victory under new coach Peter de Villiers -- but we still are none the wiser about the much vaunted “revoluti...
