So what did we all make from the 'Clash of Champions?'
Personally it only re-enforced views that I held already about both teams, and there was nothing new that struck me. As far as South Africa go, big strong pack of forwards, with possibly the b...
Springboks (17)37, Wales (14)21
The purists will scream foul, Wales redemption, but this was champagne rugby of the total variety. The Springbok class of 2008 taking rugby where South African soccer had dared not go before, unleashing the incredible...
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...
Warren Gatland told the BBC last week that "we had an inferiority complex against the southern-hemisphere sides", adding: "We spoke about it and thought we'd addressed it but were proved wrong."
Wales last beat the Springboks back in 1999 at the ...
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 ...
Warren Gatland has demanded that Wales make a swift recovery from their opening Test “humiliation” by restoring their damaged pride.
Gatland and his coaching lieutenants on Sunday began the task of restoring the morale shattered by South Afric...
Four years ago we staggered out of the mess that was Kamp Staaldraad and the abysmal 2003 World Cup misadventure. Now, in 2008, Der Springbokken start the international season as the world champions and number-one-ranked team against a Welsh team who...
