"Scrum, scrum, scrum!" The immortal words whispered down from Springbok generation to generation. Someone must have forgotten to tell the vintage of 2009. The Springbok year-end tour is destined for the annals of disaster as the Springboks succumbed ...
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 ...
Fatigue
It has been a long season. And it showed. PdV and the provincial coaches need to sit down and work out a schedule per player on how the Bok 22 will be managed next year.
I agree with him that international rugby is not the arena in whic...
It's funny what a few weeks can do to change the complexion of things. The Tri-Nations was still under way, the Sharks and Western Province looked to be favourites (touch wood there for all those wearing blue and white ... it's been a very long time)...
Yes the Boks shouldn't have lost on Saturday. Yes they performed poorly. Yes they let Australia off the hook with some poor decisions after great work in midfield. Yes they didn't bring their usual fiery intensity to the match. But no, this is not th...
Right, time to don the green-tinted "everything keeps going right" Bok shades again. The Tri-Nations title is all but in our grasp and having donnered all three shades of black, gold and red out of the toughest competition in the world, no-one can di...
Ruan in for Frans Steyn.
Big talking point this is for Saturday's Test. But let's get some perspective here. What the Boks are losing is a long (though no more accurate) boot and dominating defence. What we are gaining is a great ball player that ...
The rugby world was recently rocked by a turn of events that screams of realism, the art of carrying a bigger stick than the other guy.
The Springboks, the current world champions (which we love bragging about to the consternation of our Kiwi cous...
I used to look forward to every Bok coach press conference, eagerly anticipating each magnificent metaphor that leapt forth from that equally magnificent 'tache.
But lately Peter de Villiers has rivalled even the great Julius in putting his foot ...
The British and Irish Lions got it wrong.
South Africa may have played a terrible 70 minutes in the second Test on Saturday, but they proved they are worthy world champions by coming from the depths of defeat to overcome tough opposition.
Gran...
