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...
I'll keep this one brief, Mondays are rough enough hey? Four weeks in, here's what I've figured:
Bulls: Stick to your knitting and you'll be just fine. These ELV malarkeys don't forbid kicking it long and keeping it tight. Keep Fourie du Preez fit...
Now the drama starts to increase after 23% of the competition has passed us by. All visiting teams won their matches except for the Cheetahs.
The top three -- the Bulls, Waratahs and Sharks -- have won all three of their games and the last 3 -...
There comes a time in the Super-14 competition when teams start to panic realising they are at the bottom half of the table. One thing and one thing only will halt their plummet to the bottom of the log, which is the consistency of the team to sc...
What an interesting Friday and Saturday it turned out to be -- starting off the Super 14 with some peculiar results on the table, which will count for a lot in 10 weeks' time when the top teams angle for a quarter-final.
Let's digress for a mo...
In a week's time there will be much hand-wringing and gnashing of teeth looking at the Super 14 table. It's also interesting looking at the tables from previous years only because it removes the emotiveness of evaluation.
The local media have ...
The New Zealand Super 14 sides announced their squads in December. Yes, December. Meaning that two months before the start of the tournament the coaches had decided which thirty players they wanted to work with, and who needed to up their game some m...
There has been a dizzying amount of information pumped out by the Super 14 Rugby teams in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, all of it on team sheets, teams, warm-up games, venues and players beset with injuries -- the latest being Dan C...
Yeah. Let's jump on the bandwagon folks. Boo Luke. Show the doos what for! Jeer him like he stole overexcitement from Noeleen. After all, nothing else can achieve the desired effect. Which, if I think things through correctly, must be for the Stormer...
