The Bulls: Take probably the best provincial/regional team ever assembled, lose probably the best winger of the last five years, add two returning heroes, plus Heyneke Meyer back pulling the backroom strings and what do you get? A very likely repeat....
So with the Super 14 pretty much done and nearly dusted, South African attention now turns to the -- impending/looming/choose own hyperbolic adjective here -- incoming tour by the British and Irish Lions. Now as is the nature of such, every man, dog ...
Here we go — January 2009 and the Super 14 warm up games have started in New Zealand. They are so organised their squads were announced mid November 2008.
As we are four weeks out of the start of the Super 14 tournament on February 13, I tho...
The Sharks Currie Cup win over the Lions this past weekend was, in all honesty, an unattractive, long, hard grind but I do believe that in time, the importance of this victory will come home to roost.
After heavy losses to the Bulls and Cheetahs...
So South Africa´s most valuable franchise has gone yet another year without anything to put into an already quite empty trophy case. So let's have a review of the season shall we, and see what went wrong this time.
At the beginning of the season...
