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 ...
Congratulations to the Australian Rugby Union who against all odds have managed (read carefully and meticulously choreographed) to bring the 15th Super Rugby franchise to Melbourne, especially when ARU has 80 000 registered rugby players an...
Melbourne or Mandela Bay?
The decision as to which franchise gets the 5th Australian-based and 15th Super Rugby franchise, will be announced on October 21 by Sanzar. This has not been a simple bid process in which prospective Super Rugby franc...
It's uncanny how South Africans can be so narcissistic, arrogant, stubborn and petulant to the extent that they become blind. It's time for a little introspection and a massive overhaul of the way we conduct ourselves.
Time and again we fail...
On Saturday a brawl involving about 100 students from two top rugby schools in New Zealand broke in front of the national rugby coach, Graham Henry.
The fight, between players and supporters, lasted five minutes and led to at least one sch...
Since June 8 2005 SA Rugby has carried the Eastern Cape Super Rugby franchise around its neck as a self-imposed albatross after declaring that SA had six Super Rugby franchises and this past week has seen a glaring display of dereliction of duty...
While SA Rugby deals with charges from the IRB about bringing the game into disrepute and receives a sanctioning or fine regarding the senseless "masking-tape protest" there are distractions like the roll-out of the Currie Cup around the country,...
There has been a little bit of a dust-up and finger pointing between SA Rugby and the Lions over the question of some unsold tickets and why?
The number of unsold British & Irish Lions Tour tickets after 9 matches is a staggering 170 ...
1. "They are banged up enough without me giving them a 'snorter' on the scrum machine."
Graham Rowntree -- British & Irish Lions scrumming coach
2. "The Beast was pretty impressive. There was one scrum after nine minutes when we got ...
We have witnessed five very interesting games, in which the British & Irish Lions have played and beaten:
1. The Royal XV -- 25-37
2. The Lions -- 10-74
3. The Cheetahs -- 24-26
4. The Sharks -- 3-39
5. Western Province -- 23-26
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Tony is sports and rugby "mad" and became hooked on water sports, such as swimming, diving, waterpolo, lifesaving and white water rafting. Rugby was played at Bishops, NW Cape, Maties, van der Stel, UCT, Hamiltons and False Bay. Rugby injuries of broken neck & jaw proved that rugby is a collision sport Past CEO of the Southern & Eastern Cape Super 14 Rugby franchise, the Southern Spears and now CEO of the Super 20 Rugby World Series.
Tony's links
Rugby Union Links Rugby-Union.info links to live rugby union websites from all over the world. You can browse free sites by country or search for club teams, country sides, player profiles and international match statistics, news, results, manufacturers, and retailers. Rugby web sites listed are monitored and updated daily.
RugbyWeek A terrific one stop rugby anthology site updated "on the whistle" which means that when the whistle blows you have the results from around the world in one site. It is one of the newer websites and focuses on all facets of rugby. Every major tournament and every major team has their own dedicated section filled with all of the latest news on that topic.
Users can visit the site once a week and be kept fully up to date with the latest news on the tournament of their choice and at the same time scan the latest news in other tournaments that they do not follow as closely.
Scrum Scrum is owned by ESPN, the world’s leading multinational, multimedia sports entertainment company featuring a portfolio of over 50 multimedia sports assets.
SuperSport The best and most successful provider of premium pay-television sports coverage across the continent of Africa.
SuperSport contributes its success to the seven departments which make up the company as well as the nine members of the management board who co-ordinate the functions of the company and the individual departments.
The Southern Spears This is the Southern Spears website with a catalogue of news, releases and thumbnail sketches of the Southern Spears team and activities set up a month after their formation.
This site carries more of a behind the scenes view.
Interestingly, 5 of the 14 SA Rugby unions have not even a fully functional website and raises doubts on SA Rugby's ability to grow the game and develop regions as custodians of the game.
The Western Force Supporters Site This is arguably one of the best rugby supporters website you will come across and knocks spots off any available in South Africa and sets a new bench mark for Supporters Clubs to emulate. It might be a little iintimidating - but explore and click through and marvel at the knowledge of these supporters.
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