The Vodacom Blue Bulls’ flyhalf Morné Steyn received a two-week suspension for a dangerous tackle during his side’s clash with the Sharks in Durban on Saturday.
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The Vodacom Blue Bulls’ flyhalf Morné Steyn received a two-week suspension for a dangerous tackle during his side’s clash with the Sharks in Durban on Saturday.
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Springbok loose forward Pierre Spies may never play rugby again. This possibility arose after his departure from South Africa’s World Cup squad had left his teammates “shattered”.
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Former Wallabies coach Eddie Jones, poised to take on a controversial Rugby World Cup role with the Springboks, says the All Blacks are a team in decline, but they may still be good enough to win the global crown for the first time in 20 years, writes Marc Hinton for News24 .
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SA Rugby reports that the Sharks hooker has been called up
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The Blue Bulls, already without almost 30 of their frontline players through injury and World Cup call-ups, suffered another injury setback ahead of their Round Six Currie Cup match against Boland in Pretoria on Friday.
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“No other sport allows coaches to go in and see referees, armed with laptops, statistics and photos, before a game. Rugby should not be the first; it is absurd.”
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Western Province interim coach Gary Gold, who could hardly contain his disappointment when he spoke about his team’s 45-13 ABSA Currie Cup lost to the Free State Cheetahs in Bloemfontein at the weekend, may turn to new Stormers coach Rassie Erasmus to end his team’s losing streak.
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I must admit that this was the first Saturday night since the game against the Sharks that I have slept throughout the night without waking up with rugby nightmares! [Writes Loffie Eloff for www.lionsrugby.co.za
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The president of the Blue Bulls, Boet Fick, answers 10 questions from www.bluebulls.co.za
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The Australian Rugby Union (ARU) has apparently intervened in a major rift involving the Wallaby coaching staff, a falling out that has placed the Aussies’ World Cup campaign under threat.
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Free State strongman Jannie du Plessis has been given an ultimatum by Cheetahs coach Naka Drotske to decide this week whether he wants to stay in Bloemfontein or follow Rassie Erasmus to Western Province.
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Springbok hooker Gary Botha’s decision to join the English club Harlequins for the next three years is very bad news for South Africa, says SA Rugby Union president Oregan Hoskins.
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Springbok Breyten Paulse is ready and available to take over England-bound Brent Russell’s place in the Western Province rugby team. Former Springbok Russell was released with immediate effect on Monday to continue his career with English Premier League club Saracens.
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The Wallabies fear key tight-five secrets will be exposed with Eddie Jones set to sign on with South Africa for the rugby World Cup.Australian forwards coaches Michael Foley and Alec Evans voiced concerns about Jones joining the Springboks staff just three months after quitting his Queensland post.
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SA Rugby representatives met the liquidators of the Southern Spears (Pty) Ltd on administrative aspects of the liquidation on Monday.
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The Boks suffered a huge loss with the news that Pierre Spies is out of the World Cup.
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The Bulls have lost yet another player to an overseas club when it was announced that Gary Botha will join Harlequins in the U.K.
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Times rugby correspondent David Hands, considers the merits of the southern hemisphere contenders’ World Cup preparations.
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The mission: to pore over the latest Bledisloe Cup tape and decide whether Richie McCaw is a cheat or not.
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South Africa is crawling with talented young rugby players, ready to defend their country’s honour. This assurance comes from John Plumtree, a New Zealander who now coaches the Sharks’ Currie Cup team.
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Former Wallaby coach Eddie Jones has become a Springbok supporter. His loyalty is no longer with Australian rugby. “I support the team I’m working with. At the moment, I am working with South Africa,” Jones said here at the weekend.
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Joost van der Westhuizen says it was the thought of his wife Amor and their children which kept him calm while a man held a gun to his head.
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Springbok flyhalf Butch James answers readers’ questions in the Sunday Times
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Bismarck du Plessis was a happy hooker after his storming display for the Sharks in their 29-10 (halftime 15-10) win over the Vodacom Blue Bulls in an Absa Currie Cup match in Durban on Saturday.
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Willem de Waal hoofed the Vodacom Free State Cheetahs to a 45-13 (halftime 16-13) hiding over Vodacom Western Province in an Absa Currie Cup match in Bloemfontein on Saturday.
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Former Wallaby coach Eddie Jones is poised to take over the Springbok technical director position vacated this week by Rassie Erasmus.
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The second big match of the day sees the Blue Bulls tavel to Durban to take on the Sharks.
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In the first of today’s two big matches Western Province travel to Bloemfontein to take on the Free State Cheetahs.
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