Stormers coach Rassie Erasmus has sprung a few surprises in naming seven changes to his team for their must-win Super 14 clash against the Brumbies at Newlands on Saturday.
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Stormers coach Rassie Erasmus has sprung a few surprises in naming seven changes to his team for their must-win Super 14 clash against the Brumbies at Newlands on Saturday.
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Okay so its time for the Wacky Wednesday round-up and let’s jump straight into it!
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Without the influential Schalk Burger, the Stormers loose trio will have to be “very accurate” at the breakdown to overcome the challenge of the formidable Brumbies unit in Saturday’s crucial Super 14 clash at Newlands.
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The Crusaders have named centre Casey Laulala to start in their Super 14 match against the Sharks in Christchurch on Friday.
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The Bulls could do the Sharks and the Stormers a favour when they take on the high-flying Waratahs at Loftus Versfeld on Saturday.
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Bakkies Botha should not be forced to play for the Bulls and the Blue Bulls. He should be sold to the highest bidder.
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Not only will the Stormers will be looking to record their fourth home win on the trot when they host the Brumbies in a Super 14 clash on Saturday, but they will also be looking for their first win against the Canberra-based franchise in a decade.
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The in-form Chiefs will be without All Black Brendon Leonard when they face the Western Force in their Super 14 rugby match at Perth on Saturday.
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Anyone could have made the mistake of writing off the Brumbies’ Super 14 semifinal hopes after their 28-42 home loss to the Chiefs in Canberra in Week Eight.
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Wales players are set to be exposed to a week of training at a cryotherapy centre ahead of the Six Nations Grand Slam winners’ two Test tour of South Africa in June, coach Warren Gatland announced on Tuesday.
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The All Black staff refuse to let the players breathe. Their original plan to announce a test squad before the Super 14 final was scuttled because of adverse publicity but that has not slowed their ideas.
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Sharks coach Dick Muir has read the riot act to his team in the hope that his pep talk will propel them into action for Friday’s must-win Super 14 clash with the Crusaders in Christchurch.
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The chances are increasing that the Sharks may have to go into their all-important Vodacom Super 14 showdown with the Crusaders without their influential hooker Bismarck du Plessis.
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Every man and his dog have had something to say about the performance of the referees in this years Super 14 competition, but most have just touched on the emotional side of it.
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If it’s accepted that rugby is the game played in heaven, then whoever made the rugby ball had a decent take on the meaning of life.
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The Sharks, sitting pretty for most of the Super 14 season, face the prospect of falling out of the top four if they lose to the Crusaders on Friday.
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It was a storming selection this week, as the season enters the home stretch and a few regulars keep stepping forward to make our popular Team of the Week.
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There was no respite on Monday from the tidal wave of injuries that has left the Stormers Super 14 campaign teetering on the brink of a crisis.
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Frederic Michalak’s departure from the Sharks scene might well end up being a blessing in disguise because the stuttering backline has an opportunity for a second start, this time under the guidance of Ruan Pienaar.
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Two local teams are still in with a shout to make the semis? DavidS has a look at the remaining games of the contenders and it doesn’t make for pretty reading for Stormers and ESPECIALLY the Durbanites.
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Springboks Bryan Habana, Wynand Olivier and Bakkies Botha threatened to go on strike and withdraw themselves from selection if Botha was not released from the Bulls to join French club Toulon.
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The last three rounds in rugby’s Super 14 are likely to be among the most cut-throat in its history with eight teams firmly in the race for four play-offs spots.
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France flyhalf Frederic Michalak could be out of action for six months after tearing a ligament in his left knee during a Super 14 match in Sydney on Saturday.
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It was a bleak weekend for South Africa’s Super 14 franchises, despite the Stormers’ lone win over the Highlanders on Saturday.
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Springbok World Cup winning lock Bakkies Botha has called the Blue Bulls Company (Pty) Ltd “tyrannical and autocratic” in his court papers given in at the Labour court.
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Sanzar bosses are looking to implement changes to the Super 14 format a year earlier after receiving approval from broadcasters to do so.
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A sickening knee injury may have ended France flyhalf Frederic Michalak’s Super 14 season and Sharks career.
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New Springbok coach Peter de Villiers has virtually shut the door on a number of Europe-based World Cup winning stars ahead of this year’s international season.
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