Even if just for the supporters on the other left-side of the Orange River, tonight is the game everyone was waiting for in this year’s Varsity Cup as Maties will host their neighbours Ikeys at the Danie Craven Stadium in Stellenbosch.
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Even if just for the supporters on the other left-side of the Orange River, tonight is the game everyone was waiting for in this year’s Varsity Cup as Maties will host their neighbours Ikeys at the Danie Craven Stadium in Stellenbosch.
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It can be goodbye Lions, hello Kings come 2013 as a political decision has been endorsed to allow only ONE TEAM per PROVINCE.
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Some top club owners in England have been talking with their French counterparts about shifting the rugby union season in the north to the summer months.
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The IRFU have announced changes that will restrict the number of foreign players allowed in Ulster, Leinster and Munster’s squad that will take effect for the 2013/14 season, but will likely happen sooner as contracts come up for discussion.
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The Brumbies may need a financial bail-out from the Australian Rugby Union (ARU) after losing their major sponsor less than two months before the start of the Super Rugby season.
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Spiro Zavos has four Boks in his Rugby XV of the Decade, and one of them is his Player of the Decade.
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Peter de Villiers isn’t exactly jumping onto the bandwagon of the hype around the Crusader midfielder.
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Finally the UCT Tigers can call themselves Champions of the Varsity Cup after failing in two finals and one semi final over the past four years.
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Seeing as most of you are more than content with the sheer boredom being dished up mainly by South African teams in their quest to “not lose”, let me change the subject to something a bit more spicy.
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It was with much anticipation that I took the the long walk to the media briefing underneath the main pavilion after the match.
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Ruggaworld is proud to announce it very own rugby tipping competition, RAT RACE.
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This week we jump back down south and take a better look at UCT’s Ikeys.
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Round 2 of the Varsity Cup gets underway tonight with some interesting match-up’s.
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An exciting first round first round matches were played on Monday night where new innovations were introduced but the same brand of running rugby remained.
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The Fourth FNB Varsity Cup starts on Monday 4 February 2011 and it will be a desperate assault from all the University teams to upset Maties this year and put their name on the Cup at the end of the competition.
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Much has been debated this week about our approach to winning. Peter seems intent on using the 2007/2009 blueprint in favor of his own 2008 concoction.
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Tendai Mtawarira is a doubtful starter for the Springboks Test against England on Saturday due to a knee injury suffered in the shock 21-17 defeat to Scotland.
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Wallaby coach Robbie Deans has leaped to the defence of the Australian scrum and called for more referees not to be blinded by opposing team’s “trickery”.
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NEW PLANS FOR VODACOM CUP The South African Rugby Union (SARU) should consider changes to its competition structures to ensure that promising black players, in particular, do not “disappear” between under-21 and senior level.
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Some of our older readers of this site might remember a brilliant piece by a certain Canadian friend of RuggaWorld a while back where he re-lived his experience of Loftus as a foreigner to all of us. Well ‘Minnow Man’ as he likes to be called is back again giving us some very interesting...
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Conniving Aussies sold us a pup It is as I feared – the Super XV is a camel; a weird looking thing that might have been concocted by an inexpert or inebriated committee.
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LIONS TEAM SELECTED Morné Steyn’s Springbok understudy could be in action at Loftus Versfeld in Pretoria on Saturday when the Blue Bulls and the Lions meet in a Currie Cup match.
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The Blue Bulls, Lions and Western Province are apparently willing to splash the cash to sign Springbok wing Bjorn Basson from Griquas.
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South African rugby looks to be going into a holding pattern until September 28, which is the day of the Tri-Nations review, when hopefully some concrete announcement on the issue of Springbok coach Peter de Villiers, will be made.
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Winning in any sport is important, but just as losing in a certain way says a lot about a team, so does winning – Brendon Shields questions our current philosophy.
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SANZAR has issued a notice of alleged misconduct against Springbok coach Peter de Villiers following comments he made on Australia’s Fox Sports ‘Rugby Club’ programme on July 21.
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‘McCAW GETS AWAY WITH MURDER’ An admission that they are currently not good enough, better homework about the application of the breakdown law … and that the leaders in the team have to step up.
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