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Varsity Cup Round 6 previews and predictions

March 12, 2012
Posted by Admin
Varsity Cup Round 6 previews and predictions

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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Posted in Columnists, Varsity cup | 134 Comments »

Goodbye Lions, Hello Kings?

February 22, 2012
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Goodbye Lions, Hello Kings?

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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Posted in Rugby Administration, RuggaWorld Exclusives, SANZAR, SupeRugby | 151 Comments »

Poms, Frogs looking at summer rugby

December 30, 2011
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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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Posted in Other Unions / Teams | 5 Comments »

Irish cutting down on foreigners

December 30, 2011
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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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Posted in Other Unions / Teams | 1 Comment »

Brumbies in trouble

December 29, 2011
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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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Posted in Other Unions / Teams | 9 Comments »

Rugby XV of the Decade

April 27, 2011
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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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Sonny Bill who?

April 20, 2011
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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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Posted in World Cup 2011 | 11 Comments »

Champions at last!

April 13, 2011
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Champions at last!

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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Posted in Varsity cup | 17 Comments »

The Culinary Currie Cup

April 7, 2011
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The Culinary Currie Cup

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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Coetzee deserves the last laugh

March 29, 2011
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Coetzee deserves the last laugh

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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Posted in Columnists, Super 15 | 18 Comments »

RW introduces RAT RACE

February 24, 2011
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RW introduces RAT RACE

Ruggaworld is proud to announce it very own rugby tipping competition, RAT RACE.
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A team with the belief, The Tigers

February 17, 2011
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A team with the belief, The Tigers

This week we jump back down south and take a better look at UCT’s Ikeys.
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Posted in Columnists, Varsity cup | 4 Comments »

Varsity Cup, Round 2 – NOW WITH RESULTS!

February 14, 2011
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Varsity Cup, Round 2 – NOW WITH RESULTS!

Round 2 of the Varsity Cup gets underway tonight with some interesting match-up’s.
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Posted in Varsity cup | 19 Comments »

Varsity Cup, Round 1 review

February 9, 2011
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Varsity Cup, Round 1 review

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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Do you wanna get rocked?

February 7, 2011
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Do you wanna get rocked?

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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Posted in Columnists, Varsity cup | 6 Comments »

Fashionable RW rebrands!

February 1, 2011
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Fashionable RW rebrands!

As usual we lead the way when it comes to cutting edge layouts and high fashion functionality blog design!
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Posted in Breaking News, Important Notice | 29 Comments »

The abandoned blueprint

December 6, 2010
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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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Posted in Columnists | 66 Comments »

Boks sweat on wounded Beast

November 22, 2010
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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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Dingo blames ‘trickery’ for OZ woes

November 22, 2010
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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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‘Black players against quotas’

September 21, 2010
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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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Wallaby scrum not test standard

September 20, 2010
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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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Super 15 is a camel

September 16, 2010
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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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Boks flyhalf crisis helps Jantjies

September 16, 2010
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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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Posted in Currie Cup | 6 Comments »

The chase is on for Bjorn

September 16, 2010
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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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Posted in SA Unions / Teams | 3 Comments »

Even ANC members wants Snor out

September 16, 2010
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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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Posted in Rugby Administration | 7 Comments »

Winning philosophy

September 8, 2010
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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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Posted in Columnists, Springboks | 55 Comments »

SANZAR charges Snor for misconduct

July 30, 2010
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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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Posted in Laws and Technical Issues, Springboks | 3 Comments »

Boks just not good enough

July 18, 2010
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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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Posted in Springboks, Tri-Nations | 1 Comment »