Wallabies coach Robbie Deans has urged SANZAR to use the new Super 14 laws in the Tri-Nations tournament this year, arguing it is the logical thing to do.
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Wallabies coach Robbie Deans has urged SANZAR to use the new Super 14 laws in the Tri-Nations tournament this year, arguing it is the logical thing to do.
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“You might have to sign two players to get the skills you are getting from one. The solution might be in a package.”
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“I’m quite glad he’s not playing, he just tries to be a nuisance at every breakdown and because he’s so good at that, he’s a bit of a pain in the backside to play against to be honest,”
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South African Rugby Union (Saru) president Oregan Hoskins has been unanimously elected onto the board of Rugby World Cup Ltd.
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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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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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Australian Rugby Union boss John O’Neill will meet the country’s four Super 14 teams at the end of this year’s competition in a bid to find a more logical window for contract negotiations.
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Lions prop Ross Geldenhuys has been cleared of kneeing Highlanders prop Jamie Mackintosh.
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The Lions will know only shortly before kick-off whether Springbok loose forward Joe van Niekerk will be fit to play against the Highlanders in their Super 14 rugby match in Dunedin on Friday.
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The Bulls, confident after their performance against the Blues last week, will be out to continue the good work when they play the Western Force in a Super 14 rugby match in Perth on Friday.
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Most teams are now settling down with the new rules, except perhaps for the Bulls.
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There have been quite a few grizzles about foul play with the impression given by some SA sources that they are being penalized more than the other partners.
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The pressure is mounting on Waratahs coach Ewen McKenzie, with renewed reports that his assistant Todd Louden is being lined up to replace … even before the end of the season.
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Dick Muir on Tuesday confirmed that he and Stormers’ forward coach Gary Gold had been identified by SA Rugby as possible assistants to Springbok coach Peter de Villiers.
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Brian Ashton’s future as coach of the England rugby union team is expected to be clarified on Wednesday when Rob Andrew, the elite rugby director of the Rugby Football Union (RFU), delivers his review of the Six Nations to the national governing body’s management board.
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The sustainability of rugby in New Zealand comes under the microscope at a two-day forum starting in Wellington on Wednesday.
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The Cheetahs will be without tighthead prop Kobus Calldo for the remainder of their Australasian tour after he succumbed to injury during the Super 14 clash against the Brumbies on Friday.
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Waratahs scrumhalf Brett Sheehan has defended the fitness of his team and said they were looking forward ‘to playing some football’ in Friday’s Super 14 rugby clash with the Cheetahs at Sydney Football Stadium.
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Peter de Villiers was quoted this week as saying that he was not happy with how black players (for the purpose of this article “black” will include both coloured and ethnic black players) are being treated by franchise coaches, and lamented the fact that he wasn’t getting the support he has been asking for...
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The Western Force moved into third place on the Super 14 standings with a deserved 36-28 win over the Highlanders at the Queenstown Events Centre, New Zealand, on Saturday.
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The Western Force moved into third place on the Super 14 standings with a deserved 36-28 win over the Highlanders at the Queenstown Events Centre, New Zealand, on Saturday.
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Maundy Thursday and lots of enthusiastic rugby at the various festivals. We give the results as we have received them.
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There were six matches in Week 5, plenty of action, lots of tries and, ineluctably, law matters to discuss.
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Crisis talks are under way to try to prevent next year’s British and Irish Lions rugby union tour to South Africa descending into chaos.
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Here are some of the main elements of an official International Rugby Board press release which appeared last week:
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The chances of the IRB introducing the experimental law variations at the 2011 World Cup in New Zealand appear increasingly unlikely.
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Lions versus Force.
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It is D-Day for several leading South African franchise teams taking part in this year‘s Super 14 rugby series.
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