Vienna Celtic 43 – 27 Rugby Club Innsbruck Two late tries gave Vienna Celtic victory over RCI in the opening Bundesliga fixture of 2010.
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Vienna Celtic 43 – 27 Rugby Club Innsbruck Two late tries gave Vienna Celtic victory over RCI in the opening Bundesliga fixture of 2010.
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A number of Australian players can be expected to turn out for New Zealand teams in the NPC this season according to Counties Manukau coach Milton Haig. UMAGA ALSO DRAWING CARD FOR SAFFAS.
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Aerial ping-pong killing the game – Paul Sackey Paul Sackey has stuck the boot into English rugby by revealing that he is quitting Wasps out of sheer boredom and frustration.
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The Maties and the Ikeys continued their unbeaten records this year, as the South ruled the North in some intriguing Round Five battles in the 2010 FNB Varsity Cup presented by Steinhoff International.
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Springbok Sevens coach Paul Treu must be thinking that the more things change, the more they stay the same, as his side lost their third consecutive IRB Sevens Plate final, going down 26-22 to Australia in the Wellington Sevens.
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The FNB Varsity Cup has never been scared of experimentation – and this year will see the introduction of 23-man playing squads for the first time in South African rugby history and pink shorts.
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Springbok scrumhalf Ricky Januarie is a man on a mission as he tries to fill the boots of the man he battled against during last year’s British and Irish Lions tour on his brief sojourn in European rugby.
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Victor Matfield and Bryan Habana could barely suppress their grins. Their fourth rugby victory over the All Blacks this year, and both hungry for more in 2010.
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Springbok speedster Bryan Habana grabbed a hat-trick of tries to guide the Barbarians to a famous 25-18 victory over the All Blacks in the year-end festival match at Twickenham on Saturday.
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The Stormers will make their ‘debut’ at the new Green Point stadium, to be used for the 2010 Soccer World Cup, when they play a pre-season game there in February.
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The Barbarians have confirmed a star-studded lineup, including uncapped South African WP Nel and young Welsh sensation Leigh Halfpenny, to take on the All Blacks at Twickenham on 5 December.
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Ireland’s first Test centurion, Brian O’Driscoll, revealed after the game that his deceptively easy looking last-minute try was a move straight off the training ground.
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Of course, it still matters. The Bledisloe Cup may no longer be an issue, but every sporting contest between Australia and New Zealand matters. Of course, both sides will be striving to win.
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Jean de Villiers’s first taste of a Magners League derby for Munster against arch-rivals Leinster seems to have been a particularly unpalatable one.
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Hamilton became the first open club since 2001 to win the National Club Champs when they beat defending champions NWU-Pukke 36-34 in a nailbiting and high-quality final played at Loftus Versfeld in Pretoria on Saturday.
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Defending champions NWU-Pukke and Western Province’s Hamiltons laid down an early marker on the opening day of the 35th SAA National Club Champs at the LC de Villiers stadium on the University of Pretoria sport campus on Sunday. SHIMLAS BEATEN BY EP SIDE
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Springbok centre Gcobani Bobo arrived in Newcastle last weekend, finally completing his move from Western Province, and says he could not have been more impressed with what he has seen.
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Women’s boxing, mixed doubles in tennis and 50-metre sprints in swimming are among the events being considered this week for inclusion in the 2012 London Olympics.
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The Sharks, Stormers and Western Force will prepare for the Super14 series early next year in a mini-tournament in Cape Town.
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Saracens got their 2009/10 season off and running in South Africa on Friday night with two matches against University of Cape Town – and the tourists won both games.
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In their third and last match of their South African tour, England Under-18, a schoolboy team, smashed South African Schools 45-13 in Kimberley on Friday afternoon.
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England will host the Rugby World Cup in 2015 and Japan will run the tournament in 2019, the International Rugby Board announced. “Only on own soil.”
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SA Rugby’s ticketing woes may count against the organisation when the International Rugby Board announces its host countries for the 2015 and 2019 World Cups. Announcement due on Tuesday.
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The Bok performance at 2011 might well be dependent on decisions made now, and the selectors and management might have to become quite ruthless over the next few months in assessing which players are likely to still be at the top of their game when the next World Cup arrives.
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Call me what you want, but the reality is that Craven Week has become a drowning swamp of political pettiness and has lost much of its original purpose, writes JJ HARMSE. And then he proves his point.
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Novice lock Isaac Ross rescued the All Blacks from a stuttering performance as they notched up an unconvincing 27-6 victory over Italy in a one-off Test on Saturday.
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The New Zealand Maori team will be replaced in next year’s Pacific Nations Cup by the Junior All Blacks due to spending cuts, rugby bosses said on Thursday.
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It seems Jake White and SA Rugby sorted out their differences as White named his Baa-Baa’s squad including no less than 9 South Africans.
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