Saracens recorded a nail-biting 24-23 win over South Africa at the Wembley Stadium on Tuesday night, the Springboks’ third straight loss on the year-end tour.
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Saracens recorded a nail-biting 24-23 win over South Africa at the Wembley Stadium on Tuesday night, the Springboks’ third straight loss on the year-end tour.
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Paul Dobson from Rugby365 previews the clash between the Bok dirt-trackers and Sarries.
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The Springbok pack will have to attack Italy’s tighthead prop Martin Castrogiovanni if they want to avoid becoming the latest victims of his brute scrumming power.
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HABANA CITED FOR ‘KICK’ Springbok flank Schalk Burger and hooker Bismarck du Plessis are both in a race against time to prove their fitness for Saturdays clash against Italy.
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All the international teams face the same problem on their year-end tours. Yes, the Springboks lost, they were outplayed by a better – and more motivated – team on the day, but let’s keep it in perspective writes Rob Peters.
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Springbok coach Peter de Villiers bolstered the pack when he named the dirt-tracker team to face Saracens at Wembley on Tuesday night.
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Intelligence, judiciousness and common sense in team selection are going to be essential if the Springboks, tottering at “nought from two”, are to stave off a blanket European tour fiasco.
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UPDATE: SA Embassy chose singer The reggae singer the Springboks accused of butchering the anthem before the 20-13 Test match defeat to France told AFP Saturday that he thought he had “sung beautifully”.
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French coach Marc Lievremont delivered a damning verdict of the Bok scrum by suggesting it was weaker than Australia’s following his side’s 20-13 victory in Toulouse.
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Brüssow scores an 8. France extended their 12-year unbeaten run against South Africa on French soil when they recorded a hard-fought 20-13 win at Stadium Municipal, Toulouse, on Friday.
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How did he get a passport if he’s not a citizen? Speculation is mounting in Toulouse today as to whether Tendai Mtawarira – the so-called Beast who enjoyed a fine Test series against the Lions in the summer – is about to be pulled from the Springboks side to play France amid concerns about...
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South Africa’s chief enforcer Bakkies Botha has insisted that what goes on during a game of rugby was neither “violence” nor anything to do with his normal life.
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Arriving in a wet Toulouse certainly was not what the Springboks would’ve wanted after a couple of sunny days back home.
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For a country known for panache and guile the French have been pretty blunt about their approach to the showdown with the Springboks. DAN RETIEF shares his quesy feelings.
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Zimbabwean-born Springbok prop Tendai Mtawarira will remain with the South African team on the eve of their Test against France in Toulouse on Friday, but he might still be declared ‘ineligible’ to represent the world champions.
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An injury to Spies might provide Kankowski the same rare chance to unseat and incumbent as it did for Brussow, and he has been given license to thrill!
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Former Natal Sharks and current Toulouse No8 Shaun Sowerby has questioned the Springboks’ decision to prepare in Johannesburg for Friday’s Test against France in the rugby-mad southern French city.
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Springbok coach Peter de Villiers has defended a decision to take his jaded stars on a three-Test tour of Europe that starts on Friday against France in Toulouse.
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The heriocs of 1997 were the last of the Boks in France twelve years ago. The overcooked Boks will likely have this as a bridge too far.
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Imanol Harinordoquy is relishing the chance to test his strength against a South African side he regards as having the “nastiest” players in the world when France face the Springboks on Friday.
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There is no panic in the Springbok camp after last Friday’s unexpected and disappointing loss by the Dirt Trackers side to the Leicester Tigers, but there is a great awareness of the challenge awaiting them in the Test against France in Toulouse on Friday night.
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One of the positive things about Peter de Villiers’s reign as Springbok coach has been his willingness to heed wake-up calls when they arrive, and it looks like he has done it again in the wake of the Leicester Tigers debacle at the weekend.
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Leinster prop CJ van der Linde will be flying from Dublin to join the Springboks in France on Wednesday after it was confirmed that Jannie du Plessis – the third member of Friday’s battered front row – would be going home injured.
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South Africa captain Chilliboy Ralepelle feels the team’s defeat to Guinness Premiership champions Leicester Tigers at Welford Road last Friday, taught the new players a harsh lesson.
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Midweek captain Chiliboy Ralepelle and prop Gurthrö Steenkamp will return to South Africa after being injured during the Springboks’ opening tour match against Leicester at Welford Road on Friday.
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South Africa assistant coach Dick Muir admitted he had never seen such a poor performance from a Springbok front five as the world champions went down to a shock defeat to Leicester.
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Leicester Tigers ensured that South Africa got their European tour off to the worst possible start after they recorded a 22-17 win over a Springbok XV at Welford Road in Leicester on Friday.
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Leicester Tigers have a juggling act to perform as they go into Friday night’s match against the Springboks at Welford Road. Their players will be involved in three matches in three days.
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