Fewer pre-season injuries and a more settled squad means the Cheetahs can approach the expanded Super Rugby season with more depth than they’ve had in recent years. Jan de Koning, rugby365 Cheetahs coach Naka Drotské, speaking to rugby365.com after his team’s two pre-season outings, said there are only a couple of positions where the...
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The colour pink and rugby are becoming greater bedfellows by the day with the Pumas joining Boland.
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The Lions, with a back-up squad, can expect a backlash from the Southern Kings in Port Elizabeth on Friday. RESULT: Waratahs 38, Force 22. Rugby 365 Still smarting from the 17-45 drubbing at the hands of a fired-up Cheetahs outfit last Friday, the Kings are determined to use their last pre-season outing to put...
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The Bulls will not only be fighting to keep their title as the best team in Super Rugby, they will also be fighting to keep their players. JJ Harmse, Sport24 The team’s success in Super Rugby and the seniority of the core squad means that several players whose contracts end this year are being...
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The Stormers staged a dramatic fightback in the last 15 minutes, to edge out the Sharks 17-16 in the final Neo Africa Tri-Series clash at Newlands on Saturday evening. Sapa Stormers replacement lock Adriaan Fondse scored the winning try with only a minute left on the clock, and replacement fullback Lionel Cronje slotted the...
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The Cheetahs claimed a big 45-17 win over the high-riding Southern Kings on Friday evening, just six days after the Men from Port Elizabeth claimed a pre-season victory over the Bulls. NOTE from a poster: What the article did not mention was that the Kings played for 60 monites with only 14 men after...
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Sharks coach John Plumtree was unhappy with the attitude on defence of some of his players after the Lions had thumped them 41-10 in their Tri-Series game at Newlands on Tuesday.
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RESULTS FROM DOWN UNDER The Southern Kings gave the Bulls a humbling lesson with a 23-7 win over the defending Super Rugby champions in a pre-season outing in Port Elizabeth on Saturday.
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It is official. The Beast will be in the black and white colours of the Sharks for the next three years after his employers at the KZN Rugby Union successfully fought off a ferocious bid for his prodigious talents from their Golden Lions counterparts.
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The Lions and Sharks have both upped the ante as the tug-of-war for the services of iconic Springbok prop Tendai Mtawarira drags on into the festive season.
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Seasoned scrumhalf Rory Kockott said the Lions’ revival in the Currie Cup was one of the reasons for his decision to sign with the Johannesburg-based outfit.
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The 24-year-old scrumhalf Rory Kockott has signed a new contract with the bizhub Lions, and that after he, in 2006, played a great game for the Lions against the Sharks.
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The Lions look unlikely to put a tick next to the most significant name on their wish list. Securing the services of Springbok Frans Steyn has proved frustrating as his French club, Racing Metro, have refused to release the player in the build-up to next year’s World Cup.
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The Golden Lions Rugby Union remain hopeful of luring two World Cup-winning Springboks back to South Africa, despite the reluctance of their European clubs.
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The Cheetahs are spending this week training in Jeffreys Bay ahead of next year’s Super 15 and fans will be pleased to see Springbok flank Heinrich Brussow almost fighting fit following a long-term injury, while wing Jongi Nokwe’s prognosis is less positive.
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Springbok flyer Bjorn Basson tops the list of the newly contracted players for the Vodacom Bulls for their 2011 season.
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The Sharks have announced that ABSA have terminated an 11 year association with them, having decided to drop the current sponsorship as stadium naming rights-holder which they have held since 2000.
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WPRFU held its annual awards evening last night at the Kelvin Grove Club. The event, held in conjunction with Die Burger, recognizes clubs in the Western Cape and professional players who have performed well in 2010.
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The Sharks have announced that in the long term, depth in all positions is well-covered as the core of the current team have committed to staying in Durban for the foreseeable future, writes Sharks website editor, Michael Marnewick.
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Friday marks the end of the road for the Lions Currie Cup… come and join the team at Ellis Park.
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The Lions have either shown the way of the future in rugby or made the worst decision ever by a rugby franchise. My cash says here is the way of the future.
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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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The Sharks have added insult to the injury of inflicting Western Province’s first Currie Cup loss by signing gifted utility back Conrad Hoffmann.
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The Southern Kings are set to play Super rugby in 2013 -without replacing one of the five existing SA franchises as the Super 15 is set to become a Super16 in three years’ time.
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There may be more than a touch of irony in the decision, but the Sharks have made another major signing when they snapped up the signature of Bulls fly-half Jacques-Louis Potgieter for the 2011 season.
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Nineteen (19) players who were selected to the SA Schools team for 2010 have been included in the 32-man South African Under-18 High Performance Squad which will compete in a series of international friendlies later this month.
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The Golden Lions Rugby Union have already ‘caged’ one of their pride and hopes to have another player locked away soon, as the Sharks launch another of their now famous raids on Johannesburg.
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Springbok Earl Rose looks set to continue in the rugby wilderness after the Free State Cheetahs have denied they are looking for him to join them.
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