The Pampas XV, the only undefeated team in this year’s Vodacom Cup, will be hoping for one more victory in 2011 when they host the defending champions, the Vodacom Blue Bulls, at Profert Olën Park in Potchefstroom on Friday at 19h00.
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The Pampas XV, the only undefeated team in this year’s Vodacom Cup, will be hoping for one more victory in 2011 when they host the defending champions, the Vodacom Blue Bulls, at Profert Olën Park in Potchefstroom on Friday at 19h00.
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The Blue Bulls Vodacom Cup team to play a friendly against Namibia in Windhoek shows a lot of experience.
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So I took my laaitie out to Newlands on Saturday for what was his first experience of the ground all WP fans love and cherish.
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Stormers coach Rassie Erasmus is likely to give several fringe players a run when the Stormers play Boland in their second pre-season friendly in Wellington on Saturday.
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The Blue Bulls and the Free State Cheetahs have named unchanged teams for their Vodacom Cup Final clash at Loftus Versfeld in Pretoria on Friday.
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The Blue Bulls and the Free State Cheetahs have named unchanged teams for their Vodacom Cup Final clash at Loftus Versfeld in Pretoria on Friday.
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The parliamentary portfolio committee on sport has been asked to look at ways to suspend convicted murderer Gert van Schalkwyk from the Mpumalanga-based rugby team, the Pumas, the SABC reported on Tuesday.
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The coaches of this year’s two Vodacom Cup finalists are playing down the competition’s R1m prize money and placing the emphasis on winning the trophy.
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John Mametsa and Rocco Jansen each scored two tries as the Blue Bulls slaughtered the Lions 51-7 (half-time 36-7) in a one-sided Vodacom Cup semi-final at Loftus Versfeld on Friday.
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The Free State Cheetahs raced into the semi-finals of the Vodacom Cup with a 35-20 (half-time 24-10) victory over the Boland Cavaliers on Friday.
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Boland Cavaliers coach Deon Davids has asked his forwards to step up their aggression ahead of Friday’s Vodacom Cup quarter-final match against Free State in Bloemfontein.
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The quarterfinals of the Vodacom Cup will be played this weekend, with all the venues and kick-off times confirmed.
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Springbok and Lions centre Jaque Fourie is set to make his comeback after a stomach injury when the Lions meet the Blue Bulls at Loftus Versfeld in a Vodacom Cup quarter-final next weekend.
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The Bulls’ loosehead prop Jaco Engels has served his three-match suspension and will start for the Blue Bulls Vodacom Cup team who play the Free State in a clash between the two log leaders.
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Reports of the Vodacom Cup matches played this weekend.
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A number of unlikely results marked the first round of the Vodacom Cup competition, a domestic inter-provincial competition in South Africa, at the weekend.
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In an uninspiring game at Outeniqua Park, the SWD Eagles defeated the Vodacom Blue Bulls.
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The future and depth of South African rugby will come under scrutiny when the Vodacom Cup kicks off this weekend. A look at the teams of only the Blue Bulls, Golden Lions and Western Province augurs well for a competition that was won by Griquas last year when they beat the Blue Bulls in...
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Jimmy Stonehouse, the 2007 Blue Bulls Craven Week coach, has been appointed as head coach of the Pumas with immediate effect. His appointment comes after a lengthy selection process conducted by the Pumas Rugby Union’s transitional committee.
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Dr Ewoudt van der Linde, who entertained the Loftus crowd for the past six years as the much-loved “Bulletjie”, has been appointed as the Vodacom Cup team’s medical doctor. Van der Linde started studying medicine at the University of Pretoria in 2000 and after he completed his MBChB-degree in 2005 he worked for two...
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The northern unions get the opportunity in this year’s Vodacom Cup series to prove their domination of the competition in 2007 was no fluke with a new format seeing the seven northern teams playing the seven southern teams over a single round.
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The SABC reports that the Cape High Court has granted an application for the provisional liquidation of Boland Rugby Limited, the professional arm of the Boland Rugby Union.
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Vodacom Blue Bulls coach Ashley Evert gave preference to experience in selecting the starting line-up for the Vodacom Cup final against Griquas in Kimberley on Friday.
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The South African Rugby Football Union has confirmed that the 2007 Vodacom Cup final between Griquas and the Blue Bulls will take place at Absa Park in Kimberley at 15:30 on Friday May 4.
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Whilst the Griquas cruised through to the Vodacom Cup final in their semi-final match against the Pumas, the Bulls were made to work much harder against the Leopards, with the match going to extra time.
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A double header awaits supporters of the Vodacom Bulls and Blue Bulls on Friday at Loftus Versfeld. It was announced on Monday that the Vodacom Cup semi-final between the Blue Bulls and Leopards will precede the all important Super14 clash between the Bulls and Blues.
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The old adage of “cometh the man, cometh the hour� rang true for Witbank Mica Pumas fullback Riaan Smit at the weekend as he ran in a hat-trick of tries to help his side to an unexpected 33-30 win over the Vodacom Free State Cheetahs in a quarterfinal clash in Bloemfontein.
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Geo Cronje is back, and ready to play an important role in the Golden Lions Rugby Union’s plans.
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