Some news and information that does not deserve its own thread, but you might still find interesting.
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Some news and information that does not deserve its own thread, but you might still find interesting.
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Sharks loose forward Jacques Botes predicts that the Stormers will win this year’s Super 14.
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JJ Harmse takes a tongue-in-cheek view over the media storm that surrounded the Bulls decision to pick their B-team for their final round-robin match.
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Defending champions the Bulls added a note of intrigue to the final round of rugby’s Super 14 by making 14 changes for their top-of-the-table match against the Stormers, possibly handing a win to their hard-pressed South African compatriots.
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It reeks of a South African stitch-up in the Super 14. With one round to go, the integrity of rugby’s premier provincial competition could be compromised with tournament leaders, the Bulls, set to field a second-string team against the Stormers in the top-of-the-table clash in Cape Town.
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The Waratahs are in fifth position and need to keep winning to gain a playoff spot.
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This is a match between fourth and seventh on the log, but precious little separates the teams, with the home team having won six, lost four and drawn one, and the visitors having won seven and lost four.
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First five-eighth Daniel Kirkpatrick will make his first start for the Blues amid eight changes to the starting 15 for Saturday’s Super 14 rugby match against the winless Lions in Johannesburg.
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Chiefs coach Ian Foster says the Chiefs are determined to perform well in their last home game of the season against the Waratahs on Saturday night in Hamilton.
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UPDATE: The Hurricanes kept their hopes of a semifinal spot alive with their 33-27 victory at cold Westpac Stadium in Wellington, scoring a bonus-point try after the final siren. (Preview follows.)
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Can the Stormers become the first South African team to complete a clean sweep of victories over New Zealand opposition in the Super Rugby when they host the Crusaders at Newlands?
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Last weekend’s loss to the Hurricanes at Carisbrook ended the Highlanders Dunedin programme on a low since it was their fourth defeat in five home games so far. Perhaps the move to Invercargill this week will help them, with the Highlanders having played 12 previous matches at Rugby Park for six wins, five defeats...
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The Sharks have no choice but to try and score four tries at all costs, which means they may play outside their normal structures in Saturday’s Super 14 match against the Bulls at Loftus Versfeld.
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The Sharks have selected an almost full strength side for their match against the Bulls this weekend.
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Growth and motivation are two key factors for the Chiefs side that will take on the Hurricanes at Westpac Stadium in Wellington this Saturday night in round 12 of the Super 14.
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Sharks coach John Plumtree has stepped up the psychological warfare against the Bulls by claiming that all the pressure is on the Super 14 champions ahead of Saturday’s match at Loftus Versfeld.
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JD Moller has been called up to front up when the Stormers tackle the Crusaders at Newlands this Friday.
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Crusaders hooker Corey Flynn has been named in the starting line-up to face the Stormers in Cape Town on Saturday morning (NZ time).
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SANZAR referees boss Lyndon Bray says he pulled Steve Walsh from Saturday’s Brumbies-Reds Super 14 clash in Canberra in the best interests of the game, and not because of the pressure caused by Matt Giteau’s comments.
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Springbok lock Bakkies Botha has recovered from injury to hand Bulls coach Frans Ludeke a selection poser ahead of Saturday’s Super 14 match against the Sharks at Loftus Versfeld.
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Lions coach Dick Muir knows exactly where to put his money for a winner in this year’s Super 14 competition – either on the Stormers or on the Bulls.
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UPDATE: Final whistle came as a relief from a poor game. Desperation is the key word in Durban, where the Sharks will be aiming to secure maximum points from their clash against the Blues and keep their mathematical chances of making the play-offs alive.
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UPDATE: Bulls score six tries – three in the last six minutes. Bulls flyhalf Morné Steyn is one point away from becoming South Africa’s all-time leading points’ scorer in Super Rugby.
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UPDATE: There were 40,271 spectators at a damp ANZ Stadium in Sydney to watch the Waratahs beat the Brumbies 19-12 in a match when the best activity came after the final siren had sounded, the death throes of a tedious game. Preview at
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UPDATE: Both sides scored five tries Carisbrook is called the ‘House of Pain’, but the Highlanders have suffered more pain than the visitors in Dunedin in the last few years.
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The Western Force might have been in existence for only five years, but their history with the Crusaders has been full of drama. They’ve twice battled to 23-23 draws with the seven-time Super Rugby champion Canterbury team, but slipped to a crushing 53-0 defeat in between.
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The Reds have beaten the Crusaders and Bulls – currently numbers one and two on the log – in Brisbane this season, but they will find the third-placed Stormers a very tough proposition too as they endeavour to go unbeaten at home against South African teams for the first time since 2005.
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The Chiefs will endeavour to avoid entering the Waikato hall of shame by suffering the worst home record in the franchise’s history.
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