Five Expressions of Interest have been received for licences to manage and operate a New Zealand based Investec Super Rugby team, the New Zealand Rugby Union (NZRU) confirmed today.
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Five Expressions of Interest have been received for licences to manage and operate a New Zealand based Investec Super Rugby team, the New Zealand Rugby Union (NZRU) confirmed today.
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Highlanders’ Head Coach, Jamie Joseph, has named his team to play the Waratahs at Forsyth Barr Stadium tomorrow night.
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Hot on the heels of the report on possible government interference in the Kings saga yesterday, Rugby365 reports that the franchises have called a meeting with SA Rugby to find out exactly what they plan to do.
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Allister Coetzee spent the whole of last season trying to play down to his team’s prospects to a Cape media too eager to install his Stormers side as champions when the job hadn’t been done, so the upbeat front he put on in Wellington at the weekend was meaningful.
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Chiefs Investec Super Rugby coach Dave Rennie has today announced Liam Messam and Craig Clarke as co-captains of the Chiefs for the 2012 season.
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Sharks coach John Plumtree has installed two players who lead from the front to captain and deputise for The Sharks in this year’s Vodacom Super Rugby campaign.
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The Sharks, rather than last year’s best-performing South African franchise the Stormers, represent South Africa’s best chance of success in the 2012 Super Rugby season.
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The Cheetahs will head to Cape Town with two teams when they take on the Stormers and the Lions in the Neo Africa Tri-Series.
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Springbok flyhalf Elton Jantjies will not take any part in the Lions’ pre-season outings in the Neo Africa Series in Cape Town.
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Vodacom Bulls lock Fudge Mabeta will miss the 2012 Super Rugby campaign after being injured in a car accident.
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The Stormers pre-season training squad for the 2012 Super Rugby season has been named.
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The NZRU will place advertisements this weekend in newspapers asking for expressions of interest to buy the licences for four of the New Zealand Super Rugby franchises. Revolution in Super Rugby DAVID LONG IAIN McGREGOR/Fairfax Media UP FOR GRABS: The Crusaders’ licence is available for purchase. Other than the Highlanders, who the NZRU are...
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When you approach player contracting like cattle trading, expect to shuffle shit more than what you will count trophies.
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In a move which will stun most South African fans, SANZAR has included Bryce Lawrence in their merit panel of referees for next year’s Super Rugby series.
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With the new ‘Rugby Championship’ tournament officially launched today I could not help but think where the hell we are going to fit all this rugby?
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New Zealand’s five Super Rugby franchises have named their squads for the 2012 Super Rugby season, introducing 28 new players to the tournament in the reshuffled squads named on Wednesday.
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Sonny Bill Williams ended weeks of speculation about his future on Monday when he confirmed he will stay in New Zealand for another year and play his Super 15 rugby with the Chiefs.
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Changes made around five key areas of play – the tackle, scrum, offside, ruck, and maul – over the past three seasons have begun to have an impact in shaping the game that SANZAR wants to see played in Super Rugby.
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A common trend in South African rugby is the emphasis on short term gains rather than long term vision.
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If you held any hope that the Currie Cup will see South Africa’s best players available for the oldest domestic competition in the world, then you are in for a lot of disappointment.
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It all comes down to this. 18 Rounds of league games, 3 Rounds of play-off matches, one winner…
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You don’t need to be a scrum guru to figure out why the Stormers (and most SA scrums) have buckled against teams like the Crusaders.
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The Crusaders are aiming to put out an unchanged team to face the Reds in the Final of the Super Rugby competition at Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane on Saturday night.
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In the lead-up to the semi-finals last week, Paul Dobson wrote a brilliant piece on the art of winning and losing.
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Last night’s game will leave Stormers fans with a familiar feeling; ‘So close, yet so far’…
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A lot has been made in recent days on the inclusion of Saracens hooker, Schalk Brits, in the Stormers team for their semi-final clash against the Crusaders this weekend at Newlands.
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In his Sport24 column, JJ Harmse, believes there is simply too much rugby at the moment and that South Africa and New Zealand have been conned by the Aussies.
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As was expected, the race for the Springbok Oakley Antix is one hell of a dog-fight.
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