With the 2010 Super 14 upon us the Bulls will have a lot to prove this year. After the dismal showing in 2008 the Bulls will look to retain the title which they won in 2009. In 2008 they struggled, a factor that played a major role was the appointment of a new coach and [...]
The Western Force’s Super 14 has not yet begun, but their signing of Andre Pretorius has already made them red in the face. Pretorius who has only played 40 minutes of rugby in their warm up matches has again injured himself. On Wednesday he complained off a stiff hamstring but further tests revealed the his [...]
Tags: Andre Pretorius, Super 14, Western Force
Carlos Spencer former All Black flyhalf stood out shoulders above the rest of the players in the Lions last warm up matches before the start of the Super 14. The Lions lackluster performances only saw them narrowly beating the Leopards (38-30) and Pumas (24-17) in two games in a wet Witbank.
The outstanding player in a [...]
Tags: Carlos Spencer, Lions, Super 14
The Bulls will have to wait another week before former Springbok and Blue Bulls player Jaco van der Westhuizen can join the Pretoria based side ahead of the Super 14. Van der Westhuizen has been playing his rugby in Japan for a couple of seasons now for NEC.
The NEC Green Rockets have qualified for the [...]
Tags: bulls, Jaco van der Westhuizen, Super 14
Dewald Potgieter has been ruled out for the first two weeks of this years Super 14. He sustained a grade two medial ligament tear to his knee in training on Tuesday. With this Pedrie Wannenburg has a chance to do the talking on the field after the last few weeks controversy surrounding his confession on [...]
Tags: bulls, Dewald Potgieter, Pedrie Wannenburg, Super 14
Springbok and current Saracens player Wikus van Heerden has signed a new deal with his former team from Johannesburg the Lions. Van Heerden announced a few days ago that he would be leaving the English club and will return home to South Africa. It was thought that he would return to the Bulls where he [...]
Tags: bulls, currie cup, Lions, Saracens, Wikus van Heerden
The Lions have signed former All Black Carlos Spencer reportedly for the biggest amount ever in South African Rugby history. Spencer was signed in place of Springbok Andre Pretorius who will run out for the Western Force this year.Spencer now aged 34 is due to arrive in the country in the next 10 days, Spencer [...]
Tags: Carlos Spencer, Lions, Rugby, Super 14
The ARU has named their fifth team for next years Super 15 competition. The Melbourne based side will be known as the “Melbourne Rebels”. The Rebels beat the Southern Kings in the race to be the new team in the competition. Australia will now also field five teams in the competitions with the main aim [...]
Tags: ARU, Melbourne Rebels, Rugby, Super 15
The news this week from the ARU has announced that they have relaxed the quota of foreign players for next years Super 15. The ARU policy on foreign players has always been restricted to 2 but the new Melbourne team has been allowed a further 8 signings of overseas players. This makes one wonder how [...]
With the Springboks only winning one game in Europe this tour can be seen as huge flop. The purpose it was suppose to achieve did not go to plan and there are now only more questions than answers. Peter de Villiers set out to find the second in line to the current Boks but poor [...]
Tags: Boks, Rugby, Springboks
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