Robbie Deans has made three changes to the Australia pack to compete with South Africa at set pieces in Saturday’s Tri-Nations Test. For the match in Bloemfontein hooker Stephen Moore and number eight Ben McCalman have been promoted from the bench while lock Mark Chisholm has earned a recall having not featured for the Wallabies [...]
Tags: Australia, Bloemfontein, Springboks, Tri Nations
The defending champion Blue Bulls will be out to get their Currie Cup campaign back on track against the Sharks in Pretoria, following last week’s shock loss to the Pumas. The Blue Bulls currently reside in fourth place on the tournament ladder after narrowly losing to the Pumas 22-21 in Nelspruit last Friday, and will [...]
Tags: blue bulls, bulls, currie cup, sharks
More than 13 000 tickets are still available for Saturday’s Tri Nations test match between the Springboks and the Wallabies at Vodacom Park in Bloemfontein. Officials say by this afternoon about 33 000 of the 46 000 available seats were sold. The rows of empty seats at Loftus in Pretoria caught the eye at last [...]
Tags: Australia, Bloemfontein, Springboks, Tri Nations, Wallabies
John Mitchell has parted ways with Super 15 franchise Western Force with the team saying on Thursday that the only man to have coached the side since they entered the series in 2006 was leaving a year early. The former All Blacks coach was scheduled to depart the Perth-based side after next year’s inaugural Super [...]
Tags: currie cup, John Mitchell, Lions, Western Force
South African rugby player Bees Roux, charged with the murder of a policeman, has been released on bail of R100,000 . Roux, a 115-kg prop for Super 14 champions the Bulls, was arrested on Friday on suspicion of beating the police officer to death. National Prosecuting Authority spokesman Mthunzi Mhaga said Roux, 28, would appear [...]
South Africa coach Peter de Villiers has made one change to his starting line-up for Saturday’s Tri-Nations Test against Australia in Bloemfontein. Lock Danie Rossouw, who has been struggling with a hip injury, returns to the starting XV after two weeks on the bench, swapping with Flip van der Merwe, the 25-year-old who impressed in [...]
Tags: Australia, Bloemfontein, Danie Rossouw, Tri Nations
Butch James, Jannie du Plessis and Flip van der Merwe are all doubts for South Africa ahead of this week’s final Tri-Nations encounter against Australia in Bloemfontein. The trio sat out training on Monday, but the nature of their injuries are yet to be revealed after they underwent scans earlier in the day. However, reports [...]
Tags: Butch James, Flip van der Merwe, Jannie du Plessis, Springboks, Tri Nations
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