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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Peter de Villiers announced the team to day that will face Ireland on Saturday. With John Smit moving back to his more familiar position of hooker the Boks will be much more solid come scrum time. Three Irish based players have made it into the squad but only one cracks the nod to start namely [...]
Jean de Villiers who recently moved to Irish club Munster has been called up to the Springbok team to face Ireland on the weekend after Adi Jacobs sustained an injury during Saturdays match against Italy. The full team will be announced on Thursday.
Fransie Botha will face Evander Holyfield in Kampala Uganda on January 16th to defend his WBF heavyweight title against the former holder. Both fighter are over their 40’s with Holyfield being 47 an Botha 41 which should make for an interesting fight. Their fighting records up to date reads as follows:
Evander Holyfield : 47-10-2 , [...]
After much speculation over the last couple of weeks it has been confirmed the former Blue Bulls and Leicester Tigers coach Heyneke Meyer is back where it all started in Pretoria. Meyer was appointed Executive of coaching in all the levels at the Pretoria franchise. After a stint at Leicester in England he returned home [...]
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With the Springboks playing their 4th game of their tour they finally got a win that they were looking for. The Boks put on a much more composed display against Italy beating them by 32-10 on Saturday. The Springboks played like a team for the first time on tour and it showed as they outscored [...]
The Springboks slumped to their third loss of their year end tour after another bad performance. The Boks started the match better that the others leading by 18-6 at the break but Saracens fought back to yet again deny the Boks their first win of the tour. The Springboks looked better playing as a unit but [...]
After the Springboks defeat at the hands of Leicester on Friday a full strength Boks team should be to much for the quivering French. They are already doing the talking off the field saying the Springboks are the most robust team going out to hurt their opponents, perhaps they should stick to playing Football then [...]
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