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 [...]
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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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