It is little more than a week before the start of the 2010 Currie Cup season and this weekend could be an indicator of how the eight teams in the Premier Division will shape up after their respective losses and gains following the Super 14 and Vodacom Cup campaigns. While the Sharks bemoan their fortunes [...]
Tags: blue bulls, currie cup, Rugby
Australia blew off the cobwebs to thump Fiji 49-3 in Saturday night’s season opening rugby Test at Canberra Stadium. With no Will Genia in a reshuffled backline and a pack featuring three debutant frontrowers, the Wallabies struggled to gel but still had too much class for the Pacific Islanders, running in seven unanswered tries. Coach [...]
South Africa have withdrawn centre Butch James from Saturday’s Test with Wales in Cardiff because of a dispute over the Bath player’s eligibility. The English Premiership clubs’ umbrella organisation Premier Rugby objected to his selection as the game is not in the International Rugby Board Test window. James is replaced in the squad by Bulls [...]
Tags: Butch James, Rugby, Sprinboks, Wales
Bulls wing Gerhard van den Heever’s was handed a two week ban by a SANZAR judicial hearing for a spear tackle on Crusaders replacement Tim Bateman. The ban means he will miss the Bulls’ game against the Stormers in Cape Town on Saturday as well as the Super 14 semi-final at the Orlando Stadium in [...]
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Right winger Bjorn Basson scored two tries as the Cheetahs gained a convincing 29-14 win over the Western Force in their Super 14 rugby match.Their fourth win of the season and second in a row enabled the Bloemfontein-based franchise to jump two places on the ladder to 11th, with the Force dropping to 12th. The [...]
DURBAN – The Stormers’ Super 14 semifinal hopes were dealt a blow when they lost 20-14 to South African rivals the Sharks on Saturday. The Cape Town-based Stormers remained second in the standings behind the defending champion Bulls, but could still be overtaken in the last round of the regular season next weekend. The Sharks [...]
The Bulls delivered a killer blow to the Crusaders’ Super 14 rugby hopes with a 40-35 win in Pretoria which ended on a highly controversial note. A try after the final hooter to Francois Hougaard handed the hosts victory of a thrilling match but it didn’t come without howls of protest from the visitors, who [...]
Tags: Crusaders, Francois Hougard, Rugby, Super 14
2010 Fifa World Cup