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Aug 8, 11 •
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Comments Off on Johnson, Kankowski added to Springbok squad
Looseforwards Ashley Johnson and Ryan Kankowski were on Monday added to the Springbok squad to cover for a number of injury concerns among back row forwards. Johnson, who made his Test debut against Australia in Sydney last month, and Kankowski were added as...
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Aug 8, 11 •
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Comments Off on Absa Currie Cup Review – Week 4
The MTN Golden Lions are the only unbeaten team left in the Absa Currie Cup Premier Division following their victory at Loftus Versfeld on Saturday and defeats to The Sharks and DHL Western Province earlier during the weekend. GWK Griquas repeated their feat...
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Aug 4, 11 •
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Comments Off on Sarel to play Currie Cup for the FS Cheetahs.
Morgan Piek Bloemfontein – Sarel Pretorius has this afternoon announced that he will be playing for the Free State Cheetahs during the 2012 and 2013 ABSA Currie Cup seasons. He is still contracted to play for the Sydney based Super15 franchise the New South...
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Aug 4, 11 •
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The Vodacom Blue Bulls and Toyota Free State Cheetahs have tough home games in the Absa Currie Cup on Saturday as they look to bounce back from last weekend’s disappointing defeats. On Friday evening, The Sharks face a tricky encounter against a...
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Aug 1, 11 •
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Comments Off on Absa Currie Cup – Week 3 Round-up.
Photo by Mike La Grange. Thirty seven tries were scored during a high action weekend of Absa Currie Cup Premier Division action as DHL Western Province, The Sharks, the MTN Golden Lions and GWK Griquas all recorded bonus point victories. Adding the 33 tries...
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Jul 29, 11 •
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Johan Jonck •
Comments Off on Regent Kavaliers outplay Falcons in Wellington
The Regent Boland Kavaliers delivered another cracking performance in the Currie Cup First Division today, outplaying the Falcons with 52 points to 10 at the Boland Stadium in Wellington. The Kavaliers managed to score seven tries in the process, with the...
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Jul 28, 11 •
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Comments Off on DHL WP u19 team announced to take on the Blue Bulls at DHL Newlands on 30 July 2011
Nazeem Adams, head coach of DHL Western Province u19, today named his team to take on the Blue Bulls at DHL Newlands on Saturday 30 July. The team is as follows: 15. Kazlo Holtzhauzen 14. Nathan Nel 13. Patrick Howard 12. Kobus van Wyk 11. Devon...
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Jul 28, 11 •
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Comments Off on DHL WP u21 announced team to take on the Blue Bulls at DHL Newlands on 30 July 2011
John Dobson, head coach of DHL Western Province u21, today named his team to take on the Blue Bulls u21 at DHL Newlands on Saturday 30 July 2011 The team is as follows: 15. Heinrich Steyl 14. Tshotsho Mbovane 13. Ryan Nell 12. Michael van der Spuy 11....
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Jul 28, 11 •
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Comments Off on DHL WP announced team to take on the Vodacom Blue Bulls at DHL Newlands on 30 July 2011
Allister Coetzee, head coach of DHL WP, today named his team to take on the Blue Bulls at DHL Newlands on Saturday 30 July 2011. The team is as follows: 15. Conrad Jantjes 14. Danie Poolman 13. Johann Sadie 12. Tim Whitehead 11. JJ Engelbrecht 10....
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Jul 28, 11 •
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Comments Off on The Free State Cheetahs u21 & u19 teams announced to play Sharks
Saturday, 30 July 2011 Mr Price Kings Park, Durban Kick-off: 12:30 Free State Cheetahs u.21 1 Schalk van der Merwe 2 Elandre Huggett 3 Stephan Kotze 4 Adriaan Theisinger 5 John-Charles Astle 6 Jean Cook 7 Fanie van der Walt ( C ) 8 Brendon Groenewald 9 Enrico...
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Jul 28, 11 •
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Comments Off on Absa Currie Cup Preview – Week 3
Thursday, 28 July 2011 It’s north vs south in Cape Town this weekend as the Vodacom Blue Bulls face last year’s Absa Currie Cup runners up, DHL Western Province, at DHL Newlands on Saturday. Both these sides recorded good victories last weekend and...
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Jul 27, 11 •
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Comments Off on National Club Rugby Round-up – Welkom Rovers eye Bethlehem’s crown
Welkom Rovers – one of the most successful clubs in Griffons rugby – are just two matches away from returning to the National Club Championships after the Northern Free State side shrugged off a number of challenges to finish top of the province’s First...
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Jul 26, 11 •
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Comments Off on Absa Currie Cup vs Vodacom Super Rugby: What's the difference?
Just as the 2011 Absa Currie Cup season takes rugby centre stage from the Vodacom Super Rugby tournament, you could be forgiven with such an abundance of rugby in our sights for a bit of confusion between these two esteemed tournaments. Both are brutal,...
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Jul 21, 11 •
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Comments Off on Absa Currie Cup Preview – Week 2
The two most successful Absa Currie Cup sides from the last decade, the Vodacom Blue Bulls and the Toyota Free State Cheetahs, square off in Pretoria on Saturday afternoon. These two sides have won or shared the Absa Currie Cup no less than seven times in the...
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Jul 1, 11 •
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Comments Off on History of the Currie Cup
by Paul Dobson North west of Pitlochry in the Scottish Highlands is the village of Fortingal. In ancient times, they say, Pontius Pilate had a camp nearby a cold place to wash your hands in winter. Fortingal is not an ancient village, not a century old in...
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Jun 29, 11 •
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Comments Off on Vodacom Super Rugby Semi-final Preview – DHL Stormers Vs Crusaders
The DHL Stormers will host only their third Vodacom Super Rugby playoff match in the history of the competition when they face the Crusaders at 17:05 in the second semi-final at DHL Newlands on Saturday. South African conference winners, the DHL Stormers,...
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Jun 19, 11 •
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Comments Off on SuperRugby play-offs explained
There seems to be some confusion regarding the play-offs of the inaugural SuperRugby season’s new format. And we cannot blame you as we also had to take a few looks at it. Most people believe that the Reds will play against the winner of the Blues vs...
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Jun 19, 11 •
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Comments Off on Low-life with green laser causes a stir at Loftus
In Saturday’s do-or-die match between the Vodacom Bulls and The Sharks at Loftus Versfeld you might have noticed that someone in the stands thought it would be fun to bring along his green laser and point it aT people’s eyes, including the eyes of...
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Jun 8, 11 •
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Comments Off on Five added to SA Women’s training squad
Five newcomers were added to the SA Women’s squad for their second training camp which starts on Thursday in Port Elizabeth. The enlarged group will assemble tomorrow morning in PE for the second of their regular monthly training camps. This is part of...
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Jun 8, 11 •
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Comments Off on Stats favour Habana over Bjorn
Cape Town – Bjorn Basson will come to Newlands this week with two personal goals: to improve on the Bulls try-scoring record he jointly holds with Bryan Habana and to stake his claim for the Springbok No 11 jersey. However, don’t be surprised if...
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Jun 5, 11 •
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Comments Off on SANZAR explains Judicial process
The Judicial Rules for the Super Rugby and Tri Nations competitions are set out in IRB Regulation 17 as modified by SANZAR. In summary, a hearing will take place if a player is red-carded by the match referee, cited by the Citing Commissioner or receives...
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May 13, 11 •
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Comments Off on SARU on track to breach R5m in Schools Aid Programme
The South African Rugby Union (SARU) is set to breach the R5m barrier on aid to rugby-playing schools after four local schools from the Boland Rugby Union each received rugby playing equipment and kit to the value of R10 000 from the SARU at an official...
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May 3, 11 •
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Comments Off on Wildeklawer Rugby Festival
Morgan Piek Kimberley – The 2nd of May 2011 promised to be one of the most exciting days in the history of the Wildeklaver Rugby Festival, if not in the history of South African Schools Rugby. The buzz words of the day were most definitely “Klofies”...
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May 1, 11 •
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Comments Off on Local rugby stars embrace Twitter
Apart from putting their bodies on the line every weekend to keep us entertained and with something to talk about around the braai, Bryan Habana, John Smit and Andries Strauss have another thing in common: They all embraced Twitter. Rugby is still a...
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Apr 29, 11 •
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Comments Off on Into Extra-Time with Super Rugby referee Jaco Peyper
It is probably one of the most unforgiving jobs in the world and only a small group of individuals have been known to have the guts and determination to take up the whistle as a professional rugby referee. Apart from 30 players on the field you also...
