Archive for the ‘International’ Category

• Theron names extended group for camp and trials

  Nov 5, 12 • 3307 Views • BabyBoks U20, General News, International, National, World Rugby Junior Championship • admin • Comments Off on Theron names extended group for camp and trials

  Junior Springboks coach Dawie Theron made his first move in defending the Junior World Championship title his side won in June by naming an extended training squad for the 2013 IRB tournament, to be played in France. Vodacom Blue Bulls and DHL Western...

• Sharks, Blue Bulls crowned SARU Sevens champs

  Nov 5, 12 • 4500 Views • General News, National, Sevens Rugby • admin • Comments Off on Sharks, Blue Bulls crowned SARU Sevens champs

  Tournament favourites The Sharks and hosts, Blue Bulls, were crowned champions in the men’s and women’s section respectively at the 2012 SARU Interprovincial Sevens at Loftus in Pretoria on Saturday. The team from KwaZulu-Natal fielded a powerful team and...

• Springboks arrive in cold and wet Dublin

  Nov 4, 12 • 3304 Views • General News, International, National, Springbok News, Springboks • admin • Comments Off on Springboks arrive in cold and wet Dublin

  The Springboks arrived in a cold and wet Dublin on Sunday afternoon at the start of their Castle Outgoing Tour ahead of the first Test against Ireland at the Aviva Stadium on Saturday. The squad of 27 players left South Africa on Saturday evening and after a...

• New laws invite fast paced Rugby

  Nov 2, 12 • 3152 Views • General News, International, National, World Rugby • admin • Comments Off on New laws invite fast paced Rugby

  Morgan Piek – The All Blacks will be using their Northern Tour  to trial run the new IRB law  regulations.  The New Zealanders believe the new “shot-clock”  ruck law would  benefit them as the law intends to speed up the game. The new five...

• Bryan Habana named SARU Player of the Year

  Nov 1, 12 • 3862 Views • General News, International, National, Springbok News, Springboks • admin • Comments Off on Bryan Habana named SARU Player of the Year

  Springbok winger Bryan Habana was on Thursday named South African Rugby Player of the Year for the third time, while DHL Western Province picked up a brace of awards as their Absa Currie Cup and Vodacom Cup success was recognised at a glittering ceremony at...

• End of Year Tour – Opportunity for Redemption

  Nov 1, 12 • 2040 Views • General News, International, National, Springbok News, Springboks • admin • Comments Off on End of Year Tour – Opportunity for Redemption

  Morgan Piek – It’s that time of year again when the rugby starts winding down after yet another long season. With only the annual End of Year Tour remaining on the South African Rugby calendar, it’s time for our players to rest up for a little while...

• The Liam Williams Story

  Nov 1, 12 • 4684 Views • General News, International • admin • Comments Off on The Liam Williams Story

  Fullback Liam Williams is putting everything he has into Wales’ gruelling training regime on their pre-Dove Men Series camp in Spala, Poland, this week in a bid to make his dreams come true for a second time this year. Williams made his international debut...

• Cell C sponsor Rugby’s Biggest Party – the NMB Sevens

  Oct 31, 12 • 4349 Views • Blitz Bokke, General News, International, National, Sevens Rugby, Sevens World Series • admin • Comments Off on Cell C sponsor Rugby’s Biggest Party – the NMB Sevens

  Cell C are the new headline sponsor of The Nelson Mandela Bay Sevens, the South African Rugby Union (SARU) announced on Wednesday. The cellular network provider will sponsor Rugby’s Biggest Party, the South African leg of the HSBC Sevens World Series, for...

• Snyman signs for two years with Blitzbokke

  Oct 30, 12 • 2224 Views • General News, International, National, Sevens Rugby • admin • Comments Off on Snyman signs for two years with Blitzbokke

  Philip Snyman, the Toyota Free State Cheetahs outside back, has signed a two year contract with the Springbok Sevens and will play for the Blitzbokke until 2014. Robert Ebersohn (FS Cheetahs centre and captain) as well as Warren Whiteley (MTN Golden Lions,...

• Raymond Rhule: Superstar in the making

  Oct 30, 12 • 6702 Views • General News, International, South Africa, Springbok News, Springboks • admin • Comments Off on Raymond Rhule: Superstar in the making

  Morgan Piek – When a person thinks of a dream season, one has to look no further than Raymond Rhule of the Toyota Cheetahs. Just last year the nineteen year old from Bloemfontein was still playing his rugby at centre for his high school HTS Louis Botha....

• Sharks move in on UAE Rugby

  Oct 30, 12 • 4834 Views • General News, International, South Africa • admin • Comments Off on Sharks move in on UAE Rugby

  UAE Rugby today announced a ground breaking development with world famous Super XV franchise The Sharks, based in Durban South Africa, to co operate in the management of three High Performance Academy programmes in the UAE commencing in January 2013. The...

• Kaizer Chiefs to field rugby team at 7s PL tournament in George

  Oct 29, 12 • 7380 Views • General News, National, Sevens Rugby • admin • Comments Off on Kaizer Chiefs to field rugby team at 7s PL tournament in George

  Both mainstream sporting codes in South Africa will be on show together for the first time, when a rugby team wearing the kit of South African soccer giants Kaizer Chiefs participates in a tournament based on a T20 Cricket format. The occasion is the...

• Bok squad announced for End of Year Tour

  Oct 28, 12 • 2860 Views • General News, International, National, South Africa, Springbok News, Springboks • admin • Comments Off on Bok squad announced for End of Year Tour

  The Springboks will travel to the Northern Hemisphere next weekend with five uncapped players but without their all-time leading try-scorer and most experienced player, Bryan Habana. Habana was the latest key player to be added to a long injury list when he...

• Etzebeth dominates Player of the Year nominations

  Oct 24, 12 • 3103 Views • General News, International, National • admin • Comments Off on Etzebeth dominates Player of the Year nominations

  The rise of young Springbok lock Eben Etzebeth was confirmed on Wednesday when he was nominated in three categories for the prestigious South African Rugby Union (SARU) Rugby Player of the Year Awards, which take place in Cape Town on Thursday, November 1....

• SARU confirm SA Sevens Under-17 training group

  Oct 24, 12 • 4950 Views • General News, International, School • admin • Comments Off on SARU confirm SA Sevens Under-17 training group

  The South African Rugby Union (SARU) has named 20 players to attend the second SA Sevens Under-17 training camp in preparation for the team’s participation at the Australian Youth Olympics in January in Sydney. The initial squad of 32 players was trimmed...

• Pierre Spies re-signs with Bulls until 2015

  Oct 23, 12 • 6020 Views • International, National, Springbok News, Springboks, Super Rugby, Super Rugby News • James Loretz • Comments Off on Pierre Spies re-signs with Bulls until 2015

  The Blue Bulls Company (Pty) Ltd is happy to announce that Pierre Spies has extended his contract till November 2015. The loose forward and current Vodacom Bulls Super Rugby captain will be available for Super Rugby and Currie Cup duty for the next three...

• Young to coach Baa-Baas vs Lions

  Oct 23, 12 • 3189 Views • General News, International, World Rugby • admin • Comments Off on Young to coach Baa-Baas vs Lions

  The Barbarians have invited David Young to be their head coach for their historic fixture against the British & Irish Lions in Hong Kong next June. The match marks the climax of the club’s summer tour of 2013 which kicks-off with the fixture...

• Jamie Roberts back for the Dove Men Series

  Oct 22, 12 • 3095 Views • General News, International • admin • Comments Off on Jamie Roberts back for the Dove Men Series

  Rob Howley has named a 35-man Wales squad to contest the 2012 Dove Men Series at the Millennium Stadium this autumn which includes just one uncapped player and the returning Jamie Roberts. Howley, Wales’ interim head coach in the absence of Warren Gatland,...

• Rugby’s Biggest Party – 50 days to go

  Oct 17, 12 • 2177 Views • Blitz Bokke, General News, International, National, Sevens Rugby • admin • Comments Off on Rugby’s Biggest Party – 50 days to go

  Tomorrow (Thursday) marks the start of the 50-day countdown until kick-off for the much-awaited Nelson Mandela Bay South Africa Sevens tournament in the iconic Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium in Port Elizabeth. South Africa’s own Blitzbokke will battle it out...

• SARU Player of Year finalists named, final voting opens

  Oct 17, 12 • 2976 Views • General News, International, National • admin • Comments Off on SARU Player of Year finalists named, final voting opens

  The ten finalists for the prestigious SARU Rugby Player of the Year 2012 have been finalised, following a new public consultation process in conjunction with the votes of rugby media. The rugby public nominated and voted for players on the Springboks’...

• Third Bledisloe Cup match to be available online to selected territories

  Oct 17, 12 • 2170 Views • General News, International • admin • Comments Off on Third Bledisloe Cup match to be available online to selected territories

  SANZAR would like to remind all that their online viewing service, available towards the tail-end of 2012 Super Rugby and throughout The Rugby Championship, will be offering coverage in most of the same territories for the third Bledisloe Cup match.  ...

• IRB appointments for Marlize Jordaan, Freek Burger

  Oct 16, 12 • 4611 Views • International, National, Womens Rugby, World Rugby • admin • Comments Off on IRB appointments for Marlize Jordaan, Freek Burger

  Marlize Jordaan, a former SA Women’s representative, has been selected on the panel for Sevens referees by the International Rugby Board (IRB). The IRB announced its female referee panels for 2012/13 as preparation continues towards Rugby World Cup Sevens...

• SARU welcomes pioneering Women’s Sevens Series

  Oct 12, 12 • 1749 Views • General News, International, National, Womens Rugby • admin • Comments Off on SARU welcomes pioneering Women’s Sevens Series

  The South African Rugby Union (SARU) has welcomed the inclusion of the SA Women as one of six invited teams that will take their place alongside the core sides for the inaugural leg of the first ever IRB Women’s Sevens World Series (WSWS). The...

• Blitzbokke aiming for good start at Gold Coast Sevens

  Oct 12, 12 • 2340 Views • Blitz Bokke, International, National, Sevens Rugby, Sevens World Series • admin • Comments Off on Blitzbokke aiming for good start at Gold Coast Sevens

  The Springbok Sevens get their new HSBC Sevens World Series season underway on Saturday morning (SA time) when they run out against Canada in their first Pool A match at the Gold Coast Sevens at Skilled Park. The Blitzbokke, who will be aiming for a vastly...

• Unchanged ticket prices for SA rugby’s “Biggest Party of the Year”

  Oct 11, 12 • 2434 Views • General News, International, National, Sevens Rugby • admin • Comments Off on Unchanged ticket prices for SA rugby’s “Biggest Party of the Year”

  The South African Rugby Union (SARU) has kept ticket prices for the popular Nelson Mandela Bay SA Sevens tournament unchanged from last year.   SARU made the announcement on Thursday at the tournament launch, which took place at Humewood Bridge in Port...