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Feb 12, 24 •
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Comments Off on Behind-the-scenes story of Boks’ RWC win launches 24 March
The highly anticipated inside story of the Springboks’ 2023 Rugby World Cup campaign, Chasing the Sun 2, premieres on M-Net and SuperSport on 24 March 2024. The five-part documentary is the sequel to Chasing the Sun, the award-winning story of the...
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Oct 26, 23 •
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Comments Off on All Blacks named for Rugby World Cup final against South Africa
All Blacks selectors Ian Foster, Jason Ryan and Joe Schmidt have named the team to play the final of the Rugby World Cup in Paris. With 1387 Test caps, this is the All Blacks’ most experienced team to play a Rugby World Cup final. “It is an honour to fly...
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Oct 26, 23 •
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Comments Off on Nienaber recalls record-breaking 2019 RWC final halfback duo for NZ showdown
Springbok coach Jacques Nienaber made only two changes to his starting team for Saturday’s Rugby World Cup final, recalling the 2019 final halfback pairing of Handré Pollard and Faf de Klerk to the run-on side, making them the most capped nine-and-ten...
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Oct 25, 23 •
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Comments Off on ENGLAND TEAM TO PLAY ARGENTINA
England men’s head coach Steve Borthwick has named his team to play Argentina in the Bronze Final of the Rugby World Cup 2023 at Stade de France on Friday night (kick-off 9pm CEST, 8pm BST live on ITV Sport). Owen Farrell will captain a starting XV with...
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Oct 19, 23 •
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Comments Off on ENGLAND TEAM TO PLAY SOUTH AFRICA
England men’s head coach Steve Borthwick has named his team to play South Africa in the semi-finals of the Rugby World Cup 2023 at Stade de France (kick-off 9pm CEST, 8pm BST live on ITV Sport) on Saturday. Owen Farrell will captain a starting XV with three...
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Oct 19, 23 •
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Comments Off on Nienaber names unchanged team for England showdown
Springbok coach Jacques Nienaber showed faith in his match-winning Rugby World Cup quarter-final squad by retaining the same starting XV and replacements’ bench for Saturday’s semi-final against England at the Stade de France in Paris. The selection is...
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Oct 18, 23 •
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Comments Off on All Blacks named for Rugby World Cup semifinal against Argentina
All Blacks selectors Ian Foster, Jason Ryan and Joe Schmidt have announced the team to take on Argentina in Friday’s Rugby World Cup semifinal in Paris. The selectors have made two personnel changes and one positional switch to the team that took part in...
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Oct 16, 23 •
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Comments Off on Kolisi: “We knew it would take something special”
Springbok captain Siya Kolisi declared in the early hours of Monday morning that they knew it would take something special to beat France in the Rugby World Cup quarter-final on Sunday, and both him and Bok head coach Jacques Nienaber lauded the team’s...
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Oct 13, 23 •
432 Views •
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Comments Off on Experienced Springbok team named for RWC quarter-final
Springbok coach Jacques Nienaber named an experienced team – including 15 players who featured in the 2019 final – for their Rugby World Cup quarter-final against France at the Stade de France in Paris on Sunday evening. A further four players in the...
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Oct 3, 23 •
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Comments Off on All Blacks named to play Uruguay in Lyon
All Blacks selectors Ian Foster, Jason Ryan and Joe Schmidt have named the team for Thursday’s Rugby World Cup pool match against Uruguay in Lyon. Regular captain Sam Cane has returned to the starting side for the final pool game at Parc Olympique Lyonnais....
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Oct 2, 23 •
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Comments Off on Lukhanyo Am called into Springbok Rugby World Cup squad
Lukhanyo Am, a member of the Springboks’ 2019 Rugby World Cup winning team, has been called into the 2023 squad as an injury replacement for wing Makazole Mapimpi who suffered a fractured cheekbone in Sunday’s 49-18 victory over Tonga. Mapimpi is expected...
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Oct 2, 23 •
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Comments Off on Nienaber praises Boks for doing what they could to stay in RWC
Springbok coach Jacques Nienaber and captain Siya Kolisi praised the team’s effort and physicality against Tonga on Sunday night in their final Rugby World Cup pool match in Marseille – steering them to a 49-18 victory – and doing all they could to...
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Sep 27, 23 •
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Comments Off on All Blacks named for Rugby World Cup pool match against Italy in Lyon
All Blacks selectors Ian Foster, Jason Ryan and Joe Schmidt have named the team for Friday’s Rugby World Cup pool match against Italy in Lyon. The All Blacks will welcome back four players from injury and likely celebrate a special individual milestone for...
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Sep 20, 23 •
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Comments Off on Nienaber makes wholesale changes for Rugby World Cup duel with Ireland
Springbok coach Jacques Nienaber made 13 personnel changes and a positional switch as well naming a seven-one split in favour of the forwards on the replacements’ bench for Saturday’s third Rugby World Cup pool encounter against Ireland. Nine players who...
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Sep 15, 23 •
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Comments Off on SLIPPER EQUALS WALLABY WORLD CUP MILESTONE, WHITE TO START AGAINST FIJI
Test centurion James Slipper will become the third Australian to play in four Rugby World Cups named to start at tighthead prop in the Wallabies second Pool C game against Fiji in Saint-Etienne on Sunday evening (local time). Slipper, who joins George Gregan...
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Sep 14, 23 •
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Comments Off on Marx ruled out of Rugby World Cup
Springbok hooker Malcolm Marx has been ruled out of the remainder of the Rugby World Cup in France with a long-term knee injury. Marx, who was not included in Springbok coach Jacques Nienaber’s matchday squad to face Romania in Bordeaux on Sunday, went down...
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Sep 14, 23 •
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Comments Off on Nienaber names four scrumhalves in squad to face Romania
Springbok coach Jacques Nienaber named all four scrumhalves in the Springbok squad in the match-23 to face Romania in Bordeaux as he spread the playing load for the team’s second Pool B Rugby World Cup clash on Sunday, when Bongi Mbonambi will lead the team...
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Sep 13, 23 •
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Comments Off on All Blacks named to play Namibia in Toulouse
All Blacks selectors Ian Foster, Jason Ryan and Joe Schmidt have announced the side that will face Namibia in the second Rugby World Cup pool game against Namibia. With the team taking a precautionary approach to Sam Cane’s back injury, Ardie Savea will...
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Sep 8, 23 •
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Comments Off on SAB PARTNERS WITH THE SABC TO SECURE BROADCAST RIGHTS TO TELEVISE 2023 RUGBY WORLD CUP MATCHES
Millions of sport-loving South Africans will have a collective sigh of relief after The South African Breweries (SAB) through Mzansi’s national beer, Castle Lager, announced that, together with another corporate, it has inked a partnership with the South...
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Sep 7, 23 •
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Comments Off on ENGLAND TEAM TO PLAY ARGENTINA
England men’s head coach Steve Borthwick has named his team to play Argentina in England’s opening pool match of Rugby World Cup 2023 at Stade de Marseille (kick-off 9pm CET, 8pm BST live on ITV Sport). Courtney Lawes is named captain at blindside flanker...
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Sep 7, 23 •
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Comments Off on TUPOU TO PLAY 50TH TEST FOR AUSTRALIA IN WORLD CUP OPENER V GEORGIA
Tighthead prop Taniela Tupou will make his 50th appearance for the Wallabies in their 2023 Rugby World Cup opener against Georgia on Saturday night in Paris. In a sign of the side’s regeneration under coach Eddie Jones, 17 of the matchday 23 will play in...
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Sep 7, 23 •
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Comments Off on De Klerk reaches 50 in settled Springbok team for momentous RWC opener
Springbok scrumhalf Faf de Klerk wins his 50th Test cap in a settled Springbok team for the momentous Rugby World Cup opener against Scotland in Marseille on Sunday. De Klerk is one of 11 players to retain their starting places from the team which recorded a...
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Sep 6, 23 •
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Comments Off on All Blacks named to play France in Rugby World Cup opener + squad update
All Blacks selectors Ian Foster, Jason Ryan and Joe Schmidt have named the match day 23 that will take the field against France for the opening game of Rugby World Cup 2023. Captain Sam Cane will lead the side out in front of 80,000 fans at Stade de France in...
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Aug 10, 23 •
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Comments Off on WALLABIES BACK YOUTH TO TAKE ON THE WORLD IN FRANCE
Wallabies head coach Eddie has backed young players to spearhead Australia’s campaign to win its third Rugby World Cup which kicks off in France next month. Eddie Jones has named 18 forwards, 13 backs and two utility players in the group with 25 men set to...
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Aug 8, 23 •
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Comments Off on Nienaber names youth and experience in exciting RWC squad
Springbok coach Jacques Nienaber named 21 players with Rugby World Cup experience (nine of whom will be appearing at their third RWC tournament) when he revealed the defending champion’s squad of 33 players for the 2023 edition in Johannesburg on Tuesday....
