All posts tagged "Springboks"
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Autumn Internationals
/ 3 months agoMarcus Smith: England are going to come out firing shots against South Africa
Marcus Smith has told England to prove their last performance against France was no fluke and get on the front foot...
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Autumn Internationals
/ 3 months agoEngland and Leicester Tigers scrum-half Jack van Poortvliet takes defence tips from Maxime Lucu
England and Leicester Tigers’ Jack van Poortvliet has been studying a French scrum-half’s game for tips – and for once it...
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Latest News
/ 3 months agoSuccess at Ellis Park does not come easy
CAN it really be more than half a century since Bristol found themselves at the heart of a minor rugby earthquake?...
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Latest News
/ 3 months agoJunior Boks open their defence in fine style
POOL A ■By SAM JACKSON Colossus: Siphosethu Mnebelele runs in a try DEFENDING champions South Africa sent a title warning with...
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Latest News
/ 3 months agoBorthwick poses a puzzle – Erasmus
SOUTH AFRICA DOUBLE world champions South Africa are the team everyone wants to beat and England first up at Ellis Park...
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Features
/ 3 months agoWill Genia: Henry Pollock’s approach is so good for the game – I love it, he creates excitement
Ben Jaycock speaks to former Australia scrum-half Will Genia ahead of the Nations Championship
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Club Rugby
/ 3 months agoImmanuel Feyi-Waboso details Bath fan altercation after Exeter Chiefs reached Prem final
Exeter Chiefs wing Immanuel Feyi-Waboso has confirmed he was involved in an altercation with a Bath fan at the end of...
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Latest News
/ 3 months agoVan der Merwe ignites try frenzy
■By SAM JACKSON SOUTH Africa delivered a spectacular 12-try masterclass to dismantle the Barbarians 80-31 at Gqeberha’s Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium....
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Columnists
/ 3 months agoNick Cain: Selling the soul of the ‘greatest rivalry’
Nick Cain questions the decision to stage the final South Africa v New Zealand Test in Baltimore, USA, arguing tradition and...
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Latest News
/ 3 months agoBok champions will fight hard to defend their title
Top team: South Africa celebrate last year’s success SOUTH AFRICA SOUTH Africa arrive in Georgia carrying the weight of expectation after...
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Junior International Rugby
/ 3 months agoUnder 20s World Championship: Wales – We can take the heat, says Richard Whiffin
Wales head to Georgia looking to build on the progress made under Richard Whiffin.
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Latest News
/ 3 months agoHome comfort key for hosts
GEORGIA HOSTS Georgia will look to harness home advantage in Tbilisi as they target beating their best ever finish of eighth...
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Latest News
/ 3 months agoMackenzie Martin keen to take up new Beziers challenge
Beziers-bound back rower Mackenzie Martin feels it is the right time to leave his comfort zone and embrace a new culture...
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Club Rugby
/ 3 months agoSouth Africa star Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu picked as best in the URC
Stormers fly-half Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu has been crowned the URC’s players’ player of the season in a poll of the captains and...
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Chris Hewett
/ 3 months agoChris Hewett: Yes, Nick, Afolabi Fasogbon deserves his chance with England
Chris Hewett argues England are missing a World Cup opportunity by overlooking Gloucester prop Afolabi Fasogbon, whose rise could provide Steve...
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Columnists
/ 3 months agoPeter Jackson: Stewart McKinney recalls his great old pal Fergus Slattery
Peter Jackson shares Stewart McKinney’s poignant memories of Fergus Slattery and the devastating toll dementia took on the Ireland and Lions...
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Latest News
/ 4 months agoEx-Wales centre Lewis dies at 84
FORMER Wales and British and Irish Lions centre Arthur Lewis has died at the age of 84. He made 11 Wales...
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Chris Hewett
/ 4 months agoChris Hewett: When fresh ambition takes on old rivalries
World Rugby moves at a pace best described as geological – in a footrace with continental drift, the non-governing governing body...
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Latest News
/ 4 months agoSun is yet to set on England empire
THE sun, it seems, has yet to set on one section of England’s empire. Bristol’s Benhard Janse van Rensburg will be...
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Features
/ 4 months agoPeter Winterbottom: England can take on world’s best if they play with ambition and confidence
Former England flanker Peter Winterbottom gives his verdict on Red Rose head coach Steve Borthwick, captain Maro Itoje, and outlines how...
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Challenge Cup
/ 4 months agoSouth African Rugby Union could withdraw its sides from Europe
South African Rugby will hold a strategic planning session with its member unions and directors of rugby to review the current...
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Latest News
/ 4 months agoChris Hewett: You need to have the right instinct for top-level rugby
So it’s official: the one thing in top-level rugby that sorts the men from the boys, the wheat from the chaff,...
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Features
/ 4 months agoMy life in Rugby: Bobby De Wee – “Winning titles never gets old”
Coming through South African rugby as a lock can feel brutal at times because there is always somebody bigger, stronger or...
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International Rugby
/ 5 months agoLukhanyo Am: England could learn from South Africa selection policy
Lukhanyo Am has underlined the benefits of South Africa’s overseas selection policy, insisting it has been a “real advantage” in building...
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 months agoChris Hewett: Super Rugby’s survival is far from guaranteed
Remember the days when Super Rugby was so hot, you could toast yourself on it?
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 months agoMulti-taskers who are pushing out specialists on the World Rugby stage
Contrary to popular belief, hybrid players – those who can play in the pack, as well as the backs – are...
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Chris Hewett
/ 5 months agoChris Hewett: An epic drama? No, just drowning in tries
A quarter-final classic”, proclaimed the BBC. Hyperbole? Quite the opposite. As the avalanche of superlatives triggered by Bath’s victory over Northampton...
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Latest News
/ 5 months agoMoana Pasifika to be axed
SUPER Rugby Pacific outfit Moana Pasifika is leaving the competition due to ongoing financial pressures and the inability to sustainably fund...
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International Rugby
/ 5 months agoMike Tindall: Steve Borthwick is still the man to lead England forward
Mike Tindall is convinced Steve Borthwick will come up with a remedy to heal England’s losing headache and turn them into...
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Latest News
/ 5 months agoDREAMTEAM
BEN FODEN, THE FORMER ENGLAND, SALE, NORTHAMPTON & RUGBY UNITED NEW YORK FULL-BACK, SELECTS THE BEST XV HE PLAYED WITH OR...
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Latest News
/ 5 months agoFlankers who can cause problems
A TROUBLESOME breed, openside flankers of the silver-ferned variety – especially the top one per cent. The wonderful New Zealand captain...
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United Rugby Championship
/ 6 months agoEdinburgh blown away
■By WILL RILEY Stormers ........33 Edinburgh ......14 THE Stormers powered to a bonus-point victory over Edinburgh at Cape Town Stadium. Stormers...
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Miscellaneous
/ 6 months agoBears find welcome in the hillsides
THERE used to be a time when every clubhouse in England marvelled at the magnetic appeal of the Welsh club scene,...
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International Rugby
/ 7 months agoLawrence Dallaglio: Time for England to go back to the basics after Six Nations defeats
Lawrence Dallaglio admits it is “tough” being an England fan right now, but he has urged disgruntled followers to keep the...
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Latest News
/ 7 months agoCampbell Ridl quick to make a name for himself at Exeter Chiefs
Last season it was Paul Brown-Bampoe, now it is Campbell Ridl who has very quickly made his name at Exeter Chiefs.
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Columnists
/ 7 months agoPeter Jackson: Memories of All Black legend going under the hammer
In the bad old days when too many referees turned a blind eye to all manner of mayhem, Kevin Skinner built...
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Latest News
/ 7 months agoMarnus on move
Scarlets hooker Marnus van der Merwe will join Munster at the end of the season on a two-year deal. The 29-year-old...
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Chris Hewett
/ 7 months agoChris Hewett: ‘Fast, faster, fastest’ is Fabien Galthie’s new look for France
Rugby is a game of assumptions about the future, rooted in the here and now.
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Chris Hewett
/ 7 months agoChris Hewett: Wingers who light up the greatest show
The key ingredients of a successful World Cup are few in number but broad in sweep: a critical mass of genuinely...
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Young Gun
/ 8 months agoOWEN ERASMUS
YOUNG GUNS OSPREYS & STORMERS FLY-HALF Owen Erasmus is hoping the opportunity to spend a year with the Springbok-laden Stormers will...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 8 months agoBrendan Gallagher: Small in stature but big on talent
Back in the day it became almost a cliché that All Blacks forwards were all rugged frontiersmen and farmers – world...
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Latest News
/ 8 months ago100 years ago when Scots missed the Slam
THE one that got away is a staple in sport – indeed life – and for Scotland the one that got...
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Champions Cup
/ 8 months agoBulls 49-61 Bristol Bears: Nine-try visitors vanquish Bulls
Bristol Bears hit the heights at altitude against the Bulls. It sounds crazy to say in a game of 16 tries...
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Latest News
/ 9 months agoEngland lead unofficial world title battle
■ By JOSEPH TERRY ENGLAND’S men and women are currently both in first place in an unofficial world title challenge which...
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Latest News
/ 9 months agoSuperb Sharks demolish Clermont
■ By SAM JACKSON Off to a flyer: Tom O’Flaherty gets the first try for Sale in their impressive win at...
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Champions Cup
/ 9 months agoSharks 28-23 Saracens: Sarries looking good but fail to take chances
This was a game Saracens could and should have won despite travelling to Durban with a much-changed team after putting Clermont...
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Chris Hewett
/ 9 months agoChris Hewett: Glad we were spared Gianni Infantino’s sycophancy
Just for once, we must congratulate World Rugby on getting it right. Their staging of the pool draw for the next...
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Latest News
/ 9 months agoVan Zyl was cast out and never forgiven
HENNIE van Zyl, who had been the second oldest surviving Springbok behind Frik du Preez, died aged 89 earlier this month...
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Autumn Internationals
/ 9 months agoSouth Africa lock Eben Etzebeth gets 12-week ban for eye gouge
South Africa lock Eben Etzebeth has been banned for 12 weeks for an eye gouge on Wales flanker Alex Mann.
