Tag: Springboks

Dream Team with Mouritz Botha

The former Bedford, Saracens, Sharks, Newcastle & England lock, chooses the best XV he has played with or against… 1. Tendai ‘The Beast’ Mtawarira – […]

Barrett J has keys to the kingdom

CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST Rugby is a game of infinite possibility, especially when it comes to dreaming up collective nouns. A “squabble of hookers” sounds […]

Arendse piles the misery on Jones

By BEN JAYCOCK South Africa ……………….. 43pts Tries: Arendse 16, 30, 51, Penalty 54, 68, PS du Toit Conversions: Libbok 17, 31, 76 Penalties: Libbok […]

Beets double does it for SA

POOL C S Africa ……….. 24 Argentina ……. 16 CORNE Beets scored two late tries as hosts South Africa beat Argentina in a winner takes […]

Richardson keen on Scotland role

By GRANT SHUB When Dylan Richardson was called up to play for Scotland against Japan at Murrayfield in 2021, the South African-born utility forward headed […]

Kolisi a major World Cup doubt

Springboks captain Siya Kolisi may miss this year’s World Cup with a knee injury sustained playing for the Sharks against Munster. Kolisi suffered a partial […]

Lions want Akker back

Sale hooker Akker van der Merwe could be set to rejoin one of his former clubs, the Lions. Van der Merwe, 31, who has won […]

Despair for Bears as Saracens steal glory

By GARY FITZGERALD Saracens ………………………20pts Tries: Dann 59, Segun 77, Hougaard 80 Conversions: Goode 59 Penalties: Goode 52 Bristol …………………………… 19pts Tries: Thacker 38, Ibitoye […]

All over for Sale as Ulster prove worth

By BEN JAYCOCK Ulster …………………………… 22pts Tries: Lyttle 19, Herring 64, Vermeulen 76 Conversions: Cooney 65, 78 Penalties: Doak 38 Sale ………………………………. 11pts Tries: B […]

Cowards who hide on the internet

CHRIS HEWETT It would be inaccurate to say that the Pau coach Sebastien Piqueronies’ manhandling of the Scottish referee Sam Grove-White last weekend was miles […]

Butler: Discipline let us down

By JOHN FALLON Stormers …………..38 Connacht …………..15 Connacht skipper Jarrad Butler said discipline let them down for the second week in a row when a […]