Yearly Archives: 2011
The South African Rugby Players Union has escalated the fight for the players in the South Western Districts Union, many of whom are still owed salaries from last year.
Here’s the second Part of the GBS Holiday, enjoy.
Roger Federer will be closely following this year’s Rugby World Cup – just don’t ask him to support the All Blacks.
Mpumalanga’s rugby team, the Pumas, will play all their Currie Cup games at the Mbombela Stadium.
The Crusaders will be wearing specially designed GPS systems in this weekend’s pre-Super 15 Rugby warm up against the Reds.
Lions have released their squad that will compete in the Tri-Series warm-up games in Cape Town.
The Stormers have picked an experienced stating side , with plenty of youngsters on the bench, for the clash against the Lions. Continue reading
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Brenden Nel – SuperSport
Johannesburg – Vodacom Bulls captain Derick Kuün believes there is a “big excitement” in his team at the moment ahead of their first hit-out of the season against the Southern Kings in Port Elizabeth on Saturday night. Continue reading
The Sharks have launched their new look Super Rugby jersey in time for die hard supporters to purchase before the start of the new Vodacom Super Rugby season. The official match jersey will be worn by The Sharks for the first time against the Cheetahs on Saturday 19 February to be played in Durban.
The Cheetahs’ management team will have to wait a week longer before they get to see their Springbok acquisition in action.
Springbok centre Andries Strauss is struggling with a groin injury ahead of the Super Rugby tournament, and will not play in the Cheetahs’ warm-up games on Friday.
London Irish’s South African prop Faan Rautenbach has been cited for stamping on Munster flanker David Wallace.
Cheetahs flanker Heinrich Brüssow will miss the first few weeks of Super 15 Rugby and is only expected back in March this year.
Whilst most of you were slaving away in 2011, it was time for the holiday of a lifetime. You probably wondered where I was, well it would be cruel not to share in a bit of the fun.
Bombs AWAY!
The Springbok management will have access to key national players during the Vodacom Super Rugby tournament following an agreement with the coaches of the five teams at a cordial and productive meeting in Johannesburg on Tuesday.
Highlanders coach Jamie Joseph has named Jamie Mackintosh as captain of New Zealand’s southern most franchise for the 2011 Super Rugby season.
Queensland Reds coach Ewan Mckenzie has selected a strong squad for his team’s first pre-season match against the Crusaders on Saturday, January 29 in Cairns.
The Lions will head to Cape Town for the Neo Africa Tri-series against the Stormers and Sharks without Springbok flyhalf Elton Jantjies.
Bulls flanker Derick Kuün will captain the Bulls in their 1st pre-season friendly against the Southern Kings in Port Elizabeth on Saturday.
Springboks Bjorn Basson and Chiliboy Ralepelle will have to wait a while longer before they know their fate in the ongoing doping saga.
Chilliboy Ralepelle and Bjorn Basson will face a SARU judicial committee at 09h00 this morning. Continue reading
Failure to plan is planning to fail, or so the old saying goes.
Springbok Sevens’ coach Paul Treu has made four changes to his squad for the Sevens World Series tournaments in Wellington and Las Vegas, the SA Rugby Union said on Monday.
Analysis of the new Super Rugby format shows that the new format could favour Australia as they have two of the newest Super rugby teams in the Rebels and the Force.
The new Super Rugby format has the 15 teams split into conferences which are geographically based. In short, the teams have been split into three pools – one for each country.
He may not be ready for the warm-up fixture against the Lions at Newlands on Friday week, but the chances are good that Jaque Fourie will be opposing the same opponents when the Stormers start their Super Rugby campaign on 26 February.
The Brumbies have effectively told Matt Giteau that he should pack his bags at the end of the season. They regard Adam Ashley-Cooper as far more valuable.
This is the gist of the message from Brumbies boss Andrew Fagan, who made it clear that they will be working very hard on retaining Ashley-Cooper.
Stormers coach Allister Coetzee may already know the answer, but he is not about to make public his choice as back-up flyhalf to Springbok Peter Grant.
Western Force captain Nathan Sharpe could be ruled out for the start of the new Super Rugby season, the first big blow for new head coach Richard Graham.
Businessman and now part owner of the Lions rugby union, Robert Gumede, spoke to Jacques van der Westhuyzen about his vision for the Lions.
232 SAFFAS PLAYED ABROAD IN 2010!
New Super Rugby franchise The Melbourne Rebels are ready to unleash former Western Province and South African under-18 player JP du Plessis onto the world stage during this year’s tournament.
The Vodacom Bulls will continue to play matches in stadiums built for the 2010 Soccer World Cup in South Africa.
Vodacom Bulls scrumhalf, Francois Hougaard, will be out of action for four weeks after picking up a foot injury in training.
The Cheetahs still have not registered an overseas victory in five seasons of Super rugby, but they will lay that ghost to rest in 2011.
South Africa Under-20 coach Dawie Theron on Saturday said that South African junior rugby is in a healthy state and added that there is talent and depth to consistently excel on the international stage in the future.
To coincide with our countdown of Rugby’s Most Influential People, we thought we would offer up some additional rankings in the form of a series of ‘Top 5s’.