Yearly Archives: 2011
South Africa 250/9 (46/46 ov) Revised target D/L 268
India 234 (40.2/46 ov)
South Africa won by 33 runs (D/L method)
India won the toss and elected to field
21 August 1976 – NTVL 29 / All Blacks 27
Uncle Piet and hypocritical Thys had the All Blacks pretty worked up after the Northern Transvaal game. There were several incidents during and after the game but the cherry on the cake, for the All Blacks, was the way referee Piet Robbertse and NTVL captain Thys Lourens conspired to cheat them out of a victory in extra time. Continue reading
The quarter-final line-up for this season’s Heineken Cup is taking shape following the penultimate round of pool action.
The Sharks are making the best of the time they are spending at the Bafokeng Sports Campus in Phokeng and look set to return to Durban in great shape for the Vodacom Super Rugby tournament, coach John Plumtree said on Thursday.
Springbok wing Bjorn Basson will attend Monday’s hearing in Cape Town with a bitter taste in his mouth. Continue reading
Boland flyhalf Elgar Watts has an ideal opportunity to claim a Stormers spot, following the news that Springbok Peter Grant won’t be back from Japan in time for the pre-season tri-series. Continue reading
While Richie McCaw has been awarded a two-week holiday pass from the Super 15, Brad Thorn will be expected to slap on the body armour for the Crusaders’ first match, against the Blues at Eden Park on February 19.
Player management in this, a World Cup year, is once again in the spotlight. And the three-time defending champion Bulls seem to have the perfect blueprint on the subject.
The two-time champion Brumbies were dealt a cruel blow, both to their player resources and leadership corps, with Wallaby captain Rocky Elsom ruled out of the early rounds of the expanded Super Rugby competition.
Former Springbok assistant and Bulls coach Heyneke Meyer has warned of an impending catastrophe if teams do not get their planning right for this year’s Super Rugby competition.
South Africa 220 (49.2 ov)
India 223/8 (48.2 ov) India won by 2 wickets
SA World Cup squad
G Smith, J Kallis, D Steyn, AB De Villiers, H Amla, M Morkell, J Botha, JP Duminy, Faf du Plessis, C Ingram, L Tsotsobe, R Peterson, M van Wyk, I Tahir, W Parnell.
Lions coach John Mitchell has confirmed Franco van der Merwe will captain the team
Doppies la Grange has been named as vice-captain.
The Lions rugby team have a pleasant headache – to pick a captain for this year’s Super rugby competition.
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Lions coach John Mitchell said the results of his team’s pre-season matches in the Newlands tri-series will be far less important than the “energy and enthusiasm” his players bring to the field.
Munster’s 12-year streak of reaching the Heineken Cup quarter-finals was brought to an end by a 32-16 defeat in Toulon on Sunday as the debutant French club secured their own place in the last eight.
IT WAS expected the Melbourne Rebels would be rusty and somewhat disjointed when they took on Tonga in their first trial game last night at Olympic Park. They certainly were, but in between the clumsy periods, there were some promising stanzas during their 43-13 romp.
From the General and all at SuperBru HQ.
Welcome to a new season of rugby and a new and improved SuperBru. We’ve made a bunch of changes to make SuperBru even more fun!
Sharks coach John Plumtree was all but impressed about the continuous bad publicity of Springbok Captain John Smit, and that he should retire from the game coming from no other then the former national coach Jake White. Continue reading
18 August 1976 – Quaggas-Barbarians 31 / All Blacks 32
This was without doubt the most exciting match of the tour. A thriller with some fantastic tries scored right up to injury time. The All Blacks had a shocking start to the match and was trailing 31-9 with 20 minutes of the second half gone when they started their come back. It was probably only due to the spirit in which the game was played which allowed them to come back as the Baabaas never closed down the match. Nevertheless, it was an unbelievable comeback and a match which had the crowd on their feet right up to the final whistle. Continue reading
India tour of South Africa, 2nd ODI:
India 190 (47.2 ov)
South Africa 189 (42.5 0v)
India win by 1 run
The newly-established SANZAR (South Africa, New Zealand, Australia Rugby) organisation based in Sydney has appointed former international referee Lyndon Bray to the new role of Game Manager.
If history is anything to go by, the South African challenge for the new Super 15 trophy will be a 3-horse race. Continue reading
Time is running out to have your say on who should win the IRPA Try of the Year Award 2010. Be quick though, voting closes on Monday.
According to Sharks coach John Plumtree, Springboks skipper John Smit will have shed seven to eight kilos by the time the Super Rugby season starts.
With a little over 200 days to go until the IRB Junior World Championship 2011 kicks off in Italy, Pool C opponents South Africa and England are stepping up preparations in their quest to end New Zealand’s dominance of the prestigious Under 20 tournament.
India tour of South Africa, 1st ODI
South Africa 289/9 (50 ov)
India 154 (35.4 ov)
South Africa won by 135 runs
England tour of Australia, 1st T20
Australia 157/4 (20 ov)
England 158/9 (20 ov)
England won by 1 wicket (with 0 balls remaining)
Springbok rugby and South African rugby in general is coming to the end of an era, and it might be time to think about what the future holds. Continue reading
A packed calendar of events awaits those hungry to sample some rugby again. Diarise the following provisional DHL Stormers dates so that you don’t miss out.
Bulls have a tough start to the season. Losing coaches, key players injured and now management is hit by serious health issues to senior role players and their families.
Highly rated Vodacom Blue Bulls coach, Nico Serfontein, has been given permission to join the Guma group, a shareholding company of the Golden Lions Rugby Union, with immediate effect.
The time to feel sorry for the Freestate Cheetahs has to come to an end, they have no-one but themselves to blame for their ongoing problems. Continue reading
Having been on the losing end of two finals in 2010, Stormers coach Allister Coetzee believes his side can win the inaugural Super Rugby tournament.
With focus on the Rugby World Cup in New Zealand in September, former Springbok coach Jake White says incumbent Bok coach Peter de Villiers faces a difficult task in deciding when to rest his key players in this year’s Tri-Nations.
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London – Former Springbok coach Jake White will apply for the newly created position of Performance Director at the Rugby Football Union, a role which will see the current England coach Martin Johnson ultimately report to him.