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The Vodacom Blue Bulls’ Springbok trio of Bakkies Botha, Victor Matfield and Fourie du Preez will celebrate their 50th appearance for the Blue Bulls when they play against the Vodacom Free State Cheetahs in the Absa Currie Cup final on Saturday.
Beep-beep, beep-beep… as an SMS Text message comes through. That’s normal, right? That should have been a warning to me and sent the alarm bells ringing!
Toying around with the probable teams for the Currie Cup Final, we compare the head-on collisions between the 2 Teams’s respective opposing players.
The Currie Cup promotion / relegation match between the Platinum Leopards and the SWD Eagles took place today at Olën Park, Potchefstroom. The Platinum Leopards won 47 / 42, with the SWD Eagles coming back strongly near the end.
The Currie Cup promotion / relegation match between Boland and the Pumas took place today at Boland Park, Wellington. Boland won the match by a whisker, 36 / 35.
The Vodacom Blue Bulls have done it on numerous occasions in 2009 and they did it again on Saturday at Newland when they managed to grind out the win in the last couple of minutes.
It is as if this group of players enjoys playing under enormous pressure and what is more – they have the ability to lift their game whenever the situation demands it. We will now take a quick look at what Frans Ludeke’s assistants said about the 21-19 victory: Continue reading
The All Blacks named four debutants and brought back three players from last year for their squad for their six-match tour which will feature matches in Japan and Europe.
WP hosted the BLUE BULLS in their semi-final of the Currie Cup Premier Division today, at Newlands, Cape Town. The Bulls won a nail-biter with 7 Morne Steyn penalties. Bulls won 21 / 19.
Meetings was held on Friday afternoon. Muir was offered the job ahead of Heyneke Meyer. Muir will also be responsible for coaching the S14 side next year if he does hold on to the position.
Manie Reyneke said that a final decisi0n will be made in the next couple of days.
The Pumas hosted the SWD Eagles in Witbank for the final of the Currie Cup First Division tonight. The Pumas won comfortably by 47 / 19, after already leading 21 / 9 at half time.
This is a MUST READ. The sometimes controvercial Media24 Sports writer has all WP supporters up in arms about an Article he has written comparing WP as “The Bafana Bafana of Rugby”… here is an extract from his Article, as taken from Sport24.
Sharks Coach John Plumtree has been able to select from just about his strongest squad of the Absa Currie Cup campaign for Saturday’s showdown with the Free State Cheetahs in their Absa Stadium Durban semifinal.
This is a courtecy note to inform bloggers about the sudden disapearance of SMILEYS on the web site.
This year, the B-Factor is the buzz for the SA Rugby Awards. Heinrich Brüssouw and a host of Bulls players and Bokke players dominate the Nominations.
Being the week of the Currie Cup semi’s, I thought we would institute a Thread where we insult each other without getting heated about it!
Gooooooooooi Mieliessssssssss !
Xerox Lions hooker Hans van Dyk has been cited for allegedly biting Vodacom Western Province flanker Francois Louw on the forearm during the first half of an Absa Currie Cup Premier Division match in Johannesburg on Saturday.
Question marks about the injury situation of quite a few players are raised in the 4 Teams to compete in he semi’s, with the Bulls and Cheetahs least affected.
Four Currie Cup Premier Division games were played and the Lions walk away with this week’s TEAM OF THE WEEK AWARD.
The finalists for the semi-finals of the Currie Cup Premier Division 2009 has finally been decided.
The Lions hosted the WP in the last match in the play-off rounds for the Currie Cup of 2009. The Lions won a very hard fought match, 27 / 25.
The GWK Griquas hosted the Sharks in the last match for both teams in the play-off rounds for the Currie Cup of 2009. The Sharks beat the Griquas by 15 points denying Griquas into the Currie Cup semi’s. Sharks won 45 / 30.
The Platinum Leopards hosted the Blue Bulls in the last match for both teams in the play-off rounds for the Currie Cup of 2009. The Bulls won convincingly 61 / 24.
The two semi-finals of the Currie Cup First Division takes place late today and early evening. This is the match thread for discussion of these two games.
At last we have reached the last open round of the Currie Cup Premier Division of 2009, to determine the last qualifier for the semi-finals and to determine the order in which the top 4 Teams finish!
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Blue Bulls flyhalf Burton Francis has signed a deal with the Golden Lions Rugby Union, after the Blue Bulls Company (Pty) Ltd agreed to release the player of his contract. Continue reading
The Sharks Team to face the Griquas has been announced.
The WP Team to face the Lions at the Coke Tin was announced today.
We picked up a gem of a comment from a fellow rugby supporter and blogger on one of the other rugby blogs around.
The Blue Bulls have announced their team today to take on the Platinum Leopards on Friday evening. Die Blou Bulle het hulle span bekendgemaak wat Vrydagaand speel teen die Platinum Leopards.
Die Sharks was so gelukkig as wat hulle ooit was. Baie dinge het my beïndruk. Laat my voor begin. Ek was vooraf bekommerd oor ons voorry maar ons was skitterend. Continue reading
Having watched the 4 games in the Currie Cup Premier Division this past weekend, I nominate a Team of the week.
New Zealand takes on Australia in the final of the ICC Champions Trophy match today at 14:00, held at SuperSport Park in Centurion.
It was not only a busy week in South African rugby, it was indeed busy all over the World. Here’s a short summary of news from around the rugby globe. We discuss from Guinness Premiership to Currie Cup First Division to Super 14 to World Cup Preparation to Currie Cup Premier Division Log to European Challange Cup to French Top 14.
The Sharks took on The Lions in round 2 of the Currie Cup this afternoon at Newlands. The Sharks won a nail-biter by 2 points… 19 / 17 falling in the process to 2nd spot on the Log.