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Another great McLook(back) article.
When i saw this article i could not resist the temptation to put it up here. I know we are a long way off in deciding the finalists for the Super 14 title. But the Suer 14 game of the year in the South African context might just be the old North vs South rivalry on the 15th of May 2010.
Add to it a possible repeat in the playoffs. Mouth watering prospects
Although a previous article by me was not such a bad prediction. I will refrain from doing it again. Here are the respective challenger’s roads to the final. Make up your own scenarios.
Playoff Games (Venues not confirmed) Home team first
Bulls vs WP
Lions vs Cheetahs
Boland vs Leopards
Sharks vs Griquas
We will talk about the Bulls loss for sure. Lets start here! They say a picture is worth a thousand words or something like that. Need i say more.
This follows a report in Sport24 today regarding what a great Super 14 season Andries Bekker is having and how New Zealand is appreciating the way he plays.
Article by- Met Uysh
World Cup winning-coach Jake White believes the form of scrumhalf Fourie du Preez is one of the major reasons the Bulls have scored so many tries this season.
There are two perturbing conclusions in a study by sports scientist Ross Tucker, on injuries suffered by top-level rugby players in terms of frequency and description.
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Francois Steyn has never been as happy as he has been playing in France. The Springbok is part of the revolution at Racing Metro , a team that won promotion to the top flight this season
In an effort to eliminate the 2009 runners-up from realistic play-off equations, the Stormers are aiming to put the squeeze on the Chiefs in Hamilton on Friday morning.
“It is time now to rip up the master plan – if indeed there is such a thing — and start again with this dismal franchise which hasn’t so much lost the way, as the plot”
Second Test, August 8, 1970
Subtle, yet intense the pressure mounted in the All Black camp. Winston McCarthy – a former New Zealand rugby commentator- forced the pressure right into the AB camp with his weekly newspaper report, published in New Zealand; his information was that were dissatisfaction in the AB camp with coach Ivan Vodanovich. The players “Were getting on top of their coach” he wrote in classical New-Zealand cut-down-the-tall-poppy style.
It is easy to call for the head of Lions fly-half Carlos Spencer, but the question is who will replace him.
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The Stormers proved the credibility of their contender status when they rallied to beat the Blues 33-21 in Auckland on Saturday morning.
Article By Zelim Nel
Here is my totally biased view of the South African challenge. It is early and so much can change. But this is my view today.
It’s standing room only at the Last Chance Saloon as the Chiefs, Blues and Hurricanes all contemplate a quest for perfection in Super 14 campaigns that have been anything but.
If the Cheetahs were hoping for some charity in Christchurch this week, their best bet might be to take their guitars to Cathedral Square and do some busking.
With six of the seven league rounds completed, the Blue Bulls remain the only unbeaten team in the Vodacom Cup competition with ten teams still vying for the eight quarter-final spots.
This weekend we had two good South African teams and two not so good ones. Make your picks for our own Rugby-Talk team of the week.
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Survey is closed, our panel of expert Rugby-Talk bloggers picked the best performers of the past weekend.
Today
| 10 Apr | Welwitschias | v | Blue Bulls | 34-58 | ||
| 10 Apr | Pampas XV | v | Free State | 36-24 | ||
| 10 Apr | Border | v | Boland Kavaliers | 33-13 | ||
| 10 Apr | Western Province | v | SWD | 29-23 |
Deccan Chargers won by 6 wickets (5 balls remaining)
Royal Challengers Bangalore won by 7 wickets (with 17 balls remaining)
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Pierre Spies and Gurthrö Steenkamp will join eight other team mates with 50 Super 14 caps against the losing finalist from last year’s competition.
Lions coach Dick Muir says criticism of Carlos Spencer’s chequered return to Super Rugby is unwarranted and he has given the struggling former All Black his vote of confidence at the tournament’s halfway stage.
Let us have a free for all Sports night. Talk about any sport you like, even poofbal if you can do it in small letters.
Rugby-Boots & All,Pick your Superbru & SportsPool Club
Cricket-Deccan Chargers won by 7 wickets
Golf- US Masters
The Lions will welcome back flanker Wikus van Heerden to their side for this weekend’s Super 14 clash with the Reds at Coca-Cola Park.
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With the threatened protest match little more than a damp squib, Lions president Kevin de Klerk, CEO Manie Reyneke and commercial manager Andre Homan answered a list of questions form eight supporters on Wednesday.
This is the stats released by the Referees. Read and analyze it. i am sure we could argue a few facts here.
Todays game
Bangalore 184/6 (20 overs)
Deccan Chargers 186/3 (19.2 overs)
Deccan Chargers won by 7 wickets
Reaction on the first test; AB against Boland and EP
We moved over the halfway mark of the 2010 Super 14 season. Sadly the injury toll affects certain teams severely. This thread deals with the casualties the various teams have. I am sure this list is not complete but add the ones i missed and we will update it.
With six rounds to go before the Super 14 finals, Greg Growden provides his half-term report and tells who are the finals contenders and pretenders.
Oh no! Big Naka Drotske said it. In the space of just 10 seconds, the Cheetahs coach may have brought down the Waratahs for another season.
Referees boss Lyndon Bray has promised the howler that helped the Crusaders salvage a draw against the Hurricanes will not be swept under the rug.
Only 10 points separate the log-leading Waratahs and the ninth placed Hurricanes at the conclusion of round eight in the Vodacom Super 14 after South Africa’s Vodacom Bulls and Vodacom Stormers both conceded defeats this weekend.
The Following games are played today
Time to play selector. Hope some who found it difficult to pick last week is inspired this week. I expect a lot of new names and changes.
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Crusaders 26 Hurricanes 26
Surely the South African referee Johnatan Kaplan was the central villain in a 26-26 draw that may have all but ended the Canes’ playoff hopes.