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The Waratahs are finally trying to play running rugby – ”Praise the Lord, and pass the ammunition”. At the end of their exciting victory over the hapless Lions, the Fox Sports commentator Greg Clark indulged himself in an orgy of statistics: 11 tries scored by the Waratahs, their highest winning score, their highest winning margin, and Drew Mitchell a record four-try spree.
The Crusaders enjoyed a very good win over the Chiefs in Hamilton last weekend – now the challenge is to follow that up against the Lions at AMI Stadium on Saturday.
The articles by McLook is mixed with the 1965 Australia tour by the Springboks. So there is not a follow up on the All Black tour to South Africa in 1970 this week. This is the first of the Austalia tour.
The Lions are going through a torrid time this season. Taking a team over that was a unhappy camp is tough in itself. Having so many of your best players abandoning ship makes Dick Muir’s job almost impossible. What possibly could be a possitive for this embattled team, at this stage?
Sharks head coach John Plumtree has, again, angrily dismissed reports that there is a rift in his squad.
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Cape Town – The Stormers have suspended flyhalf Lionel Cronjé for two weeks after he was involved in a fight in the early hours of Sunday morning.
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Rugby Talk team of the week, a few new faces in the selection panel, but most players pick them-self.
My connection with you restored, sometimes one must do it yourself. Now lets see what you think, who are the star players, from SA sides only, for this past weekend. Go ahead pick your team of the weekend. I will go through all your picks and the players with the majority vote will be in our team.
I found this interesting stats on Superbru.
What I am going to do is look at the Superbru picks made by us and 70 000 other rugby lovers who plays the Superbru game. I think that is the biggest group of opinions one can have.
| 4 | Kolkata Knight Riders |
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Bangalore Royal Challengers | Result ? | Eden Gardens, Kolkata |
| 5 | Chennai Super Kings |
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Deccan Chargers | Result ? | MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai Chepauk |
| 6 | Rajasthan Royals |
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Delhi Daredevils | Result ? | Sardar Patel Stadium, Motera |
The All Blacks travelled form Windhoek to the Transvaal for three matches: firstly, against Eastern Transvaal in Springs; secondly, against Transvaal in Johannesburg; thirdly, against Western Transvaal in Potchefstroom.
The All Blacks were not at all reluctant to take leave from Kimberley, which they found quite boring. Even a visit to the big hole -which did not impress them much-, could do little to leave them with a good impression or with any positive regard towards Kimberley.
The Stormers comfortably have the stingiest defence after four rounds in this year’s Super 14, but realise that it will be tested to the limit against the Hurricanes at Newlands on Saturday.
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| Round 6 | ||||||
| 21 |  UJ |
v |  NMMU |
97 – 14 | UJ Stadium, Johannesburg | |
| 22 |  Tuks |
v |  Shimlas |
23 – 27 | LC De Villiers Stadium, Pretoria | |
| 23 |  Pukke |
v |  TUT |
51 – 17 | Fanie Du Toit Sports Grounds, Potchefstroom | |
| 24 |  Maties |
v |  UCT |
23 – 17 | Danie Craven Stadium, Stellenbosch | |
Few bloggers picked and i decided to pick one team this week, plain majority vote decided our team of the week.
On a Monday where most eyes will be on the top-of-the-table clash between the Maties and the Ikey Tigers in Stellenbosch, UJ will try and put together their first home win in this year’s Varsity Cup competition when they play NMMU at UJ Stadium (kick-off 6.30pm).
Ask any Shark supporter what they think of the refereeing system used by SANZAR in this years Super 14 competition and you might hear many words not suitable for a family Rugby blog site.
It is again time for all our esteemed rugby gurus and knowledgeable bloggers to pick the South African players who performed best over this weekend. No Bulls player played this week so we can NOT pick them, even though they did enough to stay on top of the LOG.
Cape Town – Mark Alexander will oppose South African Rugby Union president Oregan Hoskins at the Annual General Council Meeting to take place on March 26 at the Southern Sun Hotel, Newlands, Cape Town.
Latest results of the Super 14 and Vodacom Cup.
Lions beat Titans by 10 runs and advance to the final against The Warriors
Final will be played at St Georges Park , Port Elizabeth on 12th of March 2010
Supersport 2, (Channel 202)
The news – good, bad and odd – from around the Super 14 teams.
The Vodacom Super 14 competition puts elite rugby players through one of the toughest tests in the game – with up to 15 maximum efforts over 16 weeks, often across 10 time-zones against teams wishing to displace the Bulls as the reigning Super Rugby champions.
Second part of a series by McLook, a blogger with a passion that we share, Springbok History. McLook is also a blogger right here on R-T. We thank him for the generosity to post his articles here.
New Zealand perspectives on the 1970 All Black tour to South Africa.
Courtesy of McLook
Hier is die twee spanne wat gekies is na die 3de rondte se wedstryde / Here are the 2 teams after the 3rd rounds games.
The SA Rugby Union (SARU) is killing the Goose that lays the golden eggs – against scientific advice and proven experience that helped Jake White’s team to win the 2007 World Cup.
Stephen Jones, that irrepressible British critic of Southern Hemisphere rugby, has predictably launched a scathing attack on the latest version of the Super 14, labelling it “tripe”, “sickly”, “a shambles” and “pap rugby”.
After this weekends overdose of Rugby, it is hard to start writing a match report. Where do you start. The games on Friday is almost erased out of your mind after the humdinger that was played at Loftus last night.
It is again time for all our esteemed rugby gurus and knowledgeable bloggers to pick the South African players who performed best over this weekend.
The Vodacom Bulls played against the Waratahs at Loftus in Pretoria. The Bulls showed tremendous guts and determination to come from 17 – 0 down and win the game 48-38.
The Cheetahs head into round three with newfound confidence and will fancy their chances against the Highlanders in Bloemfontein on Saturday.
Western Force played Chiefs in ME Staduim , Perth. Chiefs win with a bonus point
South Africa won by 90 runs