Referees
JJ Harmse
The irony could not escape me when I read that Michael Claassens will lead Bath in the upcoming season. I had a chuckle and most of my friends I shared it with, also had broad grins on their faces.
J.J. Harmse
Pretoria – The South African Rugby Union (SARU) is keen to host the 2013 Sevens World Cup following its recent bidding failures for the 15-man Rugby World Cup tournaments of 2015 and 2019.
Stephen Nell
Cape Town – The tug-of-war over Jaque Fourie has taken a new twist, with French club Clermont reportedly considering action against the Springbok centre after he decided against joining them. Continue reading
Big breaking news re changes in the rugby laws ….
Met die WP en Rassie Erasmus se agresiewe aanslag om senior spelers te bekom, ontstaan die emosionele vraag onder ondersteuners weereens oor watter provinsie status van ‘n speler aan homself kan toereken. Continue reading
Rocky Elsom is back in the Wallaby jersey for the first time in 2009, the rugged blindside flanker adding a harder edge to the Australian pack for Saturday night’s Bledisloe test against the All Blacks in Sydney.
Stuff.co.nz
All Blacks first five Dan Carter has been named in the starting line-up to face the Wallabies.
18 August 2009 (01:26)
Dean Richards has been banned from any involvement in the Heineken Cup for three years after being found guilty of organising the fabrication of a blood injury when he was director of rugby at Harlequins.
By MARK GEENTY
GBS finished and published this at the ungodly hour of 1.28 a.m. this morning. He then proceeded to hide the announcement at the bottom of some article that will be long forgotten come morning in South Africa. I suggest we all spend a few minutes to read through this to make sure we all understand where this blog comes from and where we want to be. I would like to think we will all adhere to it and help to enforce it when things get busy. If not we will be responsible for messing up something great.
Stephen Nell
Cape Town – Western Province are poised to make a large offer for the services of Springbok wing and Blue Bulls hero Bryan Habana. Continue reading
August 17 2009 at 06:20AM
By Ashfak Mohamed
Springbok wing Bryan Habana will be flying into Cape Town on Monday to meet Western Province senior professional coach Rassie Erasmus about a possible move to WP.
By MARC HINTON – Stuff.co.nz
While Wallabies coach Robbie Deans is poised to unleash a pack makeover for Saturday’s Bledisloe II in Sydney, his All Black opposite Graham Henry looks to be more focused on his backline.
Last updated 10:45 17/08/2009
Two schoolboy teams have to front up to the Auckland Rugby Union tomorrow and explain how a match between them degenerated into a brawl on Saturday.
(compliments NZTV)
The Western Australia city of Perth is in danger of losing future Test matches unless more fans start turning up to games, Australian media reported on Saturday.
Berlin – Rugby Sevens and golf virtually secured their spots as the two new sports for the 2016 Olympic Games when the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) Executive Board voted in their favour on Thursday.
The decision, taken by secret ballot, is not binding as it has to be rubber-stamped by the entire IOC membership in a vote in Copenhagen in October – if successful it would take the amount of sports to 28.
For the five sports who lost out there is no hope of continuing their fight as IOC president Jacques Rogge has said they cannot come to the vote as an alternative option should one of the recommended sports be voted down.
Rugby had always been the front runner.
After failing in their previous bid to get into the 2012 Games the sport’s powerbrokers mounted an aggressive and effective campaign, with International Rugby Board (IRB) president Bernard Lapasset making it the priority of his first term of office.
His intention was to make it a truly global sport, ‘reaching out’ as he termed it, and as IRB chief executive Mike Miller pointed out the Sevens format is ideal for television as it is ‘fast and furious’ and also has the habit of producing upsets.
Golf had attracted a certain amount of scepticism even from golf lovers, in that it was too elitist and also several members hardly espouse the IOC value of sexual equality as they belong to male-only golf clubs.
Also as Australian golfer Geoff Ogilvy declared at one point ‘we are not members of a team we are individuals and we decide where we play’.
2016 is also a Ryder Cup year.
Several potential Olympic contenders who may be on the cusp of qualifying for either the American or European teams could well prefer to play in another tournament so they can garner enough points to make their respective Ryder Cup teams.
Softball produced a very passionate campaign led by their Korean War veteran, president Don Porter, who had been stunned when they were voted out of the Games in Singapore in 2005.
Indeed in a poll in the extremely influential Olympic publication ‘Sports Intern’ they topped the poll of IOC members, experts and specialist journalists – golf was fifth.
However, in the end that meant little as Rogge once again showed he is without doubt the master of the IOC – having initially begun his regime looking a bit shaky – and his will prevailed.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
We have advanced very well with DEVELOPMENT of our final Blog. Continue reading
I include a link here, containing a video clip, taken by an amateur, showing what utter shambles a rugby match can lead to.
Brumbies and Wallaby wing Clyde Rathbone has quit rugby, citing injuries and a declining desire as the main reasons behind his decision.
SA Rugby het sy kommer uitgespreek oor díe afname wat ondervind word in die getal rugby gerigte skole, veral in die noordelike dele van die land. Continue reading
RB World Rankings (Top 10)
1. South Africa 91.19
2. New Zealand 89.42
3. Australia 85.85
4. Ireland 83.27
5. France 81.48
6. Argentina 81.29
7. England 81.23
8. Wales 80.74
9. Fiji 76.52
10. Scotland 75.23
Quiet day on the news front but I thought I will throw in a few snippets I picked up surfing… Continue reading
Die 0.21-Leeus se wedstryd teen Boland moes gekanselleer word nadat vier rugbyspelers met die dodelike H1N1-virus gediagnoseer is.
Having spent last week getting his conditioning up, Juan Martin Hernandez, the latest recruit to The Sharks camp, is now looking to bring his special brand of magic to his new side. We caught up with him and found out a little more about him.
Stephen Samuelson | August 5, 2009
There is no doubt which team is No.1 but can the All Blacks and Wallabies hold on to their top three places?
Hey All,
I am, to say the least, absolutely PISSED OFF this morning!!! I watched the News last night and saw that at club level there were deliberate racial ‘attacks’ on the rugby field, at first when it was mentioned in the headlines I thought, “it is just another ploy to make rugby look bad”, but to my dismay it was shown that people go onto the field with “weapons”!!
Our fellow blogger here, Manly, alerted me to this… this is what REAL RUGBY DEVELOPMENT is… click on the link Continue reading
OK boys and girls… here we go, today’s thread.
Remember, keep it friendly enough.
Slaan daai KEYBOARDS !!!
OK boys and girls… here we go.
This should become a daily institution, a DAILY KAKPRAAT THREAD.
From “Drive-In” stories to “Poepruik” stories… anything except politics and religion… except by approved bloggers !
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Gooooooooi Mieliessssssssss !