It has been eluded to by a lot of people in the last two years with their criticism of team selections and game plans amongst other things – but it is now time for Peter de Villiers to make his personal mark on the Springboks if he wishes to be remembered as the coach that led the most successful Springbok teams, or the coach that was just lucky enough to be there at the right time. Continue reading

Extract from ‘Captain in the Cauldron’ by John Smit.
Andre Venter was a guy who set an intimidating example. In the week before I wore the Bok No2 jersey for the first time – the 37-33 win against Argentina in November 2000 – I shared a hotel room with him in Buenos Aires. Continue reading

Not a ruck or a tackle, but what happens to the human body when subjected to excessive workloads for too long.

I read the following article by Professor Tim Noakes in which he discusses the physical and mental state of our Bok players. Continue reading

Today, Saturday 14 November 2009, we had 3 important Test matches on the End of Year Tours to the Northern Hemisphere. They were the Following games:

  • Italy vs New Zealand – San Siro, Milan, Italy (k/0 at 16:00 SA Time, broadcast on SuperSport 5)
  • England vs Argentina – Twickenham Stadium, London, England (k/0 at 16:30 SA Time, broadcast on SuperSport 1)
  • Scotland vs Fiji – Murrayfield, Edinburgh, Scotland (k/0 at 16:30 SA Time, broadcast on SuperSport 6)

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All the questions that we have asked about this tour and about the planning, management and vision of the coach are now starting to be answered. Continue reading

Seeing that it’s my birthday and that I’m going to miss the game tonight, I thought I’ll give you a few of my thoughts about tonight’s game before I go out on the town with my gorgeous girlfriend.

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Congratulations to the Australian Rugby Union – who against all odds, have managed (read carefully and meticulously choreographed) to bring the 15th Super Rugby franchise to Melbourne, especially when the ARU has 80,000 registered rugby players and SA Rugby over 500,000, over 5 times the number of players in Australia.

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