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Varsity Cup Final preview
The Varsity Cup has arrived at the business end of the competition and after thrilling semi-final's between Ikeys & Maties as well as...
Apr 25, 20223 min read
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Evan Roos: have Bok coaches seen the light?
The Stormers put a very powerful performance in on Friday night to beat Glasgow 32 - 7 and move up to 2nd on the overall URC log. Whilst...
Apr 24, 20222 min read
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Los Pumas victorious in Vancouver, while Blitzboks take fifth spot
Argentina showed fantastic form to defeat Fiji in the final of the Canada Sevens, hosted in Vancouver on 16 and 17 April – their first...
Apr 19, 20222 min read
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Springbok areas for concern ahead of the 2022 season
With the first alignment camp done and dusted, we have an idea as to who the Springboks will rely on throughout the 2022 season, which...
Apr 17, 20223 min read
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Bok alignment camps: cutting through the smoke screen.
The Springboks have just finished the first of their 2022 alignment camps, which ran from Sunday to Tuesday. The camps gave the...
Apr 15, 20223 min read
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SA teams in Heineken Cup: Showcase or Marketplace?
I'm back after a little hiatus & taking some time out to see how the URC would pan out. Glad to say that it seems that our teams are now...
Apr 14, 20222 min read
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Explainer: How SA will qualify for the European Rugby Champions Cup
SA is currently completing it's first full season in the United Rugby Championship and three of the four teams featuring in the...
Apr 14, 20222 min read
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The Blitzboks lose their winning streak…but they’ll be back
The Blitzboks take on Fiji. Photo: Getty Images After a 10-week break, the HSBC World Sevens Series returned this weekend, with the...
Apr 11, 20223 min read
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Wales in for a rough July if the URC is any indication
With four weeks of URC rugby under the belt on South African shores. Wales will be left with plenty to think about ahead of their tour to...
Apr 9, 20222 min read
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URC Final around the corner... here is how the play-off's will work
The United Rugby Championship has been bolstered by a strong crowd attendance at the South African hosted fixtures of the tournament, so...
Apr 8, 20223 min read
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Picking a Bok team 3 months out
On this weeks episode of our podcast, Ronnie & I undertook the difficult task of selecting a starting team to feature in the opening...
Apr 7, 20222 min read
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Manie of the Match
Manie Libbok snapped up Man of the Match this weekend in the Stormers win over the Ospreys in Cape Town. It isn't only the past weekends...
Apr 7, 20222 min read
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Cheaper tickets should be the norm
This week the Blue Bulls, in an attempt to fill the stands for their big clash against Irish side Ulster, reduced the price of some...
Apr 6, 20223 min read
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The rise and rise of Makazole Mapimpi
By now, rugby fans around the world are more than familiar with the try-scoring machine, Makazole Mapimpi. Even before he scored the...
Apr 4, 20223 min read
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Sharks get major coup as Itoje set for Durban stint
The Cell C Sharks signing spree continues with the financial backing of MVM Holdings. One may have thought Etzebeth was the precipice of...
Apr 1, 20222 min read
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Peak-a-Sbu
Sbu Nkosi has been absent from the Sharks starting line up for a couple of weeks now, with debate raging about what is going on with the...
Mar 31, 20222 min read
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No room for the weak, SARU's self created problem
Speaking to the Daily Mail again, South African Director of Rugby, Rassie Erasmus discussed an issue he believes the South African...
Mar 31, 20223 min read
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Elrigh Louw
There is no doubt that the one position the Springboks never seem to be short of personnel in is the loose trio. South Africa seems to...
Mar 30, 20223 min read
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AFFIES V PAUL ROOS
On Saturday I had the privilege of attending some school boy rugby again, for the first time since 2019. School boys around the country...
Mar 29, 20222 min read
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Under pressure
Curwin Bosch. Photo: BackpagePix. After two rounds of clean sweeps for the SA sides in the URC, the Sharks were sadly the first team to...
Mar 28, 20224 min read
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