Super 14

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• RUGBYZONE: BE WARY OF FRENCH FLAIR!

  
  Paki's Corner — Authority: 138
  South Africa take on France in less than 24 hours in their first Test match of the 2009 European Tour. Get ready for a coat hanger! Click here to read the Corners predictions and comments on RugbyZone...
  3 days ago

• Too old at 30? Australian rugby’s scrapheap policy

  
  The Roar - Your Sports Opinion — Authority: 502
  The Australian rugby coach and his selectors appear to be following a quite deliberate policy of favouring emerging players over those with significant international playing experience. One consequence of this is that the Australian Super 14 franchises are being denuded of senior players who traditionally mentor ...
  4 days ago

• Too old at 30 - Australian rugbys "scrapheap" policy

  
  The MyoQuip Blog - rugby football, variable resistance strength equipment — Authority: 103
  The Australian rugby coach and his selectors appear to be following a quite deliberate policy of favouring emerging players over those with significant international playing experience. One consequence of this is that the Australian Super 14 franchises are being denuded of senior players who traditionally mentor and ...
  4 days ago

• Cheeky not upset at Kings rejection

  
  Keo.co.za — Authority: 450
  Cheeky Watson still says the Southern Kings will see Super Rugby action in future.On Wednesday, Melbourne was awarded the 15th spot when the tournament expands in 2011, a decision that leaves the Port Elizabeth-based franchise struggling to achieve their goal. In future they could take the place of the ...
  4 days ago

• And the winner is – Melbourne!

  
  Green and Gold Rugby THE Aussie Rugby Blog for fans of Australia and the Wallabies — Authority: 133
  Whos gonna play full-forward? The wait is finally over with Melbourne being named as the new Super 15 franchise that will enter the Super rugby competition in 2011. Just how the announcement will be greeted in Melbourne remains to be seen after the city was left standing at the altar some years ago when the fourth ...
  4 days ago

• They’re in! Melbourne awarded Super 15 licence

  
  The Roar - Your Sports Opinion — Authority: 502
  Melbourne will play in an expanded Super 15 competition in 2011 after the Australian start-up franchise was given the nod ahead of South Africa’s Southern Kings. SANZAR appointed a two-man panel of experts after initially being unable to make a unanimous decision and announced on Wednesday that Melbourne would be ...
  4 days ago

• SUPER 15: MELBOURNE SPEAR THE KINGS!

  
  Paki's Corner — Authority: 138
  SANZAR has announced Melbourne as the 15th Super Rugby team, to join the competition when expansion occurs in 2011. An arbitration panel - consisting of former World Cup-winning All Black captain David Kirk and retired New Zealand high court judge Barry Paterson - was tasked by the SANZAR executive committee to ...
  5 days ago

• Blues, Saders bolster squads

  
  Keo.co.za — Authority: 450
  The New Zealand Super 14 franchises have announced their final squads for the 2010 season.The Blues and Crusaders have made the most significant changes to their squads as they prepare for Super 14 next year.The Blues have added to their flyhalf depth as they have signed pivot Stephen Brett, who spearheaded Canterbury ...
  5 days ago

• Steve Tew wants to sell off NZ Super 14 franchises

  
  The Roar - Your Sports Opinion — Authority: 502
  In a recent article in Rugby Heaven, Greg Ford is not clear about what kind of share, if at all, the NZRU should have of their Super 14 franchises. About the time John O’Neill took over as ARU Boss, Greg Ford wrote another article about ‘privatising off’ NZ rugby, which was suffused with a golden glow that ...
  1 week ago

• NZ Super Rugby franchises for sale

  
  The Roar - Your Sports Opinion — Authority: 502
  New Zealand’s super rugby franchises are to be sold. The Sunday Star-Times reported today that a discussion paper which has been circulated among several of the game’s major stakeholders for comment, went before the New Zealand Rugby Union (NZRU) board last month. “This is the future,” NZRU chief executive ...
  1 week ago

• Bryan Habana a Stormer

  
  SA Rugby Blog - Springboks - SA Rugby - Super 14 — Authority: 115
  Habana a Stormer - at Newlands this am with Rassie and Rob Wagner Pic source: WP_Rugby
  1 week ago

• Wian on loan to Munster

  
  Keo.co.za — Authority: 450
  Cheetahs loosehead Wian du Preez has signed a two-month deal with Irish club Munster.Du Preez was the form loosehead in the Currie Cup this season and was part of the Cheetahs’ front row that was considered the best scrumming force in the competition. However, he was a shock exclusion from the Springbok squad for ...
  1 week ago

• Tahs signings a slap in the face for locals

  
  The Roar - Your Sports Opinion — Authority: 502
  The Waratahs’ signing of two “foreign” locks/second rowers for 2010, albeit one under the marquee rules, is a slap in the face for local talent. Recent injury woes suggest a lack of depth in the Australian lock ranks, although the toll has been truly horrid. However, the question arises as to whether those ...
  1 week ago

• Dumond signs for Free State

  
  Keo.co.za — Authority: 450
  Sharks pivot Monty Dumond has signed a loan deal with the Cheetahs for the Super 14 campaign next season.The Cheetahs and the Sharks have agreed a temporary transfer, which sees Dumond join the Bloemfontein union and Free State U21 flank Johan Wessels head to Durban. The two players will return to their respective ...
  1 week ago

• Chiliboy heading to Lions?

  
  Keo.co.za — Authority: 450
  Chiliboy Ralepelle is reportedly intent on a move to the Lions due to the arrival of Gary Botha.After returning from Harlequins earlier this year, Botha’s contract began on Monday, meaning Ralepelle would not be the automatic first-choice. Derick Kuun will revert to flank next year, but Botha’s arrival means ...
  1 week ago

• Lions’ pride re-groups

  
  Keo.co.za — Authority: 450
  Dick Muir has met with the Lions players for the first time this week ahead of their Super 14 preparations.In juggling his responsibilities with the Lions and the Springboks, Muir met the Lions players on Monday ahead of their first group training session of the year. Muir, the Lions’ new director of coaching and ...
  1 week ago

• Barnes still eyeing battle with Reds

  
  The Roar - Your Sports Opinion — Authority: 502
  Injured Wallabies playmaker Berrick Barnes is still holding hope of a much-anticipated Super 14 homecoming in the NSW Waratahs’ season opener against Queensland at Suncorp Stadium. Barnes’s return to the Sunshine State after leaving the struggling Reds in the off-season was expected to be one of the major ...
  2 weeks ago

• SOS Mark Gerrard, your country needs you

  
  The Roar - Your Sports Opinion — Authority: 502
  Seven years after Matt Giteau was catapulted into the Wallabies team, he has begun to demonstrate the leadership and skills deserving of the accolades that preceded his first international Test. In between, there have been games that he would like to forget and others that have made him a star. If this is to serve ...
  2 weeks ago

• CURRIE CUP: STATS FOR FINAL!

  
  Paki's Corner — Authority: 138
  There are always complaints and accusation about who poached whom and so on when it reaches crunch time in the Currie Cup. We look at the backgrounds of the 44 chosen for this years Currie Cup Final. We shall give place of birth and then, because place of birth may be of a short duration: born, place of education, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Lions prepared for another fight

  
  Keo.co.za — Authority: 450
  Manie Reyneke says the Lions will follow a similar path to the Jaque Fourie arbitration case if Louis Ludik and Willem Alberts want to leave to the Sharks.Reports suggest that Alberts, Ludik and four other players have similar loopholes to the Springbok centre’s contract, which meant he won the arbitration that ...
  2 weeks ago

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