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• Taunting The Beast

  
  Africa — Authority: 425
  Tendai “The Beast” Mtawarira, the burly Springbok and Sharks prop who is easily one of the most popular athletes in South Africa, is a Zimbabwean national. This has never raised anyone’s hackles in any meaningful way in the past. But suddenly South Africa’s Ministry for Sport, at the head of which sits ...
  2 days ago

• Baa Baas match ‘not ideal’

  
  Keo.co.za — Authority: 494
  The nine Springboks couldn’t be withdrawn from the Barbarians team as SA Rugby made an agreement with the club in April already.Peter de Villiers tried to justify the Boks’ minimal preparation time of two days in French conditions before the Toulouse Test as he wanted to make the tour a ‘two and a half week [...]
  2 days ago

• RUGBYZONE: NORTH VERSUS SOUTH!

  
  Paki's Corner — Authority: 141
  Read the latest RUGBYZONE post by the Corner - click here . Includes the North vs South battle and USAs RWC qualifier!
  3 days ago

• And the winners are…

  
  Keo.co.za — Authority: 494
  Keo.co.za picks the real winners and losers of 2009.THE HEROESTest Player of the Year – How the IRB overlooked Fourie du Preez for their Player of the Year award in favour of Richie McCaw is perplexing. He was the fulcrum around which the Springboks rotated in the British & Irish Lions series and in the [...]
  3 days ago

• Matfield to prolong AB pain

  
  Keo.co.za — Authority: 494
  Victor Matfield says he wants a fourth All Blacks scalp before enjoying a well-earned rest.The Springboks completed a clean sweep over the All Blacks in 2009, beating them comfortably in the two matches at home before going on to win the Tri-Nations decider in Hamilton. Saturday represents a fourth opportunity for ...
  3 days ago

• USA RUGBY PROMOTE INVICTUS WITH WARNER BROS!

  
  Paki's Corner — Authority: 141
  BOULDER, Colo. – USA Rugby recently teamed up with Warner Bros. in an effort to promote the movie “Invictus” (PG-13), which will open nationwide on Dec. 11, to American rugby fans. From director Clint Eastwood, “Invictus” tells the inspiring true story of how Nelson Mandela (Morgan Freeman) joined forces ...
  4 days ago

• Du Preez: ‘I almost quit’

  
  Keo.co.za — Authority: 494
  Fourie du Preez has decided to stay with the Springboks after admitting he had thoughts of retirement earlier this year.Like Victor Matfield, Bryan Habana and John Smit, Du Preez is one of many stalwarts in the team that remains from the Boks’ victorious campaign at the 2007 World Cup and has been a star player [...]
  4 days ago

• Saru bring in Balie

  
  Keo.co.za — Authority: 494
  Balie Swart will be the new go-between for coaches and the Saru refereeing panel with regards to the confusion at scrum time.Swart was announced as a referee selector for the 2010 season by Saru on Tuesday but will also work as a coach of legal scrumming technique.‘Balie worked with our referees throughout the 2009 ...
  4 days ago

• Boks badly exposed

  
  Keo.co.za — Authority: 494
  South Africa played like world chumps in Europe, writes Keo in his weekly Business Day column.Let’s skip all the emotional claptrap, the political correctness and new found South African way of justifying that our teams don’t lose, the other teams just score more points. Let’s get real and call Saturday’s ...
  5 days ago

• Battered Boks need rest

  
  Keo.co.za — Authority: 494
  Peter de Villiers has called for the careful management of Springboks over the next two seasons.The Springbok coach, responding to questions of why he didn’t rest his top players, was quoted prior to the year-end tour saying that the onus for that lies with the provincial unions. He has again intimated that that ...
  5 days ago

• Boks finger Heaslip

  
  Keo.co.za — Authority: 494
  The Springboks allege that Jamie Heaslip is guilty of eye-gouging.The Springboks have issued a request to match citing commissioner, Douglas Hunter from Scotland to investigate claims that the Ireland No 8 stuck his finger into the eye of Heinrich Brüssow in the first half of Saturday’s Test. Hunter has noted the ...
  5 days ago

• Hoskins hails ‘near invincible’ Boks

  
  Keo.co.za — Authority: 494
  Oregan Hoskins praised the Springboks after they received the the IRB Team of the Year award last weekend.The Boks collected the award for the third time after receiving it in 2004 and 2007, equaling the All Blacks’ record.SARU president Hoskins said while the European Tour was disappointing, the Boks came through ...
  5 days ago

• Matfield baffled

  
  Keo.co.za — Authority: 494
  Victor Matfield says he was shocked to discover that Ireland could understand their lineout calls in Afrikaans.In the disappointing 15-10 defeat at Croke Park, Ireland had the unexpected upper hand in the lineouts. The Boks normally reign supreme in the air battle, but to Matfield’s suprise, they were countered by ...
  5 days ago

• We’ve emerged from the dark, says enlightened O’Driscoll

  
  The Roar - Your Sports Opinion — Authority: 458
  Ireland’s achievement in finishing 2009 unbeaten and as Six Nations Grand Slam champions with a 15-10 victory over world and Tri-Nations champions South Africa on Saturday showed they had emerged from the dark days of a year ago said captain Brian O’Driscoll. The Irish – who this November drew 20-20 with ...
  5 days ago

• International sports, rugby: Ireland beat the Boks

  
  GenevaLunch — Authority: 554
  Croke Park, Dublin, Ireland (GenevaLunch) - The Irish rugby team put on a brave display to beat the South African Springboks, the current world champions, in a tight game which was played in a Dublin fog in front of almost 75,000 fans. The win meant that the Irish have now gone eleven games without defeat. The points ...
  5 days ago

• Keo.co.za tour diary – Week 3

  
  Keo.co.za — Authority: 494
  The uninspiring home of Guinness, respecting tradition and weather to make your teeth chatter.Dublin threatens your emotional well-being. Every day began much the same, with depressingly low temperatures exacerbated by soul-destroying winds and rain that was never quite strong enough to drive you from the street, but ...
  6 days ago

• Irish win the ‘clash of the champions’

  
  SA Rugby Blog - Springboks - SA Rugby - Super 14 — Authority: 412
  Six Nations Grand Slam champions Ireland ended their year on a suitably high note in Dublin on Saturday with a commendable 15-10 victory over world and Tri-Nations champions Springboks for their third successive home win over the visitors. Ireland’s young fly-half Jonathan Sexton - preferred to 93-times capped ...
  6 days ago

• Boks lack Plan B

  
  Keo.co.za — Authority: 494
  The European tour has underlined an old concern pertaining to South Africa’s inability to think outside the box.The Boks only know how to play one way, but when it doesn’t work for them, they don’t have an alternate plan or means of breaking down the opposition. Brutal physicality will always be the bedrock of ...
  6 days ago

• BLADES TALKS TO PETER DE VILLIERS AGAIN!

  
  Paki's Corner — Authority: 141
  
  6 days ago

• Wallabies prove they can do it

  
  The Roar - Your Sports Opinion — Authority: 458
  The Wallabies defeated the Welsh with an all round, high level performance. This win showed, as did the defeat of the Springboks in Brisbane, that this is a potent squad when they get their act together. As in the game against the Scots, the Wallabies dominated all aspects of the game and the underlying statistics. ...
  6 days ago

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