After 15 weeks of top-notch action in the 2010 Vodacom Super 14, Sports Scientist Ross Tucker – thanks to Powerade, the official fuel of the Super 14 – looks ahead to Saturday’s final between the Bulls and the Stormers. Ross looks at the various off-field factors that could come into consideration come Saturday at 5pm; [...]

On Saterday the Stormers reached their first Super 14 Final with the intensity and discipline of a championship winning team. They joined the Bulls in the final, who had earlier outclassed a very good yet tired Crusaders team. In any tournament, the teams that identify their winning system and have the discipline to stick to [...]

The Springbok selectors have announced a match 22 boasting a total of 531 Test caps for the Test against Wales in Cardiff on Saturday, 5 June. The starting XV for the one-off clash at the Millennium Stadium includes two new caps with one new selection on the bench. The inclusion of newcomers Vodacom Stormers wing [...]

The Stormers secured an historic 25-6 Super 14 semifinal victory over the Waratahs at Newlands on Saturday evening. It was the first time that the Stormers have won a Super rugby play-off encounter after their failed attempts in 1999 and 2004. With this victory they will advance to a Super rugby final for the first [...]

The Bulls took a third-minute lead they never lost en route to a 39-24 triumph over the Crusaders in a historic Super 14 semi-final at Orlando Stadium Saturday. It was the first major rugby union match staged in this black township near Johannesburg and Nobel peace prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu called it the greatest [...]

  Rondebosch Boys take on Paul Roos Gymnasium in Stellenbosch this weekend. With both teams coming off big wins last weekend there will be no lack of confidence amongst the two sides. With Paul Roos giving SACS a 71 – 3 lesson, and Rondebosch downing D F Malan 41 – 5, I have no doubt [...]

HSBC Waratahs head coach Chris Hickey will not tinker with his side ahead of Saturday’s Super 14 semi-final, announcing an unchanged team to take on the Stormers in Cape Town. The team has been preparing in Durban since arriving on Sunday night, with the only injury concern surrounding hooker Damien Fitzpatrick who took a blow [...]

France’s selection committee has named their 30-man squad to tour South Africa and Argentina in June and a 26-man “A” squad for the Churchill Cup. Senior players Sébastien Chabal and William Servat have been rested. Former Sale Sharks star Chabal has been struggling with a back problem for months and Servat has hardly missed a [...]

The Crusaders have made one change to their 22-man squad for their rugby Super 14 semi-final against the Bulls at Orlando Stadium in Soweto Saturday. Scrumhalf Kahn Fotuali’i returns to the reserves bench in place of Willi Heinz, in the only change to the team that beat the Brumbies 40-22 in Christchurch last weekend. Assistant [...]

Another top Cape Town boy’s school clash takes place this weekend between Wynberg and Bishops. Wynberg, coming into the match fresh off the century defeat at the hands of Paarl Gymnasium, will surely have a point to prove. Bishops would like to continue their great season by downing yet another fierce rival. Past history shows [...]