The Springboks will stay close to home no matter where they are in the world following the coming together of associate sponsors Vodacom and Acer to produce a technology package to keep the Boks connected. Each member of the squad was presented with the latest Acer Iconia A501 tablet at their Johannesburg training headquarters on [...]

Vodacom Blue Bulls coach Pine Pienaar took no time to recall fit again Springbok loose forward Dewald Potgieter to his side to take on the Natal Sharks in an Absa Currie Cup clash at Loftus Versfeld on Saturday. Potgieter recovered from the broken nose that sidelined him from their last two fixtures, but is back [...]

After a convincing victory over SWD Eagles this past weekend, it didn’t take long for the focus to switch over to this week’s crucial match against Border.   Two injuries to last week’s man of the match, SP Marais and hard-running JC Engelbrecht, sees Boetie Brits getting his first start of the season and Mzwandile [...]

Photo by James Loretz / Rugby15  The MTN Golden Lions will be playing the Ford Pumas this Friday, 2 September 2011 at Mbombela in Nelspruit. Kick off is at 19:10. One forced change has been made to the MTN Golden Lions team following their 28 – 19 victory over The Sharks this past weekend.   [...]

M= Matches ; PTS=Points ; TRS=Tries ; CON=Conversions; PEN=Penalties; DG=Drop Goals ; YC=Yellow Cards; RC=Red Cards;  Name Team M PTS TRS CON PEN DG YC RC  Jonny Wilkinson England  15  249  1  23  53  13  0  0  Gavin Hastings Scotland  13  227  9  39  36  0  0  0  Michael Lynagh Australia  15  195  4  36 [...]

  Pool Phase The 20 Teams have been allocated to four pools of five Teams each at the RWC 2011 Pool Allocation Draw, held in London in November 2008. The pool phase will consist of a round robin in which each Team shall play each other Team within the pool once. There will be 10 [...]

Castle Lager has crowned the winner of its online competition: lucky Springbok fan Will Guillum-Scott, who will be cheering on the boys as they take on the world in New Zealand.   The competition, which centered on the main protagonists of Castle Lager’s recent TV adverts and their unique, controversial and hilarious preparations for ‘surviving [...]

Fixtures for the Rugby World Cup 2011 Date Time (South Africa) Pool Match Details Locations Stadium Fri Sept 9 10:30am A New Zealand v Tonga Auckland Eden Park Sat Sept 10 03:00am B Scotland v Romania Invercargill Rugby Park Stadium Sat Sept 10 05:30am D Fiji v Namibia Rotorua Rotorua International Stadium Sat Sept 10 [...]

Injured All Blacks number eight Kieran Read will miss the opening weeks of the Rugby World Cup while fellow injured loose forward Adam Thomson looks set to be unavailable for the opening match against Tonga, All Blacks Doctor Deb Robinson says. Read (high ankle sprain) and Thomson (inside elbow) suffered the injuries in the All [...]

The Springboks carried the hopes of 50 million South Africans on their shoulders, State President Jacob Zuma, told the 30-man squad and management during the team’s official send off to the Rugby World Cup at the President’s Guest House in Pretoria on Monday.   President Zuma and the minister of Sport and Recreation, Fikile Mbalula, [...]