Morgan Piek – Saturday evening the Toyota Cheetahs take on bitter foe, The Sharks in Bloemfontein. This will be the first of their two games in Super Rugby 2012. The Cheetahs side remains largely unchanged to the one that took on the DHL Stormers in Cape Town last Saturday. The most notable charge is at [...]

Australian conference leaders, the Brumbies will hit New Zealand shores this week to play the Hurricanes in round 13 of the Investec Super Rugby competition. With three rounds to go before the June break, the Hurricanes will now face three Australian teams in a row. After the Brumbies, the Hurricanes will host the Rebels in [...]

Morgan Piek – The Barbarians have named a strong squad representing no less than ten different counties to take on England, Ireland and Wales during the Northern Hemisphere summer. This squad includes three capped centurions as well. They are John Smit (South Africa), Mils Muliaina (New Zealand) and Brian O’Driscoll (Ireland). The Barbarians won most [...]

The Vodacom Bulls moved to the top of the Vodacom Super Rugby standings and the DHL Stormers had to work very hard against the Toyota Cheetahs, but the performance of the weekend belonged to The Sharks. The Sharks franchise scored only their third half-century of points in Vodacom Super Rugby history when they crushed the [...]

GWK Griquas will host DHL Western Province, in their first Vodacom Cup final, in Kimberley after the two top sides from the North and South Sections won their semi-finals this weekend. The two best sides in the competition deservedly advanced to the final. DHL Western Province have not lost once this season, while GWK Griquas [...]

SANZAR Duty Judicial Officer Mike Heron has recalled his decision of 1 May 2012 of a 3 Week Suspension to Highlanders player James Haskell and replaced it with a 4 week suspension. Haskell was found guilty of striking Cheetahs player Justin Downey following the match between the Cheetahs and the Highlanders at Free State Stadium [...]

May 10, 2012 This is a briefing document on South African participation in the 2013 Vodacom Super Rugby competition. Decision-making authority • The identity of the South African teams participating in the Vodacom Super Rugby competition is governed by the constitution of the South African Rugby Union (SARU). • Clause 9.2.5 specifies that the General [...]

England squad for South Africa   Forwards: Mouritz  Botha  (Saracens) Dan Cole (Leicester Tigers) Alex Corbisiero (London Irish) Paul Doran Jones (Northampton Saints) Phil Dowson (Northampton Saints) Carl Fearns (Bath Rugby) Joe Gray (Harlequins) Dylan Hartley (Northampton Saints) James Haskell (Otago Highlanders) Tom Johnson (Exeter Chiefs) Graham  Kitchener (Leicester Tigers) Joe Launchbury (London Wasps) Joe Marler [...]

Vodacom Super Rugby has been attracting bumper TV audiences as it reached the halfway mark at the weekend. Average viewership has increased by 15% on 2011, while viewership of South African derbies averages 685,581, making it easily the most popular sporting event on DSTV’s premium bouquet – apart from Springbok Test matches. These figures exclude [...]

The Sharks have the rare good fortune of being able to name an unchanged matchday 22 for Saturday’s 5pm Vodacom Super Rugby showdown with the Western Force at Mr Price KINGS PARK. This is the first time this season that coach John Plumtree has been able to retain the same 22 that started in a [...]