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Mar 26, 10 •
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Highlanders have beaten the Lions in their Super 14 clash in Dunedin, despite a much-improved performance by the visitors on Friday. The Highlanders won 39-29 after leading 22-17 at half-time. The Highlanders scored three tries through lock Hayden Triggs,...
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Mar 26, 10 •
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Ireland’s flying winger, Tommy Bowe, has today been announced as the official RBS Player of the Championship for the 2010 RBS 6 Nations. ‘It has been a Championship of mixed emotions for the Irish team but to be named the RBS Player of the...
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Mar 25, 10 •
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The Sharks team to face the Hurricanes shows few changes from the unit that beat the Highlanders. John Smit again starts at loosehead, while Pat Lambie is also retained at fullback after a superb debut last week. Alistair Hargreaves comes in for the injured...
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Mar 25, 10 •
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QR Reds Head Coach Ewen McKenzie will give 19-year old backrower Jake Schatz his third starting opportunity this season after open side flanker Daniel Braid succumbed to a knee injury. McKenzie has named an otherwise unchanged starting side for the match...
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Mar 25, 10 •
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The return of Cory Jane from a concussion is the only change to the Hurricanes team to host the Sharks in Wellington on Saturday. Jane was concussed in a clash with Stormers wing Sereli Naqelevuki a fortnight ago, but passed psychometric tests on Thursday to...
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Mar 24, 10 •
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Bulls coach Frans Ludeke has made only change to the side that struggled to a 19-18 win over the Hurricanes last Friday for the Super 14 match against the Western Force in Perth on Saturday. Jaco Pretorius returns as outside centre and replaces Stephan...
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Mar 24, 10 •
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While Lady Luck at last sided with the Sharks last weekend when they recorded their first victory in this year’s Super 14 campaign, they are struggling with injuries going into their match against the Hurricanes this Saturday. In addition to the dreary...
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Mar 24, 10 •
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Lions coach Dick Muir has lost faith in fullback Earl Rose, dropping the out-of-form No 15 to the bench for their Super 14 match against the Highlanders in Dunedin on Friday. Kick off is at 08:35 SA time. In other changes to the team still searching for their...
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Mar 24, 10 •
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Centre Kenny Lynn believes the Highlanders must improve their basic skill levels as they seek their first home win of the Rebel Sport Super 14 season against the Lions at Carisbrook on Friday night. The strong-running Southland centre insists the Highlanders...
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Mar 24, 10 •
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Chiefs coach Ian Foster has selected Sione Lauaki for the match against the Brumbies despite the player’s admission of guilt to assault. Lauaki will be sentenced on May 6 after punching a man in the face twice in a bar in Hamilton. His reinstatement is...
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Mar 24, 10 •
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Injuries have forced Cheetahs coach Naka Drotske into making a number of changes to his side ahead of Friday’s match against the Reds in Bloemfontein on Friday. While Lionel Mapoe and Frans Viljoen are long term injury concerns for the Cheetahs they...
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Mar 24, 10 •
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Brumbies full-back Julian Huxley is set to make a remarkable return to the Super 14 at Canberra Stadium against the Chiefs on Friday. Huxley’s career was put on hold in 2008 after routine scans following a head knock detected a brain tumour. Having...
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Mar 21, 10 •
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Australian-born flyhalf Dan Parks kicked Scotland to a last day Six Nations win over Ireland on Saturday and then said his success was down to taking his boots into the shower with him. The Glasgow No.10 had already kicked 15 points when, with two minutes...
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Mar 21, 10 •
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James Hook scored two tries as Wales ended their disappointing Six Nations campaign on a high by outclassing Italy 33-10 in a one-sided encounter at the Millennium Stadium on Saturday. With several experienced operators returning from injury and with...
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Mar 21, 10 •
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Bulls coach, Frans Ludeke, Saturday named 25 players to tour Australia and New Zealand on the away leg of their Super 14 commitments. The match 22 against the Hurricanes, as well as Jaco Pretorius, Fudge Mabeta and Jaco Engels will travel to Perth on Tuesday....
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Mar 21, 10 •
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Centre Adrian Jacobs scored a late intercept try to help South Africa’s Sharks to a 30-16 victory over the Otago Highlanders in Dunedin on Saturday and their first Super 14 victory this season. Jacobs’ intercept, when the Highlanders were...
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Mar 21, 10 •
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France sealed their first Six Nations Grand Slam in six years when they weathered an England storm to run out 12-10 winners at the Stade de France on Saturday. Three Morgan Parra penalties and a Francois Trinh-Duc drop-goal were sufficient for a France team...
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Mar 21, 10 •
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The Western Stormers maintained their challenge in the Super 14 southern hemisphere championship with a bruising 21-8 win over the Central Cheetahs at Newlands on Saturday. The win kept the Stormers in second place in the table, one point behind the Northern...
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Mar 20, 10 •
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The Lions looked competitive against a weakened Crusaders outfit, but their defence was again their nemesis as they slumped to a 46-19 loss in their Super 14 match in Christchurch on Saturday. In a game where they were in touch for the first hour, and were...
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Mar 20, 10 •
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The Vodacom Bulls kept their unbeaten record with a tense 19-18 victory over the Hurricanes at Loftus Versfeld on Friday night. The win continued their run as the only unbeaten side in this year’s Vodacom Super 14 and extended their winning run at Loftus...
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Mar 19, 10 •
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With new Springbok Sampie Mastriet scoring a try with his first touch of the ball and adding two more for an impressive hat-trick on debut, the Boks started the defence of their Adelaide title in the IRB Sevens World Series in the best possible way on Friday...
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Mar 19, 10 •
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A second half blitz from the Blues was just enough to see them home 39-34 against the Brumbies in a free-running, hard-tackling Super 14 rugby match at Eden Park in Auckland tonight. The win was a perfect result for skipper and All Blacks hooker Keven...
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Mar 17, 10 •
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Bulls scrumhalf, Fourie du Preez, on Wednesday extended his contract with the union till the conclusion of the Super 15 competition in 2011. Du Preez, who turns 28 next week, also signed his Springbok contract that will keep him in Green and Gold till the end...
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Mar 17, 10 •
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Lions coach Dick Muir has benched former All Blacks flyhalf for his team’s Super 14 clash against the Crusaders in Christchurch on Saturday. Kick-off is at 06:30 SA time. Spencer, who has come under fire for his performances to date, has been replaced...
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Mar 17, 10 •
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Deon Stegmann returns to the Vodacom Bulls pack for their Vodacom Super 14 match against the Hurricanes at Loftus Versfeld on Friday night. The Craddock-born player is the only change to the side that outclassed the Highlanders last week and swop places with...
