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Jul 30, 20 •
438 Views •
Australia, Europe, General News, International, National, New Zealand, Rugby Championship News, Rugby World Cup, Rugby World Cup News, Six Nations, Six Nations News, South Africa, South Africa, Springbok News, Springboks, The Rugby Championship, World Rugby •
Shaun Liddle •
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An exciting programme of international matches is set to take place later this year after the World Rugby Council approved a temporary adjustment to Regulation 9 to accommodate the release of international players for revised 2020 windows. The adjustment to...
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Jul 16, 20 •
304 Views •
Australia, General News, International, National, New Zealand, Rugby Championship News, South Africa, South Africa, Super Rugby, Super Rugby News, The Rugby Championship •
Shaun Liddle •
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Following recent media commentary around the long-term future of SANZAAR, the future structure of its competitions and the rest of the 2020 playing calendar, CEO Andy Marinos, has today, provided the context under which future planning is taking place amidst...
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Jun 10, 20 •
354 Views •
General News, International, Super Rugby, Super Rugby News •
Shaun Liddle •
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The announcement by Rugby Australia that it has confirmed the five teams that will compete in the revised Super Rugby competition signals further momentum in the return of top-level rugby within SANZAAR’s stakeholder countries. New Zealand and Australia...
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Jun 8, 20 •
359 Views •
General News, National, South Africa •
Shaun Liddle •
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• SA Rugby looking forward to return-to-play in August• Open-minded on potential re-working of international calendar• Working with SANZAAR on post-COVID-19 scenarios• Gearing up for tour by British & Irish Lions in 2021 SA Rugby was collaborating...
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May 7, 20 •
690 Views •
General News, International, National, New Zealand, Super Rugby, Super Rugby News •
Shaun Liddle •
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New Zealand Rugby (NZR) has welcomed the Government’s announcement today that professional rugby and netball will resume at COVID-19 alert level two. “For our fans, our players and everyone involved in Investec Super Rugby, we are thrilled that the Sports...
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May 5, 20 •
544 Views •
General News, International, Super Rugby, Super Rugby News •
Shaun Liddle •
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SANZAAR would like to publicly correct the misleading information and speculation regarding suggestions in various media articles over the weekend about the future structure of SANZAAR and indeed tournament formats for Super Rugby. Whilst it is acknowledged...
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Mar 13, 20 •
994 Views •
General News, International, Super Rugby, Super Rugby Fixtures, Super Rugby News •
Shaun Liddle •
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SANZAAR has today been informed by the Argentina Rugby Union that the mayor of the Government of Buenos Aires City in Argentina has issued a directive with regard to the COVID-19 virus (Coronavirus). The government has directed that while major sports events...
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Apr 10, 19 •
1785 Views •
General News, International, Rugby Championship News, The Rugby Championship •
Shaun Liddle •
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SANZAAR has today confirmed the abbreviated six-match schedule for this year’s Rugby Championship including all match venues and kick-off times. As it is a Rugby World Cup year (the tournament kicks-off in Tokyo on 20 September) The Rugby...
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Mar 22, 19 •
525 Views •
General News, Super Rugby, Super Rugby News •
Shaun Liddle •
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SANZAAR has announced that following a substantial review of Super Rugby over the last 18 months via a strategic planning process the immediate future of Super Rugby rests with a 14-team, round robin, competition format. The revised format will come into...
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Feb 1, 18 •
1394 Views •
General News, Super Rugby, Super Rugby News •
Shaun Liddle •
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Super Rugby and The Rugby Championship will this season adopt the Law Amendments that were announced by World Rugby in July 2017 prior to the start of the 2017/2018 northern hemisphere season. World Rugby approved the addition of these six law amendments to...
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Jan 28, 18 •
2352 Views •
General News, Super Rugby, Super Rugby News •
Shaun Liddle •
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SANZAAR has announced the referee team that will officiate the 2018 Super Rugby season. With the Super Rugby tournament format reducing to 120 regular season matches this season the referee team has been reduced from 19 to 17 referees. The team contains a...
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Jan 20, 18 •
3143 Views •
General News, Sevens Rugby, Super Rugby News •
Shaun Liddle •
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The 2018 re-structured 15-team Super Rugby tournament kicks-off in four weeks time on Saturday 17 February in South Africa when the Stormers host the Jaguares in Cape Town. The Lions, runners-up the last two years, host the Sharks in Johannesburg, while...
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Feb 17, 17 •
633 Views •
General News, International •
Shaun Liddle •
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SANZAAR has today announced that it has made an amendment to the Television Match Official (TMO) protocol for the 2017 Super Rugby season. The amendment reflects the emerging technology that is now available in terms of the number of camera angles and the...
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Sep 14, 16 •
1937 Views •
General News, International •
Shaun Liddle •
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SANZAAR – in conjunction with Opta Sports – is pleased to deliver a range of Match Packs to serve as an additional media resource, each containing useful statistics, anecdotes, trends and historical information pertaining to each round of The...
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Sep 13, 16 •
778 Views •
General News, International •
Shaun Liddle •
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An EXCO meeting and a 2016 Super Rugby season review took place in Sydney over the last two days with SANZAAR hosting over 80 stakeholder representatives. The series of meetings were designed to fully review all tournament deliverables on and off the field,...
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May 1, 16 •
1007 Views •
General News, Super Rugby •
nelio@15.co.za •
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Duty Judicial Officer: Nigel Hampton QC Player: Paul Schoeman Team: Cheetahs Position: Flanker Date of Incident: 30 April 2016 Nature of Offence: 10.4 (e) Dangerous tackling of an Opponent including early or late and including the action known as the...
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Apr 25, 16 •
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General News, Super Rugby •
nelio@15.co.za •
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Player: Nemani Nadolo Team: Crusaders Position: Wing Date of Incident: 24 April 2016 Nature of Offence: Law 10.4 (j) Lifting Tackle: Lifting a player from the ground and dropping or driving that player into the ground whilst that player’s feet are...
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Apr 25, 16 •
1356 Views •
General News, Super Rugby •
nelio@15.co.za •
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Following initial consideration by the SANZAAR Duty Judicial Officer Chris Morris, Jason Emery of the Highlanders will appear at a SANZAAR Judicial Hearing after being red carded for alleged foul play during a Super Rugby match at the weekend. Emery is...
