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Jun 17, 15 •
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Comments Off on Individual players make up for SA shortcomings
The 2015 Vodacom SupeRugby season may have been somewhat of a disappointment for some of the South African franchises but the statistics taken from the Vodacom Rugby App indicate the players from these shores were on par with their counterparts from the...
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Jun 17, 15 •
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Comments Off on Player Exodus
Written by: David van der Merwe – @djvanman on twitter The Bulls will be losing the following 10 players at the end of this season: Victor Matfield – He retires again. Hopefully for good this time. We might see him as the attack coach at the...
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Jun 16, 15 •
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Comments Off on England Women give a boost to big weekend for Festival of Rugby 2015
Hundreds of people got the chance to celebrate rugby at the two headline events of the first weekend of the Festival of Rugby 2015. England Women’s Rugby World Cup winners Marlie Packer and Tamara Taylor were on hand to lend their support – Packer...
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Jun 16, 15 •
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Comments Off on Australian Rugby mourns the loss of Brian Cox #ARU
Australian Rugby has joined together in the mourning of Wallaby number 338, Brian Phillip Cox who passed away over the weekend at the age of 86. Cox lived at Manly on Sydney’s Northern beaches and represented NSW on 14 occasions and earned nine Test caps...
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Jun 16, 15 •
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Comments Off on Brad Mooar appointed to Crusaders coaching team
The Crusaders have appointed current Southland Stags Head Coach Brad Mooar to their coaching team for 2016. He will replace Assistant Coach Aaron Mauger who is leaving to become the Head Coach of the Leicester Tigers. Crusaders CEO Hamish Riach said...
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Jun 16, 15 •
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Comments Off on Smith stands down as Head Coach for tour
Black Ferns Head Coach, Greg Smith, has voluntarily stood down from his role for the team’s upcoming tour to Canada. This follows Waikato Rugby’s judicial decision to suspend him from coaching for 14 weeks. New Zealand Rugby and Smith yesterday...
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Jun 16, 15 •
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Comments Off on Junior Boks post-match reaction
The Junior Springboks will meet France on Saturday at 18h30 in Cremona in the playoff for third place after losing their World Rugby Under-20 Championship semi-final 28-20 to England in Calvisano on Monday night. The South Africans received two...
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Jun 15, 15 •
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Comments Off on Junior Boks go down to England U20 in Calvisano
The Junior Springboks on Monday evening lost 28-20 to defending champions England in their World Rugby Under-20 Championship semi-final in Calvisano and will now contest the bronze final on Saturday against France, who earlier lost against New Zealand in the...
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Jun 15, 15 •
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Comments Off on Australia defeat Scotland at World Rugby U20 Championship
A dominant second half from the Australian U20s against Scotland has seen Australia claim a 31-21 victory in the fifth v eighth playoff at the World Rugby U20 Championship. Two tries to Australia’s Jonah Placid helped the Australian side to the win with the...
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Jun 15, 15 •
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Comments Off on Sam Cane recommits to New Zealand Rugby through to 2017
New Zealand Rugby is celebrating another re-signing with impressive All Blacks and Chiefs flanker Sam Cane recommitting to the national body and his Super team for the next two years. The 23 year-old Reporoa-raised Bay of Plenty loose forward was first...
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Jun 15, 15 •
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Comments Off on Duane not available for Qualifier
DHL Stormers squad captain Duane Vermeulen will not be available for his team’s Vodacom Super Rugby Qualifier against the Brumbies at DHL Newlands on Saturday (kick-off 17h05). Vermeulen was withdrawn from the DHL Stormers’ match against the Lions on...
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Jun 15, 15 •
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Comments Off on PULU SIDELINED BY BROKEN ARM
Chiefs scrumhalf Augustine Pulu has been ruled out of the Super Rugby’s Finals Series due to a broken arm. Pulu, who represented the All Blacks in two Tests on their 2014 end-of-year tour, sustained the injury after coming on as a replacement in the...
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Jun 15, 15 •
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Comments Off on Schoeman pleased as SARU Sevens Academy clinch Roma Sevens title
SARU Sevens Academy coach Marius Schoeman expressed his satisfaction with the performance of his South African outfit at the Roma Sevens this past weekend after the team secured a third consecutive title in as many years in the Italian capital. The silverware...
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Jun 15, 15 •
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Comments Off on Mutual & Federal Premier Interschools Paarl Boys High vs Paul Roos Gymnasium Derby Overview
Mutual & Federal Premier Interschool Paarl Boys High vs Paul Roos Gymnasium Overview Mutual & Federal Premier Interschools is a series of 12 matches, which feature the highest profile and most traditional interschool rugby rivalries from South...
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Jun 15, 15 •
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Comments Off on Junior Springboks vs England u20 Teamsheets #WorldRugbyU20s #SemiFinal
Date: 15 June 2015 Kick-off: 20h30 CAT Venue: Calvisano, Italy Televised: SS1 Follow on Twitter: @RugbyFifteen Junior Springboks: 15. Warrick Gelant (Vodacom Blue Bulls) 14. Khanyo Ngcukana (DHL Western Province) 13. EW Viljoen (DHL Western Province) 12....
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Jun 15, 15 •
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Comments Off on Zimbabwe to feature in SARU Women’s Interprovincial competitions
The Zimbabwean women’s team will make their debut in the South African Interprovincial Sevens Competition and the inaugural Girls Under-18 tournament this year, the South African Rugby Union (SARU) announced on Monday. The dates for the SARU Sevens...
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Jun 15, 15 •
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Comments Off on Match report: Hilton 1st XV vs Kearsney
Hilton 1st XV beat Kearsney 1st XV 24-10 Hilton hosted Kearsney on the return leg of a double header on a beautiful afternoon ideal for rugby. Hilton proved very motivated as they were keen to reverse the result in March when Kearsney were...
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Jun 15, 15 •
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Comments Off on Thompson “Sandi” Magxala 1942-2015
Photo of Thompson Magxala, taken in August 2012, when SARU captured the handprints of former national captains at the launch of the Springbok Experience Rugby Museum in Cape Town. Picture credit: Gallo Images. The South African Rugby Union on Monday...
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Jun 15, 15 •
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Comments Off on Brad Macleod-Henderson resigns
The Sharks (Pty) Ltd would like to announce that assistant coach, Brad Macleod-Henderson has resigned from The Sharks. Brad has been involved with us since 2012 initially with the U21’s before joining the senior side in July 2013. He was assistant coach...
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Jun 15, 15 •
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Comments Off on ANDRE ESTERHUIZEN SUSPENDED FOR FOUR WEEKS
Duty Judicial Officer: Nigel Hampton QC Player: Andre Esterhuizen Team: Sharks Position: Centre Date of Incident: 13 June 2015 Nature of Offence: Law 10.4 (j) Lifting a player from the ground and dropping or driving that player into the ground whilst...
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Jun 15, 15 •
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Comments Off on Break crucial as DHL Stormers eye out Brumbies
The DHL Stormers, already assured of a home Vodacom Super Rugby Qualifier match at DHL Newlands next Saturday, finished their 2015 league campaign with a loss to the Sharks in Durban but it did not deter coach Allister Coetzee. The DHL Stormers went down...
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Jun 15, 15 •
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Comments Off on SUPER RUGBY REFEREE APPOINTMENTS
SANZAR has announced referee appointments for the opening round of the Super Rugby Finals Series. Appointments are outlined below with the asterisk (*) denoting the match occurs the following day in this territory due to time difference. Qualifier Highlanders...
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Jun 15, 15 •
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Comments Off on Hemispheres Cup match in New Orleans cancelled
The Crusaders are very disappointed to learn that the Hemisphere’s Cup match they were invited to play against Saracens this August in New Orleans has been cancelled. The organisers of the match, RugbyLaw in the USA, have contacted the Crusaders and...
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Jun 15, 15 •
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Comments Off on England Women through to Rugby Europe Sevens Quarter-Finals
England’s Claire Allan England Women will face Ireland in the quarter-finals of the Rugby Europe Sevens Grand Prix in Kazan, Russia, tomorrow (Sunday). Simon Middleton’s side head into day two of the first leg of the series with an unbeaten record...
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Jun 15, 15 •
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Comments Off on RFU AGM hears of another strong year
RFU President Jason Leonard OBE The RFU held its Annual General Meeting today, Friday June 12. RFU Chief Executive Ian Ritchie presented his report for season 2014/15 and told Council members that this was a most exciting year to be reporting on. “We have...
