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Oct 28, 11 •
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Oct 27, 11 •
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The MTN Golden Lions will be aiming for their first outright Absa Currie Cup Final victory on home soil since 1950 when they host The Sharks at Coca-Cola Park in Johannesburg on Saturday at 17:30. It seems amazing, but the last time the Golden Lions...
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Oct 27, 11 •
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Photo by Anesh Debiky /Gallo Hargreaves will provide second row back-up off the bench after missing the last few games with Jacques Botes making way. Continuity in team selection is vital and for The Sharks being able to select an almost unchanged line-up...
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Oct 26, 11 •
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October 26 – With the exception of prop JC Janse van Rensburg who is bracketed on the bench with last week’s prop replacement Jacobie Adriaanse, MTN Golden Lions coach John Mitchell has retained the squad of 22 that beat Western Province in the...
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Oct 26, 11 •
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Photo by Denese Lups /Rugby15 /www.phototalk.co.za The Toyota Free State Cheetahs coach, Naka Drotske and GWK Griquas fullback, Rudi Vogt received the ABSA Currie Cup Coach and Player of the Month awards this morning at the Free State Stadium in Bloemfontein....
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Oct 23, 11 •
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Photo by Dominic Barnardt /Gallo Images The MTN Golden Lions will host the defending Absa Currie Cup champions, The Sharks, in the final next Saturday after both took advantage of hosting their respective semi-finals yesterday. In the first semi-final The...
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Oct 22, 11 •
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Photo by Mike Le Grange / Rugby15/ Canon Eye Five members of the Springboks’ Rugby World Cup squad have been nominated for the prestigious SA Rugby Player of the Year Award, with the winner due to be announced at a glittering function at Gold Reef...
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Oct 20, 11 •
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All Blacks Coach Graham Henry and his Assistant Coaches Steve Hansen and Wayne Smith have today announced the All Blacks team for the 2011 Rugby World Cup Final against France at Eden Park, Auckland, on Sunday October 23, naming an unchanged starting XV from...
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Oct 20, 11 •
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Photo by Gerhard Steenkamp /Rugby15 /www.phototalk.co.za In the first semi-final The Sharks host the Toyota FS Cheetahs in Durban. This game kicks off at 14:30, after which the MTN Golden Lions, who topped the log, take on DHL WP at 17:00 in Johannesburg. ...
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Oct 20, 11 •
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The Sharks will be hosting the Free State Cheetahs at Mr Price KINGS PARK in one of the two Absa Currie Cup semi-finals this Saturday (2.30pm kick-off) with one of their strongest squads of the tournament. The Sharks have done remarkably well with a young and...
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Oct 20, 11 •
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20 October, The MTN Golden Lions will be playingDHLWesternProvinceon Saturday, 22 October 2011 in the first home semi-final in 12 years and the Golden Lions Rugby Union has just announced some exciting, but limited, specials on tickets. The first 1000 MTN...
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Oct 18, 11 •
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Jaco Peyper and Marius Jonker have been appointed to referee the two Absa Currie Cup semi-finals this weekend. Peyper will take charge of the match between the MTN Golden Lions and DHL Western Province at Coca-Cola Park, while Jonker has been handed the...
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Oct 17, 11 •
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Morgan Piek A week on from the 2011 IRB Rugby World Cup quarter-finals, the semis were played this past weekend and the finalists have been decided. The hosts, New Zealand as expected made the last round of the tournament, along with the total outsiders,...
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Oct 14, 11 •
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The Sharks go into Saturday’s final pool game of the 2011 Absa Currie Cup against the Lions at Mr Price KINGS PARK with focus and a clear goal as they look to secure home ground advantage for next week’s semi-final round. The team, bolstered by...
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Oct 13, 11 •
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Photo by Denese Lups/ Rugby15/ www.phototalk.co.za “We are at the business end of the competition and after talking to and assessing the returning players it was an easy decision to play them. The players were all excited about playing for Province and to a...
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Oct 12, 11 •
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The Regent Boland Cavaliers will go into Friday’s Absa Currie Cup First Division Final buoyed by the knowledge that they easily beat the EP Kings in their last encounter, three weeks ago also in Wellington. However, that game belongs to history and both...
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Oct 9, 11 •
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The Regent Boland Cavaliers will host the EP Kings in Absa Currie Cup First Division final in Wellington on Friday at 16:30*. Both these teams, who finished the league phase of the competition way ahead of the four other teams in the First Division, were...
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Oct 9, 11 •
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Photo by Denese Lups/ Rugby15/ www.phototalk.co.za On the other side of the spectrum, GWK Griquas won a great match against the Vodacom Blue Bulls, all but knocking the team from Pretoria out of the competition. While they still have a mathematical chance...
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Oct 6, 11 •
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Photo by www.bolandrugby.com Based on their performances in 2011, the Regent Boland Cavaliers and EP Kings have to be outright favourites to win their Absa Currie Cup First Division semi-finals on Friday. The Cavaliers and Kings were in a class of their...
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Oct 6, 11 •
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Photo by Denese Lups/ Rugby15/ www.phototalk.co.za GWK Griquas will be playing for Absa Currie Cup survival while the Vodacom Blue Bulls will not want to lose touch with the top four teams on the log when these two sides clash in Kimberley on Saturday. ...
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Oct 6, 11 •
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Sunday, 9 October at Wellington Regional Stadium Below is a statistical preview of the Rugby World Cup quarterfinal match between South Africa and Australia in Wellington on Sunday. South Africa’s first match in a RWC tournament was against Australia in the...
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Oct 5, 11 •
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Photo by Denese Lups/ Rugby15/ www.phototalk.co.za The MTN Golden Lions will be playing the DHL Western Province this Saturday, 8 October 2011 at Coca-Cola Park. Kick off is at 5:05pm. Cobus Grobbelaar has been ruled out of the match and thus Joshua Strauss...
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Oct 5, 11 •
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Photo by Denese Lups/ Rugby15/ www.phototalk.co.za Allister Coetzee today named his team to take on the Lions at Coca-Cola Park on Saturday. In the first of a number of changes, Conrad Jantjes reclaims the 15 jersey after Heinrich Steyl was ruled out for the...
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Sep 30, 11 •
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Toyota Free State Cheetahs vs MTN Golden Lions Free State Stadium, Bloemfontein Saturday 1 October 2011 15:00 The team is: 15 Hennie Daniller 14 Ryno Benjamin 13 Robert Ebersohn 12 Andries Strauss 11 Cameron jacobs 10 Johan Goosen 9 Piet van Zyl 8 Ashley...
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Sep 29, 11 •
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Ford Pumas coach Jimmy Stonehouse and Toyota Free State Cheetahs flyhalf Johan Goosen received the Absa Currie Cup Coach and Player of the Month awards for September respectively, on Thursday. These awards acknowledge and reward coaches for their outstanding...
