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Jul 12, 17 •
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Comments Off on St.George Queensland Reds team to play Highlanders in Dunedin
The St.George Queensland Reds have named their side to take on the Highlanders in their final clash of the 2017 Vodafone Super Rugby season. Head coach Nick Stiles has made just two changes to the starting side traveling to Dunedin for the Friday night...
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Jul 11, 17 •
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Comments Off on Qantas Wallabies Bledisloe Cup & TRC tickets on sale
General public tickets are now on sale for the 2017 Rugby Championship and Bledisloe Cup Test matches in Australia, with four huge battles set for Sydney, Perth, Canberra, and Brisbane. The Rugby Championship will see historic rivalries resume and for the...
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Jul 11, 17 •
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Comments Off on Match officials named for Springboks’ 2017 Castle Lager Rugby Championship fixtures
Romain Poite of France will take charge of the Springboks’ first 2017 Castle Lager Rugby Championship fixture on 19 August against Argentina in Port Elizabeth, World Rugby confirmed on Monday. South Africa travel to Argentina the following week for the...
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Jul 10, 17 •
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Comments Off on Qantas Wallabies TRC & Bledisloe Cup tickets on sale tomorrow
General public tickets go on sale tomorrow (Tuesday 11 July) for the 2017 Rugby Championship and Bledisloe Cup Test matches in Australia, with four huge battles set for Sydney, Perth, Canberra, and Brisbane. The Rugby Championship will see historic...
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Jul 10, 17 •
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Comments Off on England Women qualify for Rugby World Cup Sevens 2018
England finish second in Rugby Europe Grand Prix Series in Kazan Simon Amor now leads England women’s and men’s sevens programs England Women finished runners-up in the second leg of the two-part Rugby Europe Grand Prix Series in Kazan, after 21-0 defeat...
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Jul 10, 17 •
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Comments Off on Women’s Interprovincials gets off to flying start
The SA Rugby Women’s Interprovincial Competition got off to a flying start on Saturday as the three winning teams all scored over 40 points to make a strong statement in the opening round of the A division. Border, who won the last four titles, registered...
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Jul 10, 17 •
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Comments Off on Thanks everyone – twelve years in the making and worth the wait
At the end of an amazing 10-match DHL NZ Lions Series, New Zealand Rugby (NZR) has congratulated the All Blacks and British & Irish Lions on a hard-fought Test Series and thanked New Zealanders and visiting fans for their support of the13th tour by the...
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Jul 10, 17 •
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Comments Off on New Zealand Rugby congratulates Test centurion Kieran Read
New Zealand Rugby has to lead the tributes to All Blacks Captain Kieran Read who tonight became the All Blacks’ seventh Test Centurion in the historic third Test of the DHL New Zealand Lions Series at Eden Park. The Test ended in 15-15 draw, resulting in a...
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Jul 10, 17 •
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Comments Off on BMW Australian Schoolboys Team named as ACT win Championship
ACT has won the 2017 Australian Schools Championship with an impressive performance that saw them defeat QLD II, 30-11 in the final at St Ignatius College, Riverview in Sydney. It is the first time since 1988 that ACT have won the title and only the fourth...
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Jul 9, 17 •
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Comments Off on Ticket sales for Test in Bloemfontein open
Free State Rugby is delighted to announce that the Castle Lager Rugby Championship match between the Springboks and Wallabies on Saturday, 30 September 2017 will be hosted in Toyota Stadium in Bloemfontein. “We are very excited to host a Test after all...
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Jul 7, 17 •
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Comments Off on SA Rugby confirms franchise teams for future Vodacom Super Rugby participation
The Vodacom Bulls, Emirates Lions, DHL Stormers and Cell C Sharks have been confirmed as South Africa’s four Vodacom Super Rugby competitors from 2018, SA Rugby announced on Friday. The Toyota Cheetahs and Southern Kings have earlier informed SA Rugby of...
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Jul 7, 17 •
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Comments Off on Southern Kings excited about new playing frontiers
The Southern Kings will embrace the chance to explore new playing opportunities in view of the strategic SANZAAR decision to revamp the Vodacom Super Rugby competition, the franchise and SA Rugby announced on Friday. The announcement was made just before a...
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Jul 7, 17 •
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Comments Off on Queensland Premier Rugby Preview – Round 15
Queensland Premier Rugby returns for Round 15 tomorrow, Saturday 8 July, with eight of the nine Premier clubs in action. The Game of the Round will see Sunnybank host Easts in a third-v-fourth clash at Oldmac Oval, kick-off at 3:20 pm. The match will be LIVE...
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Jul 7, 17 •
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Comments Off on Wallabies to Wear Indigenous Jersey in Final 2017 Bledisloe Cup Test
To celebrate 2017 NAIDOC Week, the Australian Rugby Union (ARU) has announced that for the first time in history, the Qantas Wallabies will wear an Indigenous jersey to commemorate the role of Indigenous Australians in rugby’s past, present, and future. The...
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Jul 7, 17 •
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Comments Off on Medical Update on Patrick Lambie
Durban, 6th July 2017: The Cell C Sharks and Springbok flyhalf, Patrick Lambie’s recovery from a concussion has been the subject of much speculation. As one of South Africa’s most-loved players, there has understandably been interesting and concern...
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Jul 6, 17 •
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Comments Off on SA Rugby pays tribute to the late Salie Fredericks
SA Rugby President Mark Alexander has paid tribute to the enormous contribution made to South African rugby by former SARU captain, Salie Fredericks, who passed away on Thursday in Cape Town. He fought a longstanding battle against diabetes and had both his...
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Jul 6, 17 •
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Comments Off on Queensland II and ACT to compete in 2017 Australian Schools Championship Final
The ACT and Queensland II will play off for the Australian School Championship on Saturday 8 July, after a thrilling third day of Rugby at St. Ignatius College, Riverview in Sydney. ACT progressed through Pool B as the only undefeated team in the...
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Jul 6, 17 •
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Comments Off on Barnes appointed RFU Head of Discipline
David Barnes has been appointed as the Rugby Football Union’s Head of Discipline. He will join on 17 July taking over from incumbent Gerard McEvilly, who is emigrating to Australia. David has been an RFU citing officer since 2014, working on appointments...
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Jul 6, 17 •
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Comments Off on The British & Irish Lions – The Greatest Sporting Conundrum In The World?
Q: How can you spend four years knocking lumps out of each other and then become part of an exclusive squad capable of competing against the World Champions in the space of six weeks? Answers on a postcard, please. The year is 1989 and, as an aspiring...
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Jul 6, 17 •
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Comments Off on All Blacks team named for third DHL New Zealand Lions Series Test against British & Irish Lions; Kieran Read to play 100th Test
The All Blacks team to play the third and DHL New Zealand Lions Series-deciding Test against the British and Irish Lions at Eden Park, Auckland, on Saturday 8 July has been named. The match day 23 for the Test (with Test caps in brackets) is: 1. Joe Moody...
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Jul 5, 17 •
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Comments Off on Black Ferns squad for 2017 Women’s Rugby World Cup named
The Black Ferns squad for the 2017 Women’s Rugby World Cup (WRWC) has been named today by Head Coach Glenn Moore. The 28-strong squad will travel to Ireland on 1 August in their bid to win the four-yearly tournament in Dublin and Belfast. The team is (with...
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Jul 4, 17 •
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Comments Off on LSEN Week continues to entertain
The Learners with Special Education Needs (LSEN) Week continued to dish up exciting matches at Glenwood High School in Durban on Tuesday as the tournament, which marks one of two SA Rugby Youth Week competitions this week, entered its second day. At the end...
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Jul 4, 17 •
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Comments Off on St.George Queensland Reds add depth to forward stocks
The Queensland Rugby Union continues to build its squad for the 2018 season with the re-signing of loose forward Caleb Timu, while also locking in Australian U20s second-row pair Angus Blyth and Harry Hockings. Time and Blyth have signed through 2018, while...
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Jul 3, 17 •
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Comments Off on England Women sevens name squad for Kazan
James Bailey has named his squad for the second and final leg of the Rugby Europe Women’s Grand Prix Series in Kazan, Russia this weekend (8-9 July, live on RugbyEurope.tv). Bailey makes one change to the squad that placed 4th in the first leg of the Rugby...
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Jul 3, 17 •
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Comments Off on England Sevens finish tenth in Clermont-Ferrand
England came tenth in the Clermont-Ferrand Sevens after losing 12-26 to Italy in the Challenge Trophy final at the weekend. They found themselves in the Challenge Trophy contest after finishing third in their pool after day one of the French legs of the Rugby...
