POPULAR ON PLANET RUGBY 4 Eben Etzebeth(South Africa):When the lineout wobbled, he sorted it out. When metres need to be made, he’s there. A world class display from an all-time great of the game. A word for his opponent,Scot Barrett, who gave us ...
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at least to the extent that the player can make it back onto the field. Roberts and Naylor have been with the Boks for a long time. Naylor, a single mother who grew up on the Cape Flats, started her career treating players from Mitchell Plain’s Silvertree Rugby Club then moved onto ...
THE LAST time the English went toe to toe with the South Africans on rugby business, on a dark winter's afternoon at Twickenham eight months ago, blood was spilled by the gallon. The mood has not brightened one iota. There was another spillage yesterday, albeit of the metaphorical variety,...
Ever since the game went professional following the first of South Africa’s fourRugby World Cupwins nearly three decades ago, 26 different players have worn the No.10 jersey. But only once in all that time has a fly-half been appointed captain – Handrè Pollard againstWalesin June 2022,...
The springbok has been an important symbol of the South Africa rugby team and the government since the early 20th century. Due to its association with the country’s history of racial discrimination and segregation, this symbol became a source of controversy following the end of the apartheid gov...
“I tell you one thing about England that they’ve got right isWill Stuartat tighthead prop,” he said. “If you look at all the England teams that have done well – it’s similar to us – it’s on the backdrop of a solid pack. ...
AUSTRALIA: ANTI-APARTHEID DEMONSTRATORS BRAVE BARBED WIRE BARRIERS TO DISRUPT SPRINGBOK GAME. DESPITE BARBED WIRE AROUND THE PITCH AND A TEN-DEEP POLICE GUARD, ANTI-APARTHEID DEMONSTRATORS SUCCEEDED IN DISRUPTING TUESDAY'S RUGBY GAME BETWEEN THE SOUTH AFRICAN TOURISTS AND A SYDNEY SIDE. SPRINGBOKS BEAT...
“I talk to Manie all the time, he’s my general. He’s the most important guy in our team when we are talking about our attacking or kicking game,” he said. Ad “He knows that every single guy in the team is backing him and you see that with the selection, ...
There is no other sport on earth that evokes so much passion, physicality, with so many long-term injuries and potentially with so much elation as the game of rugby. It means that much to us, individually and as a nation. With so much at stake, how can one person control the destiny...