In a meeting of the Western Province Rugby board, convened on Friday to discuss former Springbok coach Nick Mallett’s position of Director of Rugby, it was decided that the role should include the responsibility of coaching the Stormers Super14 team. (more…)
Category: General
General rugby news and discussion
This weekend’s rugby television, radio and web schedules and game broadcast times for the Currie Cup and Tri Nations\Bledisloe Cup: (more…)
Australian rugby authorities and journalists continued their relentless attacks on Jake White and the Springboks for allegedly bringing out an under strength team to tour Australasia. (more…)
Richie McCaw spoke about the All Blacks chances of winning this year’s Rugby World Cup in France. (more…)
Joe van Niekerk continues to frustrate his employers at Western Province and has now been accused of going AWOL by coach Kobus van der Merwe. (more…)
New Zealand and Australia named their teams to contest the third Tri Nations (and Bledisloe Cup) test in Melbourne on Saturday. The game will be broadcast on Supersport at 11.05 am SA time. (more…)
Naas Isaacs interviewed All Black hard-man Jerry Collins for the Sunday Times. The story was published on 24 June 2007. (more…)
Mat Rogers, the former Wallaby who played 45 Tests for Australia, returned to rugby league at the start of the season with new NRL team the Gold Coast Titans and has become their leading try-scorer this season. He spoke to the Sydney Daily Telegraph about why he has no regrets about switching back to his old code. (more…)
Wallaby legend David Campese was on the shortlist to be given the honour of handing out the team jerseys before Australia’s match against the Boks last week. He was, however, quickly rejected by the Wallaby players – probably because they have so often been the victim of Campo’s candid views on the state of Australia rugby since he became a columnist. (more…)
South Africa’s talented lock forward ‘Big’ Victor Matfield will become one of the highest paid rugby players in the world when he joins French second division club Toulon after the Rugby World Cup. (more…)