The Boks were shaken out of their comfort zone when they were forced to catch an early morning flight to Edinburgh on Wednesday, only arriving at their hotel at 2am. Ag shame! (more…)
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The Springboks take on Scotland in their final Rugby World Cup warm-up game in Edinburgh on Saturday. (more…)
 Bok wing Akona Ndungane has been flown back to SA to treat an injury sustained in the warm-up match against Connacht. He is suffering from bruised chest muscles. Comments:
Bok centre Jean de Villiers, in an effort to make a speedy recovery from a rib injury sustained against Namibia, is undergoing intensive oxygen treatment. (more…)
 The Blue Bulls await results from a fourth test on Pierre Spies before deciding whether he will play for them in the Currie Cup. If he is declared fit, he could line up against Griquas on 1st September.
The Bok dirt-trackers managed to eke out a win in a woeful display of rugby against Irish club side Connacht. The South Africans led 3-0 at half time. (more…)
In the fifth edition of Bokwatch, John Smit talks about the Springboks’ upcoming World Cup campaign, Wallaby coach John ‘Knuckles’ Connolly reveals that he’d rather face the Boks than England in the RWC quarter-finals, Bok centre Jean De Villiers talks about the injury he sustained against Namibia last week and Jake White reviews the warm-up game between Samoa and English club Harlequins. (more…)
The Springboks take on Irish club side Connacht in the second of their three Rugby World Cup warm-up games on Tuesday 21 August. (more…)
Springbok backline coach Allister Coetzee has rubbished the idea that Eddie Jones is calling all the shots in the Bok backline coaching department. (more…)
The Springboks ran out comfortable victors in the first of their three World Cup warm-up matches, when they scored 15 tries to beat a game Namibia by 105 points to 13 at Newlands on Wednesday evening. (more…)