Category: Springboks

Ticket sales for Saturday’s Tri Nations test between the Boks and Australia’s canary yellows at Sydney’s Telstra Stadium are booming – rubbishing claims by the ARU that supporters would be staying away in the wake of the Springboks’ announcement of a weakened team. (more…)

Jake White today announced the Springbok side to play Australia in their away Tri Nations clash in Sydney on Saturday. (more…)

The Wallabies today announced the team to play South Africa in their return Tri Nations clash in Sydney on Saturday. (more…)

We start the second day of the countdown to Saturday’s big match in Sydney with Jake again justifying the Springbok selections. Bevin Fortuin looks set to be drafted into the side. Liefling Hougaard then talks about the belief in the B squad, while Georgie Gregan is cleared to play and Bernie Larkham contemplates his 100th test for the Wallabies. (more…)

Springbok kickers Derick Hougaard and Ruan Pienaar will be using an Australian made Summit ball in Saturday’s test against the Wallabies, and apparently it’s totally different to the Gilbert ball they are accustomed to. They don’t like it. (more…)

The so-called ‘B Boks’ relinquished a seventeen point lead to eventually lose by eight to the Wallabies in Sydney on Saturday. (more…)

David Moffett, former boss of the New Zealand Rugby Union, writing in The Press on 30 June 2007 labelled the South African Rugby Union an absolute disgrace. I think most of us would agree with him on that one – but he’s talking about the latest Springbok B-team fiasco, and not the usual goings on at SA Rugby HQ that regularly keep us amused. (more…)

Jake White was mobbed by rabid Australian journalists as the Bok coach touched down in Sydney with his Springbok ‘B’ team in tow. However, he was quick to put them in their place. (more…)

No sooner had Bob Skinstad and Jake White arrived in Sydney than they discovered that they had been robbed. (more…)

Just before their departure, Jake White defended the decision to send a second-string Springbok squad to Australasia to contest the remainder of the Tri Nations. He noted Australia’s hypocrisy and gave his reasons for the decision. (more…)