Finally! A reason to be happy that you moved to London.
Join our celebration dinner with some of the biggest names in rugby to honour the illustrious career of one of the world’s greatest rugby legends. Attending to pay their respects will be John’s team mates and rivals alike: including Dan Carter, Richie McCaw, Bakkies Botha, Victor Matfield and Juan Smith.
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A shockingly inept performance from the Bok second stringers (especially in the scrums) saw them humiliated at Welford Road, going down 22-17 to a Leicester side without 16 of their top players. Players who will not want to watch the tape include Gurthro Steenkamp (pumped in the scrums and popped repeatedly, giving away penalties), Jannie du Plessis (folded like a ragdoll in the scrums), Chiliboy Ralepelle (anonymous until leaving the field injured after 20 minutes yet again), Andries Bekker (provided no muscle for his front-row in the scrums, lost the ball in the loose and not involved at all in the rucks), Davon Raubenheimer (excuse me, who?), and Ruan Pienaar (exposed behind a useless pack and looked panicked). The hardworking Ashley Johnson fought a lone battle and is the only player who can hold his head up high.
Leicester 22 (16)
Try: Lucas Amorosino
Conversion: Ben Youngs
Penalties: Ben Youngs (5)
SA XV 17 (11)
Try: Jongi Nokwe
Penalties: Ruan Pienaar (4)
Match Details
Date: Friday 6 November 2009
Venue: Welford Road, Leicester
Kick-off: 21.45 SA, 19.45 GMT
Referee: Stuart Dickinson (Aus)
Assistant refs: Roy Maybank, Robin Goodliffe
TMO: Andrew Turner, Graeme Hughes
Teamsheets
Springbok XV: 15 Earl Rose, 14 Odwa Ndungane, 13 Juan de Jongh, 12 Wynand Olivier, 11 Jongi Nokwe, 10 Ruan Pienaar, 9 Heini Adams, 8 Ashley Johnson, 7 Davon Raubenheimer, 6 Dewald Potgieter, 5 Andries Bekker, 4 Danie Rossouw, 3 Jannie du Plessis, 2 Chiliboy Ralepelle (captain), 1 Gurthrö Steenkamp.
Subs: 16 Bandise Maku, 17 Heinke van der Merwe, 18 Alistair Hargreaves, 19 Jean Deysel, 20 Francois Hougaard, 21 Meyer Bosman, 22 Riaan Viljoen.
Leicester Tigers: 15 Scott Hamilton, 14 Lucas Amorosino, 13 Andy Forsyth, 12 Manu Tuilagi, 11 Johne Murphy, 10 Aaron Mauger (captain), 9 Ben Youngs, 8 Brett Deacon, 7 Ben Pienaar, 6 Geoff Parling, 5 Ben Kay, 4 Calum Green, 3 Martin Castrogiovanni, 2 Mefin Davies, 1 Marcos Ayerza
Subs:16 George Chuter, 17 Dan Cole, 18 Tom Armes, 19 Dan Hemingway, 20 James Grindal, 21 Greig Tonks, 22 Lote Tuqiri
Trailer for Invictus – the movie about the 1995 Rugby World Cup starring Matt Damon and Morgan Freeman.
The winners of the 2009 SA Rugby awards were announced at the annual banquet in Johannesburg.
A 37 man (well, 36 men and Earl Rose) Springbok squad was named after the Absa Currie Cup final on Saturday to tour Europe in November.
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The Blue Bulls host the Free State Cheetahs in the final of the 2009 Absa Currie Cup.
It’s 2009 Absa Currie Cup Semifinal time. CLICK HERE for all the info.
 