[ad_1] Jacques Nienbaber extolled the strengths of the Vodacom Bulls as the Pretoria outfit gears up for a must-win clash with Irish giants Leinster at Loftus Versfeld on Saturday. Jake White’s troops host in the Vodacom URC semi-final on the Highveld. The Bulls host Leo Cullen’s charges in a Vodacom URC semi-final in Pretoria that tees up to the July series between the Springboks and Ireland in the Republic. MORE:
[ad_1] A Set small text size A Set the default text size A Set large text size Really, what is the point of Super Rugby in its current form? The Aussies can’t win it and the Kiwis don’t care.Give us one good reason why Australia should stay in Super Rugby. The only one floated by those who think Australia should persist with this relentlessly miserable experience is that without it
[ad_1] Potts was speaking to reporters at the Aviva Stadium on Thursday as the IRFU launched its latest strategic plan. During the 50-minute briefing, former Ireland and Ulster fly-half David Humphreys spoke to the media for the first time since his appointment as the IRFU's high performance director in November.Humphreys, who was director of performance operations with the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) before joining the IRFU, laid out
[ad_1] It was hard to miss the plea from Jake White to the Pretorian Guard, imploring them to mobilise for the arrival of Leinster for Saturday’s URC semi-final. Not just hard to miss but equally hard to fathom if you’re watching from, say, the comfort of Leinster’s heartland in leafy south Dublin.For the first time in the albeit short history of the URC Ireland’s most successful province are locked and
[ad_1] Rassie Erasmus has named his candidates to lead the Springboks against Wales next week, with Siya Kolisi in contention to reclaim the armband versus Ireland in July. Kolisi is unavailable for the opening Test of the year for the world champions at Twickenham next Saturday, as it falls outside the official Test window and his French club Racing 92 are not obligated to release him for international duty. Subject
[ad_1] A Set small text size A Set the default text size A Set large text size Suliasi Vunivalu’s stocks have taken another hit, with the World Cup Wallaby not required to continue training with the rest of the players of national interest by new head coach Joe Schmidt.Despite Schmidt asking 17 Queensland Reds players to return next week to continue training ahead of next month’s Tests against Wales and
[ad_1] Former Wales and British and Irish Lions rugby player Courtenay Meredith has died at the age of 97.He was the last survivor of the Wales team which beat New Zealand in 1953 - a feat the country has not repeated since.Prop Meredith toured South Africa with the Lions in 1955 and played four Tests as part of an all-Wales front-row with Billy Williams and Bryn Meredith.The next all-Wales front
[ad_1] George Gregan knows a thing or two about successful Wallabies teams. Over the course of his stellar 139-cap career, he was their starting No9 when France were beaten in the 1999 Rugby World Cup final and also heavily involved two years later when the touring British and Irish Lions were dramatically seen off in an epic three-Test series that went down to the final play.The 51-year-old is long retired,
[ad_1] Skipper Ruan Nortje says the Vodacom Bulls will rise to the occasion and repeat their Dublin heroics in 2022 by knocking off Leinster at Loftus Versfeld on Saturday. Jake White’s troops beat Benetton in Pretoria last week to clinch a first home semi-final in the Vodacom URC, and will tackle the Irish giants in the opening salvo of the playoffs this week. The Bulls provided one of the all-time
[ad_1] A Set small text size A Set the default text size A Set large text size We’ve reached the three-game-to-go stage of Super Rugby – others might know it as the semifinals – and The Roar tipping panel has a freshly minted champion.While none of the four panellists could match the combined mega brain power of you all in The Crowd, Nick Wasiliev has finished top of our little
