O’Driscoll: Great Tour But Defeat Leaves Bitter Taste
June 30, 2009
Brian O’Driscoll has enjoyed an incredible rugby season – winning the Grand Slam and Heineken Cup – although the culmination he had hoped for, a Test series victory with the 2009 British & Irish Lions, failed to materialise in South Africa.
Horsman retires with neck injury
June 30, 2009
An unnecessary affliction
June 30, 2009
If South Africa is to remain a well-respected rugby nation Saru need to put a leash on Peter de Villiers.
There was much to discuss following the Boks’ series-clinching win in Pretoria. There was the way the Boks won, the way they underperformed, the way the Lions battled to impose themselves, and of course, the needle [...]
Ralepelle fast-track a farce
June 30, 2009
Chiliboy Ralepelle is likely to replace Bismarck du Plessis for the final Test – a decision that makes no rugby sense.
Springbok assistant coach Dick Muir told the media on Tuesday the Boks would field their strongest team for the third Test in Johannesburg. Head coach Peter de Villiers added a 3-0 whitewash of the British [...]
De Villiers let off
June 30, 2009
Oregan Hoskins has had a ‘positive meeting’ with Peter de Villiers about his allegedly racist comments.
The management committee of Saru was concerned with De Villiers’s remarks about Ricky Januarie as they contained racial undertones. He was to meet with Hoskins this week due to his latest racist utterance, but the talk took place after Saturday’s [...]
Daniel to lead Sharks
June 30, 2009
Keegan Daniel will captain the Sharks in their compulsory friendly against the Pumas in Witbank on Friday.
Daniel will form a familiar looking loose trio with Jean Deysel and Jacques Botes, but the rest of the side has an inexperienced look to it.
Guy Cronje, 19, will play at flyhalf, while former Bulls wing Rocco Jansen will [...]
Joost out of hospital
June 30, 2009
Joost van der Westhuizen was released from his hospital in good health on Wednesday morning.
After watching the Springboks’ 28-25 victory over the Lions on Saturday, the former scrumhalf complained of chest pains. He collapsed and was taken to Sunninghill Hospital in an unconscious state early on Sunday morning, but was discharged three days later.
It has [...]
O’Driscoll repulsed by PdV
June 30, 2009
Brian O’Driscoll says Peter de Villiers’s stance on Schalk Burger’s eye gouging offence is ‘appalling’ and ‘a disgrace’.
The Bok coach initially denied Burger had done anything wrong in the second Test against the Lions, before apologising in a Saru press release that was sent out after the tourists threatened to make an official complaint to [...]
ARU axe Tuqiri
June 30, 2009
Lote Tuqiri’s contract with the ARU has been terminated for a possible breach in the players’ code of conduct.
The union released a statement on Wednesday announcing the Wallabies winger’s axing, and at this stage it is not clear why Tuqiri is being sacked.
‘ARU has treated this issue as a standard employment matter.The ARU will not [...]
Williams out for season
June 30, 2009
All Blacks lock Ali Williams will miss the entire international rugby season after learning he requires surgery on a reoccurring Achilles tendon injury.
