The KZN team to compete at this year’s Craven Week tournament has been named, with the sons of former Sharks players featuring prominently. Glenwood is the best-represented team in the selection, with 9 boys from the “Green Machine” selected to wear the black and white. [...]

The Southern Kings will face the Cheetahs this coming Saturday in their return match of this years Super Rugby competition. It was no surprise that the Cheetahs won the first game played in Bloemfontein, but something that might have come as a surprise is the fact that no bonus points were scored in that game, especially considering the way the Cheetahs have been playing. [...]

The Sharks team named to face the Bulls tomorrow boats an average of almost 47 Super Rugby caps per man, but the loss of near-centurion JP Pietersen from the lineup has certainly had an effect. [...]

The Bulls have released an amended team-sheet for Saturday’s clash against the Sharks in Durban, admitting that an “administrative error” of sorts resulted in the wrong tighthead prop being picked for the match. [...]

Round 15, if you can believe it… let’s see if we can pick the winners. [...]

It seems once again there’s been a little confusion in the Sharks ranks, with both Bismarck du Plessis and Butch James missing out on this weekend’s match against the Bulls due to being “unready for selection”, despite numerous reports and assurances over the last few weeks that they would be. Furthermore, Anton Bresler is also injured this week, necessitating a change in the second row. [...]

In a stunningly candid interview with City Press last week, discarded Lions and Sharks centre Wandile Mjekevu delivered some stinging criticism aimed at the Sharks’ player development and coaching structures ahead of his imminent departure for Perpginan in France. [...]

According to Beeld (yes, yes, I know…) the Sharks will no longer be able to call on the services of Lions loan players JC Janse van Rensburg and Derick Minnie, with both having returned to Johannesburg this week. [...]

Wynand Olivier is back in the starting line-up for the Bulls’ clash against the Sharks this weekend. [...]

Stormers coach Allister Coetzee has been forced to make plenty of changes to his team to face the Reds this weekend. [...]

The Bok training squad for next week’s camp in Durban has been announced, with Sharks prop Wiehahn Herbst among the new players included. [...]

Bok hooker Bismarck du Plessis celebrates his 29th birthday today. [...]

News out of Pretoria this morning (it seems our friends at Beeld actually do have a clue what goes on in that city) is that Bulls and Bok loose forward Jacques Potgieter will not be returning to play Super Rugby there after his up-coming stint in Japan. [...]

Another grueling week of Super Rugby with a couple of surprising results has just passed and with only 6 weeks of rugby to go it would seem that anyone finding themselves in the bottom half of log has left themselves just too much to do to stay in contention for a playoff spot. You never know with the top 8 teams being very competitive this year, any team down to the Stormers on 30 log points, 11 log points behind the 6th placed Blues, could still sneak in if they managed to hit a purple patch in these final weeks. And lets not forget the 3 week international break that will also have its effect on teams.
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