Lions coach John Mitchell has lost patience with his under-performing team and wielded a heavy axe ahead of their encounter with the Stormers on Saturday. [...]
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Mitchell wields the Axe
Verster: It’s Absolutely untrue
Despite the absence of a title sponsor, the Cheetahs players have all remained on a full salary. [...]
Cheetahs name team
The Cheetahs have named their team to take on the Sharks at the ABSA Stadium this Friday from 18:00. As expected, Lionel Mapoe is brought into the 13 jersey after Corne Uys was injured with Danwel Demas brought into the 14 jersey. The unexpected changes comes with Ashley Johnson being dropped to the bench in place of Frans Viljoen. [...]
Francois Uys’s season is over
Promising Cheetahs number 8 Francois Uys will play no further part in their 2009 campaign, having ruptured a knee ligament in a freak training ground accident earlier this week. Kabamba Floors will take over from Uys for this weekend’s game against Boland. [...]
Cheetahs shatter Sharks’ dream
The Cheetahs, for so long the bogey team of the Sharks, have done it again. It took them nine long weeks, but the men from Bloemfontein scored their first win of the season in beating the Sharks comprehensively, 31-6, on Saturday. [...]
Magic Rob gets a start
Springbok Meyer Bosman’s hamstring injury has forced Free State Cheetahs coach Naka Drotske to take the bold step and include SA Under-20 centre Robert Ebersohn for Saturday’s Absa Currie Cup match against the Sharks in Bloemfontein. [...]