In a somewhat surprising move Western Province have announced the extension of Bryan Habana’s contract, and its not a one year extension, its a THREE year one. After the rumour mill started doing the rounds that he was in talks with Japanese Clubs, Habana took to twitter to rubbish the rumours saying “Amazing how some journalists can write the biggest load of nonsense to create sensationalism & then never apologise or correct their wrongs!” and following that with “Heard yesterday that I am in talks with some Japanese clubs??!?? That’s the 1st I’ve heard of it!!”.
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Province injury watch: some good to go with the bad
In our ongoing series of articles aiming to bring you up-to-the-minute updates on the injury worries in the Western Province camp ahead of Saturday’s clsh with the Sharks, let’s see what fresh news Tuesday has in store. [...]
Botes joins Michalak at top of pile
The pair of tries scored by flanker Jacques Botes this weekend have catapulted him to the summit of the 2011 Currie Cup top try scorers log, meaning that top spot on both the tries and total points logs are currently held by Sharks players. [...]
My Bok B-Team
13 Sep 11 15:37 by Richard Ferguson | Bulls, Cheetahs, Currie Cup, Lions, Original Content, Other SA Teams, Sharks, WP | 89 Comments
Looking at the Currie Cup at the moment, a lot of people are calling it a watered down version, and rightly so, all the Springboks are away at the World Cup. But think about it, where were the Boks last year? They were all playing Tri Nations and only came back for the play-off games. So this is the future of the Currie Cup, the current players are the future Springboks in the making. [...]
Fantasy Roundup – Round 9
12 Sep 11 15:57 by Richard Ferguson | Bulls, Cheetahs, Currie Cup, Lions, Original Content, Sharks, WP | 14 Comments
Round 9 of the Currie Cup has come to an end and it’s time to have a look at how the various team managers are faring in the Fantasy League over on www.justrugby.net. [...]
Fantasy Update – Round 8
7 Sep 11 09:02 by Richard Ferguson | Bulls, Cheetahs, Currie Cup, Lions, Original Content, Sharks, WP | 18 Comments
Round 8 of the Currie Cup has come to an end and it’s time to have a look at how the various team managers are faring in the Fantasy League over on www.justrugby.net. [...]
New Griquas pivot to face Province
Griquas coach Abre Minnie has been forced into malking a number of backline changes ahead of his team’s match against Western Province tomorrow, with key injuries hampering the side’s ability to field their best team consistently. [...]
Fantasy League Update – Round 7
30 Aug 11 08:45 by Richard Ferguson | Bulls, Cheetahs, Currie Cup, Lions, Original Content, Other SA Teams, Sharks, WP | 2 Comments
Round 7 of the Currie Cup has come to an end and it’s time to have a look at how the various team managers are faring in the Fantasy League over on www.justrugby.net. It was a pretty low scoring round, with tries not coming as thick and fast as we have become used to. [...]
Province name young team to face Griquas
The Western Province side to take on Griquas in the opening round of the Currie Cup this weekend has been announced, with a few surprises thrown in. The first name to jump at me is Hilton Lobberts, who has come from Club rugby to represent at Currie Cup level again. [...]
WP face tough decisions
There was an article in the Cape Times this morning where Director of WP Rugby Rassie Erasmus announced that Western Province and the Stormers won’t be suffering too much of a player exodus post-World Cup, with a few of the bigger names having already signed contracts and others in the process of finalising how many years they want their contracts to be.
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Windhoek Lager Team of the Week – Round 14
24 May 11 12:02 by Richard Ferguson | Bulls, Cheetahs, Original Content, Stormers, Super Rugby | 31 Comments
Welcome to the Windhoek Lager Team of the Week. We have decided to make it an all South African team and base it only on the weekend matches. So if your favourite player did not play on the weekend, he will not be in the team. [...]
The Sharks not complete
We all know how much quality depth we currently have, but in some areas we could be in some trouble if we don’t start looking for recruits or new personnel.
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