With the dust still settling on news that Heyneke Meyer will be Springbok coach, should he accept the appointment, startling news surfaced that retired lock Victor Matfield might consider coming out of retirement to play for Meyer. [...]
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Have we not seen the last of Matfield?
The light blue tinge
After numerous press releases and backwards and forwards amongst SARU, Blue Bulls Rugby, Heyneke Meyer, Gert Smal and even Peter de Villiers, it seems that the cat is now unofficially out the bag, and that the National Coach will be Heyneke Meyer. But what does this mean? [...]
Stormers team to face Lions
The DHL Stormers team to face the Lions in the DHL Pre-Season Series on Friday night has been announced, with Schalk Burger captaining the side from the 6 jersey. The team sees quite a few changes from the one that faced Boland in the friendly last week. [...]
Stormers to pick strong side for Lions
The Neo Africa Tri Series may be no more, but that won’t stop the Stormers from going all out to secure victory in their hastily-rebranded warm up fixture against the Lions on Friday night. [...]
Lions stronger where it counts?
The headline writers are, of course, climbing all over the fact that Western Province have packed their side with returning Springboks just in time to face the first-placed Lions in this weekend’s Currie Cup semi-finals. While the injection of such experience, especially amongst the backs, will no doubt vastly improve the visitors’ chances, I can’t help feeling that the Lions will emerge victorious on Saturday afternoon. [...]
Western Province name squad for semi-final clash.
DHL Western Province head coach Allister Coetzee has named his squad that will take on the Lions in the Absa CurrieCup semi final clash on Saturday. [...]
Province injury watch: Koster in doubt
With the Sharks facing Western Province in Durban this weekend, the latter team’s frankly ridiculous injury list becomes a matter of more than just passing interest. [...]
A sad farewell
30 Aug 11 14:51 by Richard Ferguson | All Blacks, Original Content, Springboks, Tri Nations, Wallabies | 29 Comments
The Tri Nations has come to an end for the 2011 year, and it is with a sad feeling that we say good bye to the premier tournament in the Southern Hemisphere as it will be extended to a four team competition next year to include Argentina. [...]
SW Awards – Openside Flank
12 Jul 11 09:59 by Richard Ferguson | Bulls, Cheetahs, Original Content, Sharks, Stormers, Super Rugby | 33 Comments
It’s that time of the year when all sorts of awards and prizes get handed to players who have performed well in the Super Rugby tournament. Here at Sharksworld, we tend to do things a little differently, rewarding those players that performed well, performed poorly as well as rewarding them for those idiotic moments. [...]
Western Province plunged into lock crisis
The news that fiery number 4 Rynhardt Elstadt has ruled himself out of rugby for 3 months will add further to the insomnia sure to be plaguing Western Province forwards coach Matt Proudfoot as he looks to the upcoming Currie Cup season, which kicks off against Griquas on Friday. Elstadt’s knee injury will seriously weaken a Province tight five that needs to step up and show its mettle this season after being dismantled (in Stormers guise) by the Crusaders in the Super Rugby semi-final 10 days ago. [...]
Burger injury concern for Boks
Stormers flanker Schalk Burger has been ruled out of all rugby for two months after dislocating his thumb in the first half of Saturday’s Super Rugby semi-final loss to the Crusaders. The first-choice Springbok open-sider underwent an operation on Saunday morning to repair the damage. [...]
Windhoek Lager Team of the Week
14 Jun 11 11:00 by Richard Ferguson | Bulls, Lions, Original Content, Sharks, Stormers, Super Rugby | 13 Comments
Welcome to the Windhoek Lager Team of the Week for Round 17. 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.
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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. [...]
Windhoek Lager Team of the week
Welcome to the Windhoek Lager Team of the Week for Round 9. 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.
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Coetzee not fixing what isn’t broke
DHL Stormers coach Allister Coetzee has made no changes to his lineup that did duty against The Sharks in Durban last week.
