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Dylan des Fountain, who left the field on a stretcher during the Lions’ game against the Stormers on Friday night, looks set to miss the start of the Super Rugby campaign, after injuring his knee. [...]
Posts tagged with: Stormers
Lions back set to miss SupeRugby start
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. [...]
Stormers see off plucky Boland in opening hit-out
The Stormers recorded a 45-14 win over the Boland Cavaliers in Wellington on Saturday afternoon in their first Super Rugby warmup game of the season. [...]
Stormers go for youth against Boland
Allister Coetzee has named a 28 man squad to face Boland in their first warm up game of the season. The match will be played on Saturday 21 January at Boland Park in Wellington and kick-off is at 15:45. [...]
Tri-Series scrapped
18 Jan 12 10:38 by Clayton(PJLD) | Cheetahs, Lions, Original Content, Stormers, Super Rugby | 32 Comments
Shortly after the Sharks withdrew from the annual Neo Africa Tri Series held at Newlands Neo Africa themselves have withdrawn as the title sponsor of the pre-season tournament. [...]
So there’s actually rugby news out there
16 Jan 12 09:28 by Clayton(PJLD) | Bulls, Cheetahs, Lions, Original Content, Sharks, Springboks, Stormers, Super Rugby | 19 Comments
It seems that the dreaded off season is drawing to a close and we are finally starting to get rugby news that we actually care about. Cricket commentary will dominate these pages for another 1 or 2 days at most but it won’t be long before normal service resumes. [...]
Erasmus linked to Bok role
Weekend newspaper speculation has linked Rassie Erasmus to a permanent technical advisor role with the Springboks, suggesting that the former WP director of rugby will be roped in as a key assistant to the new Bok coach when he is named on 27 January. [...]
Conradie in the mix
Former Springbok and Western Province scrumhalf, Bolla Conradie, could see the fruit of his excellent form with Boland last season with a call up to the Stormers SupeRugby squad, after coach Allister Coetzee hinted that the player has impressed him. [...]
Rassie drops Province
Rassie Erasmus has dropped the WPRFU in the proverbial by suddenly announcing his resignation.
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Reece explains Tri-Series withdrawal
In a recent interview with John Bishop of The Witness, Sharks assistant coach Hugh Reece-Edwards has confirmed that the side will not take part in the annual Neo Africa Tri-Series warm-up competition at Newlands later this month. [...]
Jacobs wasting his chances?
Former Sharks and Springbok centre Adi Jacobs appears unlikely to become a Stormer despite an approach from coach Allister Coetzee. [...]
Another player lost to Stormers
The Stormers and Western Province, having lost a fair number of juniors over the last few months to the likes of the Bulls, Sharks and even Brumbies, will also be without the services of a more senior player next year. Lock Adriaan Fondse will leave the team shortly to join up with the Newcastle Falcons. [...]
Joe Pietersen returns to WP
Western Province have today announced the signing of Joe Pietersen who returns from a spell at French Top 14 side Bayonne. [...]
Habana: ZAR > Yen
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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