Deon Carstens, a veteran of more than 200 first class matches, as well as ten caps for the Boks, has been forced to retire. [...]
Posts tagged with: WP
Seasoned Shark and WP prop retires
Everitt maintains continuity
Sharks XV coach Sean Everitt has named a mostly unchanged side for his team’s second-round Vodacom Cup clash in Cape Town this weekend. Whilst his charges performed superbly in delivering a proper beating to Border last week, the coach is keen not to let anyone get ahead of themselves, as far tougher opposition await in the form of reining champions Western Province. [...]
Bath confirm Koster signing (but Fourie stays put)
We reported a few weeks back that Western Province had given young loose forward Nick Koster the green light to enter into (or perhaps) continue contract negotiations with Bath in the UK. [...]
Currie Cup 2012 – Western Province (42) vs Bulls (6) F/T
The final game of the weekend and one of the bigger clashes this round, sees Western Province hosting the Bulls. Western Province have had a poor start to the season, with one victory from three starts, while the Bulls have two from three, and are a good win away from taking second spot after the weekend games. [...]
Positives for Province
Despite the bad news regarding WP and their loosies, there is some good news to report on. [...]
Currie Cup 2012 – Griquas (20) vs Western Province (25) F/T
A super Saturday of rugby continues, with the first Currie Cup match for the day seeing Western Province travel to Kimberley to tackle a fresh faced Griquas outfit. [...]
Sharks player ratings v WP
The Sharks dug deep to record a come-from-behind, 25-23 victory over Western Province at Newlands, in Saturday’s Round 1 Currie Cup clash. While the team played poorly in many areas (which can only partly be blamed on the weather), the win was nevertheless a great result. Let’s have a look at the individual performances. [...]
Currie Cup 2012: Western Province (23) v Sharks (25) F/T
The third and final game of the first round takes place at a wet and wild Newlands. [...]
Province lose Kritzinger – again!
The tail of woe that is the senior career of promising WP prop JC Kritzinger continues. [...]
Schalla gone for the season?
WP coach Alister Coetzee has confirmed what many of us have secretly been fearing for some months now; Schalk Burger’s 2012 season appears to be well over, having lasted less than 20 minutes. [...]
Boks call up de Jongh
SARU has just announced that WP midfielder Juan de Jongh has been called up to the Rugby Championship squad. [...]
Gracious in victory
Hey guys just a short note to remind us all here to be gracious in victory; and to love the game of rugby more than loving the sight of other teams losing.
Sadie’s Bulls dream appears over
SuperSport’s Brenden Nel yesterday confirmed a rumour that has been circulating for a while; high-profile young centre, Johann Sadie, has fallen so far out of favour with his new union, the Blue Bulls, that he may be looking at an exit after just six months of his contract there. [...]
Rassie drops Province
Rassie Erasmus has dropped the WPRFU in the proverbial by suddenly announcing his resignation.
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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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