The Highlanders team to face the Sharks this Saturday shows only two changes from the team that came from behind to defeat the Cheetahs last weekend, with a change a piece amongst the forwards and backs. […]
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Highlanders change two for Sharks
4 May 12 08:00 by Richard Ferguson (Richard Ferguson) | 13 Comments
Delany straight into action for Landers
19 Apr 12 08:45 by Richard Ferguson (Richard Ferguson) | 8 Comments
The Highlanders have made two changes to his starting team to face the Blues this weekend, after enjoying a bye last weekend, with emergency flyhalf cover Mike Delany immediately into the starting team ahead of Chris Noakes. […]
Super Rugby preview – Highlanders
17 Feb 12 07:39 by Richard Ferguson (Richard Ferguson) | 10 Comments
The Highlanders started last year’s Super Rugby campaign like a house on fire, and things only really came unstuck later in the long season, with injuries and fatigue costing the New Zealand team a spot in the play-offs. Will things be different this year? […]
Highlanders are walking wounded
8 Feb 12 12:38 by Richard Ferguson (Richard Ferguson) | Comment?
The Highlanders will be starting the Super Rugby season without a few key players as their list of injured players continues to grow the closer we get to the start of the tournament. […]
Sharksworld chats with former Shark Tony Brown at Carisbrook
3 Aug 11 12:48 by Gwyn Pratley (Hertford Highlander) | 10 Comments
On a night when Otago recorded its third ITM Cup win of the season (against Counties Manukau) to keep alive their chances of promotion to next year’s Premiership. Sharksworld managed to get an exclusive post-match interview with Otago talisman and former Sharks fly half Tony Brown – about this year’s ITM Cup, and his time in Durban with the Sharks. […]
SW Awards – Loosehead
23 Jun 11 16:19 by Richard Ferguson (Richard Ferguson) | 61 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. […]
Cancer puts ‘Rugby in Perspective’
28 Apr 11 05:18 by Gwyn Pratley (Hertford Highlander) | 19 Comments
Watching the Highlanders train at Logan Park this week you distinctly get the feeling that they are bracing themselves for a huge onslaught from their northern countrymen. Jamie Joseph’s men have trained in beautiful conditions all week here in Dunedin. They will however be well aware of what is sure to be a galvanised Blues outfit that will still be reeling from their popular team mates devastating personal news. […]
Match Review – Highlanders too strong for Crusaders
23 Apr 11 14:13 by Gwyn Pratley (Hertford Highlander) | 5 Comments
All Blacks.com reports that the Highlanders scored one of the biggest upsets of the Super Rugby competition when beating the Crusaders, 26-18, in their 10th round clash in Nelson on Saturday night. […]
Highlanders rocked by a family death
10 Mar 11 06:40 by Andre Bosch (KSA Shark ©) | 18 Comments
The Highlanders, rocked by a death in the “family”, have made one change to their starting 15 to face the Stormers in Saturday’s clash of Super Rugby’s unbeaten teams. […]
Kiwi Super 15 Pre-Season Preview – The Highlanders
10 Jan 11 05:47 by Gwyn Pratley (Hertford Highlander) | 20 Comments
There will be high hopes that new coach Jamie Joseph will be able to work some magic in his first year at the helm of the Highlanders. However it will be a big ask for the Southerner’s to graduate out of their Conference and qualify for the final six of the Investec Super rugby play-offs in 2011. […]
ITM Cup – Round 11 Preview
7 Oct 10 09:09 by Gwyn Pratley (Hertford Highlander) | 112 Comments
With only three Rounds left in the 2010 ITM Cup, time is running out for sides to secure Semi Final spots for 2010 and First Division Rugby for 2011. After Wellington dropped out of the top half of the table last week their visit to North Harbour has all the hallmarks of a huge match, as will be Bay of Plenty’s visit to Tasman and Auckland’s visit to Counties-Manukau. However without doubt the match of the Round is the Ranfurly Shield defence by Southland against arguably the strongest province in the world. […]
ITM Cup – Round 8 Preview
15 Sep 10 02:01 by Gwyn Pratley (Hertford Highlander) | 55 Comments
Round 7 finally saw a run on performance from the NZRFU’s prize asset, Sonny Bill Williams. SBW didn’t disappoint as he ran strongly and off-loaded in the tackle during an impressive performance. He already looks nailed on, to make the EOYT with the AB’s to Europe ! […]
ITM Cup – Round 7 Preview
8 Sep 10 23:00 by Gwyn Pratley (Hertford Highlander) | 102 Comments
Last Friday evening Canterbury went top of New Zealand’s ITM Cup, but joy soon turned to horror as Christchurch was hit by a massive earthquake in the early hours of Saturday morning. […]
Who’s in the Highlanders anyway?
19 Mar 10 12:04 by Gwyn Pratley (Hertford Highlander) | 37 Comments
With nine changes to the Highlanders starting line-up, some Sharks fan may be forgiven for not knowing some of the opposition. […]
Smit ready for Tighthead role
4 May 09 07:19 by Andre Bosch (KSA Shark ©) | Comment?
Springbok captain John Smit at the weekend made the most compelling statement yet about his conversion to being an international tighthead prop. […]