The Springboks face Argentina in Buenos Aires in the last test before the Rugby World Cup kicks off. It will be sweet revenge for the Boks should they be able to pull off a victory, but it will matter very little in the bigger scheme of things. A loss would result in a record fifth loss in a row. […]
Posts tagged with: Juan Martin Hernandez
Friendly: Argentina vs South Africa
15 Aug 15 19:55 by Richard Ferguson (Richard Ferguson) | 325 Comments
Pumas name experienced side
15 Aug 12 08:30 by Richard Ferguson (Richard Ferguson) | 8 Comments
The Argentinian team to face South Africa at Newlands on Saturday has been announced, with an experienced team chosen to take on the Boks. The team will be led by eighthman Juan Martin Hernandez Lobbe, while Juan Martin Hernandez takes up the flyhalf role for the first time in three years. […]
Hernandez gets second SupeRugby bite
24 Jan 12 17:04 by Richard Ferguson (Richard Ferguson) | 10 Comments
Juan Martin Hernandez might get his second chance at playing Super Rugby after it was reported on the stuff.co.nz website that the Blues have approached the Argentinian flyhalf. […]
Situation critical
25 May 10 10:05 by Morné Nortier (Morné) | 132 Comments
For years the Sharks have lead South African rugby, if not world rugby, in the way they market their brand and team oozing success at all levels, but it seems to me that lately they are doing their level best to destroy all this. […]
Time to end the insanity
20 Jan 10 15:18 by Rob Otto (robdylan) | 43 Comments
We’ve got two separate developments going on in Durban, both of which now require strong and decisive leadership from the Sharks administration. The first involves the ongoing pettiness surrounding the transfers of Willem Alberts and Louis Ludik. […]
Hernandez denies Racing move
11 Jan 10 12:28 by Rob Otto (robdylan) | 40 Comments
In a frankly indecipherable interview with ESPN’s Argentinian site, Juan Martin Hernandez has denied that he has signed anything with Racing Metro (or any other club) and insists that his only focus is recovering from back surgery and getting onto the park as soon as possible. […]
Flyhalf curse strikes Cheetahs next
11 Jan 10 11:26 by Rob Otto (robdylan) | 22 Comments
Naka Drotske is just the latest South African Super 14 coach to suddenly find himself looking around desperately for a flyhalf. Griquas Pivot Naas Olivier, likely to be the Cheetahs first choice this season, will miss at least the opening game of the competition due to a knee injury. […]
Plum searching for a ten
8 Jan 10 11:47 by Rob Otto (robdylan) | 113 Comments
John Plumtree has acknowledged that the loss of Juan Martin Hernandez for the Super 14 is a massive blow to his side’s aspirations. […]
Breaking the bank for a has-been
7 Jan 10 10:10 by Rob Otto (robdylan) | 50 Comments
The Lions have done it again, folks, in offering a South African record contract to an over-the-hill former great. An obsession with experience would appear to have blinded the Lions’ management to the fact that Carlos Spencer simply isn’t worth a record contract these days. […]
Sharks facing flyhalf crisis
5 Jan 10 14:41 by Rob Otto (robdylan) | 86 Comments
There’s an unconfirmed rumour doing the rounds that Juan Martin Hernandez may miss the entire 2010 Super 14 owing to a back injury. The current prognosis for the Argentine pivot is 6 months on the sideline, meaning that, if the rumour is true, Hernandez had made his last appearance for the Sharks. […]
Juan Hernandez looks to Paris
2 Jan 10 10:12 by Rob Otto (robdylan) | 14 Comments
According to a report on a French website, Argentine flyhalf Juan Martin Hernandez has signed a contract with French Top 14 team team Racing Metro 92 and will move back to France in May this year. […]
Pitfalls of professional rugby
16 Oct 09 22:12 by Andre Bosch (KSA Shark ©) | 12 Comments
Peter Hassard, President of the KwaZulu-Natal Rugby Union (the amateur arm of the Sharks), talks to Rugby365 about the pitfalls of professional rugby, WP buying players, Player agents, the possible Springbok exodus, and whether or not the Sharks will have to leave the Absa Stadium. […]
Sharks pick Kockott, Hernandez
27 Aug 09 12:02 by Rob Otto (robdylan) | 134 Comments
Rory Kockott and Juan Hernández have been selected to start at scrumhalf and flyhalf respectively as the Sharks take on Western Province in Durban this Saturday. […]
Should Adi play 12 for the Sharks?
12 Aug 09 10:02 by Rob Otto (robdylan) | 143 Comments
If the talk is to be believed, Adrian Jacobs is poised to take over from the departing Jean de Villiers at inside centre for the Springboks. It’s hardly surprising, given that Bok coach Peter de Villiers used Jacobs at 12 back in the duo’s Valke days, with great success. […]
Mixed news for Sharks
11 Aug 09 10:19 by Rob Otto (robdylan) | 37 Comments
The Sharks face the unpleasant prospect or travelling to Johannesburg this weekend without a recognised goal-kicker, as both Rory Kockott and Juan Hernández look unlikely to make the trip. […]