The Southern Kings took a lot of flak back in 2016 when they returned to the Super Rugby playing field with an interesting jersey design from kit manufacturer BLK. The Kings revealed an abstract version of a beaded design symbolic to the Eastern Cape. […]
Posts tagged with: Steven Sykes
From jesters to Kings
9 May 17 07:59 by Pierre McLeod (pierre_mackie) | 54 Comments
Farewell Steven
19 May 16 15:35 by Pierre McLeod (pierre_mackie) | 23 Comments
The Southern Kings announced yesterday the departure of stalwart lock and captain Steven Sykes, who has signed a two year deal with Frech club Oyonnax from the end of the Super Rugby season. […]
Southern Kings off to New Zealand
14 Mar 16 10:12 by Pierre McLeod (pierre_mackie) | 29 Comments
After two heavy defeats at home against the Sharks and Chiefs, the Southern Kings are now left to face two New Zealand giants in New Zealand over the coarse of the next two weeks. Seven time Super Rugby champions Crusaders and the 2015 runners-up Hurricanes will be looking forward to hosting the Kings in anticipation of picking up maximum points against the visitors. […]
Southern Kings team bolstered for Chiefs
8 Mar 16 16:22 by Pierre McLeod (pierre_mackie) | 24 Comments
Southern Kings Head Coach Deon Davids has made a few changes to his side that lost 8 – 42 to the Cell C Sharks at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium a fortnight ago. […]
Sharks lineout – hardly a train smash
29 Feb 16 13:32 by Rob Otto (robdylan) | 69 Comments
I’ve been back and watched the weekend’s game a number of times over now, trying to form my own views about how various aspects of the play went down. While Kings number 5 JC Astle is rightfully being given a lot of praise for running the lineouts for his side, I do think some of the talk about how well he managed to disrupt the Sharks at this phase might be a little overblown. […]
Plenty of questions about early NMB try
29 Feb 16 11:38 by Rob Otto (robdylan) | 60 Comments
I’m coming close to breaking my own rule about referees here, but I wanted to point out some rather worrying inconsistencies in the way the new maul “interpretation” was applied in PE this weekend. While it may seem a little petty to complain about a Kings try, when the Sharks scored six in return, all we really ask here is for consistency from the match officials and I genuinely don’t feel we got that on Saturday. […]
Super Rugby 2016: Southern Kings v Sharks
27 Feb 16 14:00 by Rob Otto (robdylan) | 141 Comments
It’s the first game of the new season for Gary Gold and his Sharks team. […]
Southern Kings to face Cell C Sharks
23 Feb 16 15:45 by Pierre McLeod (pierre_mackie) | 36 Comments
Experienced lock Steven Sykes was named as captain of the Southern Kings for their opening round Super Rugby match against the Cell C Sharks at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium this coming Saturday. […]
Ready or not, Super Rugby is coming
5 Jan 16 13:40 by Pierre McLeod (pierre_mackie) | 59 Comments
You don’t need to be a fortune teller to know that Super Rugby will hit the Southern Kings like a ton of bricks when they face The Sharks at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium in Port Elizabeth on the 27th of February. […]
First Kings contracts revealed
14 Dec 15 10:01 by Rob Otto (robdylan) | 29 Comments
The newly-reformed (or is that annexed?) Southern Kings have finally managed to confirm a list of contracted players. Numbering only 20, this is clearly just a start as the SARU_controlled franchise operates in serious catch-up mode to try and prepare for next year’s Super Rugby competition. […]
Latest from the Kings
9 Dec 15 14:47 by Stephen Smith (StevieS) | 52 Comments
Hi Sharks fans. Kings news seems to be the only news these day, and not much of it good I’m afraid. […]
Sharks take the points
17 Aug 15 09:56 by Rob Otto (robdylan) | 91 Comments
The Sharks picked up a vital bonus-point Currie Cup win against the EP Kings in Durban on Saturday afternoon, in a game that was at times even closer than the 33-25 scoreline would suggest. […]
Kings largely unchanged for Sharks match
12 Aug 15 12:50 by Pierre McLeod (pierre_mackie) | 43 Comments
EP Kings head coach, Brent Janse van Rensburg opted for continuity in his team selection when they travel to Durban to face the Sharks for their second ABSA Currie Cup Premier Division match at Kingspark on Saturday. […]
EP Kings to face Lions
6 Aug 15 17:32 by Pierre McLeod (pierre_mackie) | 45 Comments
ABSA Currie Cup Premier Division Rugby returns to the shores of the Nelson Mandela Bay this weekend, when the Eastern Province Kings face old foes the Golden Lions from Johannesburg at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium in Port Elizabeth on Saturday. […]
Cheetahs turn the tables
10 Mar 15 11:28 by Rob Otto (robdylan) | 96 Comments
There’s an old joke doing the rounds that when the Sharks play in Bloemfontein, many of the players stay at their parents’ houses rather than checking into a hotel. This weekend, they may just find that those old rooms have been sub-let to their own former team mates. Times are tough in Bloem, after all. […]