Schalk sounds warning to Boks

Schalk Burger reckons Rassie Erasmus’ Springboks would underestimate a potentially “unstoppable” French threat in Paris on Friday at their peril. In the latest episode of the Boks Unpacked X The Verdict podcast, Burger gave his take on France’s 54-17 win over Fiji...

Saffa Les Bleu: French still upset with Boks

Former France prop Daniel Kotze expects a fired-up host nation for Friday night’s Nations Championship Test against the Springboks in Paris. Last year, the Boks won 32-17 in the corresponding fixture in the French capital after trailing 14-13 at half-time and having...

‘Ban the ugly, boring rolling maul’

New Zealand Herald sports writer Paul Lewis has called for the rolling maul to be outlawed, arguing that it is ruining rugby as a spectacle. Writing after the All Blacks’ 43-21 victory over Scotland at Murrayfield, Lewis questioned how a match featuring 10 tries and...

SA Rugby mag opens its vault

The past 15 years of SA Rugby magazine – every cover, every page – is now online and searchable HERE! Somewhere in a box at home, most SA Rugby readers have a pile of back issues they can’t bring themselves to throw out. The 2011 World Cup preview with the spine that...

Rugby needs box-office Sacha

Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu has a problem. He’s extravagantly talented, young, good looking and bursting with big-match temperament. He’s also divisive, writes CLINTON VAN DER BERG. Ahead of the Italy Test, Springbok great Victor Matfield suggested the flyhalf show more...

Erasmus: Ward never in Bok contention

Rassie Erasmus says he’s happy for Jeremy Ward after the South African centre was called up by France. The 30-year-old was a surprise inclusion in the Les Bleus squad for this month’s Nations Championship, although he will only become eligible to represent his adopted...