SBW warns Wallabies after All Blacks humiliation

Sonny Bill Williams has warned the Wallabies to brace for a fierce All Blacks backlash in their Bledisloe Cup opener at Eden Park. New Zealand are still reeling from their record defeat to the Springboks in Wellington, while Australia top the Rugby Championship table...

Dobbo satisfied with Stormers’ URC build-up

Stormers coach John Dobson says he is pleased with his team’s pre-season preparations ahead of the new Vodacom United Rugby Championship campaign. The Capetonians played their only warm-up game against the Sharks in George last Friday, going down 26-17. But as Dobson...

Kirwan: All Blacks need ‘hell of a crisis’

John Kirwan says the All Blacks’ record defeat to the Springboks was the reality check Scott Robertson’s team required. New Zealand slumped to the heaviest defeat in their history when they were thrashed 43-10 by the Springboks in Wellington on Saturday and dropped to...

All Blacks running out of nines

The All Blacks’ crisis at scrumhalf has deepened with Noah Hotham ruled out for the remainder of the Rugby Championship. The team confirmed that he had surgery on Monday after fracturing his fibula in a tackle on Springbok lock Lood de Jager just minutes into the...