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Springbok coach, Rassie Erasmus, recalled hooker, Johan Grobbelaar, to his 28-man squad for their short tour to Argentina, where they will face Los Pumas at Estadio Unico Madre Ciudades in Santiago on Saturday in their penultimate Rugby Championship clash. Erasmus opted to rest seven players, who have had a heavy workload in the last few months, with an eye on the final round of the competition in Nelspruit against Argentina […]

The Springbok side that will face Argentina on Saturday evening will look much different to the side that beat the All Blacks in Cape Town last week Saturday. Coach, Rassie Erasmus, says they will look to employ a split-squad system for the home-and-away Rugby Championship clashes with Los Pumas. Following the 18-12 victory over the All Blacks at the DHL Stadium in round four of the tournament, Erasmus told the […]

Springbok supporters will be pleased to learn that captain, Siya Kolisi, was in training with the squad at the Cape Town Stadium ahead of Saturday's Rugby Championship Test match against the All Blacks. Kolisi has been a major doubt for the fixture after leaving the field at Ellis Park this past weekend, having suffered a nasty knock to the face from former New Zealand captain, Sam Cane. While his face […]

The South African Rugby Union (Saru) has apologised to the New Zealand Rugby Union for the interference towards the end of the All Blacks’ Haka. The incident happened ahead of this past weekend's Rugby Championship Test at Ellis Park. SA Rugby has formally apologised to @NZRugby for a sequence of events that led to the conclusion of the Haka being obscured on Saturday - more here: https://t.co/b1L5HFKBXt 🤝#Springboks pic.twitter.com/p3cR8zEw9J — […]

  Springbok lock, Eben Etzebeth, has been given the greenlight to face New Zealand in the Rugby Championship match in Johannesburg on Saturday after completing all the training sessions this week thus far. Etzebeth has been drafted onto the replacements bench in place of Marco van Staden and will provide lock cover for the starting combination of Pieter-Steph du Toit and Ruan Nortje. He was initially excluded from the Boks’ […]

Veteran Springbok lock, Eben Etzebeth, is not completely ruled out of Saturday's Rugby Championship encounter against New Zealand at Ellis Park. This is despite him not making the matchday 23 named by coach Rassie Erasmus today. Yesterday, assistant coach, Deon Davids, told the media that Etzebeth was a doubt for the game with a knee niggle, especially due to the Boks' training policy that stipulates that if a player can’t […]

Springbok centre, Jesse Kriel, is of the view that the Boks are currently a much better team than they were in the 2023 World Cup final against New Zealand in Paris. The two nations will renew their bitter rivalry on Saturday afternoon at the iconic Ellis Park Stadium. The Springboks have already won their first two matches of the Rugby Championship, away, against Australia. Both matches saw the Springboks winning […]

Cape  Town City coach, Eric Tinkler, is optimistic of his side's chances in next  Tuesday's MTN8 first-leg semi-final encounter against his former team, Orlando  Pirates. The  Citizens will host the Buccaneers at the DHL Stadium on Tuesday night (19:30  kick-off) with a return fixture scheduled just four days later in Soweto. Tinkler’s troops will be looking to cause an upset, with the Sea Robbers aiming to defend the title that […]

Orlando  Pirates coach, Jose Riveiro, is aware that the Buccaneers will not have it easy on Friday night when they face Madagascar champions, Disciples FC. This is the second leg of their first preliminary round tie in the CAF Champions League at the  Orlando Stadium tonight. The fixture is on a knife's edge after the first leg hosted by Disciples in  Mauritius ended in a goalless stalemate, despite Pirates creating […]