Brumbies flank David Pocock will be out of action for three months after having minor knee surgery. Pocock took a year-long sabbatical from Australian rugby, but played for the Panasonic Wild Knights in Japan between August and January. He featured in the recent Top League final, which the Wild Knights lost 12-8 to Suntory Sungoliath. ‘Upon David Pocock’s return from… Read more →
All the warm-up matches leading up to the 2018 Super Rugby tournament. 20 January SWD vs Stormers 27 January Lions vs Bulls Bulls vs Sharks Jaguares vs Argentina XV 2 February Chiefs vs Blues Crusaders vs Hurricanes Highlanders vs Waratahs 3 February Stormers vs Bulls Brumbies vs Rebels Sharks vs Racing 92 (Hong Kong) Super Rugby player transfers 9-10 February… Read more →
Juarno Augustus and Herschel Jantjies scored two tries each as the Stormers cruised to a 77-0 win over the SWD Eagles at Outeniqua Park on Saturday. The Stormers fielded a young match-day squad, but still had enough firepower to run 11 tries past the Eagles in front of their home crowd in George. Despite playing in damp, misty and rainy… Read more →
Jean-Luc du Preez is expected to return from injury for the Sharks’ tour of Australia and New Zealand in March, but Coenie Oosthuizen will miss the entire Super Rugby season. Du Preez suffered a serious injury in last year’s Currie Cup final, while Oosthuizen tore knee ligaments in the Boks’ end-of-year Test against Ireland on 11 November. ‘Coenie Oosthuizen is going… Read more →
Centre Francois Venter was named the Cheetahs’ Player of the Year for the third time in a row at a team function in Bloemfontein on Wednesday.
The Stormers have confirmed that Eben Etzebeth will be sidelined for at least four months because of a shoulder injury.
Swys de Bruin says the Lions must move forward proactively with a relatively new-look coaching group, writes CRAIG LEWIS. The Lions head into the 2018 Super Rugby season with a squad that remains largely unchanged from last year – albeit without Ruan Ackermann and Faf de Klerk – but there are some significant changes to the coaching staff. The departure… Read more →
Bulls scrumhalf Rudy Paige is expected to be fit by the end of February having had groin surgery in early January. Paige, who complained of a painful groin after the Boks’ end-of-year tour, joins Ruan Steenkamp and Ivan van Zyl on the Bulls’ long-term injury list. Meanwhile, Hendré Stassen, Corniel Els, Jannes Kirsten and Jesse Kriel are all taking part in… Read more →
Warren Whiteley will return to Johannesburg from Japan in time for the Lions’ warm-up match against the Bulls on 27 January.
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