Superbru: Stormers to smash Lions
The SA Rugby magazine team have made their Superbru picks for this week’s Vodacom United Rugby Championship matches and the Lions have been given little chance of beating the Stormers in Cape Town.
The SA Rugby magazine team have made their Superbru picks for this week’s Vodacom United Rugby Championship matches and the Lions have been given little chance of beating the Stormers in Cape Town.
Edwill van der Merwe will make his Lions debut against the Stormers in the Vodacom United Rugby Championship at Cape Town Stadium on Sunday.
The South African teams resume their respective Vodacom United Rugby Championship campaigns with the landscape having changed a bit since they last played seven weeks ago.
After spending some time with the Springboks, hooker Johan Grobbelaar is itching to get onto the field and continue where he left off at the Vodacom Bulls.
Cardiff and the majority of the Munster squad are expected to return to the UK and Ireland in the next couple of days following the postponement of their Vodacom United Rugby Championship matches in South Africa.
Munster will have to remain in South Africa after it was confirmed that nine more squad members tested positive for Covid-19.
Two Vodacom United Rugby Championship derbies originally scheduled for February 2022 have been brought forward and will be played in Durban and Cape Town this weekend.
The entire South African leg of the Vodacom United Rugby Championship is under threat as European sides scramble to fly out of the country.
Elrigh Louw says playing Munster in front of a home crowd at Loftus Versfeld on Saturday has raised the excitement levels in the Vodacom Bulls squad.
Edwill van der Merwe will make his Lions debut against Cardiff Rugby in the Vodacom United Rugby Championship at Ellis Park on Sunday.