SA derbies spice up United Rugby Championship
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.
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.
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.
SA Rugby could reportedly activate an emergency backup plan that will see the four South African Vodacom United Rugby Championship teams face each other after fixtures against overseas teams were postponed.
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.
The Vodacom United Rugby Championship is back this week and, for the first time, the competition will be contested on South African soil.
Vodacom Bulls loose forward Arno Botha says he is looking forward to catching up with his old teammates when Munster travel to Pretoria for the first Vodacom United Rugby Championship match at Loftus Versfeld on Saturday.
The four weeks they have already experienced coupled with what they learned about a possible shift in global rugby power during the break that followed should mean the South African teams will take a different perspective into the restart of the Vodacom United Rugby Championship compared to what they started with.
Wing Stravino Jacobs says he is ready to take what he learned from the senior players in the Vodacom Bulls squad to improve himself in the upcoming South African leg of the United Rugby Championship.
Coach Jake White says while the break in play came at just the right time, the Vodacom Bulls are now focused on the challenges that lie ahead in the United Rugby Championship following their return to training.