Springboks
Cheetahs (8) 11 / WP (16) 25 (Final Score)
The Vodacom Free State Cheetahs were beaten by the Vodacom WP team in Bloemfontein in round one of the ABSA Currie Cup Premier Division. The match started at 17:00 SA Time. This is the match thread for discussion of the game. The match was broadcast live on SuperSport 1 on DSTV in SA.
The Vodacom Free State Cheetahs will play GWK Griquas in Bloemfontein on Friday at 19:10 SA Time. Vodacom Western Province will be hosting the Xerox Lions in Cape Town next Saturday at 15:00 SA Time.
Griquas (8) 40 / Sharks (22) 34 (Final Score)
The Griquas hosted the Sharks in Kimberley at 15:00 SA Time. This is the match thread for discussion of the game. The match was broadcast live on SuperSport 1 on DSTV in SA.
Griquas came back from well behind to complete a bonus point win over the Sharks, Final score 40 / 34.
This Currie Cup season is going to be very interesting… it already is!
Blue Bulls 38 / 15 Pumas (Final Score)
Scores:
Blue Bulls:
- Tries : John Mametsa (2), Stefan Watermeyer, Dean Greyling, Stephan Dippenaar, Deon Stegman
- Conversions: Jacques-Louis Potgieter (3), Francois Brummer
Pumas:
- Penalty: Ricardo Croy
- Tries: Tian Meyer, Alistair Kettledas
- Conversion: Ricardo Croy
Leopards 13 / 43 Lions (Final Score)
Scores:
Platinum Leopards:
- Tries: Deon Scholtz, Wilhelm Koch
- Penalty: Cecil Dumond
Xerox Lions:
- Tries: Jano Vermaak (2), Marius Delport, Waylon Murray, Jaco Taute
- Conversions: Herkie Kruger (3)
- Penalties: Kruger (4)
Finally the Currie Cup is starting and all South African rugby fans have a team to support.
What an interesting season awaits, with the playing field levelled to a great extent with the exclusion of the chosen Springboks not taking part in the Currie Cup until at least the semi-finals.
Who will win this competition? Will the Bulls be able to defend their title successfully?
Here is a quick run-down of the 1st week’s games and how it will most likely pan out.
The Sharks have selected a team to play the Griquas this coming Saturday in Kimberly that was pretty much expected” this taking into account injuries etc”
Vodacom WP coach Allister Coetzee today announced his team to take on the Vodacom Cheetahs in the opening round of the 2010 Absa Currie Cup at Vodacom Park in Bloemfontein on Saturday. Continue reading
DURING last year’s Currie Cup, Sharks veteran Stefan Terblanche took over the leadership reins from the injured Johann Muller and led a largely new-look team to 12 wins out of 12 as captain and a top-of-the-table finish in the pool stages.
Compliments to the Daily News for the article.
Die Springbok-flank Juan Smith sal Saterdag hier die Vrystaat se Curriebeker-aanslag in 2010 van voor af lei. Continue reading
There is a valid reason why the Currie Cup is divided into a Premier Division and a First Division, with the top sides this past weekend showing in no uncertain terms their differences in strength.
In the six compulsory fixtures – including the one between the Natal Sharks and the Valke a week ago – the Premier Division teams scored 273 points to 67 by the First Division sides, an average score of 47-11.
Western Province and the Blue Bulls produced the least impressive performance of the big guns as the teams finished off their pre-season Currie Cup build-up with a series of friendly matches at the weekend.
Flank Pieter Louw scored a hat-trick for Western Province against the Griffons in their Currie Cup compulsory friendly in Welkom.
The Springboks most valuable players will undertake a phased conditioning programme after the Tri-Nations campaign as part of the South African Rugby Union’s long-term planning for 2011, it was confirmed on Friday.
Twenty contracted Springboks will be placed on tailored programmes for a four-week period to manage their workload in the middle of a busy 2010 season and in preparation for the Rugby World Cup campaign.
Gary Botha is back at the helm of the Blue Bulls and will lead the team onto the field when they take on the Eastern Province Elephants in a compulsory friendly in Port Elizabeth on Saturday.
The Lions will be without regular captain Cobus Grobbelaar for their Currie Cup campaign.
Vodacom WP coach Allister Coetzee today announced his team to take on the Griffons in a SARU compulsory friendly in Welkom on Friday 2 July 2010. Kick-off is at 6pm.
It’s virtually an all-new Eastern Province rugby team that will take on the Blue Bulls in a friendly match at the EPRFU Stadium on Saturday.
New coach Alan Solomons picked only a handful of the players that represented the Elephants in the Vodacom Cup.
Johannesburg – The inclusion of scrumhalf Jano Vermaak who has been linked to the Natal Sharks and Springbok centre acquisition Waylon Murray are the most notable features in the Xerox Lions side to play the Boland Cavaliers in a compulsory friendly in Wellington on Saturday.
Vodacom WP coach Allister Coetzee has announced a squad of 35 players for the 2010 Absa Currie Cup season.
Vodacom WP will start their campaign this weekend, when they take on the Griffons in a SARU compulsory friendly in Welkom on Friday night. Continue reading
Springbok wing Jongi Nokwe is ready for action and will get the opportunity in Free State’s first warm-up game before the Currie Cup to stake his claim for national selection again.
Nokwe was included by Free State coach Naka Drotské in his strongest possible team for the friendly match against Border in East London.
The Sharks make shift team on a very cold winters night in Nigel went on the rampage in their pre-season compulsary friendly. Continue reading
Springbok Earl Rose looks set to continue in the rugby wilderness after the Free State Cheetahs have denied they are looking for him to join them.
This comes after Golden Lions CEO Manie Reyneke confirmed earlier in the week that he had been approached by the Cheetahs for Rose and had expressed an interest in another Springbok – Ashley Johnson as a possible player swop.
Francois Hougaard has recovered from hand surgery following the Super 14 Semi-Final and Super 14-Final and is ready to join the Springboks on their tour to New Zealand.
After a very good Super 14 on the wing for the Bulls, Francois had undergo a hand operation having broken a bone in his hand in the penutimate Super 14 game but notwithstanding the injury completed the Super 14 Final, also scoring a try in the process.
The Sharks have announced that coach John Plumtree has extended his contract for a further three years.
The Sharks have signed veteran lock Ross Skeate from French club Toulon on a two-year contract.
The Bulls’ most experienced Super 14 player, Pedrie Wannenburg, will continue his rugby career with Ulster.
Heinrich Brüssow has decided to extend his contract with Free State for another year.
Brilliant
Player Movement was detailed at a media conference today at the High Performance Centre in Bellville, Senior Professional Coach Rassie Erasmus and MD of WP Rugby (Pty) Ltd Rob Wagner, confirmed player movements.
Western Province flyhalf Peter Grant will miss the Currie Cup after taking the option in his contract to move to Japan on a loan spell for the remainder of 2010.
Grant is just one in a number of player movements in and out of the Cape Town outfit, as senior professional coach Rassie Erasmus looks to get all his ducks in a row ahead of the Currie Cup campaign.
Here is a short breakdown of all the player movements in and out of Western Province:
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The Xerox Lions on Monday gained a former All Blacks coach and a Springbok centre but lost a Bok forward.
After weeks of romours the Lions finaly anounced it. John Mitchell will join the Lions coaching staff for the Currie Cup. Expect many more player anouncements as the Lions tries to buy a team to get them to some silverware.
The GLRU (Golden Lions Rugby Union) are reportedly negotiating with a host of high profile players, including the likes of Butch James, Jean de Villiers, John Smit, Bismarck and Jannie du Plessis and Joe van Niekerk.
Juandre Kruger, who is currently playing in the English Premiership for the Northampton Saints, has signed with the Blue Bulls. Continue reading
It’s said money makes the world go round. And, it’s money that the Border Bulldogs need if they are to at least hold their own on the rugby field.
Former Western Province Springbok scrumhalf Bolla Conradie (31), will turn out for the Boland Kavaliers in the Absa Currie Cup’s First Division next season.
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