Steve Hansen
Less than a week until Super Rugby 2011 kick off in it’s new expanded format.
Although our friends in the Cape will argue that the traditional “North v South” game is the Stormers v Bulls, for many Rugby Lovers in Gauteng, the North v South refers to the Jukskei River, and the rivalry between the teams from the country’s Administrative Capital city, and the African continent’s economic “Capital” city.
It is not often that the losing coach is the happier one in the post-match press conference. Continue reading
If you believe results in warm-up games don’t mean anything, I am afraid you are slightly deluded. Continue reading
The Lions have a long way to go before reaching the fitness levels they need to be world class contenders, the team’s strength and conditioning coach, Wayne Taylor, said on Thursday.
Its now only 40 days away
The following articles comes from the Afrikaans newspapers, maybe later today or tomorrow it will appear in English. Thanks to Rapport we have a bit of Rugby news.
Rory Kockott is “coming home”.
The 24-year-old scrumhalf has signed a new contract with the Xerox Lions, and that after he, in 2006, played a great game for the Lions against the Sharks.
The Lions’ Kiwi coach John Mitchell has become the latest international victim of the crime wave sweeping South Africa … and he is lucky to still be alive.
In a report that has already reverberated around the world, it was revealed that the former All Black coach, Mitchell, was stabbed in the leg and arm in his Hyde Park Apartment in South Africa on Sunday.
The recent acquisition of just about half of the Golden Lions Rugby Union’s commercial arm is a move long overdue. Continue reading
It is easy to call for the head of Lions fly-half Carlos Spencer, but the question is who will replace him.
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I am fascinated every day on how human beings seemingly go out of their way to derail any efforts to be successful. Continue reading