Damian Willemse’s cameo appearances as a super-sub will be decisive in a Springboks series win against the British & Irish Lions, with the Springbok coaching staff...
This was not the Springboks match 23 I expected for the first Test and it doesn’t have the potency of the 23 that won South Africa...
Warren Gatland has picked just four of the players who started in the British & Irish Lions 17-13 defeat against South Africa ‘A’ a week ago...
New Zealand referee Ben O’Keefe should have been stood down after his send-off shocker in Brisbane. He should not be in charge of the potentially series-deciding...
Handre Pollard will play in the first Test against the British & Irish Lions, with veteran flyhalf Morne Steyn on the bench. Springboks captain Siya Kolisi...
South African Director of Rugby Rassie Erasmus doesn’t miss a trick. The World Cup winning coach wants to know why Owen Farrell wasn’t carded for a...
This British & Irish Lions three-Test series against the Springboks must be determined by the superiority of one team over the other and not a referee...
Understated as a person, but never underrated as a player, and definitely not within the Springboks squad. Lukhanyo Am, heir apparent to Siya Kolisi, thrived in...
This was the SA ‘A’ the Lions expected to trounce in Cape Town and this SA ‘A’ was nothing compared to the Springboks who played as...
Jasper Wiese did enough in his second international outing, as South Africa ‘A’ downed the British & Irish Lions 17-13, to show that he is the...
British & Irish Lions legend Scott Gibbs raved about Rassie Erasmus’s on-field presence as the team’s ‘water boy’ and said it emphasised the brilliant bond between...
A couple of months ago I wrote a piece entitled “Why we go to war with Eben Etzebeth”. Every notion was affirmed over an unrelenting 80-minute...
The World Cup-winning Springboks went to war under the banner of South Africa ‘A’ and tamed the British & Irish Lions in Cape Town in making...
Let’s see what the British & Irish Lions have up front. That’s the question that will be answered at the Cape Town Stadium, writes Mark Keohane....
Yes please! We have a fourth Test and Cape Town’s favourite rugby son Cheslin Kolbe will play the British & Irish Lions on Wednesday night in...
Please don’t applaud or celebrate a team losing 71-31. To do so is to insult the Sharks. It isn’t a compliment, writes Mark Keohane. The Sharks...