The Bulls and Sharks may be in the top four, but after narrow escapes last weekend, there’s no cruising yet. The Stormers are stuck in the...
The Bulls clinched it late against Leinster, showing grit in a tight contest at Loftus. The Stormers kept their momentum rolling with a composed win over...
Springboks centre Andre Esterhuizen is a physical giant. He isn’t quite as big when it comes to rugby intelligence, writes Mark Keohane. Esterhuizen, in a very...
I would pick Deon Fourie for the Springboks this season and view him as an insurance policy for the 2023 World Cup in France, writes Mark...
The Sharks spending spree continues but until they get a world class No 10, they will be more pretender than contender when it comes to winning...
The Currie Cup still has significance and prestige to every South African rugby player and there is a defence to be made for the lack of...
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...
Owen Farrell was the biggest beneficiary from a Covid enforced British & Irish Lions starting XV backline reshuffle with a flyhalf performance that will be difficult...
The good news is the British & Irish Lions will play the Sharks at Emirates Airline Park on Wednesday evening. The bad news for South Africans...
Siya Kolisi’s 60 minutes for the Sharks against the Stormers was the best South African rugby story of Saturday. Whoever wins the Rainbow Cup SA is...
The four Bulls players in the Springboks alignment squad emphatically put one over those Sharks players also in the national equation. Springboks coach Jacques Nienaber and...
Bulls No 8 Duane Vermeulen’s 60 minute cameo against the Stormers in Cape Town was my South African Rainbow Cup Saturday highlight. Veteran Bulls flyhalf Morne...
It took the Bulls 99 minutes to subdue the Sharks but it would have been the biggest implosion had the hosts not won their first Currie...
Curwin Bosch’s boot butchered Western Province in the Currie Cup semi-finals, but the home team’s lack of rugby intelligence caused as much of the bleeding. Ditto...
Criticism of the standard of play in the Currie Cup is valid but in these crazy Covid times, the players must be cut some slack for...
South African Conference leaders the Sharks will not play again for an indefinite period due to the coronavirus but won on Saturday.