After a taste of the atmosphere during a post-university year travelling I was hooked and the memories will last a lifetime June 2001. I’m on an overnight Greyhound bus from Cairns to Townsville. A typical post-university year travelling in Australia and New Zealand has taken an unwelcome turn after an equally typical relationship breakup. Initially there had been no plans to follow that year’s British & Irish Lions tour, even though I had been enthralled by the classic encounter against the Springboks four years before. With my newfound freedom it seemed logical to head south, a couple of hundred miles down the coast, to see the legendary tourists in action. Continue reading...

Tadhg Furlong and Robbie Henshaw are ruled out of Leinster's United Rugby Championship quarter-final against Scarlets at Aviva Stadium on Saturday.

Springbok captain Siya Kolisi is living his best life and reminding us why he's dubbed the Minister of Enjoyment.

Three South African teams, the Bulls, Sharks and Stormers, are all in action in the United Rugby Championship quarter-finals this weekend.

In a major coup for the First Nations & Pasifika XV, the invitational outfit has added one of New Zealand rugby’s all-time greats to its staff. The post All Blacks legend to plot Lions downfall appeared first on SA Rugby magazine.

“I have a lot of confidence and the team has also done well. It’s the first time in a long time that I’ve been so comfortable with my own game.”

On 25 May 1995, the Springboks began their home World Cup campaign with victory against the Wallabies at Newlands.  The post On this day: Hendriks shows Campo who’s boss appeared first on SA Rugby magazine.

Matt Dawson and Paul Grayson join Chris for immediate reaction to the Champions Cup final

The Pumas dethroned Griquas with a convincing win in the SA Cup final at the Mbombela Stadium on Saturday. The post Pumas claw Griquas to capture SA Cup appeared first on SA Rugby magazine.

The match got off to a bad start for Suzuki Griquas when their front ranker Cebo Dlamini was red carded for a head-on collision in the seventh minute.

French club offer a blueprint for how to thrive in the modern game and it was all too apparent on and off the field in Cardiff A new name is on the cup. They reckon Union Bordeaux Bègles are the best-supported rugby union club in the world. To be in Cardiff was not to be disabused of the notion. Rugby is massive in France, on a par with football, and bigger in the southern half of the country. It creates a different kind of animal. Northampton were proud, brave, inventive – but in the end overpowered. The narrative was wild and, Saints might say, liable to have gone either way. A raucous stadium – for Northampton are one of the best supported in England – was treated to crazy fluctuations in fortune, tries scored and overturned, penalties, knock-ons and high tackles subject to review after review. Continue reading...

Janse van Rensburg continues the tradition of a South African player in every final of the Champions Cup era, named on the Bordeaux bench ahead of Saturday’s clash with Northampton Saints.

The Chiefs achieved their largest-ever victory margin in Super Rugby to shoot back to the top of the log. The post Watch: Chiefs run riot in record win appeared first on SA Rugby magazine.

The great rivalry between the Pumas and Griquas hits another level as they again battle it out in the SA Cup final this weekend.