HEART 104.9FM TOP 30 - 17 May 2014 POS ARTIST SONG TITLE MOVE L/W PEAK WEEKS NOTES 1 DJ Cassidy feat. Robin Thicke & Jessie J Calling All Hearts NC 1 1 (3) 11 Last Week's #1 2 Citizen's Banned feat. Diggy Bongz The Liberation's Over NC 2 2 7 3 Jonathan Rubain Reason To... Continue Reading →

No matter where Ryan Crotty ventures he must field the same question. What has changed for the Crusaders? Each week the Crusaders' captain's reply, and those of his team-mates, contains a familiar narrative. After the March 28 loss to the Hurricanes, which left the Crusaders swimming among the Super Rugby table's bottom feeders, the players... Continue Reading →

The last time the Sharks almost beat the Crusaders in Christchurch, the referee was the much loved (by his Australian mother) Peter Marshall, the Sharks had a coach in Ian McIntosh who that day involuntarily invented his “thousand yard stare” and the Sharks had drafted in a fullback/flyhalf from Griquas called Boeta Wessells. The Sharks... Continue Reading →

Crusaders Head Coach Todd Blackadder has named his side to play the top-of-the-table Sharks at AMI Stadium this Saturday night. He has made three changes to the team that beat the Reds last weekend. Dominic Bird will partner up with Samuel Whitelock at lock this week, with Luke Romano out of contention after breaking his... Continue Reading →

Rugby fans who are in the Western Cape on Sunday will have a once-a-year chance to visit the Springbok Experience Rugby Museum at the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town free of charge – and they’ll even receive a free Castle draught. The Museum – which has been nominated as a contender for the title ‘International... Continue Reading →

Peter Grant will start at flyhalf for the DHL Stormers - against the Force at DHL Newlands on Saturday (kick-off 17h05) - in what will be his 100th match for the Vodacom Super Rugby franchise. Grant moves from inside centre to the No.10 shirt in one of five changes to the starting line-up that went... Continue Reading →

Former Springbok coach Nick Mallett believes the players selected for his World XV squad is in top form for their match against South Africa in Cape Town on Saturday, 7 June. The squad of 23 players, comprising of Test stars from New Zealand, France, Australia, Ireland, Samoa, Tonga, Georgia and South Africa, boasts a total... Continue Reading →

An inescapable fact burned bright though the icy, misty drizzle of Canberra on Saturday – the Sharks will not win Super Rugby without a decent flyhalf to run proceedings, and coach Jake White will be praying to the rugby gods that Patrick Lambie’s recuperation from a bicep injury can be hastened from his predicted return... Continue Reading →

Early season talk of the fading empire is quickly evaporating into a distant memory and last night's 57-29 thrashing of the Reds made it seem slightly laughable. With first five-eighth Colin Slade transformed and Richie McCaw playing like a young tyro, the pieces are falling into place for a side that is suddenly fourth on... Continue Reading →

A wider training group of 35 players has been selected to attend the All Blacks training camps ahead of the three Steinlager Series Tests against England. The two training camps will be held in Christchurch from Sunday 18 May - Tuesday 20 May and Wellington from Sunday 25 May - Tuesday 27 May. All Blacks... Continue Reading →

HEART 104.9FM TOP 30 - 10 May 2014 POS ARTIST SONG TITLE MOVE L/W PEAK WEEKS NOTES 1 DJ Cassidy feat. Robin Thicke & Jessie J Calling All Hearts NC 1 1 (2) 10 Last Week's #1 2 Citizen's Banned feat. Diggy Bongz The Liberation's Over Up 1 3 2 6 3 Clean Bandit feat.... Continue Reading →

The Crusaders head to Brisbane tomorrow to face the Reds on Sunday afternoon. Head Coach Todd Blackadder has named a side with five changes to the starting fifteen that beat the Brumbies last weekend. Corey Flynn will be the starting hooker this week and Ben Funnell will take a spot on the reserve bench. Lock... Continue Reading →

Experienced flanker Schalk Burger will captain a much-changed and young DHL Stormers team in Saturday's all-South African Vodacom Super Rugby Derby against the Bulls in Pretoria (kick-off 19h10). Coach Allister Coetzee has been forced into making six enforced changes to the starting line-up, with three players on debut in the matchday 23 - lock Jean... Continue Reading →

Former Western Province favourite Schalk Brits will return to Newlands along with rising French-based star, Rory Kockott, as two of six South Africans, four of whom have played test rugby, as part of the Samsung-sponsored World XV squad for their match against Heyneke Meyer’s Springboks at DHL Newlands on 7 June. All six of these... Continue Reading →

HEART 104.9FM TOP 30 - 03 May 2014 POS ARTIST SONG TITLE MOVE L/W PEAK WEEKS NOTES 1 DJ Cassidy feat. Robin Thicke & Jessie J Calling All Hearts Up 1 2 1 9 2 Clean Bandit feat. Jess Glynne Rather Be Down 1 1 1 (4) 9 Last Week's #1 3 Citizen's Banned feat.... Continue Reading →

One does not have to be an alarmist to recognise that the Sharks’ Super Rugby title hopes have been exposed as increasingly threadbare over the last fortnight following startlingly poor performances at home against the Cheetahs and the Highlanders. The Durbanites got out of jail against a Cheetahs team equally bereft of inspiration and ambition... Continue Reading →

> > > THE TRANSITION > > We're in the midst of the greatest transition in the music business since the Beatles, and I'm not talking about files to streaming, ownership to rental, but the transition from baby boomers to the younger generation. > > Malcolm Young's illness is evidence. > > Voices change. Arthritis... Continue Reading →