Experienced prop and gentle giant and all round true gentleman Steven Kitshoff has signed a three-year contract extension with Western Province Professional Rugby (WPPR) and has been appointed DHL Stormers captain. He opens the DHL Stormers and Friends video recorded last year (5 March 2020 ) which was facilitated by Music Exchange and set up... Continue Reading →
DHL Stormers 2020 Vodacom Super Rugby fixtures:
Saturday, February 1 (Kick-off: 15h05) v Hurricanes at DHL Newlands Saturday, February 8 (Kick-off: 17h15) v Vodacom Bulls at DHL Newlands Saturday, February 15 (Kick-off: 15h05) v Emirates Lions at Emirates Airline Park Saturday, February 22 (Kick-off: 15h05) v Jaguares at DHL Newlands Saturday, February 29 (Kick-off: 15h05) v Blues at DHL Newlands Saturday, 14... Continue Reading →
New Time on Saturday for On the couch on HEART 104.9fm 9- 10am
Take Tapfuma Makina and Heart 104.9FM on a Saturday morning. Add Martin Myers and someone known only as Flapper and you have On The Couch, # OTC a witty and crazy sports-themed show. It is 60 minutes of laughs, non-facts and facts and food for thought. Initiated by Myers and then Saturday on-air DJ the... Continue Reading →
A tough one to call between the Stormers and the Sharks at Newlands today .
A tough one to call. That is the general prognosis on the return Super Rugby match between the Stormers and the Sharks at Newlands today . The problem with this fixture is that both sides have an injury toll edging into double figures and so it is difficult to evaluate just how good each team... Continue Reading →
DHL Stormers v Waratahs Preview
If the DHL Stormers can replicate their performance from last year when their first visitors from Australia arrived in Cape Town, the Waratahs are in for a long night at DHL Newlands on Saturday. Last year, the Force were the first Australian visitors to Newlands and they got hammered, by 51-16. The DHL Stormers have... Continue Reading →
Richie McCaw says he’s ready to play whatever role the Crusaders require of him this week
Richie McCaw says he’s ready to play whatever role the Crusaders require of him this week as his team continues its remarkable Super Rugby journey with a semifinal visit to the Stormers in Cape Town. McCaw confirmed at Nelson airport before boarding the first plane of many over the next few days that he’s available... Continue Reading →
DHL STORMERS SIDE TO TAKE ON THE BLUES ANNOUNCED
Allister Coetzee was today forced to name a side to take on the Blues in Auckland with a number of senior players out to injury. The centre pairing of Jaque Fourie and Jean De Villiers are both out with a groin strain and chest muscle injury respectively. Whilst Jean De Villiers is consulting a specialist,... Continue Reading →
Blue Monday in the no longer so-cock-a-hoop Cape. The Crusaders, minus a host of key players, came, saw and conquered
It is indeed a strange old game. Last week, thethe remorseful Sharks worked themselves into a frenzy of self-flagellation as they sort to redeem themselves against the Brumbies after their submission to the Stormers. It was all doom and gloom in Durban and the sack cloth and ashes were not far off. But a week... Continue Reading →
Martin Myers & Egon Seconds sat down with All Blacks and Crusaders skipper Richie McCaw in Cape Town on Thursday for an entertaining chat.
ME Sports’ Martin Myers & Egon Seconds sat down with All Blacks and Crusaders skipper Richie McCaw in Cape Town on Thursday for an entertaining chat. Egon Seconds, Richie McCaw, Martin Myers https://soundcloud.com/martinmyers/sets/martin-myers-interviewing Below are some highlights from the interview aired on www. thetaxi.co.za yesterday compiled and edited by our newest contributor, Grant Shub. McCaw... Continue Reading →
Crestfallen coach John Plumtree was in no mood to mince words on Saturday night
Crestfallen coach John Plumtree was in no mood to mince words on Saturday night after his team had been smashed by the Stormers. He did not hold back, in fact he let rip in a brutally forthright assessment of the Sharks’ performance in going down 32-12. “We were poor, we were terrible. It was an... Continue Reading →
DHL Stormers injury update – Peter Grant withdrawn
DHL Stormers injury update - Peter Grant withdrawn DHL Stormers flyhalf Peter Grant has been withdrawn from the squad to take on the MTN Lions in Johannesburg this weekend. Grant took a blow to the knee in practice on Tuesday and has not recovered sufficiently. Gary Van Aswegen will wear the 10 jersey, whilst Lionel... Continue Reading →
savage Super Rugby showdown between the Sharks and the Stormers at Kings Park tomorrow
THE signs are that this is going to be one savage Super Rugby showdown between the Sharks and the Stormers at Kings Park tomorrow (5pm) and the team with the most key players still standing at the death, and the most accurate goal-kicker, will be the likely winner. That might sound dramatic but consider this:... Continue Reading →
THE Springboks will be banking on this gameplan for the 2011 event.
MIKE GREENAWAY THE Springboks will be banking on the game plan blueprint of the 2007 Rugby World Cup triumph at the 2011 event. This was much suggested in the naming yesterday of what amounts to be a preliminary Springbok Rugby World Cup squad that bares little difference to that of France four years ago and... Continue Reading →
Public criticism of Springbok captain John Smit should be reserved
Public criticism of Springbok captain John Smit should be reserved until he has had an opportunity in his favoured position of hooker in the Super Rugby competition, says national coach Peter de Villiers, who has expressed his frustration at not being able to judge the form of his World Cup captain. Speaking at yesterday’s announcement... Continue Reading →
Savage Super showdown with the Stormers on Saturday
IT does not get any easier for the Sharks. Four countries in four weeks, the (relative) horror of an overseas flight in cattle class between London and Johannesburg, a jaw-droppping battle with a Crusaders team that is skilled and brutal in equal measures, and now a homecoming war with the Bulls-beating, SA Conference trend-setting, Stormers.... Continue Reading →
crunch time for the Sharks
MIKE GREENAWAY THE next fortnight will be crucial to the ultimate outcome of the Sharks’ 2011 Super 15 campaign reckons coach John Plumtree of his team’s matches this week at home to the Stormers and away next week to the Lions. The much-travelled Sharks will then enjoy their bye week and will take stock of... Continue Reading →