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On Saturday the 2017 Super Rugby Final kicks-off at Emirates Airlines Park in Johannesburg between the Lions (South Africa) and the Crusaders (New Zealand). The match is set to break the all-time attendance match record of 61,823 crowd set at ANZ Stadium, Sydney, at the 2014 Super Rugby Final. The Lions, runners-up in 2016 to... Continue Reading →
Capacity crowd to watch 2017 Vodacom Super Rugby Final in Johannesburg The Emirates Lions and the Crusaders have announced unchanged teams for their 2017 Vodacom Super Rugby Final on Saturday in Johannesburg. Kick off at Emirates Airline Park is at 16h00 and the decider will be televised live on SuperSport 1. Emirates Lions coach Johan... Continue Reading →
This week it has been something of a mutual admiration society between the coaches of the Sharks and Stormers but nobody is under any illusion that it will be all-out war at Newlands come 5.15pm this evening. In the best traditions of derbies between the sides, Gary Gold and Robbie Fleck have been talking up... Continue Reading →
The Du Preez twins, Daniel and Jean-Luc, have been picking up Man of the Match awards with eyebrow-raising regularity this season ( including the pre-season tour to France) thus precluding their no doubt proud Dad from being involved in selection issues just yet in his portfolio as Sharks attack coach. But Robert du Preez senior... Continue Reading →
We are 20 years into Super Rugby, and there have been detractors that have said the competition has run its course, but how can you give a death sentence to a competition that after just one round has a premier team in the Sharks fighting for their lives? For those who think this a melodramatic... Continue Reading →
The writer has been covering Sharks and Springbok rugby for 17 years and in that time I have seldom encountered one of my journalistic colleagues getting it as grieviously wrong as the Beeld man who effectively labelled Keegan Daniel a fascist and a zenophobe. The inference in the scurrilous report was that Daniel dislikes Afrikaans-speaking... Continue Reading →
May Super Rugby Madness has come to Nelson Mandela Bay as the Southern Kings continue to strive to make Super Rugby accessible to the people of the region. “With three home games on the cards in May, starting with the show down against the Waratahs on Saturday, the Highlanders the following weekend and our second... Continue Reading →
The Crusaders 28-13 win over the Bulls in Christchurch on Saturday night sets up a huge Kiwi derby, with the seven-time champions (the fourth placed wildcard qualifiers) travelling north to Hamilton to take on the Chiefs at Waikato Stadium in the Super Rugby Semi-Finals tomorrow night. The Chiefs, second place finishers overall on the table... Continue Reading →
SHARKS (15) 28 HIGHLANDERS (9) 16 by Mike Greenaway at Kings Park Way back in 1997, Gavin “Flawless” Lawless scored a to-this-day Super Rugby record 50 points against the Highlanders at Kings Park in a match won 75-46 by the Durbanites, but in the context of a very different match last night between the same... Continue Reading →
The Reds host the Crusaders in the Super Rugby Final at Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane on Saturday, bringing the curtain down on a 2011 season that saw the tournament adopt a new "Conference" format with the addition of a fifteenth team. In the 16 years of Super Rugby history since 1996, the Crusaders been the... Continue Reading →
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 →
by Mike Greenaway From a Sharks’ point of view, if ever a trend needed to be bucked in Super Rugby it is tomorrow at 9.35am. The KZN team have never beaten the Crusaders in New Zealand in the 15-year history of the competition while the Christchurch-based team – even if they are not allowed to... Continue Reading →
There was something quintessentially French about Frederic Michalak’s description of his recent departure from the rugby club he had played for since he was seven and his arrival in his new home, Durban. “It is the end of a love affair, the heart breaks, but a new affair begins,” he said of his break from... Continue Reading →
BY MIKE GREENAWAY Perhaps it is a case of clutching at straws but the after the disappointing 30-30 draw with the Lions at Ellis Park, the Sharks at least know exactly what is required of them heading into the final week of routine Super Rugby matches ahead of the quarter-finals – beat the Bulls or... Continue Reading →
DROTSKE LAYS INTO OFFCIALS It wasn’t pretty but the outcome of the Battle of Bloemfontein was a handsome one for a Sharks team that returned home yesterday with four priceless Super Rugby points in the bag, no injuries from a very tough encounter and just one win away from qualifying for the play-offs. The way... Continue Reading →
by Mike Greenaway THREE months ago, the Cheetahs came to Durban as thorough underdogs for a first-round Super Rugby match and were duly beaten 24-9 by the Sharks, who in turn three months later find themselves the underdogs for tomorrow’s return fixture in Bloemfontein. Back in February, the Free Staters had hit the ground running... Continue Reading →
This time last year, the Bulls were almost a week into their celebrations as Super14 champions after having beaten the Stormers at the Orlando Stadium in Soweto on May 29. A year on, there are still three rounds to go in Super Rugby, then quarter-finals, semi-finals and a final on July 9. On the same... Continue Reading →
A perusal of New Zealand’s rugby websites this week suggests that Peter de Villiers will give Sonny Bill Williams a run for his money when it comes to who will be the biggest media draw card at the Rugby World Cup in the Land of the Long White Shroud in September and October. Sonny Bill,... Continue Reading →
There has been much talk of late about the Sharks’ midfield, not a lot of it flattering, but there is help on the way in the form of former Springbok centre Marius Joubert, who will be in Sharks colours sooner or later depending on how his club feature in the French Top 14 play-offs. Clermont... Continue Reading →
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 →
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