The new face of Super Rugby
20 Dec 2010
Find out everything you need to know about the expanded competition in the bumper 156-page issue of SA Rugby magazine.
We kick off our Super Rugby preview section with an idiot’s guide to the new format (if you still don’t know how it works after reading this, we can’t help you). That’s followed by three pages on each South African team (how they are shaping up, player signings/losses, fixtures, previous log finishes, numbers that matter etc) and one page on each of the Kiwi and Aussie sides.
Also in the new issue:
– The Springboks failed to make any progress on their end-of-year tour
– Is Victor Matfield too conservative to be Bok captain?
– The All Blacks capped off an outstanding 2010 with their third Grand Slam in five years
– The Wallabies were frustratingly inconsistent on their end-of-year tour
– If England are to seriously challenge for the World Cup, they will have to stand up to the big beasts of the game
– Behind the swagger lies a secret diary that is driving England wing Chris Ashton to new heights
– Why the Barbarians are still relevant in the professional era
– Yet again the World Cup schedule helps the big nations and hinders the smaller ones. Why can’t the IRB make rugby’s showpiece event fair to all?
– Plus: Why Stuart Abbott is back in SA, Tim Noakes on the Boks ‘doping’ controversy, Heinrich Brussow’s injury battle, SA players in Europe
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5 Jan 2011, 09:36 am
38 degrees is no joke. Hope you crazy fckers with cricket tickets have plenty of sunblock, big water bottles and hats with serious brims.
5 Jan 2011, 09:40 am
@>^..^< katman : may go tomorrow if the game well set…..no chance i am sitting in that heat today…
5 Jan 2011, 09:45 am
@grant10 : This is what every day at the 2022 Qatar World Cup will be like.
5 Jan 2011, 09:46 am
@Mighty Horua : The aura of Dora? Real angora.
5 Jan 2011, 09:49 am
It was 36 degrees in my car yesterday evening at about 17h00…Crazy hot.
5 Jan 2011, 09:59 am
my car in Blouberg last evening at 19 h 12…..31.5 degrees….crazy!
5 Jan 2011, 10:00 am
justrugby teed off at 7 45 this morning….poor ba s tard
5 Jan 2011, 10:04 am
@grant10 : he he he’ll get no sympathy from us working folks!
5 Jan 2011, 10:06 am
@>^..^< katman : 1903 – Katman, 38 is very hot and too hot for me, but Quatar is far, far hotter. Imagine the heat of Cape Town right now and add another 10 degrees to it. Quatar in the summer is between 45/48 that is now serious heat, throw in the humidity too. Have no idea how they got the world cup. Crazy, they will have to have aircon stadiums. So all stadiums will be indoors for that tourney, no team can play in that heat not ever.
5 Jan 2011, 10:10 am
@stormersboy : LOL…ja…i have a big meeting at 12 tomorrow…just came up so thats my plans for the cricket tomorrow in its glory….but meeting too big an opportunity to pass up..
5 Jan 2011, 10:10 am
@grant10 : 1906 – Grant, I worked in Saudi years back the temp in the summer was 48 everyday and somedays over 50. Can you imagine that kinda heat? Serious heat that.
Was 34 here in Umhlanga on Sunday with over 90% humidity it felt horrible, the humidity makes it feel much worse than 34. Today just rain and loving it.
5 Jan 2011, 10:12 am
@grant10 : 1910 – Grant if you not posting tomorrow. All the best for your Birthday buddy.
5 Jan 2011, 10:13 am
@Puma : Apparently they have some kind of stadium cooling plan. I’ll believe it when I see it.
5 Jan 2011, 10:16 am
@Puma : jeepers….i struggle when it hits the 30 s , cant even imagine 40 s !
Thanks Puma…i have a magic evening planned for the bday…..and had the best festive season ever….so hoping 2011 is a special year, not just for me but everyone on the planet!
5 Jan 2011, 10:21 am
@grant10 : Good luck and Happy Birthday if you aren’t around!
5 Jan 2011, 10:30 am
@grant10 : 1914 – Grant, I struggle when it is 28 never mind 38. I struggled with the heat in Saudi bad, but was so much younger then, so handled it better than I would do now. That was serious heat. You go outside it feels like some kinda hot pressure pressing down on you head all the time. Horrible, have no idea how people can live in that heat, cause you not indoors in the aircon all of the time.
Had a brilliant festive season this year, just party after party, but time to put the breaks on. We have a special evening planned tonight too. After tonight going on a serious health diet..hahaha. Say it every year, but only lasts a week or two with me. This time want to do it for a month. Well hoping.
@>^..^< katman : 1913 – Katman if they don’t cool down the stadiums no-one will go. People can’t sit in that heat, not ever. I have experienced it and it is just damn horrible. I used to do some running in the desert there on a Thursday afternoon. We finished early on a Thursday those days. Well one could have died running in that heat, was crazy. Think we do kinda daft stuff when we younger. Used to run there early before going to work. 5am was around 35 already but running in the desert at 3pm when it is 48 degrees is lunacy.
5 Jan 2011, 10:37 am
@stormersboy : ta mate
5 Jan 2011, 10:39 am
@stormersboy : compliments of the season bud…hope u had a splendid break and are back refreshed and ready to roll. all the best for the year to you & yours.
5 Jan 2011, 10:40 am
@Puma : Only mad dogs and Englishmen Puma….
5 Jan 2011, 10:41 am
@sharks_lover : 1847 – Sharky that is the best news ever
Damns so pleaed, Beast is a legend in Durbs.
5 Jan 2011, 10:42 am
@stormersboy : 1919 – Stormer……hahahaha. So they say. Was crazy I tell you. Running in that heat was just lunacy..hehehe.
How you Stormer? You going to any of the cricket? Or don’t you watch any of the cricket?
5 Jan 2011, 10:44 am
@Transformation : 1918 – Transie, All the best for 2011. Think I have wished everyone else on this blog, but have not seen you about for awhile. How was your festive season Trans? Hope you had a good one buddy.
5 Jan 2011, 10:46 am
Petersen is out already, in only the 2nd over of the day. Is he really the right man to open for SA? Hasn’t impressed at all.
SA are a batsman too light… how Steyn is our number 8 boggles the mind, particularly when our keeper at number 7 can’t string any runs together.
1 more wicket here and we are in the dwang.
5 Jan 2011, 10:46 am
Petersen out – lbw to Harbajan. 53 for 3. Fckit.
5 Jan 2011, 10:46 am
Peterson & Amla is gone!!!!! 53/4 ! go India whoop whoop!!
5 Jan 2011, 10:47 am
Peterson is great friends with S Abrahams (a selector) – go figure
5 Jan 2011, 10:49 am
@Mighty_Horua : What TV are you watching?
5 Jan 2011, 10:50 am
Bloody imposter!
5 Jan 2011, 10:50 am
Bop TV
5 Jan 2011, 10:51 am
Forest Hill SH.T
5 Jan 2011, 10:51 am
@Slartibartfast : You don’t need PERMANENT accommodation for people who are only temporary. You need TEMPORARY accommodation for them — which, of course, a first-world country like NZ can, and will, supply. To first-world standards, of course. Right down to the portable WCs in the caravans.
5 Jan 2011, 10:51 am
@Mighty_Horua : Because it’s most irregular for Sreesanth to still be bowling at Amla when he’s already out.
5 Jan 2011, 10:53 am
64 for 4….fark me!
5 Jan 2011, 10:53 am
@TheTackler : Must we bring our own sleeping bags and camp stoves? And what about toilet paper?
5 Jan 2011, 10:53 am
boucherwillneed to stick the hand up today….come on boys…fight!
5 Jan 2011, 10:56 am
@Puma : thanks Puma, i had a wonderful time with family over christmas on the transkei wild coast and also enjoyed a raucous new year’s party in PE…hope u also had a fabulous time and compliments of the new season to you too.
i see u got good news already in beast staying in durban
5 Jan 2011, 10:58 am
“The Turbanator” is ripping the yarpie top order to shreds with his slow bowling…
4 wickets already, and for only 10 runs and in no more than 5 overs!
Great to see a spinner performing his craft!
5 Jan 2011, 11:00 am
@TheTackler : Yep, he’s a spinner. There’s only one at Newlands today.
5 Jan 2011, 11:00 am
@>^..^< katman : Buy your supplies here. You won’t need a lot of it seeing as you’ll be back on the plane at the end of pool play.
5 Jan 2011, 11:01 am
Lobbing it up at 80km/h doesn’t necessarily constitute spin.
No matter how you try and spin it.
5 Jan 2011, 11:05 am
FARK!! AB stumped! 73/5!
5 Jan 2011, 11:05 am
@TheTackler :
Harbhajan is a master of his craft.
Harris isn’t. He bowls slow left arm – and very straight.
5 Jan 2011, 11:06 am
Harbhajan is another guile-bowler. Uses only just enough turn to create doubt — the way to do it! Nothing extravagant in his deliveries. But he’s got the yarpies in terror: spellbound and crease-bound. And his team-mates are mocking their quaking opponents on their own pitch!
5 Jan 2011, 11:07 am
@TheTackler : We’re accustomed to super soft two, even three ply bogroll here. Nothing but the best pampering for our precious posteriors. Are you prepared? Have you stocked your spaza shop with the plushest of the plush?
5 Jan 2011, 11:10 am
@Mighty_Horua : Fck off, child.
5 Jan 2011, 11:12 am
@>^..^< katman : In SA you use recycled pages from Die Burger. Doubled up = two ply. Trebled up= three ply.
5 Jan 2011, 11:15 am
The Republic of Precious Posteriors.
8)
5 Jan 2011, 11:16 am
@Puma : I’m good mate. Had a good festive break, raring to go this year. I love cricket, watch when I can. My wife and i used to go and watch a lot of it, B.C. (Before Children). Not as much time for that lately, but hoping to get back to it soon. I’ll be following it today from the office on Cricinfo.com. They have a good live feed. Although by the way things are going it looks like it’s going to be a 4 day test at this rate. Hope not.
5 Jan 2011, 11:17 am
@TheTackler : Perhaps in your day in Proklemasie Heuwel, old timer, or wherever you are from. But this is the modern era of bottom wiping. Since readmission we have utilised only the softest, snuggest loo paper known to man.
5 Jan 2011, 11:18 am
@cane : You betcha, caney. The Royal Rears.
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