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23 May 2013
Willie le Roux and Lappies Labuschagne have finally been rewarded with spots in the Springbok training group. They are two of eight that are first timers in Springbok training groups this year. The others are Gio Aplon, Trevor Nyakane, JJ Engelbrecht, Lionel Mapoe, Wiehahn Herbst and Demetri Catrakilis. The group of players will assemble in Durban for the second training camp of the year, before the final squad for the Incoming Tours is selected. Players not considered due to injury include: JP Pietersen, Jaco Taute, Frans Steyn, Johan Goosen, Duane Vermeulen, Pat Cilliers and Frans Malherbe. ... Read Article25 May 2013
Keo.co.za brings you live Super Rugby score updates from South Africa. Read Article25 Apr 2013
Jan Serfontein, the player of last year's under 20 World Championship, will head the baby Boks defence in France. Serfontein and Kings wing Sergeal Petersen are two Super Rugby regulars to make Dawie Theron's squad and brilliant flyhalf Handre Pollard is another to play in a second successive tournament. Theron's squad lost a three-match series 2-1 to Argentina in Argentina. Serfontein, Petersen and Western Province's Cheslin Kolbe did not play in those matches. Bulls loose forward Ruan Steenkamp is captain. Serfontein and Pollard are the only two squad members from last year's ... Read Article14 May 2013
All Blacks coach Steve Hansen has selected several uncapped Blues players in his training group. Hansen confirmed 38 names and this included many from the potent Blues backline. The Highlanders, despite only winning one match in this year's Super Rugby competition, have six players in the group. An obvious area of weakness is at hooker where Hansen has selected veterans Andrew Hore and Keven Mealamu and Canes Dane Coles. Options are limited and it certainly is a concern for New Zealanders. No overseas-based players were considered, as it is NZRFU policy. Among the uncapped players ... Read Article15 May 2013
French coach Philipe Saint-Andre has included three South African-born players for the three-Test series against the All Blacks in New Zealand. Racing Metro flank Bernard le Roux and Clermont prop Daniel Kotze join Antonie Claassen in a squad that includes eight new caps. Fijian-born Clermont winger Noa Nakaitaci is among the newcomers. Saint-Andre has rested flyhalf Francois Trinh-Duc, but included Toulon's Frederic Michalak. France play world champions New Zealand on June 8, 15 and 22 in Auckland, Hamilton and New Plymouth respectively. French super club Toulon's foreign dominance ... Read Article5 Mar 2013
MARK KEOHANE writes the Varsity Cup in its first year rocked. Since then it's just another professional tournament. The Varsity Cup may have the innovation of doing a few things differently, but what was supposed to be a celebration of student rugby somehow just seems like another tournament, in which the traditional power houses remain the traditional strengths in the tournament. Much has been made of the Port Elizabeth-based Nelson Mandela University display this season and equally there has been bewilderment at how poor Shimlas have been. But it seems the old one two of Stellenbosch University ... Read Article12 May 2013
Marcus Watson scored in extra time to beat the Blitzbokke in the London World Series Sevens Cup quarter-finals. The teams were level 14-all at full time. Watson's try came four minutes into extra time. England won 19-14. England had the chance to win the match with the last play of the game in normal time. They were awarded a penalty and opted to take a drop kick for goal. It missed. Watson then rounded off a move after England had retained possession for two minutes. South Africa suffered further embarrassment when they lost for a second time in the tournament to the USA and were eliminated ... Read Article8 Jan 2013
Limpopo will play in the Vodacom Cup as a separate side for the first time this year. The region, which is a sub-union of the Blue Bulls Rugby Union, has been granted a place in the tournament in its own rights to help foster rugby in South Africa’s far north. They join the 14 provincial unions as well as the returning Pampas XV from Argentina in the tournament, which kicks off in the second week of March and concludes in mid-May. The Polokwane-based Limpopo team will play in the North Section of the competition, along with the Blue Bulls, Golden Lions, Griffons, Leopards, Pumas, Valke ... Read Article2 Feb 2013
The Cheetahs triumphed in Bloemfontein with an injury time penalty.
The Cheetahs won 27-26 to take the Reconciliation Cup.
There is no such thing as a pre-season hit out in South African rugby. This could easily have been the real deal as the Stormers led 16-3, the Cheetahs fought back to lead 17-16, the Stormers found an extra gear to go ahead 26-17 and then the Cheetahs hit back with 10 points in the last five minutes.
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Willie le Roux and Lappies Labuschagne have finally been rewarded with spots in the Springbok training group. They are two of eight that are first timers in Springbok training groups this year. Read More
The Rugby Football Union has turned down a proposal from their Welsh counterparts to stage the 2015 World Cup pool match between England and Wales in Cardiff. Read More
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2 Feb 2013, 22:56 pm
penalties seeming ever more likely
2 Feb 2013, 22:58 pm
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-147:
The Lions play a nice brand of rugby. I like how the players always look to off load in the tackle.
Serfontein did well but I hated how the commentators blew up every good thing that he did.
Where was Tarzan?
2 Feb 2013, 23:01 pm
eish bafana nervy and mali all over us.
wake up bafana!
khune is a legend.
2 Feb 2013, 23:05 pm
I hate a penalty shoot out if my team is involved. :angry:
2 Feb 2013, 23:08 pm
There we go.
Khune can become the stuff of folklore if he wins this one for us. He had a good game tonight. May his form continue during the shoot out.
2 Feb 2013, 23:12 pm
@nama1-152:
yip, they do.
it looks like they scored with Cronje too, he seems a man born anew now that the ‘WP Shackles’ are off. i had to blink a few times to make sure it wasn’t Elton.
Tarzan took a day off to be with Spies… sorry… i meant Jane.
2 Feb 2013, 23:15 pm
Good save by the Mali goali.
Advantage Mali
2 Feb 2013, 23:15 pm
Shame poor Furman
2 Feb 2013, 23:17 pm
*****
we’re out
2 Feb 2013, 23:17 pm
That’s it all over. S.A. out
2 Feb 2013, 23:20 pm
Mali win. Three penalties saved by the goalie
The dream is over and so is Ingesund, I fear.
Would like him to continue and be given a fair chance. He was set up to fail imo.
2 Feb 2013, 23:25 pm
question:
do they train the players for penalty kicks?
wtf?
2 Feb 2013, 23:39 pm
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-162:
Does a fly half practice his kicks at goal?
You have to practice kicking penalties in the same way. Ever tried to take a penalty? For the keeper it may seem that the poles is freakin wide but for the kicker the poles seems very narrow.
2 Feb 2013, 23:48 pm
This was the best I’ve ever seen Bafana play.
Nasiebou op sy beste.
2 Feb 2013, 23:50 pm
The penalties wasn’t the issue, fitness was.
The players were laying about before extra time was finished, then they must stand and concentrate and take penalties.
Hope they take a leaf out of Kitch Christies book, the best team doesn’t always win, but if you are the fittest team your chances are better.
2 Feb 2013, 23:52 pm
@nortierd-165: Hey Nortie, sorry to hear about Bafana, penalties is never a decent way to settle a game of soccer
your comment about fitness levels is spot on, I think its what makes the ABs so potent, they have won many, many games in the last quarter for this very reason imo..
2 Feb 2013, 23:58 pm
@nama1-163:
well then they picked the wrong three flippin players.
i mean come on! Majoro completely missed his shot by a mile
how ****** narrow did he think they were.
3 Feb 2013, 00:05 am
well played Bafana, proud of the new way we are playing under Gordon. tough luck to lose in the lottery that are penalties.
3 Feb 2013, 00:07 am
@Jeraldjay-164:
Nasiebou? wdf? is jy ernstig?
that’s half our problem right there. always happy to praise mediocrity in football and for a long time in cricket too.
@nortierd-165:
agreed on fitness levels.
but as far as the penalties were concerned, the Malians did seem to have the same problem, wtf?
@the curse-166:
lets just agree to disagree entirely, on the question of what has allowed the AB’s to win ‘many, many games in the last quarter’.
3 Feb 2013, 00:07 am
anyway, i’m out for the night
cheers all
3 Feb 2013, 00:09 am
@nama1-161: not set up to fail but do a rescue job of pitso’s f.uckup & the progress is admirable in my eyes..
mali ranked 3rd in Africa – with former Barcelona player Seydou Keita in the mix – vs Bafana ranked 22nd.
they win on penalties. we stepped UP.
3 Feb 2013, 00:10 am
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-167:
See Nortierd’s comment at 165.
Agree that they should’ve done better. Only consolation is that those three players feel even worse than you or I do.
3 Feb 2013, 00:11 am
gutted but proud of bafana.
use this to go on and build a team that can take on all comers lads!
3 Feb 2013, 00:14 am
@Liewe Luiperd-123:
Its only pre season ?
3 Feb 2013, 00:16 am
If it went to penalties we didn’t stand a chance had to wrap it up in open play we controlled midfield and most the interplay but they were more dangerous on counter and they shut us out the end zone in second half we couldn’t get into scoring position. We lost the game when we give Keita free header in our small box with both defenders falling off the striker and offering Mali a free pass back in the game.
Mali is rated 25th in Fifa we around 65 we played better football overall except for poor defence on their goal and lack of strike force in their end zone..
3 Feb 2013, 00:19 am
@Transformation-171:
Yes but the provision that he MUST reach the semi finals means that his tenure is over now that they are knocked out in the quarters.
They could at least have given him the opportunity to try and qualify for Brazil.
Pitso was a big fukkup from the start. A mate of mine and Pitso did their level two coaching courses together and he does not rate him at all.
3 Feb 2013, 00:25 am
@skopdiekan-175:
Hi skop.
The lack of quality crosses from out wide have been a problem as well. We create space out wide but when we need our players to whip in pinpoint crosses for our strikers to head for goal, we always come up short. Its always either too high and too long or directly to a defender who kicks it away from danger.
You’re right, we controlled the midfield but it was when we get to the big box that we lost the plot.
3 Feb 2013, 00:28 am
We don’t have a proper striker. Bernard Parker was very poor shouldn’t have been on the field was a waste of a player. If Bafana want to become a force in either Africa or world football they need to find some strikers they improved hugely in ball control and structure but still don’t have real finishers the two goals vs Morocco that pulled us through to quarters although both well taken strikes from edge of box were actually fortuitous goals and a better goalie like Mali had tonight might have not let them in.
3 Feb 2013, 00:43 am
@the curse-166:
Thanks, yes was sad, very disappointing, almost like the tourney is over.
Reckon whoever wins tomorrow between Ivory Coast and Nigeria will take the Cup
3 Feb 2013, 00:44 am
@nama1-176: they won’t fire him!
our game is not based on aerial assaults thus every high cross was a Mali ball – check the Morocco game too.
your mate might not rate Pitso but he coached Supersport United & along with the recently deceased Thomas Madigage built the team Hunt inherited…the likes our captain Khumalo, Gaxa, Klate, Erasmus, Teko Modise come from Pitso’s development. i don’t know what your mate has done.
3 Feb 2013, 00:46 am
@skopdiekan-178:
Mphela is a good striker. Pity that he was injured for so long and that he was not as sharp when the tournament started. I think he must look to play in a European league to become even better.
Yes, Parker was poor tonight. His distribution was awful and he lost the ball way too many times.I think he got totally confused as to what his actual role was. Was he a striker or a midfielder?
3 Feb 2013, 00:48 am
@nama1-177:
Very true, good point.
@skopdiekan-175:
Agree on the free header, no use the defender stands about swinging his arms at the ref like Ruan Pienaar behind a maul hoping for an offside.
Then there was the chance that went begging because the striker can’t kick with his right foot and wasted time trying to set up for a left footed shot
3 Feb 2013, 00:56 am
@Transformation-180:
Well, his u/17 side is the current national champions.
3 Feb 2013, 05:12 am
I see Die Groot Leeu signed out for the last time. May he rest in peace.
3 Feb 2013, 05:14 am
Hilarious… Banana Banana have all the excuses… yet two-bit ****-holes in Africa smash them!
3 Feb 2013, 06:51 am
Watched these rugby games with interset
3 players stood out for me
Jan Serfontein
Nizaam Carr
and my player of the day….and what a loss to Stormers and Bulls…Lionel Cronje. Just oozes class, at 10 or 12…..
Now there is a young man Heyneke can keep an eye on if he wants to play more expansively…..best distributor in SA Rugby imo…
3 Feb 2013, 06:51 am
interest
3 Feb 2013, 07:59 am
@bryce_in_oz-185: hilarious is your hyperbole…”smashed”?
3 Feb 2013, 08:40 am
Mali are in a civil war…and so is South Africa…and that is where the similarities end.
Bafoona Bafoona should be forced to have a nationality from each country that has more than one million illegals in our country, to be representative of our Rainbow Nation. A few Nigerians, Ghanians and Mozambiguans should even out the odds for the useless’s…after all, they can’t do anything for themselves after twenty years in charge.
3 Feb 2013, 09:09 am
@Predawn-189:
3 Feb 2013, 09:26 am
Honestly, I am not the biggest football fan around, yet every 4 years I’ll watch the World Cup and maybe follow some highlights.
Yet, because I am working this tournament I sort of got caught up in it, and it was fun, but I am very disappointed with our loss, where a year ago I would have also just said they are this or that, yesterday actually hurt because the success of the tournament came down to whether we could have been in the final.
To experience first hand how my colleagues love this game and follow it put things in perspective, now I know how we look when the Boks lose or get knocked out of a tournament.
I definately won’t be ridiculing the players or hoping for them to fail.
It was an eye opener and I will from now on alternate between my Bok, Stormer AND Bafana jersey on casual sport days.
3 Feb 2013, 09:47 am
Predawn and his leg-humper brumbiesboy
3 Feb 2013, 10:05 am
Well done Cheetahs, Bulls and Mali! We had to win it in actual time if we had any chance of advancing. As someone said above, our players were lying all over the place due to a lack of conditioning. Anyways well done Mali your country is in disaray and let’s hope your football team can bring a smile of some faces. I didn’t watch any of the rugby yesterday so I cannot comment much.
At least the Proteas have come out and smashed the Pakistanis thus far.
3 Feb 2013, 10:09 am
@nama1-149: Bone chilling! Sorry to hear
3 Feb 2013, 10:26 am
Bafana Bafana not fit enough. That’s why lapsed in defensive alertness and positioning.
We need a killer striker (s)!!!!
I like the way the Lions play. Pleasure to see Cronje. He looks extremely comfortable with the ball. (I’m a huge fan, but been told he disappears on the big occassions)
And this Jan Serfontein laaitie, wow, will be watching him with interest.
Carr also a busy guy.
When you look at what we have in the mix, Serfontein, Goosen, Rhule, Etzebeth, Bismarck, etc etc to name a few, surely we must be counted for internationally.
3 Feb 2013, 10:36 am
@bryce_in_oz-185:
Despite the problems in their country, Mali is ranked no 25 in the world – (that is quite high taking into consideration that soccer is a massive sport worldwide and much more competitive than rugby/cricket where there are only a handful of countries that take the games serious) – their ranking is for example above those of the USA, Australia, Republic of Ireland, etc……
No disgrace to lose against them on a penalty shootout.
3 Feb 2013, 10:39 am
Even a fat , semi- injured Benny McCartney would have been beter than our strikers on the night.
3 Feb 2013, 10:54 am
At least the Proteas and Cape Cobras made up for what has otherwise been a fairly disappointing sporting weekend.
Now if Liverpool can only get it right this afternoon…. (unlikely though)
3 Feb 2013, 10:59 am
thank you Robzim. it’s bilebags like Predawn & that Aussi imi that are grootbek yet totally ignorant.
don’t even mention the leghumper
3 Feb 2013, 11:19 am
Hi Rob and Transie – fortunately the S15 isn’t won in Feb. I haven’t watched any rugby yesterday so I can’t comment.
What a bad way to end for Bafana though! I’m rather clueless re soccer but we really sucked at the penalty kicks!
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