17 Tests is a lifetime worth of prep for Springboks 2023 World Cup
You have to go back to 2018 to realise just how absurd all the talk is that there are JUST 17 Tests for the... Read more
Roos & Coetzee in stunning Bok snub
The Springbok coaches have snubbed Stormers No 8 Evan Roos and Bulls captain Marcel Coetzee. Neither are part of the first Springboks alignment camp... Read more
Robust Roos makes a statement for Springboks
Stormers No 8 Evan Roos put down a marker for the Springboks, but as much fun as it is to watch South African teams... Read more
Rassie is no sell-out in taking England job
Rassie Erasmus, post the 2023 Rugby World Cup, must head to England with the blessing of all Springbok supporters. He has done his job... Read more
Damian de Allende is dynamite
Damian de Allende, in a 30 minute cameo for Munster, towered above all other South African backs at Loftus in the United Rugby Championship.... Read more
Rassie Erasmus’s unofficial England job application
Rassie Erasmus has made the most calculated of public job applications to be the next England coach, writes Mark Keohane. Erasmus, who won World... Read more
Stormers soar and France fry Ireland as I get it all wrong
This was a first. I called every game wrong. Congratulations Dobbo’s Stormers. Equally the French who silenced the Irish, writes Mark Keohane. To every... Read more
Overseas Saffas are Springboks Gold
The Springboks would never be the current world champions or the No 1 ranked team in the world without their overseas based superstars. Appreciate... Read more
Spies the best No 8 in history of Super Rugby
Pierre Spies is the best No 8 to have played in Super Rugby, writes Mark Keohane, who picks his all-time Super Rugby XV. I... Read more
South Africa will succeed in United Rugby Championship
The tide will turn and while the 2020/21 United Rugby Championship season is about survival, the 2022/23 season will be all about South African... Read more
Francois Pienaar rated greatest No 6 in rugby history
The 1995 World Cup-winning Springbok captain Francois Pienaar was rated the greatest No 6 to ever play Test rugby in a global poll of... Read more
Mr President: Where is the science in the sporting number 2000?
President Ramaphosa this week spoke of there being no science to ban travel from South Africa, but Mr President where is the science... Read more
Super Siya takes the crown of best in 2021
Siya Kolisi is my player of the year in 2021, writes Mark Keohane. He has been everything you want in a Test player and... Read more
100 years on: Kolisi & Savea showcase rugby’s racial change
If you want to know just how much change there has been when it comes to race and rugby in 2021, go back to... Read more
Springboks have perfect balance between north and south
The Springboks would not be a top five Test team if they did not pick overseas-based South African players, writes Mark Keohane. Sir Ian... Read more
Don’t move on from world rugby’s prejudice, privilege & racism
Let it go with Rassie, people tell me every day. Let’s move on. We made our point. Nonsense, writes Mark Keohane. The only point... Read more