Local-based Boks to tackle Pumas
Coenie Oosthuizen is Springbok coach Allister Coetzee’s tighthead choice to neutralise the famed Pumas scrum in Saturday’s Rugby Championship opener in Port Elizabeth. The... Read more
Great start
The Springboks produced their most efficient and enjoyable performance in a year. This was more like it South Africa. France were inferior in quality... Read more
Blowing whistle on Refs
The standard of match officiating in Super Rugby is as mediocre as the overall standard of rugby in the competition. This past weekend was... Read more
Wonderboy Warren
There is such goodwill towards Lions and Springbok captain Warren Whiteley that it simply has to be rewarded with success against the French. Everyone... Read more
Local is Lekker
All the pressure is on Allister Coetzee’s Springboks to get a wining result in Saturday’s first Test against France – and rightly so. Coetzee’s... Read more
Boks can’t lose
Springbok coach Allister Coetzee has done everything I asked for – which was to load the team with Lions Super Rugby players and to... Read more
Bok lineup to face the French
The Springbok team that starts against France will look decidedly different to the one that lost to Ireland in Cape Town a year ago,... Read more
Boks to fry French
Be comforted, there’s enough quality in Allister Coetzee’s Springboks squad to beat France 3-0 in the June Test series. There’s also a greater concentration... Read more
Load Boks with Lions
Springbok coach Allister Coetzee’s best chance of immediate success is to load his run on XV with Lions players and to trust the continuity... Read more
Bosch’s brilliance
Curwin Bosch is good enough to play for the Springboks against France in the June Test series. Why the hesitation in picking him? Why... Read more
Backing overseas-based Boks
Would an overseas-based South African team beat the Springboks? Jake White thinks so – and wrote as much in a column on All Out Rugby.... Read more