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Welsh outfit Ospreys will have to finish their Vodacom URC campaign without one of their prolific try scorers. Winger Daniel Kasende has been handed a four-match suspension following his red card against Cardiff last month. The former Griquas and Cheetahs speedster was sent off in the 18th minute of the round 16 clash after referee […]

Defending champions Bordeaux Bègles and Irish giants Leinster will clash in the Investec Champions Cup final, according to the SARugbymag.co.za team. Investec Champions Cip: Leinster vs Toulon (Saturday, 4pm, Dublin) Simon Borchardt: Bordeaux by 8 Lindiz van Zilla: Leinster by 5 Morne Esben: Leinster by 5 Dylan Johnson: Leinster by 12 Juandre Joubert: Leinster by

Chief executive Edgar Rathbone insists the Vodacom Bulls will not use a “rebuilding phase” as a crutch next season despite the departures of several key players. The Bulls are set to lose Kurt-Lee Arendse and Ruan Nortjé to Japan and Wilco Louw will be returning to the Stormers, while utility back David Kriel is also

Legendary coach Steve Hansen says New Zealand rugby must come to terms with the steady flow of players heading overseas. A number of high-profile names are set to leave at the end of the 2026 Super Rugby Pacific season, and the former All Blacks boss describes it as an unavoidable reality of the modern game.

Johann van Graan and Beno Obano are confident Bath can get the job done in Sunday’s Investec Champions Cup semi-final at defending champions Bordeaux Bègles. Bath will arrive in Bordeaux with momentum and belief after a golden spell under Van Graan. The Premiership outfit swept to a trophy treble last season, lifting the EPCR Challenge

SA Rugby has confirmed there will be no shared spoils between the Springboks and All Blacks in the Rugby’s Greatest Rivalry series. LINDIZ VAN ZILLA reports. The world’s top two-ranked teams will face each other in a four-Test series at Ellis Park in Johannesburg (22 August), Cape Town Stadium (29 August), FNB Stadium in Nasrec

Tommy O’Brien and James Ryan say Leinster are hungry to erase recent Investec Champions Cup heartbreak when they face Toulon in Saturday’s semi-final in Dublin. The Irish giants have reached the last four of Europe’s premier club competition in each of the past six seasons, but have repeatedly fallen short, including last year’s dramatic semis

The Junior Springboks have called up injury cover in the front row in their buildup to the U20 Rugby Championship clash against Australia on Sunday. Vodacom Bulls prop Luan van der Berg as joined the Junior Bok camp after Kai Pratt suffered a foot injury during Monday’s win over Argentina in Gqeberha. Van der Berg

Finn Russell has been likened to two Springbok greats as the flyhalf steels himself to lead Bath’s attack against Investec Champions Cup title-holders Bordeaux-Begles on Sunday. The Scotland playmaker will go head-to-head with French star Matthieu Jalibert in a mouthwatering semi-final at the Stade Atlantique Bordeaux Métropole, and it is Russell’s BMT that has given Bath

Former All Blacks coach Steve Hansen reckons the rugby world has become obsessed with trying to replicate Rassie Erasmus’ Springbok tactics. Instead, Hansen warns that blindly copying the back-to-back world champions’ formula isn’t a surefire success strategy. South Africa and New Zealand will lock horns in a blockbuster four-Test Greatest Rivalry series later this year,