The Blitzboks will have to start fast and stay hot to have any chance of winning the Cape Town Sevens tournament for the first time since 2015, according to Blitzboks co-captain Impi Visser. “Last week in Dubai we were hot and cold and made silly errors, something you will not be able to get away […]
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The Sharks have named two-time Springbok world champion Eben Etzebeth as captain of the side to face Exeter Chiefs in their Investec Champions Cup opener in Durban on Saturday. A Bok-laden Sharks lineup will take the field in the first-round clash at Kings Park. Lock Etzebeth, who led the Durbanites to 2023-24 EPCR Challenge title
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The Lions have overhauled their starting XV, making 14 changes for Saturday’s EPCR Challenge Cup opener against the Ospreys in Swansea. Nico Steyn is set to lead Ivan van Rooyen’s charges, who will aim to bounce back from last week’s loss to Munster in the Vodacom URC. In their last visit to the Welsh city,
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Joseph Dweba and Willie Engelbrecht will earn their 50th DHL Stormers caps as Seabelo Senatla makes his comeback in Saturday’s Investec Champions Cup clash with Toulon in Gqeberha. Prop Neethling Fouche will captain the Stormers in place of the injured Dan du Plessis – whose place at inside centre is filled by his cousin Jean-Luc
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Johan Grobbelaar has been recalled to the Vodacom Bulls starting lineup and handed the captaincy in the Investec Champions Cup clash against Saracens in London on Saturday. The Springbok rake swops places with hooker Akker van der Merwe who started in the Bulls’ 28-14 win against Connacht in Galway last week. Bok loosehead prop Gerhard
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Director of rugby Frans Steyn has reaffirmed the Cheetahs’ commitment to the EPCR Challenge Cup, after his recent comments suggesting otherwise. Steyn on Monday alluded that the Cheetahs would benefit more from inclusion in Super Rugby than playing in European cup competitions. “The French didn’t want us in the Challenge Cup,” Steyn revealed at a
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SA Rugby resolved on Friday to turn down a proposal to accept a potential private equity investment in the sport’s commercial rights. The proposal failed to reach the 75% majority required for such a transaction to be approved. Seven of the 13 member unions with voting rights opposed the proposal. However, the Ackerley Sports Group
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Bakkies Botha epitomises everything that made Toulon the best club team in Europe for three successive years. Botha wants to see more of the same from Toulon in this season’s Investec Champions Cup; a tournament he believes to be the best club competition in the world because of the quality of players and variety of
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Robert Hunt says the Cheetahs are cracking their necks and rolling their shoulders in preparation for the showdown against a powerful French pack when they take on Perpignan on Sunday to launch their EPCR Challenge Cup campaign. “French teams have a scrummaging technique that’s admirable,” said the Cheetahs tighthead prop who joined in July of
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Lawrence Dallaglio has urged European clubs to embrace the challenge posed by SA teams in the Investec Champions Cup, emphasising the opportunity to lift their game. The former England captain’s comments follow ongoing debate over the tournament’s expansion and inclusion of sides from the Republic in Europe’s premier club competition. “I was a little bit
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