Alberts undergoes shoulder surgery as Sharks get a break 12 Nov 2011 WILLEM Alberts, the Springbok and Sharks backrow forward, has undergone shoulder surgery, but will be ready for the Super Rugby competition, which starts in February, with an away game to the Bulls at Loftus on February 24. Alberts has battled with a shoulder [...]

Gallo Images Free State Cheetahs centre Robert Ebersohn will make a return to the Springbok Sevens team this season after a two-year absence. Free State Cheetahs centre Robert Ebersohn will make a return to the Springbok Sevens team this season after a two-year absence. Ebersohn, who helped the Blitzboks lift the 2009 World Sevens Series [...]

Promising Toyota Free State Cheetahs centre Robert Ebersohn makes a welcome return to the Springbok Sevens team after a two year absence since he helped the Blitzbokke to capture the HSBC Sevens World Series in 2009. The Free Stater was on Friday included in a 14-man Springbok Sevens travelling squad for the first three rounds [...]

The P.E.I. Rocket players don’t appear too concerned about being at the bottom of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League standings by their jovial, post-practice shootaround on Thursday.    Well, at least Charlottetown native Josh Currie isn’t before P.E.I.’s game tonight against the Saint John Sea Dogs. Game time is 7 p.m. “You can’t think [...]

  Roar Pro 30 Have your say + enlarge image Is rugby’s schedule in 2012 fair for all? (AAP Image/Dave Hunt) Related coverage Rugby Union news Super Rugby news The Rugby Championship news The rugby union schedule for Australia next year seems perfect. And John O’Neill is the new Australian sports hero for consistently pushing [...]

2011 ABSA Currie Cup Final Match Preview: Natal Sharks Vs Golden Lions Golden Lions will host the defending champions, Natal Sharks, in the final of  the South African domestic Rugby Union competition, Currie Cup. Lions will be eyeing to register their first title victory since 1950 on Saturday, October 29 at Coca-Cola Park in Johannesburg. [...]

Former Stormers and Western Province’s lock Adriaan Fondse signs for Newcastle Falcons – Rugby News Newcastle Falcons 2011/12 season received a major boost with the arrival of the South African professional Rugby Union player, Adriaan Fondse, to the club. Officials at the club have confirmed the signing of Fondse in a statement released on their [...]

WP Rugby today confirmed that Peter Grant will return from Japan at the conclusion of the Japanese domestic season, to again play for the DHL Stormers in 2012. In further transfer news, Province announced the signing of versatile front rower Deon Carstens from Saracens in the UK. Carstens, who played nine tests for SA (the [...]

Cape Town – Junior Boks coach, Dawie Theron believes that he will have no problem in selecting the strongest possible squad for next years Junior World Championships, despite it taking place in the middle of the Super Rugby season. With a rest period in next year’s Super 15 scheduled between 3 and 28 June 2012, [...]

  Columnist 0 Have your say + enlarge image Australian rugby union player Ben Robinson, ARU chief executive John O’Neill and SANZAR CEO, Greg Peters. AAP Image/Paul Miller Related coverage Rugby Union news Super Rugby news Wallabies news 2011 Wallabies squad news The Rugby Championship news The cock-a-doodle-do announcement by the ARU yesterday unveiling rugby [...]

8 Nov 2011 Jonny Wilkinson is the second senior England player to publicly criticize the team’s World Cup campaign. Several weeks after England’s quarter-final exit at the World Cup, retired skipper Lewis Moody revealed in his book, Mad Dog: An Englishman, that the players were out of control during the tournament in New Zealand and [...]

Harare – The party in Johannesburg on October 29 marked the crowning of the Golden Lions as the kings of the jungles of the Currie Cup. But the failure by the Springboks to defend their Rugby World Cup title this year cast a shadow on a game that means so much to the people of [...]

New coaching philosophy is needed There seems to be a change of heart around the boardrooms of the South African Rugby Football Union (SARFU) as the realisation dawns that Mission Twickenham 2015 will not be fulfilled by a national coach still embracing out-dated manifestoes for global rugby supremacy. That is clear from the stunned silence [...]

With the playing curtain down on what has been probably, in the overall, a marginally disappointing 2011 season, rugby interest will turn to off-field matters now – one of them being the appointment of a new Springbok coach. Player movements and transfers, the constant assault on the Currie Cup, the big budget Kings in Super [...]

7 Nov 2011 Robbie Deans named a 26-man squad for the Wallabies’ end-of-year tour to Europe, which has nine World Cup players missing. Fullback Kurtley Beale (hamstring), wing Drew Mitchell (hamstring), centre Pat McCabe (shoulder), flyhalf Quade Cooper (knee), No 8 Wycliff Palu (hamstring), flanker Rocky Elsom (hamstring), lock Dan Vickerman (shoulder) and prop Sekope [...]