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Cardiff get a foot in the door
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In the close three-way race in Pool 3 of the Heineken Cup, Cardiff Blues have nudged their way closer to a quarter-final berth with 23-12 win over Harlequins at gluey Cardiff Arms Park on Friday night. ...
Cardiff  Door 

Culture shock awaits Bok oldies
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Experienced Springboks who shared Jake White’s journey to World Cup glory can prepare themselves for a massive culture shock when they gather to prepare for the new international season in the second half of May. ...
Culture 

Van Rooyen gives De Villiers his seal of approval
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Unrepentant South African Rugby Union (Saru) CEO Johan Prinsloo yesterday repeated the organisation’s stance that it would make no apologies for this week’s appointment of Peter de Villiers, the first black Springbok coach. ...
Van 

Allister Upbeat About Stormers Backline
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Stormers assistant coach Allister Coetzee believes backline players are like “artists” who should be given a licence to “paint a picture”, and he is confident that his team have the ability to do that in this season’s Super 14. ...

Bulls Lock Crisis Gets Worse
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A month away from their first Super 14 match against the Stormers in Cape Town and Bulls coach Frans Ludeke is facing his first real test at the helm of the Super 14 champions. ...
Crisis 

Coetzee says Stormers on course
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Vodacom Stormers assistant coach Allister Coetzee is confident that they are on course for a good Super 14 season. ...
Course 

Culture shock for senior Boks
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New Springbok rugby coach Peter de Villiers would like to see busloads of children at the South African captain’s practice sessions this year. ...
Culture  Senior 

India on top as Australia top order crashes
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Having suffered a dramatic collapse of their own after a dogged opening hour, India fought back magnificently just before lunch to prise out three Australian wickets for next to nothing. ...
Australia  India 

Loffie Upbeat Despite Injuries to Stars
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Lions coach Eugene Eloff has brushed aside fears his side will be punching above their weight in this year’s Super 14, saying there is enough experience in the team for them to be a competitive force. ...
Injuries  Stars 

Muir’s Sharks are no pups
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Sharks coach Dick Muir issued a clear warning to those who feel that his team may have lost an edge with the absence of a number of the squad’s most seasoned Springboks. ...
Sharks 

Rassie’s First Team
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New Vodacom Stormers recruit Gcobani Bobo will be making his unofficial debut for the Vodacom Stormers against the Boland Kavaliers at Wellington on Saturday in a pre-season friendly. He made a name for himself at centre at the Lions and became a Springbok before moving to the Natal Sharks. He had an excellent 2007 season [...] ...
Team 

Starring Saru role for Heyneke?
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Mike Stofile, deputy president of the SA Rugby Union, and Heyneke Meyer will meet here on Tuesday to discuss the former Bulls coach’s future. ...

Stay at home Stirling
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Stephen Larkham has implored Stirling Mortlock to play on in Australia and not follow him to Japan after the playmaker finally sealed his future. ...

Ackermann not done yet
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So you thought you had seen the last of the great Johan Ackermann? Thanks heavens we were all wrong. ...

Barnard gets Cheetahs inside lane
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Naka Drotske seems to have made his preliminary choice at flyhalf, and Griquas pivot Conrad Barnard will start off in what is obviously the A-side for the Cheetahs Super 14 trials on Friday (4.30pm) where the Free State Vodacom Cup side will also be playing. ...

Chabal booted from France squad
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New France coach Marc Lievremont picked six new faces and left out Sebastien Chabal when he named his 22-man squad for the Six Nations opener against Scotland on February 3 at Murrayfield. ...
France 

Kiwis tip ‘Saders/Blues in year of change
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The Crusaders and Blues have been installed as equal favourites to return the Super 14 title to New Zealand by the country’s TAB betting agency. ...
Blues 

Mallett names Parisse as new Italian captain
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Italian coach Nick Mallett on Friday named Stade Francais loose forward Sergio Parisse as his team’s captain to lead the Italians in the Six Nations. ...

Meyer in middle of power struggle
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No statement was issued by the South African Rugby Union on Monday after Mike Stofile, the deputy president of Saru, ostensibly ignored an instruction from his president, Oregan Hoskins, not to have a meeting with Super 14-winning Bulls coach Heyneke Meyer on Tuesday. ...
Power  Struggle 

No denying Habana is No1 target
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Sometimes, just occasionally, people open their mouths and say more by saying less. Take my recent story of the big financial offer made to Springbok wing Bryan Habana by French club Bayonne. ...

Reborn Boks face task to stay on top
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Two thoughts occur on reaching the end of former South Africa coach Jake White’s autobiography: how on earth did the Springboks manage to win The Webb Ellis Cup and how can they possibly hope to stay on top? ...

The 2008 Super 14 Blues
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Squad is as follows: ...
Blues 

White “might have had a heart attack” if he’d continued
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The chief medical consultant of the World Cup winning South African side has rubbished the science behind the now famous cryotherapy facility in Spala — visited by the Irish squad on a pre-tournament trip. ...
Heart 

Hellington gets to the Bulls
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Playing five-star rugby at Loftus Versfeld in Pretoria is one thing. Doing it in hell is another. ...

Blues test the brave new world of ELVs
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It was rugby, but not as we knew it. It was a blend of bullrush, sevens and touch, a frantic whirr of mistakes and action under a broiling Auckland afternoon sun. ...
Blues 

Butch vs Neil in GP showdown
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Saracens coach Alan Gaffney has made three changes to his side for the all-important Guinness Premiership clash against Bath at Vicarage Road on Sunday. ...
Butch  Showdown 

Dick Muir answers your questions about the Sharks
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Recently the Sunday Times invited it’s readers to send in questions for Sharks coach Dick Muir to answer. ...
Questions  Sharks 

It’s raining yen for Mortlock
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Wallaby World Cup captain Stirling Mortlock is in danger of being lost to Australian rugby after receiving a massive $3.75million offer to finish his career in Japan. ...

John Smit could be back in SA soon
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SA Rugby is preparing itself for a bare-knuckle rumble to get Springbok Captain, John Smit, back in South Africa as soon as possible. ...

NZ and Aus to clash in Hong Kong
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Australia and New Zealand’s rugby union teams are set to play each other in a historic one-off test in Hong Kong, the first on neutral turf outside a World Cup, a report said here on Saturday. ...
Clash  Hong Kong