Rugby Union

South Africa’s Rugby History consigned to the bulldozer?

Rugby fans worldwide beware, as Springbok heritage is about to be bulldozed. Last Friday in Johannesburg Danny Jordaan CEO of the local organising committee of the 2010 FIFA World Cup stated that the oldest rugby test ground Newlands in Cape

It makes perfect sense to me?

Sports people are renowned for coming out with some baffling statements, some in error, some because they are philosophers, a la Cantona, but we will leave you to make what you can from these pearls from Springbok coach Peter de

The Price of Professionalism

With news of former Wallaby Justin Harrison being suspended from playing and coaching Rugby for eight months after admitting taking cocaine while under contract with Bath RFC brings into the spot light the problems facing Rugby Union now that the

Spent Force?

So Giteau, Mitchell, Staniforth and Valentine are leaving, as are McIsaac (retiring) and Ben Castle, and the doomsayers say the Force are seasons away from extinction, surely not? However if there is any truth in the whisper that the original

Did the Western Force’s win over the Tahs save John Mitchell?

It was Cameron Shepherd against his old club who gave John Mitchell’s Emirates Western Force a clean sweep against the Australian Super Rugby franchises in 2009. His man of the match performance kept the Force’s slim finals hopes alive, and