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Comments from Romania head coach Eugen Apjok and captain Cristian Chirica ahead of the match against Ireland in Pool B in Bordeaux on Saturday. Eugen Apjok, head coach on his team selection: “We chose the best players that we could for this game, and also we want to give them the opportunity to play against …
England head coach Steve Borthwick has named his match-day 23 to face Argentina in Marseille on Saturday. Alex Mitchell, who wasn’t in the original World Cup squad, starts at scrum-half. 1 Ellis Genge 2 Jamie George 3 Dan Cole 4 Maro Itoje 5 Ollie Chessum 6 Courtney Lawes (c) 7 Tom Curry 8 Ben Earl …
Argentina head coach Michael Cheika has named an experienced starting XV for their opening Rugby World Cup 2023 game, against England in Marseille on Saturday, with nine players having World Cup experience. 1 Thomas Gallo 2 Julian Montoya (c) 3 Francisco Gómez Kodela 4 Matias Alemanno 5 Tomas Lavanini 6 Pablo Matera 7 Marcos Kremer …
Georgia head coach Levan Maisashvili has named nine players in his match-day squad who played Australia at Rugby World Cup 2019 for their game at Stade de France on Saturday. 1 Nika Abuladze 2 Shalva Mamukashvili 3 Guram Papidze 4 Nodar Cheishvili 5 Konstantine Mikautadze 6 Tornike Jalagonia 7 Luka Ivanishvili 8 Beka Gorgadze 9 …
Italy head coach Kieran Crowley has named his match-day 23 to face Namibia in Stade Geoffroy-Guichard in Saint-Étienne on Saturday, with Tommaso Allan, who played fly-half in the previous two Rugby World Cups, named at full-back. 1 Danilo Fischetti 2 Giacomo Nicotera 3 Simone Ferrari 4 Dino Lamb 5 Federico Ruzza 6 Sebastian Negri 7 …
Namibia head coach Allister Coetzee has announced his match-day 23 to face Italy at the Stade Geoffroy-Guichard in Saint-Etienne on Saturday, with Richard Hardwick, who won two caps for Australia, starting at number eight. 1 Desiderius Sethie 2 Torsten Van Jaarsveld 3 Johan Coetzee 4 Adriaan Ludick 5 Tjiuee Uanivi 6 Wian Conradie 7 Johan …
Head coach Warren Gatland has named his Wales senior men’s XV to play Fiji at Stade de Bordeaux in their opening pool C match of Rugby World Cup 2023 (Sunday 10 September 8pm BST / 9pm local time live on ITV and S4C). Wales arrived in Bordeaux from their team base in Versailles this afternoon …
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The Western Province Rugby Football Union moved closer to exiting administration, following the approval by its member clubs of a proposed sale of a 74% shareholding in its commercial arm. The proposed transaction still requires regulatory approval, which is expected to be a formality, completing the second of three objectives mandated by the South African …
Dear Editor The DA extends its warmest wishes to the Springboks as they embark on their Rugby World Cup journey, facing Scotland in their opening match this Sunday. Rugby holds a special place in the hearts of all South Africans, transcending boundaries and uniting our diverse nation. As such, we firmly believe that every citizen …
IF you hear of any other Fan Malls please let MyZA know where in the comments section below. Eight of the biggest shopping malls in South Africa will be decked out in green and gold in the next couple of months as fans will be given the opportunity to share in the gees at the …
English outside back Ben Loader has joined the DHL Stormers set-up ahead of the 2023/24 season. The 24-year-old former England U20 international has played all his professional rugby to date for London Irish, making his debut at the age of just 20 and accumulating 73 senior caps since then. Loader was impressive for the London …
The clubs that constitute the Western Province Rugby Football Union (WPRFU) General Council met at DHL Stadium on Wednesday evening to vote on the proposed equity deal put forward by Red Disa consortium to secure a controlling shareholding in WP Professional Rugby Pty Ltd (the professional rugby arm of Western Province Rugby). The motion was …
Springbok scrumhalf Faf de Klerk wins his 50th Test cap in a settled Springbok team for the momentous Rugby World Cup opener against Scotland in Marseille on Sunday. De Klerk is one of 11 players to retain their starting places from the team which recorded a record victory against New Zealand two weeks ago, as …
World Rugby is partnering with the Signify Group to protect officials, players and coaches from online abuse. World Rugby has today announced that it will implement transformative measures to protect all match day officials and team squad players from online abuse during Rugby World Cup France 2023. The move underpins World Rugby’s wider commitment to …
Laurian Johannes-Haupt, who had been acting as interim assistant coach for the Springbok Women’s team this year, has been formally recruited by SA Rugby to join the team as assistant coach, leading up to the WXV tournament in October. Johannes-Haupt, a former national player, was named interim forwards coach in March and travelled with the …
Ahead of the 10th Rugby World Cup, Bettingexpert.com have collected a list of all of the records that could possibly be broken at this year’s tournament in France. To highlight a few, South Africa or New Zealand could break their tie (3 wins) and become the nation with the most titles won since the tournament’s …
The Springbok Women will face the world famous and star-studded Barbarians Women in Cape Town in two weeks’ time, while also playing Test matches against Kenya and Samoa as part of their preparations for the WXV 2 tournament in October. The South Africans will open their warm-up campaign with a Test against African opponents Kenya …
World Rugby has today announced the team of Emirates Match Officials selected for the upcoming September and October women’s internationals and three-level inaugural WXV competition to be held in New Zealand, South Africa and Dubai between 13 October to 4 November Match officials confirmed for 10 warm-up fixtures across four continents in September and October …
The Scottish Government’s CashBack for Communities initiative will see more than £1.5M invested into state schools across Scotland in the latest Phase of the Schools of Rugby programme. Phase 6 of the programme is focused on the theme of ‘Sport for Change’ and sees investment being delivered to schools in areas of deprivation, targeting pupils …
Springbok prop Steven Kitshoff has risen to the No 1 spot in the latest update to the URC Top 100 with forward players dominating the upper end of the ‘pound-for-pound’ rankings. Based upon the Statmaster algorithm that defines a player’s contribution (xP) to his team’s total points per game, Ulster-bound Kitshoff has an overall rating …
The African Rainbow Gold Cup kicks off on Saturday with matches scheduled at 16 club grounds around South Africa, at venues as far afield as Kathu, Saldanha, Hartbeespoort and Uitenhage. The opening round will see 32 clubs play for places in the Round of 16 in the straight knock-out competition. Rustenburg Impala – champions in …
Minister of Sport, Arts and Culture Zizi Kodwa has urged the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) to reach an agreement with SuperSport to secure sub-licensing of broadcast rights to the highly anticipated 2023 Rugby World Cup. “I am concerned at how millions of South Africans may be unable to watch the Rugby World Cup should …
Springbok Women interim head coach Louis Koen invited 34 players to a training camp in Potchefstroom as the squad start the next phase of preparations for the new WXV tournament, to be held in Stellenbosch and Cape Town next month. A two-week alignment camp in Stellenbosch finished last weekend and yielded good progress with a …