Tag Archives: rugby

Great er… “weekend”…

By 6000 | 6000 | January 28, 2011

What an amazing weekend for Cape Town sports fans. There’s another football double-header at Cape Town Stadium, with Vasco da Gama up against Golden Arrows and Ajax Cape Town taking on Moroka Swallows – that’s tonight at 6pm and 8:45pm. Then there’s Pro 20 cricket at Newlands (that’s Sahara Park Newlands to you and me), [...]

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Rugby skills down under

By 6000 | 6000 | October 1, 2010

And because that blogroll clearout post was so horribly admin, some entertainment for the weekend ahead with All Black rugby stars Cory Jane, Piri Weepu and Rene Ranger and demonstrating some audacious talent in training – this for a Rugby Channel ad in New Zealand: Not to be outdone, Aussie players Josh Valentine, Adam Ashley-Cooper [...]

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That match at Newlands

By 6000 | 6000 | May 15, 2010

It was the biggie. The North/South derby match. The one that everyone had been talking about even more since they realised that this season, it might actually make some meaningful difference to the final standings of the Super 14 table. We parked the kids with a handy Mother-in-Law, I dosed myself up with MedLemon and Corenza [...]

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On fielding weakened teams

By 6000 | 6000 | May 11, 2010

The MASSIVE match this coming weekend is the MASSIVE clash between MASSIVE rivals, the Stormers of Cape Town and the Bulls of Pretoria in the Super 14 rugby tournament. And there’s a MASSIVE amount at stake, with the Stormers looking for a lucrative (and potentially winnable) home semi-final, which they will get if they win this game. [...]

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Last rites

By 6000 | 6000 | February 8, 2010

It seems that Saturday’s rugby game may have been the final nail in the coffin for Newlands – traditional home of the Western Province Rugby Union. Previously, the Union had steadfastly refused to consider any move from the Newlands ground to the new stadium. However, popular South African rugby website keo.co.za thinks the friendly game [...]

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