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At Newlands last night

By 6000 | 6000 | June 24, 2009

40,000 turned up last night at a bitterly cold Newlands to watch the Emerging Boks side taken on what was, in truth, a second string British and Irish Lions team. It was cold, stormy, windy, wet, very wet and very cold, but at least there was red wine and brandy on tap. The Lions’ new [...]

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Less about rugby…

By 6000 | 6000 | June 8, 2009

…more about insults. Oh dear. Eric Janssen’s Southern View Rugby Blog at The Telegraph has really set the cat amongst the pigeons by “mocking an entire nation because of attendances at rugby”. But I actually found it pretty funny, if a little contrived at times. Look back to the 2005 tour to New Zealand … [...]

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Overheard at the rugby

By 6000 | 6000 | March 13, 2008

Cape Town’s Stormers take on the Crusaders from New Zealand. We will win this game. We’re the South African team – we invented humanity, for f***s sake – we’re the Cradle of Humankind. We were the first nation to f*****g invent nuclear missiles and then give it all up. We can’t lose this game. Final score: [...]

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