Even though the Springboks bowed out in heroic, agonising circumstances to the All Blacks in the World Cup semi-final last weekend, their 2007 World Cup winning backrow, Bobby Skinstad, says…
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World Cup 2015: South Africa 18-20 New Zealand
What's hot and what's not from the World Cup semi-final between New Zealand and South Africa at Twickenham
South Africa vs New Zealand: An epic rivalry
New Zealand v South Africa is one of the biggest rivalries in rugby. Here is a look at the upcoming heavyweight clash
Wales v South Africa: Five things we learnt
The work-rate of Sam Warburton, the ability of Dan Biggar, solid scrums and lots of whistleblowing feature in this Wales analysis
World Cup 2015: South Africa 23 – 19 Wales
A 74th-minute try from veteran scrum-half and skipper Fourie du Preez took South Africa into the semi-finals of the World Cup and broke Welsh hearts, as, until then, Sam Warburton‘s…
Joel Stransky backs HITZ and the Springboks
Joel Stransky knows a thing or two about winning the Rugby World Cup and the former South Africa fly-half believes Wales’ quest to do exactly that will end this weekend
Fourie du Preez – the comeback king
Of course, the fact that du Preez has the talent to play in the latter stages of a World Cup is not in question – he won the thing in…
World Cup 2015: Who makes our Team of the Pool Stage?
15 Ben Smith (New Zealand) Japan’s Ayumu Goromaru went close but how can you not go with this immensely likeable All Black? Smith has made eight clean breaks from his…
Bryan Habana rejects comparisons to Jonah Lomu after equalling All Black’s record
Bryan Habana may have gone over for a record-equalling 15th Rugby World Cup try on Wednesday afternoon, but he doesn’t believe he is worthy of comparison to the man who…
World Cup 2015: South Africa 64-0 USA
South Africa comfortably gained the bonus point they needed to top Pool B, after just 46 minutes. Two tries in the first half, the first by Damien de Allende and…