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Continue reading →: The Springboks made the All Blacks bleed…All Blacks hooker Codie Taylor, blood gushing down his forehead during the opening stages of the first half in Baltimore… That might be the enduring image from Rugby’s Greatest Rivalry for me. Because the Boks won this competition through pure, brutal physicality and then later, as was evident in the…
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Continue reading →: Rassie Erasmus is not playing around…Rassie Erasmus is not playing around… He wants to end this. The final round of Rugby’s Greatest Rivalry is upon us and sees the Boks travel to Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States to finally finish off the All Blacks. Baltimore is more famous for being the city where the…
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Continue reading →: Cheslin Kolbe is NOT human…Well, maybe he is. But one thing is for certain. The man from Kraaifontein in the Western Cape is a special player. People like to make a hoo-hah about Antoine Dupont being the best player in the world. I wonder if they’ve seen Cheslin Kolbe’s highlights reel… He’s sidestepped the…
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Continue reading →: The Springboks have been here before…
This is not catastrophic. The first video I ever made that went viral was a reaction to the Wallabies downing the Springboks at Ellis Park last year. It was the opening game of the Rugby Championship, and in the video I asked whether the Springboks had already thrown away the…
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Continue reading →: This is not the greatest rivalry…this is war!
Over the last few weeks, we’ve seen the All Blacks dismantle the undercooked URC sides with relative ease. All Blacks fans on social media have been buzzing that their side is back to their best and ready to clean-sweep the series against the Boks four-nil. Not to say there aren’t…
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Continue reading →: Rassie reveals his greatest fear…
The greatest rivalry is finally here. It seems like a lifetime since SA and NZ rugby chucked the baby out with the bathwater when they cancelled the Rugby Championship in favour of a return to tours between the Springboks and the All Blacks. But the wait is finally over… Tomorrow…
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Continue reading →: They don’t call it the Greatest Rivalry for nothing…
They don’t call it the Greatest Rivalry for nothing… The Springboks played their very first Test match against the British & Irish Lions on 30 July 1891 at the Crusaders Ground in Port Elizabeth. The score was 0–4 in favour of the visitors. If you think that looks like a…
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Continue reading →: The Boks ready for a bit of Argy-Bargy…
The English have been doing everything they can to get underneath everyone’s skin lately. It all started when they won ten games in a row and started fancying themselves as serious contenders. The Six Nations brought them crashing back down to earth, but unfortunately no one told Henry Pollock. He’s…
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Continue reading →: Rassie likes to roll the dice…
If you’re ever bored, it’s well worth taking the time to listen to Rassie Erasmus’ press conferences. You get a real insight into what he and the Bok coaching team are thinking. In the press conference after the Scotland game, Rassie revealed they actually thought Scotland would be a tougher…
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Continue reading →: “When South Africans do well overseas, we’re happy for them.” – Rassie Erasmus
Phew… What a start to the Nations Championship we had against England. The Boks came flying out of the starting blocks and raced to a 17–0 lead after just 11 minutes. I was thinking to myself maybe we were about to give the Poms a real hiding. But then, for…
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