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Imagine this: a stadium lights up in late summer. The crowd is buzzing – American football jerseys mingled with black fern and green-gold scarves. The players emerge. On one side,
The first five rounds of the 2025/26 United Rugby Championship have already separated the grown men from the flat-track bullies. South Africa’s quartet have taken the field with varying levels
There’s a Welsh troublemaker stirring up Bok tempers – and his name’s Taine Plumtree. 📅 10 October, Llanelli: Scarlets vs Stormers. Plumtree squares up to Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu – bump, chirp,
In rugby, soos in die lewe, is daar ’n paar heilige reëls. Jy respekteer die spel. Jy speel hard, maar regverdig. Jy word gestraf wanneer daar bewyse is – nie
By Round 4, the honeymoon phase is over. Form starts to sting, mistakes cost more, momentum matters. For the South African teams, this is a moment of truth. WHAT WE’VE
Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu has been burning up the headlines – but not always for the right reasons. The Stormers’ young flyhalf, widely hyped as one of South Africa (and world) rugby’s
It was a weekend that told us everything and nothing at once.Three South African franchises flew into Europe fairly confident, before being thoroughly mugged at customs bar one of them.
After two rounds, the table’s already wobbling. Teams are figuring out rhythm (and fatigue), travel is biting, and a few underdogs smell opportunity. These are some juicy fixtures: Munster vs