With 8 English clubs in action this weekend we look back at Premiership clubs success in Europe
1 decade agoAs we make our way into the quarter-final stages of both the Champions Cup and the Challenge Cup, there are eight English sides still in the hunt for European success. In the Champions Cup there are four...
Francois Steyn banned for 5 weeks after rescinded red card is overturned
1 decade ago by Rugby DumpIn a particularly brutal and controversy filled Super Rugby clash between the Sharks and the Chiefs, Francois Steyn was red-carded for an illegal tackle on fly-half Aaron Cruden. The rulings that followed...
Exeter Chiefs trio can't help England under-18s losing to France
1 decade ago by Exeter Express & EchoExeter Chiefs' Josh Caulfield scored a try but could not help England under-18s falling to a 23-19 defeat to their French counterparts in Blagnac on Tuesday. Chiefs teammates Ollie Dawe, from Exmouth,...
Scrutiny on Stormers defence before Hurricanes
1 decade ago by Super Sport.comDHL Stormers coach Allister Coetzee has rightly spoken up the need to be tight, direct and physical against the Hurricanes in order to limit attacking opportunities for the Vodacom Super Rugby log leaders...
Why suspensions might help the Sharks
1 decade ago by Super Sport.comThe Cell C Sharks will feel they have a mountain to climb now that it has been confirmed that Frans Steyn will be out for the next five weeks and will be joined on the sidelines for much of that time...
Sevens star Akhi back for the Blues
1 decade ago by Rugby 365Former All Black Sevens player Pita Ahki will make his season debut for the Blues in their Super Rugby clash against the Chiefs on Saturday.
SuperWrap: Week 7, 2015
1 decade ago by Super Sport.comFlyin' Lion shows the way Not even the most optimistic of Emirates Lions fans would have predicted their team to come away from Australasia this year with three Vodacom Super Rugby wins under their belt. That...
Francois Steyn suspended for five weeks on appeal
1 decade ago by ESPN ScrumSharks centre Francois Steyn has been handed a five-week ban for a lifting tackle on Chiefs first five-eighth Aaron Cruden after the incident was revisited by the SANZAR judiciary. Springboks back...
Brazil learns to love a whole new ball game
1 decade ago by The TelegraphThe boy could be no more than five years old. Wearing a vastly outsized fluorescent bib that swamps him, giving him the appearance of an altar boy in a flowing cassock, he has in his hands a rugby ball. ...
Steyn suspended until May
1 decade ago by Super Sport.comThe Cell C Sharks will have to live with the reality that they will have to be without star playmaker Frans Steyn until the beginning of May after the Sanzar appeal against an initial disciplinary committee...
