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Advantage New Zealand, then, in the chase for the Rugby Championship as the All Blacks deliver a reminder of their quality with the World Cup around the corner.
A TENBY rugby player keeps his place in the third U20 World Rugby Championship game in a row.
Bulls director of rugby Jake White is heading to Cape Town with more experienced troops for his team’s United Rugby Championship battle against the Stormers this weekend.
Source: https://www.citizen.co.za/sport/rugby/white-confident-bulls-chances-experienced-squad/
But this was to the detriment of the franchise sides that had their best players unavailable for those two months, which is a problem they have at the start of the season as well, due to the Boks being in Rugby Championship action.
Source: https://www.citizen.co.za/sport/rugby/saru-stand-firm-rugby-championship-push/
Effectively the winner of this week’s Test will have one hand on the Rugby Championship trophy but importantly another step for both teams on the road towards the 2023 Rugby World Cup in France in September-October.
Source: https://www.citizen.co.za/sport/listen-all-blacks-test-week-with-world-cup-winning-bok-kobus-wiese/
“Handrè is a bit of a worry and he will not be able to play in the Rugby Championship.
James Slipper will share Wallabies captaincy duties with Michael Hooper for the Rugby Championship.
Source: https://canberraweekly.com.au/hooper-slipper-to-share-wallabies-captaincy/
Kremer will miss Argentina’s Rugby Championship games against the All Blacks, Australia and South Africa and another warm-up game against the Springboks.
Lions scrumhalf Sanele Nohamba is thriving at the union and put in a starring performance to help them snap a 10 game losing streak against South African teams in the United Rugby Championship (URC) as they beat the Bulls at Loftus on Saturday.
Source: https://www.citizen.co.za/sport/rugby/sanele-nohamba-thriving-lions-rejuvenating/
Nkosi featured for the Bulls in the United Rugby Championship and Currie Cup later on and was also called up to play for a World XV team against the (British) Barbarians Invitation team at Twickenham in May.
Source: https://www.citizen.co.za/sport/rugby/bulls-sbu-nkosi-part-ways-move-on/
Obviously the result (against the All Blacks, in the Rugby Championship) in Auckland hurt us a bit.
Source: https://www.citizen.co.za/sport/rugby/willemse-sparkles-outside-back-depth-all-blacks-drubbing/
One of the new recruits in a former Scotland No 10, who has tons of United Rugby Championship experience.
Source: https://www.citizen.co.za/sport/rugby/bulls-mean-business-several-new-signings/
Outstanding performances during the July series against England and in the Rugby Championship (TRC) gave Koroibete a sufficient cushion in the voting tally to finish ahead of loose forward Rob Valetini.
Sparks will fly when livewire Stormers scrumhalf Herschel Jantjies and Munster’s Conor Murray come face-to-face in a confrontation for supremacy in the United Rugby Championship final in Cape Town on Saturday.
Source: https://www.heraldlive.co.za/sport/rugby/2023-05-25-sparks-set-to-fly-in-tense-urc-cup-final-battle/
Stormers centre Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu celebrates scoring a try against the Lions in their United Rugby Championship match at Ellis Park on Saturday afternoon.
Source: https://www.citizen.co.za/sport/rugby/stormers-edge-lions-ellis-park-thriller/
SYDNEY: Wallabies forwards coach Neal Hatley is expecting a big improvement from the Australia pack in their second Rugby Championship test against Argentina this weekend after being embarrassed by the Springboks last week.
The Hollywoodbets Sharks have something that their next opponents, the DHL Stormers, don’t have — a two-week break before they face each other in an appetising coastal Vodacom United Rugby Championship derby in Cape Town on Old Year’s Eve.
The Stormers are sweating over the fitness of star players Deon Fourie and Marvin Orie ahead of the biggest game of their season so far, their United Rugby Championship (URC) semi-final clash against Connacht at the Cape Town Stadium on Saturday.
Source: https://www.citizen.co.za/sport/rugby/fourie-orie-doubt-stormers-sweat-ahead-urc-semi-final/
We’re straight back amongst things next weekend - a crucial round two of the Rugby Championship sees Argentina head to Sydney to face a battered and bruised Australia, while New Zealand host South Africa in an eagerly-anticipated encounter.
We shouldn’t be surprised, then, that he put in a few cleverly pitched barbs ahead of today’s first round Rugby Championship match between Australia and the at Loftus Versfeld.
Source: https://www.citizen.co.za/news/opinion/boks-all-out-beat-aussies/