Archive for August, 2008


Bills on the Boks

Writing in the Pretoria News, Peter Bills reveals how bad things in the Bok camp have got:
“Unless you believe that rabbits really can be plucked out of conjuror’s hats, then Springbok coach Peter de Villiers has a critical decision to make this Monday morning.
Humiliated by the Durban crowd after South Africa’s latest abject defeat, De […]

All Blacks still a team to fear

Michael Aylwin of the Guardian suggests we should still be in fear:
“So that is how the All Blacks used to play. It has been too long. This was like seeing old friends again, or rather, enemies, nightmares, and swarms of black shirts ruthlessly engulfing anyone unfortunate enough to have the ball and be dressed in […]

Mallett on the difference between North and South

This extract is taken from a piece which appeared in the UK’s Independent some weeks ago:
“The comparison that Mallett makes between the northern hemisphere’s Six Nations Championship and the Tri-Nations competition in the south that forms the most fascinating of his views. Technically, he says, the Six Nations is the equal of the Tri-Nations. Fitness […]