Topic: Tri Nations Series
Ireland's upset win over Australia at the weekend has confounded predictions at the World Cup and given an entirely new look to the potential quarter-final lineups.The expectations had been that the newly-crowned Tri-Nations champion Wallabies would comfortably top Pool C ...
Coach Declan Kidney prefers historians to debate whether Ireland's heart-pumping World Cup victory over Australia was its greatest but he says it was nice to finally get one over the Wallabies.The redoubtable men in green produced one of their most ...
The phony battles ahead of the Rugby World Cup are over and the psychological war has begun after back-to-back losses by the All Blacks in a top-three upheaval blurred the tournament landscape.With the warm-up games out of the way, teams began ...
Australia head into Saturday's Tri-Nations decider bidding to end a 10-year title drought in the tournament, while opponents New Zealand are looking to return to winning ways ahead of next month's World Cup.The Wallabies have not lifted the southern ...
Coach Peter de Villiers said Wednesday that injury-hit South Africa would be at full strength when they start their Rugby World Cup title defence on September 11 against Wales.Loose forwards Juan Smith and Duane Vermeulen and lock Andries Bekker have been ...
The Wallabies' three most exciting backline stars engaged in a drunken brawl in Paris last November, it was alleged on Monday, threatening to disrupt Australia's Rugby World Cup campaign.Television reports said that James O'Connor and Wallabies playmaker Quade Cooper ...
South Africa will be under pressure to show that their Rugby World Cup planning is on track when they meet New Zealand in a Tri-Nations Test at Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium Saturday.The match comes just three days before both countries announce ...
The Australian Rugby Board threw its support behind Wallabies coach Robbie Deans just ahead of the World Cup by extending his contract for another two years.Coming on the back of Australia's hard-fought 14-9 Tri-Nations win over South Africa in Durban ...
South Africa have added Jacques Nienaber to the coaching staff ahead of two home Tri-Nations Tests and the Rugby World Cup title defence in New Zealand.A South African Rugby Union statement said 38-year-old defence expert Nienaber had been freed by Western ...
Flanker Heinrich Brussow has been added to the South Africa squad for home Tri-Nations Tests this month against Australia and New Zealand.The Free State Cheetahs open-side loose forward, who has barely played during the past 18 months because of various injuries ...
