Ben Karpinski: The trouble with making rugby players our role models
As much as we look up to sporting stars as role models, we need to remember that they are human too, and the pressures on them are already great enough.
As much as we look up to sporting stars as role models, we need to remember that they are human too, and the pressures on them are already great enough.
England head coach Eddie Jones has named a 34-man squad to tour South Africa for a three-Test series in June.
Kagoshima City will host the Springboks’ pre-tournament holding camp for the Rugby World Cup 2019 in Japan, the City and SA Rugby confirmed.
The Springbok Sevens team will be without key forwards Kyle Brown and Tim Agaba when they re-assemble for the final two tournaments of the 2017/18 HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series.
It was a costly weekend for the Springbok Sevens, who dropped to second place behind Fiji in the 2017/18 World Rugby Sevens Series standings after finishing fourth in Singapore.
The 34-year-old Bryan Habana, the second-most-capped Springbok of all time with 124 Test caps, announced that he will hang up his boots later this year.
Kyle Brown, the second most-capped Springbok Sevens player of all time, will lead an exciting Blitzbok squad to Singapore this weekend for the eighth tournament of the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series.
Can we assume Erasmus hasn’t seen anything that impresses him from the two franchises? Apart from the Cheetahs’ Ox Nche, who’ll be joining the Sharks camp next weekend.
Fifteen Cell C Sharks players, including the uncapped Sbu Nkosi, Andre Esterhuizen, Robert du Preez, Cameron Wright, Thomas du Toit and Akker van der Merwe, have been invited to the third and final Springbok alignment camp, in Durban from 22 to 25 April.
The Springbok Sevens team missed out on a podium finish at the Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia and have now set their sights on the remaining two objectives they aim to achieve this season.