Oh dear, not again

He’s gone and done it again. Springbok coach Peter ‘the clown’ de Villiers is back in the gun, this time for publicly supporting Jacobus ‘Bees’ Roux, the Bulls prop accused of murdering a Pretoria policeman.

Paranoid? No. It’s just that everyone is against us…

The news that South Africa is considering breaking away from SANZAR, the body which manages the complex rugby relationships between South African, New Zealand and Australian rugby, will surprise few. We examine the Boks' apparent paranoia and conclude that there are definitely two sides to this story.

It’s war says SARU President

“A winning Bok coach is a superman; a losing Bok coach a clown, I’ve learned to take both with a pinch of salt." Which is it for Boks coach Peter de Villiers?

De Villiers safe, for now

The South African Rugby Board has today said it has confidence that its beleaguered Springbok rugby coach Peter de Villiers can get things back on track after his team’s three successive defeats in the opening TRI-nations matches against New Zealand and Australia. But in sport we all know what the dreaded vote of confidence can come to mean.

Not so happy hooker

Former Wallabies hooker Brendan Cannon has been mortared after describing Springbok coach Peter de Villiers on Australian television’s Fox Sports as a clown and implying he was a puppet. Read on to see who might be pulling the strings.

Twenty20 rugby crash tackled into touch

Plans to introduce a new, shortened form of rugby from 2012 appear to have been crash-tackled even before making the field after failing to muster support from either the International Rugby Board or SANZAR, the governing body for South African, New Zealand and Australian rugby.

Now it’s real – The Cup truly is coming home

13 venues, each representing a very different element of New Zealand, will host matches during the 2011 World Cup. With the draw announced, it’s game on. The Cup is Coming Home and, we predict, it looks like it just might be staying...