7:43 PM BST KweseESPN Staff The Springboks will face England with a greenhorn at scrumhalf after coach Rassie Erasmus confirmed that Faf de Klerk will not play a part in South Africa’s opening match of their November tour on Saturday. The England-based Faf de Klerk will miss the Test at Twickenham because it falls outside
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1:25 PM BST The Southern Kings have added scrumhalf Stefan Ungerer and prop NJ Ooshuizen to their squad for the remainder of the PRO14 season, the union confirmed on Monday. The pair will go straight into contention for the weekend, when the Kings host Irish side Leinster at the Nelson Mandela University’s Madibaz Stadium on
1:30 PM BST Saracens hooker Christopher Tolofua has singed a three-year deal with Toulon, the French club announced on Monday. Tolofua, who has been capped by France seven times since making his debut in 2012, is in his second season at Saracens having joined in 2017 following seven seasons at Toulouse. He has made five
1:07 AM BST All Blacks coach Steve Hansen is calling for an overhauled rugby calendar which allows an offseason break of up to four months for Test players. With World Rugby considering how Test rugby will be structured from 2020, veteran coach Hansen has weighed in with the need to put player welfare first. He
3:28 PM BST Former Wasps winger Christian Wade has announced that he intends to pursue a new career in the NFL. Wade, 27, announced earlier this week that he was retiring from rugby amid reports that he planned to join the league’s International Player Pathway. Former rugby players Alex Gray and Christian Scotland-Williamson have already
1:30 AM BST An exasperated coach Michael Cheika has lashed Tolu Latu for his brain-snap slap in the face of All Blacks counterpart Codie Taylor that reduced Australia to 14 men, but the replacement hooker wasn’t the only player in the firing line after an afternoon of missed opportunities in Yokohama. French referee Romain Poite
6:41 PM BST KweséESPN Staff Rassie Erasmus has included three uncapped players in his touring squad for the Springbok’s European tour, including Western Province flier Sergeal Petersen. The other two uncapped players are Petersen’s teammates Ruhan Nel and JD Schickerling, whille Japan-based Gio Aplon and one-capped Louis Schreuder also earned recalls. The squad has also
5:49 PM BST KweséESPN Staff The Sharks upset the previously unbeaten Western Province 17-12 in the Currie Cup final at Newlands on Saturday afternoon. For the second consecutive year the world’s oldest domestic rugby competition was won by the away team as the travelling Sharks avenged last year’s loss in Durban to the same opposition.
12:54 PM BST Courtney Lawes has left England’s autumn international training camp in Portugal because of a back injury, the Rugby Football Union confirmed on Saturday. Lawes has returned home from the camp in Vilamoura to undergo treatment on a pre-existing back injury but is expected to return to the squad next week. He now
2:45 PM BST CAPE TOWN — After six years in the international wilderness, Gio Aplon is returning to the Springboks setup at the tender age of 36. Springboks coach Rassie Erasmus confirmed on Friday that the fleet-footed fullback/wing had been included in the squad for South Africa’s tour to the United Kingdom and France. Aplon,