Tag: rugby
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Homeground advantage: All Blacks have the unique ability to upend Springboks on home turf
The two upcoming Rugby Championship tests against the All Blacks will both be played in South Africa. Does this give the Springboks an advantage? We homed in on the stats and discovered that the Boks’ dogged ability to win when it counts most is matched by New Zealand’s confounding ability to dominate South Africa on…
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990 caps: South Africa’s most-experienced XV to take on the Irish
The most-experienced team in Springbok history will take on the Irish in Durban on Saturday, 13 July. South Africa’s starting XV has a total of 990 combined test caps among them. This is three more than the run-on team that played in the Rugby World Cup final in France last year. Between them, they have…
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Safa fails to capitalise on enormous pool of school football talent
This is despite the fact one in three public schools have football facilities, second only to netball.