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They were guaranteed "third" position before this round of games and decided to rest 14 of their 15 starters from last week for this game. If they had played a full strength team they would've had every chance of winning last night's game and finishing on 49 points or effectively the 4th highest...

Frans Ludeke has stepped down as coach of the Bulls with immediate effect after last night's game. This applies to both the Super Rugby team and the Currie Cup team. About time! He has continued to persist with an outdated, conservative game plan year after year and has made absolutely no...

Yeah there's no defence for tripping and Benjamin deserves every bit of criticism he gets for that brain snap.

Fair call. You no doubt get equally frustrated with Nick Phipps who does the same thing every week? Not to mention Phipps' repeated calling of "sir! ...sir! ...sir!" at every ruck/maul which actually drowns out the ref's voice at times in the ref mic.

Qwerty rule book or IRB laws? http://www.rugby.com.au/Portals/22/2014 Laws/Laws of the Game 2014.pdf *apologies, originally replied to the wrong post.

Could not disagree more. This has become a rugby tradition and certainly adds to the theatre of the game. I see no reason for it to be removed. I think you'll find that a large majority of players have a great respect for it and I have heard/read about countless opposition players who have said...

Maybe Pulver is worried he too may 'lose the shed' and then he'll have to resign too?

All three of those would have been controversial as none of them are guaranteed starters - and none of them have featured regularly since then. Comes back to the "do you pick your captain first and then your team, or your team first and then your captain" question I guess. Would've been...

I'm gonna take a stab in the dark here and say Ewen. Solely based on the fact that if he had met QC (Quade Cooper) 13 years before 2011, there would've been very little chance that he was no different.

Agree with this whole-heartedly! But once Stephen Moore went down earlier this year, who were the other candidates?

The more interesting thing is how vocal the 'senior' players were in defending this player in the lead up to this game. "He's a great bloke and a great player" - I don't think I have enough fingers and toes to count the number of times I read that or saw it on Fox Sports in the lead up to this...

PB - you keep banging on about Brussouw but IMO he has not been anywhere near the player in the last few seasons that he was when he first came onto the scene in 2009. He seems to have been injured about as much as he has been available in recent times and has barely been a standout at Super...

Another 15+ point win for the AB's this weekend WO? You were pretty vocal about how poor the Boks were leading into the Wellington test. Something about the Boks needing to pray for rain if they didn't want the scoreboard to get ugly?

Finishing 2nd to the AB's in TRC with an equal number if victories and only losing out by 1 bonus point is certainly no disgrace and a big improvement on last year IMO. However, losing to the AB's at home again because we tried to go out and score 4 tries means we have barely improved on last...

Who are Mowen, Moore and Hooper (?) covering in this image? Someone (Hooper) obviously is covering FdP should he decide to go alone, but surely everyone should be sliding over 1 or 2 places? It almost appears that Mowen is signalling that (or maybe that is reading too much into this one still...

PB, I would prefer the Boks to concentrate on winning this game only rather than going out with the idea of trying to score 4 tries. Winning TRC would be a fantastic achievement, but at this stage we should be more concerned with breaking our run of defeats against the AB's, particularly at...

Ha, he looks at him right after! Geez, I'm surprised they don't suspend Jannie for 3 weeks on that evidence alone! I'm not whinging about people bringing it up, and if you actually read my post you would have noticed that I actually said it looked bad. I was, however, 'whinging' about the...

The commentators mentioned that it looked bad, as any hand to the face does. This one is certainly no exception and it looks very bad. However, is there any actual evidence/vision that shows his fingers in Moore's eyes? A lot of screaming of "eye gouge" when none of the camera angles on the...

You really are a muppet Qwerty. Did you watch the Argentinian games? Also, not sure if you noticed but we were actually short of a forward in the scrums for 50 mins against NZ (who have long been considered one of the best scrumming teams in the world)? There was the little BDP vs Dan Carter...

Mowen's take on the news: http://www.foxsports.com.au/rugby/super-rugby/brumbies-captain-ben-mowen-says-family-missing-wallabies-job-led-to-jake-whites-south-africa-return/story-e6frf4qu-1226727311151