Tag: rugby season

Currie Cup still has a kick

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12-08-2012 Cape Town - The Currie Cup is like the boxer who takes a terrible pounding but, fuelled by astonishing levels of pride, simply refuses to crash to the canvas. Why, we may have seen just enough quality in the first round of the compressed, increasingly marginalised 2012 competition to suggest that

Brumbies win final trial over ACT XV

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February 18, 2012 The Brumbies will start the Super Rugby season on a positive after winning their final trial in emphatic fashion over an ACT XV on Thursday. An under-strength Brumbies outfit started slowly at Canberra's Greenway Oval, but managed to extend a 24-0 halftime lead to finish up comprehensive 66-0 victors. But

Hurricanes rookie Shields hopes hype will help

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Pick up a rugby magazine in any of the Super Rugby countries - any one will do - and look who they've chosen as one of the rising stars of this season and you'll be hard pushed not to find Brad Shield's name on the list. The rookie Hurricanes loose forward