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Springboks
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The Rugby Championship – Should We Use Bonus Points?
22 Aug 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
2oceansvibe’s bi-weekly sports columnist, Sean Wilson, has been crunching the numbers. The bonus point numbers to be exact, and whether they serve any relevance.
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SuperSport Commentator Reveals Life Behind The Microphone
16 Aug 2012 by Seth Rotherham / 1 Comment
Springbok test and SuperSport broadcaster Matt Pearce takes on questions including why they never go too hard at the players and if the unwritten rule that only Sproingbok players should ommentate, is fair. Check it out.
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Competition: Castle Lager Is Giving You, The SuperFan, The Opportunity Of A Lifetime! [CLOSED]
08 Aug 2012 by Seth Rotherham / 14 Comments
On 18 August, the Springboks will play Argentina in their opening match of the Castle Lager Rugby Championship (formerly Tri-Nations) at Newlands in Cape Town.
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Bryce Lawrence’s Test Career Is Over!
25 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
The man responsible for recklessly and childishly ending the Sprinkboks’ 2011 Rugby World Cup campaign shall never referee a test match again!
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Things We Learned From The Third Test Against England
27 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
2oceansvibe’s bi-weekly sports columnist, Sean Wilson, gives us the low-down on last weekend’s disappointing international rugby test against England, considers Morne du Plessis kissing one’s sister, gives a heads up to the fickle Port Elizabeth crowd, and fires off a warning to Pat Lambie’s hair stylist. 1. Sometimes Morne du Plessis’s quote about sisters doesn’t cut […]
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Wynand Olivier: Yet Another Chance
21 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 5 Comments
2oceansvibe’s bi-weekly sports columnist, Sean Wilson, puts his judgment hands together and asks just how many chances Wynand Olivier deserves to prove himself at the top level of professional rugby, when Francois Steyn’s statistics – and hair – trump Wynand at every turn. No-one can divide rugby opinion in South Africa quite like Wynand Olivier can. It […]
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Five Things We Learned From The Second Test Against England
19 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 6 Comments
2oceansvibe’s bi-weekly sports columnist, Sean Wilson, gives us the low-down on last weekend’s international rugby test against England, considers a new broadcasting model for SuperSport, and hopes against hope that Frans Steyn’s wedding gets the coverage it deserves in Huisgenoot. 1. Heyneke Meyer really gets into the national anthem We noticed it in the first test, but […]
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Springbok Team: What The Past Coaches Think
08 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Over at Simply Sean, blogger Sean Wilson has written a very cheeky post on what former Sprinbgbok coaches think about Heyneke Meyer’s team selection for his first test in charge on Saturday against England in in Durban. From the absurd utterances of Peter de Villiers to the grumpy racism of Andre Markgraaf, Sean nails it. Here are a […]
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Naas On School Boy Rugby Thuggery: “Remove Them From The Game!”
21 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Former Springbok flyhalf, Naas Botha has spoken out about the behaviour of some rugby players at the school level after an incident in Gauteng this weekend where a fist fight broke out after a second team match between John Vorster Technical High School and Waterkloof High School in Pretoria.
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Former Springbok Solly Tyibilika Killed
14 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Rugby star, Solly Tyibilika was shot dead in a Gugulethu tavern over the weekend. Police say two men entered the premises at around 02h00 on Saturday and started shooting randomly, injuring two other patrons and killing Tyibilika, 32.
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2oceansVibe Radio’s The Bench Live From Caveau On Saturday!
28 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The Bench, 2oceansVibe Radio‘s popular weekly sports and lifestyle show, will be broadcasting live from Caveau in Newlands on Saturday as part of the build-up to the Springboks’ second Tri-Nations Test of the year against the All Blacks. One a debonair and clean cut playboy and the other not, Crispin “Chowgaps” Inglis and Howie Kahn […]
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Review & Interview: The Springboks and the Holy Grail, By Dan Retief
26 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Our literary correspondent, Bruce Manley, got his hands on Dan Retief’s incredibly popular book, The Springboks And The Holy Grail. Click through for a review of the book, and an interview of Dan by Ian F on 2oceansVibe Radio’s Ian F Show.
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Ollie Le Roux Pillories The Springboks
25 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The Springboks can count themselves lucky that this was a massive weekend for news; a weekend which included an international terror event, the death of a user of massive quantities of drugs, and corruption allegations being lead against a certain J. Malema.
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Boks Arrive In Sydney, With No Fanfare
18 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The Springboks customarily receive a flurry of questions from Australian media, and a warm welcome from South African expats, when landing in Sydney. Not so much yesterday, when they arrived at around 8pm local time to be greeted by green and gold wearing…crickets. “Where is everybody?” joked captain John Smit.
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Unite Behind The Boks
13 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
As The Rugby World Cup draws near, an important part of the psychological preparation of any team is knowing that their nation is behind them. And what could be an easier way of showing your love and support in this age of pressurised, desk-bound work than with the combined tools of the the interwebs, and […]
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Joost To Travel To The States For Treatment
27 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Former Springbok captain and scrumhalf, Joost van der Westhuizen, has suffered a setback after the initial treatment prescribed by his doctor, to combat the debilitating nerve disease he was diagnosed with, failed to improve his condition.
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Preliminary 49-Man Springbok Squad Announced
20 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
The preliminary 49-man squad for the 2011 Rugby World Cup has been announced, including 21 players who are previous World Cup winners.
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Bringing Up The Rear
26 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Having covered off flyhalves and loose forwards thus far over the past weeks, Morrey continues to select his Bok world cup squad, position by position. This week’s selection focuses on the back three – best done as a unit as some players can oscillate between wing and fullback.
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Joost Van Der Westhuizen Diagnosed With A Life-Threatening Disease
13 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 25 Comments
Former Springbok captain, Joost van der Westhuizen, has been diagnosed with a life-threatening disease. Van Der Westhuizen was left stunned when his doctors told him that he has a motor neural muscle disease. He was told by his personal physician that there are few options left to him.
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Utter Bull
28 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
While I hate to be negative about sportsmen who are much more talented than I ever was, and try their hardest to perform well, I have to make an exception this week. The Bull’s second half performance on Saturday against a very average Western Force outfit was planlose* to say the least. Worst of all, […]
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At Sixes And Sevens About Our Eight
22 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
Against a backdrop of a 51 man Springbok squad named by the Bok selectors this week, Morrey assesses options at loose forwar,d with a trophy to defend in September.
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P-Div Smack-Talks Sonny Bill
21 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Never one to shy away from saying things that might just come back to bite him, our national rugby coach and orator, Peter de Villiers, has pretty much called Sonny Bill Williams overrated. He’s also said that we’ll have him worked out come the World Cup.
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The Springbok Gets Kicked Off The Front Of The Jersey
29 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 12 Comments
This was not a very difficult prediction to make, but I did kind of predict that this would happen. Our glorious rugby union has seen it fit to move the Springbok emblem off the front of the jersey, and have relegated it to the left sleeve for the World Cup. And today it has been unveiled for an already miserable South African public to see.
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Peter de Villiers – The Definitive Interview
19 Nov 2010 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Springbok coach Peter de Villiers generously made special provision for an interview with 2oceansvibe Radio’s Seth Rotherham and Bruce Good ahead of the test between South Africa and Sotland at Murrayfield on November the 20th. You can listen to all of the high-pitched enthusiasm here, right now.
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Bok Impersonators Ruffle A Few Feathers
18 Nov 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It seems that social media impersonators are creating a bit of discomfort within the Springbok camp. While I’m not sure I have found any that are intended to deceive the public (and media), I did find a rather comical example dedicated to one Bakkies Botha. More after the jump.
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Refining Our Attitude Towards The Springboks
15 Nov 2010 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
It was with a great sense of pride that I watched the Springboks grind out the most narrow of victories against the Welsh on Saturday. While blood streamed down Huw Bennett’s face, the victorious Boks held their exhausted arms aloft. The next time we meet will be in Wellington on September 11 next year. We have a lot to look forward to.
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Springbok Training Session In Cardiff (Photos)
09 Nov 2010 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Following their 23-21 victory against Ireland this weekend, the Springboks enjoyed a rather nippy training session at Glamorgan University on Monday in Cardiff, Wales. Photo by Duif du Toit / Gallo Images Here we see new-born child, Patrick Lambie – showing us what has been making teenage girls all over South Africa tingle in places […]
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Springbok Training Session Gallery
02 Nov 2010 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
We dove deep into the Gallo Images treasure trove and unearthed these stunning pics from the Springbok Training And Media Conference session at Hyde Park High School yesterday. With the amount of flesh and six-packs going around, I think it’s fair to say that this one is for the laydezz!
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New Zealand Herald Tees Up The All Blacks For Epic Fail
01 Oct 2010 by Jasmine Stone / 8 Comments
Jinxed, much? Please, enjoy this photograph of the front page of the New Zealand Herald, dated Wednesday 29 September 2010. That’s unusually arrogant for an agriculturally-based society, isn’t it?
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ANOTHER WORD FOR TWITTER IS “KARMA”
07 Sep 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The legendary fail-whale When you happen to be an Australian Olympic gold medalist swimmer sponsored by an elite care brand, it’s probably not a good idea to talk trash on Twitter. If you’re a naturalised English sportsman that’s suffered a run of poor form in recent times and have since been cut from the national […]
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