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The upcoming Stormers URC season has hit a bit of a speedbump with news that the team won’t be able to play all of its matches at Cape Town Stadium.
Hacjivah Dayimani’s post-URC final party has become the stuff of legend. What many people don’t know is that he had far more to celebrate than simply a winner’s medal.
Stormers loose forward Hacjivah Dayimani has celebrated his team’s URC success with days and days of full-kit revelry.
If New York-based MVM Holdings gets its way, then the Stormers could soon have a new majority shareholder.
The Bulls are playing a far more open and attractive brand of rugby this season. Alan Zondagh, the union’s Director of Rugby, says that they’re winning over the Cape.
There is big trouble within the Stormers camp at the moment, with Siya Kolisi and his players deeply unhappy with the decisions taken by the WPRU.
WP Rugby president, Thelo Wakefield, has hit back at the former Springbok captain for criticising the union’s top dogs. Read his response here.
Schalk Burger is more than a crowd favourite at Newlands, he is a folk hero. Now, as he readies himself for his final hurrah, he looks back at his career.
As the quarter-finals loom large for coach Fleck and his Stormers, the man at the helm is determined to take things one step at a time.
It looks like it’s only a matter of time before we receive official confirmation that Eddie Jones is leaving the Stormers. The Poms and their pounds.
Bonnie Tyler spent the eighties searching for a hero, for a streetwise Hercules on his fiery steed. She held out long into the morning light. Enrique Iglesias offered his services, but all too late.
Female spectator gets knocked to the ground as she attempts to intervene a fight taking place in the stands at Newlands Stadium for the Stormers v Crusaders match.
This last Saturday, the Stormers lost their Super Rugby fixture to a visiting Crusaders side 14-19 in a tightly contested battle. But it wasn’t the loss that irked injured Stormers wing and international rugby icon, Bryan Habana most that evening. A number of local residents dubbed the Cape Crusaders who have made a tradition out of […]
2oceansvibe’s bi-weekly sports columnist, Sean Wilson, mulls over the important aspects of this weekend’s upcoming Super 15 semi-final between the Stormers and the Sharks.
Sharks player Tendai Mtawarira is well-known in the rugby world as “Beast”, for obvious reasons. However, the marvelous brute is quickly earning international cult status for an immense feat of strength following a weekend clash with the Stormers. Click through for the details and amazing video.
All Blacks star, and one of the most well known rugby players in the world at the moment, Sonny Bill Williams, wants to make Cape Town his home. His agent, who is currently in Cape Town, said Sonny is ready to discuss a possible contract with the Stormers. He could also climb into the boxing ring here as soon as November.
It’s as simple as that, gang. I just looked at SA’s hottest sports betting site (here) and they are giving 20 to 1 odds, if Stormers draw first blood with a drop goal against the Sharks on Saturday (SUPER 15). Do you realise how easy it is for that to happen? Shit, I might even […]
The 2011 edition of the SA Rugby Awards will be held tomorrow night and one of the most hotly contested categories this year is Team of the Year. Among the nominees are newly crowned Currie Cup champions the Golden Lions, and UCT’s highly successful Ikey Tigers. The Stormers’ nomination adds to a strong Western Cape interest factor.
As a stormers fan, one can hardly be upset by last Saturday’s shellacking at The hands of New Zealand’s finest. For starters they were so vastly superior in every facet of the game that you could hardly hold it against them. They played rugby that was a joy to watch, they were infinitely more physical than us and they had an ingredient in spade loads that we seemed to lack, that is that “they started with the why”.
What made the Stormers loss to the Crusaders at Newlands on Saturday most disappointing was the fact that the Cape Town boys played most of the rugby. And in the second half we had two golden opportunities to win the game but were let down by the little things. Click link for more.
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.
It’s week 8 of Super Rugby 2011 and there are six games available for your viewing pleasure this weekend. Our Blokes on the couch have previewed each game for you, highlighting the key areas of each match and discussing the team selections and various other points of contention. And then there’s the live commentary. Follow link […]
Incredible scenes this Saturday morning on 2oceansvibe Radio, as we witnessed what must be a world first. Our Super Saturday sports presenters, Crispin Inglis and Howie Kahn, were giving away a Stormers rugby jersey. Listeners could win the jersey if they got a famous person to retweet their tweet. Follow link to see the result..
Do you remember the 2010 Currie Cup semi-final between the Bulls and the Sharks? If you didn’t watch it, you may remember it as the game that was interrupted by bees. In the fifteen minutes that we waited for the bees to be cleared, we were subjected to a deluge of puns, which grew significantly […]
If you’re a rugby fan in Cape Town, and you haven’t heard of the Neo Africa Tri-Series, then you’ve been missing a trick. This year’s Tri-Series is the second of the annual event, designed to test the mettle of three local Super Rugby teams prior to the kick off of the Super 15. This year, […]
Yes, ladies and gents, the great rugby machine that is South Africa is about to wake from its festive slumber, and it’s keen to begin stretching those butt-kicking muscles. You guessed it, it’s almost Super Rugby time. And Super Rugby team of course means it’s warm up game time. But since we’ve gotten used to winning, […]