Articles tagged ‘Wallabies’

What’s Happening in the Tri-Nations?

By Ben | August 20th, 2006 | Add a Comment »

Your Correspondent has been gone for so long (OK, just a week), that he feels as though the Tri Nations should be over by now. And look - it is! To every South African’s relief, no doubt. Now we have what amounts to a two-test home series against New Zealand (who thumped the Boks and [...]

 

Springboks Escape Utter Humiliation This Time

By Ben | July 22nd, 2006 | Add a Comment »

South Africa’s Springboks, last week’s sorry excuse for a rugby team (they lost their first Tri Nations test match, against Australia, 49-0, in one of their worst defeats ever), magically morphed into this week’s reasonably-perky union footballers, falling to a far-superior All Blacks side in Wellington by just a whisker less than half their opponent’s [...]