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United Rugby Championship

Stormers too strong for Bulls to reach semi-finals

By PA
Manie Libbok - Getty Images

A dominant performance from champions Stormers set up a United Rugby Championship semi-final with Connacht after a 33-21 victory over the Bulls in front of 46,888 in Cape Town.

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The Stormers enjoyed the majority of possession and crossed for tries from Hacjivah Dayimani, Leolin Zas and Angel Davids, with Manie Libbok kicking all seven shots at goal for a personal haul of 18 points to take his tally for the season to 185.

Cyle Brink, Embrose Papier and Bismarck du Plessis crossed for the outclassed visitors with Johan Goosen adding a conversion and Chris Smith two.

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CT 8 minutes ago
Springbok lock Eben Etzebeth ban for 'intentional' foul play confirmed

To all the raging screen warriors take a break relax nobody cares about your diatribe

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CT 12 minutes ago
Springbok lock Eben Etzebeth ban for 'intentional' foul play confirmed

As you aren't on the committee that made the decision your opinion is irrelevant

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Lou Cifer 26 minutes ago
We are at peak 'Bok-flation' in this Rugby World Cup cycle

How can you say “their opposition is just so poor at the moment” when rugby between the top 5 or 6 teams hasn’t ever been so tight like it has been over the last few years. Also, the competition one could rightly argue for the 2010 to 2018 ABs….was extremely poor😉 This is arguably the toughest period to be the best team in the world imo.

Having said all that, the ABs team from 2011 - 2015 or 2010 - 2018 or whatever you want to call it are still the GOATs. I and many others personally feel that the Boks can only overtake them if they do the 3-peat🤞



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fl 28 minutes ago
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well if there’s two of them jostling for a single position they’re not set in stone are they!

Tom Curry was also a 2025 Lion, and is shunted between 6 and 7. Elliot Daly was a 2025 (and 2021, and 2017) Lion, but has never had one position nailed down. Being a Lion doesn’t mean you have to play the same position every match.



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Tiger 29 minutes ago
What written judgement said about Alex Mann's role in gouging saga

No doubt Eben deserved his 12 week sentence for going anywhere near the eye, but all the journalistic hysteria about eye gouging did not help. Definition: “To make a deep dent or hole in something”. One would have thought that photos of Mann's shredded black and blue eye would have surfaced by now and have been used in aggravation of sentence?

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SteveD 51 minutes ago
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Huge apologies to the sheep. I understand from many many kiwis that they’re really rather nice, if you know what I mean…

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CO 1 hour ago
Everyone knows Robertson is not supposed to be doing the coaching

Hansen or Robertson gone? I'm fine with both exiting as the results been cataclysmically terrible, even in Fosters darkest days were we handed our ass in a sling by the Boks.

Who is CC?



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Ben 1 hour ago
Bok superstar may exit South African rugby with giant offer tabled

When a story sows unease about an unnamed person doing something that, if it were true, would upset you, and there's a picture of two or several people, you can know for sure without reading that 1. The suggested upset is greatly exaggerated and a massive stretch of the definition of said upset, and 2. Given that it is not that much of an upset at all, it could be in reference to either or any of the people pictured, and you wouldn't care, but 3. It is probably about the person you'd care less about, if they were to do it.

Other clickbait formulae that make me sick are “Xyz person gives blunt verdict on Abc person” or “Xyz person hits out at / back at Abc person”.



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NB 1 hour ago
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So you’re saying two unproven Test novices in Atkinson or Ojomoh are set in stone but a 2025 Lion in Tommy Freeman is going to be shunted around between three diff spots??

That makes no sense at all.



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JO 1 hour ago
We are at peak 'Bok-flation' in this Rugby World Cup cycle

Bok Flation? You need to go back to being a financial analyst and auditor. Leave rugby alone. Please. Do us all that favour.

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NB 1 hour ago
How England are building the foundations for World Cup success in 2027

Before he got injured he won 13 caps at 12. He was in the team at 12 with Slade at 13. That was the ‘status quo’.

When Eng scored their decisive try v NZ he swapped into 12 to provide the scoring pass for Dingwall.



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NB 1 hour ago
How England are building the foundations for World Cup success in 2027

When Marler and Cole were propping together in the second half the Eng scrum started moving forwards again, so I think the key was picking those two plus Jamie George to start.

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NB 1 hour ago
How England are building the foundations for World Cup success in 2027

Francois Louw is prob another who could start at 8 in the modern game, a bit like Marcell Coetzee. Strong enough to carry but also a lot of ‘seven dog’ in em.

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NB 1 hour ago
How England are building the foundations for World Cup success in 2027

All those RL type sprints back into position after a tackle??😅

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NB 1 hour ago
How England are building the foundations for World Cup success in 2027

All that’s missing is the Aussie beer!

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NB 1 hour ago
How England are building the foundations for World Cup success in 2027

Yeah I forgot Cozza started at Bris and I remember Pete Stiff. He’d prob be playing prop now like John Orwin!

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NB 1 hour ago
How England are building the foundations for World Cup success in 2027

Max Malins is another guy with a high ceiling who we have prob never seen the best of in an Eng jersey, he might yet get more time at 15 as he has a lot of the same qualities as George Furbank.

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NB 1 hour ago
How England are building the foundations for World Cup success in 2027

I think TC is competing at 6 in the current format with Guy Pepper and Jack Kenningham. Underhill and Ben Curry are pure 7s cos hey don’t have any lineout value. Earl at 8 cos he is by far the best carrier.

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JW 1 hour ago
Everyone knows Robertson is not supposed to be doing the coaching

Yeah it’s not actually that I’m against the idea this is not good enough, I just don’t know whos responsible for the appalling selections, whether the game plan will work, whether it hasn’t worked because Razor has had too much input or too little input, and whether were better or worse for the coachs not making it work against themselves.

I think that’s the more common outlook rather than people panicking mate, I think they just want something to happen and that needs an outlet. For instance, yes, we were still far too good for most in even weaker areas like the scrum, but it’s the delay in the coaches seemingly admitting that it’s been dissapoint. How can they not see DURING THE GAME it didn’t go right and say it? What are they scared of? Do they think the estimation of the All Blacks will go down in peoples minds? And of course thats not a problem if it weren’t for the fact they don’t do any better the next game! And then they finally seem to see and things get better. I’ve had endless discussions with Chicken about what’s happening at half time, and the lack of any real change. That problem is momentum is consistent with their being NO progress through the year. The team does not improve. The lineout is improved and is good. The scrum is weak and stays weak. The misfires and stays misfiring. When is the new structure following Lancasters Leinster going to click?



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NB 1 hour ago
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So who is the ‘1’? Marcus??

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