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Women's Super League 1: Daisies and Boland lock in Final spots

NORTHAMPTON, ENGLAND - AUGUST 24: Aseza Hele of South Africa carries the ball during the Women's Rugby World Cup 2025 Pool D match between South Africa and Brazil at Franklin's Gardens on August 24, 2025 in Northampton, England. (Photo by Paul Harding/Getty Images)
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In the seventh and final round of Pick n Pay Women’s Super League 1 action the Bulls Daisies and Boland Dames secured places in the competition’s Final.

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Next Saturday the two teams will meet at Loftus Versfeld for a winner-takes-all clash. It will be Boland’s first ever appearance in a top tier provincial decider.

The Daisies were in a typically dominant mood in Pretoria as the side nearly racked up another century of points. In total the side crossed the whitewash on 16 occasions over the course of 80 minutes to beat the Golden Lions Women 95-5.

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This included a quartet of tries for Thobile Msizazwe and braces for Camelitha Malone and Shaunique Alexander. Zintle Mpupha, Doreen Mkhabela, Faith Tshauke, Sizophila Solontsi, Vainah Ubisi, Lebogang Ralebona, Naima Hlatshwayo and Xolelwa Diliza were also try scorers in the fixture.

To lock up second place and a trip to the Highveld next weekend, Boland beat Sharks Women 32-22 in Durban on Friday night.

It was a contest in which the visitors had to dig deep against a Sharks team that have played with increasing confidence with each passing weekend.

Aseza Hele registered her sixth try of the season in the victory and Rufaro Tagarira crossed the whitewash twice in the attritional affair.

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East London’s Police Park was the venue of Free State Women’s 41-24 win over Border Ladies. At the break the scores were level at 17-all as little could separate the two teams.

It was Free State’s second half dominance which handed them another five points and seventh-place in the overall standings.

The weekend’s final game saw Western Province beat the EP Queens 42-17 at Otto du Plessis High School.

Anelisiwe Mxabo was Western Province’s undisputed star and scored a hat-trick in a powerful display from the flanker.

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There were also tries for the visitors’ Sinazo Mcatshulwa, Raeeqah Hendricks, Alichia Arries, Logan Welman and Faith Gosling in the clash.

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Drew 1 hour ago
'The phoney war on the Greatest Rivalry tour is already gale-force in its intensity.'

The SA v Argentina game had more than 40min ball in play, so if thats the metric SA are doing pretty well. I take issue with all of the people who claim that Kiwi style “attacking rugby” is the only way forward and that refs must be harsh on slowing the ball down. Do you mean to suggest that the ABs don’t try to slow opposition ball down at ruck time? Of course they do. All teams do. Do you think South Africa really wants slow rucks? No we dont. We also know that quick ball creates openings. Its rugby 101. We just think that fast rucks is not the single and only important aspect of rugby and that if the ruck is already slow theres nothing wrong with taking a few extra seconds to setup for a good tactical kick or exit. There are also scrums, mauls, lineouts, tactical kicking, side steps and passing etc that are important. We also like to attack whether we have the ball or dont have the ball. Does that make us negative? I don’t think so. Our fast line speed and aggressive defence is a great weapon and a great thing to watch. It actually creates opportunities for high skill teams like NZ which makes for an intriguing contest. Its also funny that the people who call SA rugby negative and want us penalized for competing in the air, saying we are not really trying to catch it, and who want us to not get penalties from collapsed scrums, are the same people who complained that if we maul it over the line and its held up they should get a “get out of jail” dropout instead of having to go to another “boring” defensive scrum, the same people that complained that just because they were going backwards in the maul, if it collapsed and the ball doesn’t come out they should get the put in, the same people who complained that we shouldn’t be allowed to scrum from a free kick, and that failed attempted intercepts should be yellow cards. You are the people that are responsible for some of the most ridiculous laws in our game and the hours of TMO time wasted reviewing whether a knock on was “deliberate”, something that is impossible to impartially determine unless you can read minds. So before you complain about some aspect of the game in which you are inferior, rethink what you are wishing for, because it might just turn rugby union into rugby league. Honestly I think Dave Rennie would like that. The All Black style seems to be a lot like league.

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