Devin Hermanus

Watch: No regrets for ‘Doc’ Pollard

Springbok star Handre Pollard opens up on him not studying medicine, and how he realised playing professional rugby instead was never a choice but a calling.

Woodward: France to send Boks home

Clive Woodward predicts that all four World Cup semi-finalists will be Six Nations teams, and expects France to triumph in a close contest with defending champs, South Africa.

SA playmaker on Bok flyhalf poser

Warrick Gelant says Handre Pollard and Manie Libbok are “strong personalities” who see and play the game differently, but are both capable match-winners for the Boks at No 10.

Boks braced for Les Bleus scrum battle

Assistant coach Daan Human and prop Trevor Nyakane are ready for set-piece warfare when the Springboks and France tussle in Sunday’s World Cup quarter-final in Paris.

Aussie media rues ‘cruel’ Wallabies exit

Australian media rued their team’s “cruellest” exit from the World Cup on Sunday after Fiji squeezed past the Wallabies to reach the quarter-finals, despite a shock loss to Portugal.

Wiese fired up for French collision

Springbok No 8 Jasper Wiese is embracing the challenge of a do-or-die clash with World Cup hosts France in the last of four quarter-finals of the 2023 edition on Sunday.

Argentina coach Michael Cheika at the Stade de la Beaujoire in Nantes Photo: Damien Meyer/ AFP

Cheika: Pumas mindset will change

Coach Michael Cheika said a weight of expectation would force Argentina to change their mentality going into next weekend’s World Cup quarter-final against Wales.

Wales thump Georgia to qualify top

Louis Rees-Zammit scored a second-half hat-trick of tries to help Wales claim a resounding win over Georgia in Nantes on Saturday to finish top of World Cup Pool C.

Boks embrace their fate in France

Vincent Koch says the Boks have been preparing as though they would play in the World Cup quarter-finals, despite having to wait on the Ireland-versus-Scotland clash.

Gatland lauds north’s RWC dominance

Warren Gatland is thrilled by the potential shift in power at the World Cup, as all four pool winners could come from the northern hemisphere for the first time in its history.