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Moerat: Stormers can improve
Stormers lock Salmaan Moerat said that having World Cup-winning players around helps in boosting player confidence and bringing in a winning culture.
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Nkosi misses out as Sharks prepare for tough Highlanders test
Sbu Nkosi has a minor niggle and will miss this game, handing newly-recruited Madosh Tambwe a debut start for the Durban outfit.
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'Dangerous' early start to Super Rugby season sees title favourites win
The competition started for the first time in January on Friday and Brumbies coach Dan McKellar compared the conditions to an oven as temperatures approached 40 degrees Celsius (104° Fahrenheit) during his side’s 27-24 victory over the Reds in Canberra.
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Dobson looking for strong start from Stormers in Super Rugby opener
Wales international Jamie Roberts will make his Stormers debut alongside 10 Springboks named in the matchday squad for the opening Super Rugby round encounter against the Hurricanes at Newlands on Saturday.
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Dobson hails Erasmus in assisting franchises ahead of Super Rugby
The Springboks coach Jacques Nienaber made a stop to the Cape franchise training grounds on Tuesday ahead of Saturday's Super Rugby opener against the Hurricanes at Newlands.
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Stormers 'ready' for the tough Hurricanes
Coach Rito Hlungwani believes the Stormers are capable of doing a good job; insisting the team have a good pack and good exciting backline players.
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Pieter-Steph du Toit: The aim is to give Newlands a proper send-off
Pieter-Steph du Toit believes lifting the trophy would be a great proper send-off as they leave Newlands to Cape Town Stadium next season.
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Dobson: Stormers can't wait to get Super Rugby season under way
The Stormers will kick-off the new season on February 1 against the Hurricanes at Newlands, having concluded their pre-season preparations with a 21-19 win against the Sharks at FNB Stadium on SuperHero Sunday.
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Jamie Roberts: I want to win Super Rugby title with Stormers
Jamie Roberts joined the Stormers for the new Super Rugby season and will play a major role in nurturing the talent around him.
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Lukhanyo Am named Sharks captain for 2020 Super Rugby campaign
As a senior Cell C Sharks player and a World Cup-winning Springbok, he brings strong leadership qualities to the role and is someone that the players look up to because he has both played and achieved at the highest level, particularly for a new team looking for role models.
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Jantjies at the double as Stormers edge the Sharks
The match marked the final warm-up games before the start of the Super Rugby season and signalled the beginning of the domestic rugby season in South Africa.
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Wales centre Jamie Roberts joins Stormers from Bath
Wales and British and Irish Lions legend Roberts will add valuable experience as both a player and mentor for the Stormers in the 2020 Super Rugby season.
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Siya Kolisi says he'll bring winning Bok skills to Stormers
Stormers will kick off the new Super Rugby campaign with the New Zealand outfit the Hurricanes at Newlands in two weeks.
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Sunwolves bag a pair of Springboks for last season in Super Rugby
The Tokyo-based Sunwolves will be cut from Super Rugby after next season, when the competition reverts to a purely southern hemisphere affair of 14 teams in a round-robin format.
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Rugby World Cup winners commit future to Stormers
Siya Kolisi, Pieter-Steph du Toit, Steven Kitshoff, Bongi Mbonambi, Scarra Ntubeni, Frans Malherbe, and Damian Willemse and Dillyn Leyds have all committed signed extensions with the Stormers until 2021.
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Stormers confirm coaching team for 2020 Super Rugby season
Team manager Chippie Solomon, strength and conditioning coach Riefaat Jappie, defence coach Norman Laker and backs coach Dawie Snyman will all continue in their current roles, with forwards coach Rito Hlungwani and skills coach and technical analyst Labeeb Levy being the new additions to the coaching team.
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John Dobson: Super Rugby preparations challenging but going well
Stormers are preparing for the new season under the new coaching technical staff that will be revealed later this month - early December.
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Lions in talks with former Bok prop Jannie du Plessis
Du Plessis, who won the 2007 Rugby World Cup, also played 119 Super Rugby games for the Sharks between 2008 and 2015, having started his career at the Cheetahs in 2003.
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Winger Kobus van Wyk joins Hurricanes from the Sharks
Kobus van Wyk heads to Wellington after featuring for the Sharks for the last three Super Rugby seasons.
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Van Rooyen named new Lions coach
Ivan van Rooyen takes over the reins from Swys de Bruin who joined the Southern Kings as a consultant after parting ways with the Johannesburg franchise earlier this year.
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Brumbies coach McKellar says not ready for Wallabies job
Dan McKellar guided the Brumbies into the Super Rugby playoffs last season and Australian media had touted him as the leading local candidate to take over from Michael Cheika.
