South Africa’s players and coaches are taking nothing for granted ahead of Saturday’s match with Scotland.
SA wing Bryan Habana has been ruled out of the remaining Tests of the world champions’ tour after suffering a hand injury in practice on Tuesday.
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Wales began their defence of the Six Nations title with four tries in an emphatic 26-13 win over Scotland at Murrayfield on Sunday.
Excitement about the potential of Brazil as a massive new source of oil and gas intensified on Tuesday after a senior Energy Ministry official declared that the newly found Carioca field could have 33-billion barrels in place — leading to expressions of surprise and scepticism from industry experts.
On the day Jonny Wilkinson set a world points record, the England flyhalf was upstaged by opposite number Chris Paterson in Scotland’s upset 15-9 victory at Murrayfield on Saturday. Paterson, a metronome-like place kicker, is on a remarkable run of 30 successful penalties and conversions in a row dating back to the 2007 World Cup.
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In the measured tones of the schoolmaster he once was, New Zealand coach Graham Henry gave his half-term assessment of the All Blacks on Sunday evening. ”We are pretty happy really,” Henry told a news conference after his team had defeated Scotland 40-0 at Murrayfield.
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Doug Howlett became the leading try-scorer in All Blacks history as New Zealand strolled into the World Cup quarterfinals with a 40-0 demolition of Scotland at Murrayfield on Sunday. The 29-year-old wing claimed two of the six tries scored by the tournament favourites.
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Scotland sidestepped a potential banana skin with a clinical 42-0 victory over Romania in their World Cup Pool C match at Murrayfield on Tuesday. The Scots executed their game plan to near-perfection and largely kept the ball away from the Romanians’ ferocious pack.
South Africa ran in three first-half tries on their way to a morale-boosting 27-3 World Cup warm-up win over Scotland at Murrayfield on Saturday. The Scots had dominated in the opening quarter only to be floored by a burst of three Springbok tries in six dramatic minutes.
Scotland coach Frank Hadden has told his World Cup aspirants to prepare for the most physically taxing match of their careers when they square up to the Springboks at Murrayfield on Saturday in the final tournament warm-up outing for both sides. The encounter is billed as a ”friendly”, however Hadden laughed off the notion that the teams would merely be going through the motions.
Scotland ran in five tries but had to repel Ireland’s second-half fightback to win 31-21 in their World Cup warm-up at Murrayfield on Saturday. Scotland led 19-6 at half-time with tries from Ally Hogg, Andy Henderson and Euan Murray, Ireland replying with two penalties from Paddy Wallace.
Edinburgh University stripped Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe on Wednesday of his honourary degree after reviewing evidence of a tribal massacre soon after he took power. The decision by the university’s Senate comes after years of campaigning by students and Scottish lawmakers.
She’s as much an emblem — and a tourist draw — as tartan, bagpipes and shortbread. And now Nessie’s back. An amateur scientist has captured what Loch Ness monster watchers say is among the finest footage taken to date of the elusive mythical creature reputed to swim beneath the waters of Scotland’s most mysterious lake.
Ireland’s 19-18 win over Scotland, their third Triple Crown triumph, in four years was overshadowed on Saturday by a row over an alleged choking assault on flyhalf Ronan O’Gara. Ireland coach Eddie O’Sullivan claimed after the match that an unidentified Scots player had left O’Gara blue in the face and close to losing consciousness.
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/ 19 November 2006
Scotland outgunned the Pacific Islanders 34-22 at Murrayfield on Saturday but they weren’t in any mood for a party at the final whistle. The triumph was soured by two more serious-looking injuries in the build-up to the Six Nations Championship and the World Cup.
Prudence and Polly the pigeons are blissfully unaware that they are at the centre of the latest political storm to hit Scotland’s Parliament. The birds go about their business of pecking and eating in their nest in the canopy above the main entrance of the iconic building in Scotland’s capital.
”Is it time to wash our hands of the country and find a stable life somewhere else?” The question in Girl Blog from Iraq was posted only last weekend by an anonymous young Iraqi woman whose weblog has now been adapted into a theatrical documentary at the Edinburgh Fringe arts festival.
Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka told Western newspaper editors on Monday to stop generalising about Africa and concentrate more on the continent’s success stories. Issues of real concern, such as Western poaching of Africa’s best and brightest talent, were being overlooked as the world’s media focused on wars and poverty, she told the annual world congress of the International Press Institute.
South Africa’s Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka on Monday told Western newspaper editors to stop generalising about Africa and concentrate more on the continent’s success stories. Issues of real concern, such as Western poaching of Africa’s best and brightest talent, were being overlooked as the world’s media focused on wars and poverty.
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/ 25 November 2005
With the weather forecasters anticipating the coldest weekend in Edinburgh in a decade, Scotland must hope the All Blacks also freeze at Murrayfield on Saturday. A 3-0 series win over the British and Irish Lions in June and July and a Tri-Nations title had established Graham Henry’s squad as the pre-eminent force in world rugby long before they touched down in Cardiff at the end of last month.
Harry Potter is ready to cast a spell over the book industry this weekend, as the sixth volume in the boy-wizard series looks set to become the world’s biggest-selling novel as soon as it goes on sale. In South Africa, the price for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is set to range from R129 to R249 a copy.
Leaders of the world’s Group of Eight (G8) top industrial nations on Friday wrapped up three days of talks overshadowed by the London terror attacks with a joint vow to fight terrorism. G8 leaders also made pledges on extra development aid and urgent measures to combat global warming.
Police cancelled a planned protest march on Wednesday outside the Group of Eight (G8) summit after demonstrators smashed car windows, threw rocks and tried to blockade one of the main approach roads to the exclusive Gleneagles resort hosting the summit.
Live 8 organiser Bob Geldof, heading to Scotland on Tuesday, said it would be ”grotesquely irresponsible” for politicians to back down from promises of aid for Africa. But Britain’s Treasury chief Gordon Brown warned that anti-poverty campaigners may be disappointed when G8 leaders announce their package of aid to Africa.