Saracens fullback Brent Russell gets flattened here by Bath’s 6’7″ left wing Matt Banahan.

All blacks host Zinedine Zidane to a day of kicking practice with Daniel Carter

Sitiveni Sivivatu scored a classical All Black try in this encounter with the British and Irish Lions tour to New Zealand in 2005. Aaron Mauger broke the Lion’s line and offloaded excellently to the supporting Tana Umaga, who then threw the perfect long pass out to Sivivatu, who stepped inside to finish superbly.

New Zealand delivered a memorable HAKA against Wales. At the end of the HAKA neither the Welsh or the New Zealanders backed off with the two teams sizing each other up creating a tense atmosphere! Referee Jonathan Kaplan had to separate the two teams by speaking to the captains. Here’s the video – press play

Vodacom Western Province stumbled and fumbled their way to a 9-3 (halftime 6-0) victory over the Free State Cheetahs in a dreary ABSA Currie Cup match in Cape Town on Saturday afternoon.Persistent rain earlier in the day made for waterlogged conditions and sporadic showers during the match only added to the tally of handling errors.

Flyhalf Willem de Waal again carried the load for Western Province, scoring all his team’s points with three successful penalty-kicks. The Cheetahs managed to goal a single penalty in three attempts by flyhalf Chris Rossouw.

The highlight of a tiresome match was the home team’s accurate lineout, as Western Province won 14 of 18 attempts at the set piece. The Cheetahs only claimed six of their 10 lineout throws, thanks in most part to the spoiling work of WP locks Ross Skeate and Adriaan Fondse.

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