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PRO 14CheetahsMunster

Munster the latest victms of a Cheetahs' mauling

Cheetahs coach Franco Smith (Photo by Ben Evans/Huw Evans Agency/Gallo Images/Getty Images)

The Cheetahs maintained their perfect start to the Guinness PRO14 with a comfortable 40-16 victory over Munster in Bloemfontein.

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The hosts ran in six tries as they secured a third straight win and inflicted a first defeat of the campaign on three-time champions Munster.

Four of those tries came after the break in a dominant second-half display from the South African side as they stretched their advantage from 12-9 at the interval. Munster managed just one in reply as Dan Goggin crossed in the second half.

It was the final match in charge of the Cheetahs for Franco Smith, who is set to take over as head coach of the Italy national team.

Dallen Stanford is a South African born former seven’s player turned broadcaster. RugbyPass caught up with him in Japan to discuss his journey and his predictions for the 2019 Rugby World Cup.

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RedWarrior 10 minutes ago
Did Rassie Erasmus miss a trick with his latest South Africa squad?

GB is England, Scotland, Wales. They are the 3 constituent countries in Great Britain. Ergo playing only those three countries is a tour of GB. The difference between GB and the UK is Northern Ireland. It's not a huge deal to be accurate and call places by their correct name. But please refrain from your idiotic attempts to BS that GB=UK. It doesn't.

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RedWarrior 13 minutes ago
'Passionate reunion of France and New Zealand shows Fabien Galthie is wrong to rest his stars'

The 2023 draw was only criticized when it became apparent that the top 5 sides in the world were on the same side of the draw. Nowhere did they discuss the decision to backtrack to 2019 rankings which ensured that England and Wales (ranked #12 in 2023) were ranked top4.

The parties who trashed out the schedule were England Rugby, NZ Rugby and ITV. It is bordering on corrupt that a Rugby nation has the power to schedule its opponents to play a major match the week before facing them in a QF.

You won't find commentary by members of the relevant committees because a committee did not make the scheduling decision. I have never heard members of World Rugby speak out on the draw or scheduling issues.

For example in 2015 Japan were hammered by Scotland 4 days after beating SA. The criticism only happens after a cock up.

A fair pool schedule is pretty straightforward: The lowest two tanked teams must play on last pool day but not against each other. That means that TV can focus on promoting big matches with a Tier2 involved for that Friday.

Why does NZ Always get its preferred slot playing the hardest pool match on day 1?

Why do other teams eg France, Ireland, Scotland get so often scheduled to play a hard match the week before the QFs?

If you believe the rules around scheduling are transparent then please point me in the right direction?

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SteveD 16 minutes ago
David Campese names his Springbok world player of the year winner

But it is fun to wind up the skaapnaaiers particularly. Bring it on!!

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Bull Shark 19 minutes ago
David Campese names his Springbok world player of the year winner

Oh yes. Of course. The boks can never win well enough to shut the doos peanut gallery up.


But who gives a sh1t. Winning is everything.

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Ninjin 19 minutes ago
Ex-All Black accuses Ireland's Jack Crowley of 'disgusting' act in Argentina win

Whatever gives you hope ok👍but deep down inside you know the truth.

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Bull Shark 20 minutes ago
Let's be real about these All Blacks

I'm sure he has some stuff in his "I hate South Africa" scrapbook he can dredge out.

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RedWarrior 25 minutes ago
Ex-All Black accuses Ireland's Jack Crowley of 'disgusting' act in Argentina win

All 4 Irish provinces will likely be top 8 in URC this year.

The second last match we beat SA in SA with a lot of young guys. Farrell should have played them again. Jamie Osborne at FB dominated the skies against SA in Durban. He was the form player ahead of Keenan. Similarly Aki and Hansen are not in good form for their province and should not have started. Even playing so poorly we had chances to get a couple of scores up on NZ which we didn't take. Your only observations of Irish rugby are at national level. You are in no position to discuss strenght in depth because you simply don't know. Losing that match might be no bad thing for Ireland.

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HT 29 minutes ago
What Noah Lolesio said about Finn Russell before Scotland showdown

Noah forgot to mention how good a tackler Finn is as well.


We are in for a cracker of a match.

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JW 31 minutes ago
New Zealand can't keep losing first fives like Harry Plummer

I'd rather just have Dmac at home than both Mo'unga and Dmac playing abroad.

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JW 32 minutes ago
New Zealand can't keep losing first fives like Harry Plummer

Yep, only once they hit this age though.

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JW 33 minutes ago
New Zealand can't keep losing first fives like Harry Plummer

Certainly the main concern with his departure is drop in standard of Super Rugby.


I agree, which is why not too dissapointed with this weeks team naming.

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SteveD 34 minutes ago
David Campese names his Springbok world player of the year winner

And of course, if the Boks don't thrash them we'll get all the nonsense from the poms, ABs and of course the Aussies about how they're so weak they should never have been allowed to win the RWC etc etc. Hehehehehehehe.....

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SadersMan 35 minutes ago
What Wallabies great expects from Aussie women’s side at Dubai Sevens

The Aussie girls only won two of the seven tournaments on the 2023/24 series circuit. But under this silly system, a team can potentially win zero tourneys on the Series Circuit but by virtue of winning the "Grand Final" shootout, are crowned Series Champions. Ridiculous.

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JW 36 minutes ago
Let's be real about these All Blacks

Yes even if NZ had of remained at 15 men you suspect they would have still found a way to come back and beat them.

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JW 37 minutes ago
Let's be real about these All Blacks

No, you just took it that way.

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JW 37 minutes ago
Let's be real about these All Blacks

Oh he'll have something burning for sure. Is this it for you guys, only this last chance against Wales for him to find something? Probably just changing some of his language from Scottish to Welsh as we speak.

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JW 41 minutes ago
Let's be real about these All Blacks

The opportunity is there I agree with the articles tone too! Not sure which close games they could have lost. You could say the last English one given the tiny end but then they also got lucky with a 14 point try when our two players got in the road of each other.

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DP 42 minutes ago
Autumn Nations Series 2024: Everything you need to know about round four

France Argentina could serve up an upset.. Vamos Pumas!!

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JW 45 minutes ago
Let's be real about these All Blacks

England were nowhere near NZ's level to say the should have, they kept it tight enough (and NZ not clinical enough to counter that) to have got away with a win, for sure, but that is a totally opposite perspective of "should".


Were did England get unlucky like in the tone of this article?


Yeah I cant really remember the SAn tries, you're saying they weren't jammy? Which means 'opportune', at the right time. Good to hear an Englishman with some optimism and enjoyment in the rugby, I hope you're primarly talking about your own sides ability to play with the ball!


Eggchasers... well it certainly would be easy making enough money doing that for a living!

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JohnB77 47 minutes ago
Sadness pervades as Gatland stands on the brink of Welsh exit

Wales's problems are far more than Gatland. As a Welshman in exile I've actually got nothing against him staying on. This autumn campaign has been a disaster, but perhaps the WRU should justify why they chose to play against the world's strongest teams and not at least one Tier 2 nation, just to showcase the squad. The problems come from the very bottom, through the franchise system to the board of the WRU itself. If anything it is the whole structure that needs an overhaul from top to bottom.

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