Sinfield has promised to “over-deliver” after shelving plans to step down once the summer tour to Japan and New Zealand had been completed in favour of continuing as skills and kicking coach.
Despite knocking around at altitude for over a week, Ireland were flat for far too long a stretch on the high veldt while South Africa were imprecise in a good chunk of what they tried to do, showing signs of a team playing its first match in nine months and with a raft of new assistant coaches involved.
Fast forward 11 months and the work leave sacrifice wasn’t as onerous when RugbyPass touched base again with Godsmark.
For the first time, tournament organisers have decided to stage all the last-round matches at a single venue rather than at scattered locations across the continent and what is in store promises to be a real Test rugby treat.
Houdinis and clairvoyants converge on the city of love as the Rugby Europe Championship culminates in style.
Ryan Godsmark was deliriously overjoyed in the wake of last Sunday’s triumph by Belgium in the second leg of the 2023 Challenger Series tournament in Stellenbosch.
The second leg of the Sevens Challenger Series in Stellenbosch provided a dramatic denouement on Sunday, South Africa producing a buzzer-beating try to defeat Belgium in the women’s final to clinch qualification for next season’s revamped World Rugby Series while the Belgian men clung on to pip Tonga in their final.
Georgia have claimed the 2023 Rugby Europe Championship with an impressive 31-11 win over Portugal in Badajoz, Spain.
After four rounds of increasing intensity, the Rugby Europe Championship will reach a crescendo this weekend in a jam-packed Sunday of finals rugby.