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Springboks’ Trophy Tour routes confirmed

The Springboks will start their Rugby World Cup Trophy Tour in Pretoria on Thursday morning when the open-top bus departs from the Union Buildings at 9:30.

The Gauteng route will start in an easterly direction and go past Loftus Versfeld before heading west to take in the Pretoria CBD.

The Boks will then transfer to Johannesburg, where they are due to start at 2pm at No 1 Jan Smuts Avenue in Braamfontein before crossing the Nelson Mandela Bridge and then heading to Soweto.

The Gauteng tour will conclude when the Boks arrive at FNB Stadium at approximately 3:45pm – entry is free and tickets are available from Ticketpros .

The #Springboks ' #RWC2023 Trophy Tour starts in Gauteng tomorrow, from the Union Buildings to FNB Stadium 👍 #StrongerTogether pic.twitter.com/tyXL7XKyHP — Springboks (@Springboks) November 1, 2023

On Friday, the Springboks will be in Cape Town, where a big crowd is expected at the Grand Parade adjacent to City Hall, where they are expected to appear at 11:30am.

The bus route will start shortly after 12pm and will take in the Cape Town CBD, and from 2:30pm they are scheduled to drive through Langa and Bonteheuwel before heading back to the city centre at around 5:30pm.

The Boks will transfer to KwaZulu-Natal early on Saturday morning for their tour starting at the Garden Court Hotel in Umhlanga at approximately 9:30am, heading towards the Durban City Hall and finally uShaka Marine World, where they are expected at around 1:45pm.

The final leg will be in East London on Sunday, starting and finishing at the Garden Court Hotel from 10am until approximately 2pm.

Don't miss any of the celebrations from the Springbok Trophy Tour over the next four days 🇿🇦🏆 pic.twitter.com/DvTpggu36Q — SuperSport Rugby (@SSRugby) November 1, 2023

Details on the routes will be posted on the Springboks’ social media channels, as well as updates where necessary, as all the routes and timings are subject to change.

For more information on how the destinations were chosen, Click here .

Satellite tours to other population centres in the Free State, North West, Limpopo, Mpumalanga and Northern Cape, among other places, are in the planning stages, with scheduling contingent on players’ club commitments.

Saru announces details of World Cup trophy tour in four provinces

SA Rugby (Saru) has confirmed a World Cup trophy tour with the history-making Springbok rugby team in four provinces, with more satellite tours set for next year.  

The Springboks arrive home on Tuesday morning from their successful campaign in France. The four-day tour will commence on Thursday and be wrapped up on Saturday.  

South Africa team beat the All Blacks 12-11 in the final at Stade de France in Paris on Saturday night.  

Saru said the tour will take place in Gauteng, Western Cape, KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape.  

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“The tour will start in Pretoria, Johannesburg and Soweto — concluding at FNB Stadium — on Thursday, and take in Cape Town (Friday) and Durban (Saturday) before concluding in the Eastern Cape (East London) on Sunday,” Saru said in a statement. 

“The locations have been selected for population size in the first three instances and because of the Eastern Cape’s rugby significance in the fourth.”  

“Satellite tours to Bloemfontein, Nelson Mandela Bay and other centres will be scheduled for 2024. Such tours after the 2019 victory had to be abandoned because of the Covid-19 pandemic.”  

The federation said route maps and times for each tour will be announced later.

The team will attend the gala World Rugby Awards ceremony in Paris on Sunday night before leaving France for South Africa on Monday morning.

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Boks' Trophy Tour dates announced

NEWS: The world champion Springbok rugby team will embark on a four-day Trophy Tour to major regional population centres from Thursday, SA Rugby announced on Sunday.

The team will attend the gala World Rugby Awards ceremony in Paris on Sunday night before leaving France for South Africa on Monday morning.

The Boks arrive back in South Africa on Tuesday (10.55) at OR Tambo International Airport and will commence the tour 48 hours later.

The tour will start in Pretoria, Johannesburg and Soweto – concluding at FNB Stadium – on Thursday, November 2, and take in Cape Town (Friday, November 3) and Durban (Saturday, November 4) before concluding in the Eastern Cape (East London) on Sunday, November 5.

The locations have been selected for population size in the first three instances and because of the Eastern Cape’s rugby significance in the fourth.

Satellite tours to Bloemfontein, Nelson Mandela Bay and other centres will be scheduled for 2024. Such tours following the 2019 victory had to be abandoned because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The route for each tour has been prepared in consultation with the respective local authorities and the South African Police Service.

Route maps and timings will be published at www.springboks.rugby, on SA Rugby’s social media channels and by local authorities in due course.

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WATCH LIVE: Springboks trophy parade, here’s where they will be

The boks won a fourth world cup title at the weekend when they beat the all blacks in the final..

Springbok supporters at Union building ahead of the trophy parade on 02 November 2023. Picture: Sibongumenzi Sibiya

Springbok rugby fans, are you ready for the world champions’ trophy tour around South Africa?

Well, here are all the details you need. This, after the Boks became four-time World Cup winners at the weekend when they beat the All Blacks 12-11 in the 2023 final in Paris.

The Boks also went back-to-back after winning the title in Japan in 2019, with Siya Kolisi the captain on both occasions.

Watch the parade live below, and check out the routes they will be following with our interactive map further down the page.

The Bok players and coaching staff, together with the most sought-after prize in the game, the Webb Ellis Cup, will get their Gauteng trip under way at 9am on Thursday, from the Union Buildings in Pretoria.

‘We are the champions, no matter what happens in Durban Test,’ says Boks’ Stick

The open top bus will then head in an easterly direction towards Loftus Versfeld before heading west to take in the Pretoria CBD.

The route is highlighted in green on the map below, with the points of stop and estimated times in gold.

The Boks will then transfer to Johannesburg, where they are due to start at 2pm at No 1 Jan Smuts Avenue in Braamfontein before crossing the Nelson Mandela Bridge and then heading to Soweto.

The Gauteng tour will conclude when the Boks arrive at FNB Stadium at approximately 3.45pm – entry is free and tickets are available from Ticketpros .

Cape Town and Durban

On Friday, the Springboks will be in Cape Town, where a big crowd is expected at the Grand Parade adjacent to City Hall, where they are expected to appear at 11.30am.

The bus trip will start shortly after 12pm and will take in the Cape Town CBD, and from 2.30pm they are scheduled to drive through Langa and Bonteheuwel before heading back to the city centre at around 5.30pm.

The Boks will transfer to KwaZulu-Natal early on Saturday morning for their tour starting at the Garden Court Hotel in Umhlanga at approximately 9.30am, heading towards the Durban City Hall and finally uShaka Marine World, where they are expected at around 1.45pm.

The final leg will be in East London on Sunday, starting and finishing at the Garden Court Hotel from 10am until approximately 2pm.

Satellite tours

Details on the routes will be posted on the Springboks’ social media channels, as well as updates where necessary, as all the routes and timings are subject to change.

For more information on how the destinations were chosen, please visit the SA Rugby website .

Satellite tours to other population centres in the Free State, North West, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, and Northern Cape, among other places, are in the planning stages, with scheduling contingent on players’ club commitments.

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The Springboks will start their Rugby World Cup Trophy Tour in Pretoria on Thursday morning when the open-top bus departs from the Union Buildings at 09h30.

The Gauteng route will start in an easterly direction and go past Loftus Versfeld before heading west to take in the Pretoria CBD.

The Boks will then transfer to Johannesburg, where they are due to start at 14h00 at No 1 Jan Smuts Avenue in Braamfontein before crossing the Nelson Mandela Bridge and then heading to Soweto.

The Gauteng tour will conclude when the Boks arrive at FNB Stadium at approximately 15h45 - entry is free and tickets are available from Ticketpros.

On Friday, the Springboks will be in Cape Town, where a big crowd is expected at the Grand Parade adjacent to City Hall, where they are expected to appear at 11h30.

The bus route will start shortly after 12h00 and will take in the Cape Town CBD, and from 14h30 they are scheduled to drive through Langa and Bonteheuwel before heading back to the city centre at around 17h30.

The Boks will transfer to KwaZulu-Natal early on Saturday morning for their tour starting at the Garden Court Hotel in Umhlanga at approximately 09h30, heading towards the Durban City Hall and finally uShaka Marine World, where they are expected at around 13h45.

The final leg will be in East London on Sunday, starting and finishing at the Garden Court Hotel from 10h00 until approximately 14h00.

Details on the routes will be posted on the Springboks™ social media channels, as well as updates where necessary, as all the routes and timings are subject to change.

For more information on how the destinations were chosen, click here. Satellite tours to other population centres in the Free State, North West, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, and Northern Cape, among other places, are in the planning stages, with scheduling contingent on players™ club commitments.

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T he path to Rugby World Cup glory has become even more challenging for nations with smaller player pools, such as Ireland. This follows the announcement by World Rugby of an expansion in the number of teams to 24, a shift to six groups of four teams and a 16-team knockout format for RWC 2027 in Australia.

This is a departure from the previous system of four groups of six teams with eight teams progressing to the quarter-finals. Consequently, the pool stages will be shortened by two weeks, while the knockout stages will be extended by one week.

The RWC 2027 will span six weeks, compared to last year's RWC 2023 which lasted seven weeks. This change presents both opportunities and risks; the pool stages will pose little threat to the major rugby playing nations, but the introduction of an extra game will increase the stakes in the knockouts.

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The ripple effect of this is that none of the Six Nations sides (Ireland, France, England, Wales, Scotland, Italy) or the Rugby Championship members (New Zealand, South Africa, Australia, Argentina) are likely to be eliminated at the pool stages with this format. This could result in the first three weekends being largely procedural - not unlike the recent Rugby Sevens competition at the Olympics where 12 teams competed in the pool stages and eight advanced to the knockouts.

The pressure is on come the RWC 2027's Last 16, with teams facing the daunting task of securing four consecutive wins over successive weekends extra-time included if needed to claim the World Cup trophy, reports the Irish Mirror .

It's a historical moment for Ireland as they've never before played four international games back-to-back across weekends in the history of the Four/Five/Six Nations or during a summer tour.

While it's uncommon for Ireland to have four matches lined up over consecutive weekends in November, this year sees an additional fixture slotted into the schedule.

The Irish team is set to face New Zealand on Nov 8, Argentina on Nov 15, Fiji on Nov 23, and in a special match to mark the 150th anniversary of Irish Rugby, they'll go up against Australia on Nov 30.

Ireland's track record at the Rugby World Cup has been less than stellar, having never made it past the quarter-finals, with the painful defeat to Argentina in 1999 in Lens serving as a stark reminder of their struggles that match effectively being a Last 16 clash.

A former Ireland international commented on the nation's historical difficulties at the World Cup: "Ireland have always struggled as World Cups progressed, were in trouble when they began to sustain in-play injuries and were unwilling to stand players down but have them try to play through," and added, "Or to put it another way, successive coaches were unwilling to utilise their wider squad.

"We have a history of having players along for the entire World Cup trip who don't play at all and, in another set of cases, get less than, say, 30 minutes and even then it is on some pudding of a match that Ireland are winning by a cricket score."

"The big rugby nations, the previous multiple World Cup winners such as South Africa and New Zealand, bring two players with starting capabilities for each position."

"They may have a 'first-choice XV' but the others are expected to start at least one game along the way."

"Those nations have almost always started a dozen or so 'others' in the easiest of the pool games allowing their potential semi-final and final line-ups clear rest."

"This has not been something Ireland coaches have embraced in the past and we have, and results are the proof, paid the price."

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Will you be supporting the Springboks’ Rugby World Cup Trophy Tour in Pretoria, Soweto, Cape Town, Durban or East London?

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The Springboks will start their Rugby World Cup Trophy Tour in Pretoria on Thursday, 2 November when the open-top bus departs from the Union Buildings at 09:30 .

The Gauteng route will start in an easterly direction and go past Loftus Versfeld before heading west to take in the Pretoria CBD.

The Springboks will then transfer to Johannesburg, where they are due to start at 14:00 at No 1 Jan Smuts Avenue in Braamfontein before crossing the Nelson Mandela Bridge and then heading to Soweto.

The Gauteng tour will conclude when the Springboks arrive at FNB Stadium at approximately 15:45 – entry is free and tickets are available from  Ticketpros .

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On Friday, 3 November the Springboks will be in Cape Town , where a big crowd is expected at the Grand Parade adjacent to City Hall, where they are expected to appear at 11:30 .

The bus route will start shortly after 12:00 and will take in the Cape Town CBD, and from 14:30 they are scheduled to drive through Langa and Bonteheuwel before heading back to the city centre at around 17:30.

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The Springboks will transfer to KwaZulu-Natal early on Saturday, 4 November for their tour starting at the Garden Court Hotel in Umhlanga at approximately 09:30 , heading towards the Durban City Hall and finally uShaka Marine World, where they are expected at around 13:45.

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The final leg will be in East London on Sunday, 5 November starting and finishing at the Garden Court Hotel from 10:00 until approximately 14h00.

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Details on the routes will be posted on the Springboks’ social media channels, as well as updates where necessary, as all the routes and timings are subject to change.

For more information on how the destinations were chosen,  click here . Satellite tours to other population centres in the Free State, North West, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, and Northern Cape, among other places, are in the planning stages, with scheduling contingent on players’ club commitments.

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Charley Hull - who has featured in every Solheim Cup since 2013 - currently leads the European Solheim Cup Team points list, having posted seven top-three finishes during the qualification campaign, with Sweden's Linn Grant having a narrow advantage in second spot.

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Boutier and Hull are both inside the world's top 11 and will be guaranteed a Team Europe return via the world rankings, with Stark (world No 23) and Ciganda (world No 33) also well placed to qualify via that method.

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Anna Nordqvist (world No 66) is the next European in the world rankings and would be a likely captain's pick should she fail to qualify automatically, having been part of every Solheim Cup team since 2009.

Albane Valenzuela (world No 69), Forsterling (world No 74) and Perrine Delacour (world No 78) are the next three highest-ranked European players in the world rankings, with Gemma Dryburgh and Emily Kristine Pedersen - both captain's picks fo r last year's team - also sit inside the top 100.

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