RugbyBits
RugbyBits focuses on the Springboks, the United Rugby Championships and #SaffasAbroad, while also looking at the big news and results all over the rugby world. The podcast is co-hosted by Jared Wright, Kuhle Sonsiki, Shaun Lilford and Thala Msutu. Visit our webiste at rugbybits.com
Episodes
Kooks and Thala are joined by Stormers prop Neethling Fouche as the Stormers prepare for their quarterfinal clash against the Glasgow Warriors.
Neethling reflects on the last few seasons for the Stormers and how they turned things around in 2021 to win it all. He also talks about dealing with heightened expectations after winning the URC in 2021, the ups and downs of this season and why South African teams find winning in Europe tr...
Jared and Thala round up the URC regular season and look forward to the upcoming quarterfinals.
We preview the Bulls hosting Benetton and the Stormers traveling to Glasgow. We discuss what can the Bulls do about the 20 minute periods where they fall away and how the Stormers can overturn their away record. Jared calls Ospreys the Castres of the URC and Thala thinks Ulster might have the best chance at an away win.
We also bid farew...
Thala is back as all but one of the team look back at the brilliant Sharks win and how Toulouse put Leinster down in their third straight loss.
We dive into the Sharks journey and are surprised about the strays they caught celebrating.
The Champions Cup and Challenge Cup is over for this season, time to focus on the domestic competitions with the URC, Premiership and Top 14 wrapping up
Kooks and Shaun welcome Stephan Lewies to the show as he chats about living the dream of becoming a Springbok, winning the Currie Cup and beating the Crusaders. He chats about the incredible leadership of Joe Marler, raucous parties after Springbok wins and winning the Premiership title in a year that had everything
Kooks and Shaun take control of the pod this week discussing how close things were in the Champions Cup Semi Final's as well as the Sharks amazing comeback in the Challenge Cup.
Kooks and Shaun review the fifth and final episode of Chasing the Sun 2, it gets going with the shocking claims by Tom Curry towards Bongi Mbonambi after what he thought was a racial slur.
We carry on with the thoughts around the 7/1 split and go through the #RWC2023 Final
Kooks and Thala come together to do a quick podcast reviewing the Champions Cup and Challenge Cup quarterfinals and look forward to round 14 of the URC.
We discuss Leinster’s great week in exorcising the La Rochelle ghost, signing Jordie Barrett and their social media entering their villain era. We discuss the issues with the South African teams in Europe and the flight issues that hounded the Bulls. We also celebrate the Sharks ma...
Kooks and Sharks are at it again as they focus on the South African sides in the Champions and Challenge Cup.
They look at sides which simply can not lose, Sharky makes a bold prediction and Kooks' hot take will make the South African's happy.
#ChampioncCup #ChallengeCup #RugbyUnion #Stormers #Bulls #Sharks #Cheetahs #Lions #Springboks #JasperWiese #HandrePollard #FinnRussell
Kooks and Shaun go through the Chasing the Sun 2 episode rollercoaster as the Springboks prepare for and play Ireland in #RWC2023
Kooks and Shaun talk about the opening episode of Chasing The Sun 2 as all South Africans relive the amazing RWC2023 win with incredible insights from the Springbok camp
Shaun and Thala review round 12 of the URC which saw all 4 South African teams win their matches.
We first look at the Stormers victory over Edinburgh and Shaun (who watched live) raved about how good Damian Willemse looks live and the encouraging signs from Wandi Simelane’s performance.
For the Sharks game, Thala discusses whether the Sharks have finally found the right formula of Boks and youngsters in their team, how impressive ...
Thala and Kooks look back at the 6 Nations, the winners and losers from the tournament
Shaun and Kooks are joined by a surprise guest as we discuss the 6 Nations and Super Rugby shock results.
This weeks first phase we discuss what song our favorite players would run out too.
In the Six Nations we discuss if England have recipe to beat Ireland, Gregor Townsend is on the chopping block and how incredible the Italian midfield was.
Kooks, Shaun and Thala are joined by SA rugby Twitter bad boy AP Cronje to review the South African derbies in week 11 of the URC.
We first react to the Bulls breaking their seven match losing streak against the Stormers with a convincing win at Loftus. AP breaks down how the Bulls have improved this season, we discuss why Johan Goosen should always wear his Grey College socks and whether the Stormers should start to worry now that...
Kooks and Shaun go through the weekends rugby and start the pod with picking 15's players suitable for the 7's game, Ireland and the war machine, Duhan suitable for the Boks and mixed feelings about Italy's final penalty
We welcome back Jared Wright as he returns at the perfect time as we discuss the Springboks and all the rugby going on.
Shaun and Thala review week 2 of the Six Nations.
We start at the controversial no try call at the end of Scotland v France and debate whether the officials got it right. We also discuss why all the Scotland losses against the better teams all feel the same and whether France played a lot better than most give them credit.
Moving onto England v Wales, we look at the positives for the young Wales team for as they fought to a narrow ...
Francisco Isaac joins us again as Thala and Shaun pick his brain about the 2024 REC after two rounds, red cards and all the South Africans involved
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