Stuff Rugby with Andy Capostagno

After the bitter defeat at Eden Park, a wounded Springboks side blew the All Blacks off the Wellington pitch with a triumphant 43-10 win, the biggest ever defeat for New Zealand at home or away. Ouch. But the real pain, Andy Capostagno tells Toby Shapshak, is that All Blacks legends can see the country just doesn’t have the depth of talent it needs for the modern era. Read more on  Stuff .

After a game to forget at Eden Park, Rassie Erasmus wasted no time in announcing his Springbok team on Monday morning. Gone are two former captains, Jesse Kriel and Eben Etzebeth, as well as veterans like Handre Pollard, Willie le Roux and Damian de Allende. This is not the team Rassie planned, and some big names have been omitted Andy Capostagno tells Toby Shapshak. Read more on  Stuff .

There will be no bigger Test this year than the Springboks v All Blacks at Fortress Eden Park, where New Zealand haven’t lost for 30 years, Andy Capostagno tells Toby Shapshak. Read more on  Stuff .

The usual giant players are joined by a few just as giant youngsters for the first Test against the Wallabies at Ellis Park. Coach Rassie Erasmus named his team on Monday, a world-first Toby Shapshak jokes with Andy Capostagno. Read more on  Stuff .

Despite. Stronger showing in the third Test against the British and Irish Lions, the Wallabies are still a work in progress. The Springboks, meanwhile, are the strongest they’ve ever been, Andy Capostagno tells Toby Shapshak. Read more on  Stuff .

Rassie Erasmus has effortlessly begun the transition to the next Rugby World Cup cycle by leaving out three double world cup winners for the Rugby Championships; while bringing in a crop of talented youngsters, Andy Capostagno tells Toby Shapshak. Read more on  Stuff .

Instead of talking about Willie le Roux’s 100th test, the rugby world is buzzing about Rassie Erasmus’s latest innovations: lineouts in midfield and scrums at kick-off, Andy Capostagno tells Toby Shapshak. Read more on  Stuff .

It’s auspicious that season two of Stuff Rugby kicks off on the 30th anniversary of the Springboks glorious first Rugby World Cup win in 1994. Andy Capostagno was in the Ellis Park cauldron for the Boks victorious first appearance in the rugby showpiece. Now, the first game of the year will be against the famous Barbarian invitational side. Along with the two Italy Tests, this is low-key series of...

When you have your own acronym – which is a rebranding of PTSD – then you are a very special player. And Pieter-Steph du Toit, the towering colossus who never stops tackling, is this year’s men’s 15 world rugby player of the year. Even the judges of that competition agreed. #StuffRugby

Jordan Hendrikse will start his second Test alongside his brother Jaden (19 caps), while Cameron Hanekom will come off the bench on debut to become the 12th new Springbok, and the 51st used by coach Rassie Erasmus, this year. What depth of talent. Meanwhile, Handre Pollard is the best flyhalf in the world, Andy Capostagno tells Toby Shapshak, and being on the bench is probably more about managing...

From a Grant Williams snipping break for the first try and a double charge down by Eben Etzebeth and PSDT for the second, to two magnificent tries by Cheslin Kolbe, the Springboks were triumphant at Twickenham. Deservedly all three are finalist for world player of the year, which will probably go to the only non-Saffa, Andy Capostagno tells Toby Shapshak.

The Springboks biggest game of the autumn series is against England at Fortress Twickenham and the Boks are uncharacteristically the favourites. Also, how will the English media cope with the 5-3 bench split? Andy Capostagno tells Toby Shapshak not to worry.

The Springboks biggest game of the autumn series is against England at Fortress Twickenham and the Boks are uncharacteristically the favourites. Also, how will the English media cope with the 5-3 bench split? 

The Springboks won but it wasn't pretty. Andy Capostagno tells me why Springboks beating Scotland by 17 points is nothing to feel crestfallen about. Cappy, as he's universally known, has been talking and writing about South African rugby for more than three decades.

Announced unusually late, the Springbok side to face Scotland is brimming with talent and experience, Andy Capostagno tells Toby Shapshak in this first episode of Stuff Rugby.

Andy Capostagno is one of the greatest rugby writers, commentators and thinkers. He's foolish enough to take my many calls to calm my nerves and become my emotional support person during the 2023 Rugby World Cup. I realised I was being selfish by not sharing his erudite insights with other rugby-loving Springbok fans. I'm sorry it took me so long. Toby