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After the horrors of Round 3 the South African sides bounced back in Round 4 with two good wins for the Stormers and the Cheetahs and two narrow losses for the Sharks and Lions in Australia. To make things even sweeter the Bulls managed to stay top of the log despite having the week off.
I was invited again to join Brent Graham on his Radio Today program Sports Review to look ahead to all the games from Round 5 of the Super 14.
The Australian newspaper carried reports on Thursday that controversial Australian referee Paul Marks has been axed from the Super 14 referees panel.
A tantalising tie opens Round 5 of the Super 14 with two of the competition's high-flyers meeting in a New Zealand derby in Wellington.
Isaac Ross returns to the Crusaders starting line-up in one of two changes to the team ahead of Friday's encounter with the Chiefs in Hamilton.
A scintillating try scored by Springbok centre Jaque Fourie against the British & Irish Lions has been named the International Rugby Players Association Try of the Year 2009.
The Springbok fought off stiff competition from some of the biggest names in the Game to claim the prestigious award after the global Rugby community selected his try from a shortlist of 15 in an online vote at www.irb.com. Nearly 8,000 votes were cast in the process.
Berrick Barnes will play the first season of the expanded Super 15 competition in Sydney after re-committing to the HSBC Waratahs for another year.
The Chiefs return home from a hugely successful road-trip with three wins under their belt to face an injury plagued Reds side in Hamilton on Friday.
The Lions go into Friday night's clash with the Brumbies on the back of three straight defeats. To make things worse they're up against a side that managed to scare the Bulls in Pretoria before edging the Stormers in Cape Town on a successful tour of South Africa.
Wallaby midweek captain Dean Mumm returns to the HSBC Waratahs line-up to take on the Sharks in the first home game of the 2010 Super 14 this Saturday at the Sydney Football Stadium.
The ever-popular SARugby.com Teamsheets article is here to bring you up to speed with the where, when and who ahead of round 4 of the 2010 Super 14.
Hennie Daniller, Robert Ebersohn, Sarel Pretorius and Walti Vermuelen have all been included in the Cheetahs side to face the Hurricanes on Saturday night as coach Naka Drotske made four changes and a positional switch to the side which lost to the Highlanders in round three.
UCT centre Marcel Brache is one of three new faces added to the Springbok Sevens squad ahead of the forthcoming two IRB Sevens World Series in Adelaide and Hong Kong.
Brache - who burst onto the scene in the Varsity Cup this year - was found playing social rugby last year by the UCT management and brought into the first team structures with great effect this season.
The Hurricanes made it three straight wins in the 2010 Super 14 with a bonus point win over the Lions in Wellington on Saturday.
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