The Betamax machine has been hired along with four short videos showing the harder side of rugby. Watch in awe as Habana smashes Tuiali’i, JP Nel KO’s Rocky, Fleck punches Cohen and Corne…well Corne does what he does best. As Naas once said: “Its not the taap off thing you laak to see onna ruckbee field. Issinit?” (more…)
Day: June 8, 2007
Agen and Fiji’s celebrated winger Rupeni Caucaunibuca has been suspended for three months after failing a drug test. (more…)
There have been rumours for many years that Justin Marshall was responsible, during an altercation in a Cape Town bar, for the knee injury that severely damaged Skinstad’s career in 1999. (more…)
It would appear that rugby rivalries are big – even in Canada, where no rivalry is bigger than the one between the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Toronto Argonauts. (more…)
Blue Bulls rugby suffered a crippling blow on Friday when backline coach Todd Louden resigned with immediate effect. Louden cited personal reasons for his resignation and will return to Australia. (more…)
Just some fun on a slow Friday evening… (more…)
Front Row: Large, often hairy, beer swilling carnivores that can and will smash anything in their path. Reveling in the violence inherent in the scrum, they are rarely considered “nice” people, and in fact to some they aren’t even considered humans at all.  (more…)
“Two sausages at tonight’s barbecue!” – Phil Kearns to Kiwi Sean Fitzpatrick after the former scored a try during a Bledisloe Cup match.
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On his son Huw’s choice to play for England: “I knew he would never play for Wales … he’s tone deaf.” – Vernon Davies (1981) (more…)
“Every time I went to tackle him, Horrocks went one way, Taylor went the other, and all I got was the bloody hyphen.” – Nick England on trying to stop Phil Horrocks-Taylor (more…)