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…)
Category: General
General rugby news and discussion
“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…)
New Zealand will be looking to make an emphatic statement in the second of the Iveco Series Test matches against France in Wellington on Saturday and while France has promised stern resistance, it will face a tougher contest than in the first Test. (more…)
A whopping R890 000 was raised at the tenth annual Chris Burger Petro Jackson Players’ Fund fundraising banquet dinner, “The Bell’s Night of the Stars”, which was staged at the Theatre on the Track, Kyalami, on Wednesday evening. (more…)
France rugby coach Bernard Laporte stoked the fires of his ongoing spat with New Zealand counterpart Graham Henry here by saying the Kiwi had a lot less to say while he was coaching Wales. (more…)
The Western Province Rugby Union (WPRU) will hold a disciplinary hearing this week following the latest incident of rugby-related violence that involved a former referee and the president of a local rugby club after a match writes Lee-Shay Collison for the Cape Argus. (more…)
HEAT Magazine today published the first installment of its HEAT Vodacom International Rugby Guide For Girls! Two questions were answered. (more…)
An advance party of Wallabies travelling to Cape Town tonight have been warned to be on their best behaviour in the wake of previous controversies involving Australian rugby tourists in the same city, including one player being sent home writes Greg Growden for Rugbyheaven. (more…)