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Some ideas gain traction after the sixth beer. Others need a joint. The best ideas of adolescence take shape with both, in a group of teammates passing a dagga pipe after the beer tent. Loose forwards drink like they scrum: messy.
I miss all the stupid parts. I miss the scrum commands. I miss Owen Farrell’s gunslinger grimace.
Scottish flyhalves Finn Russell and Gregor Townsend are almost the same size: six-footers who play(ed) at about 93 kilograms.
Rugby in 2020 has been fascinating when viewed through the lens of the coach: embattled, or fledgling, or desperate, or experimental.
As the last century ended, Nelson Mandela was resigning from public office. His 1999 farewell speech to Parliament closed with his dream that “all our children may play in the sun” and warning “the long walk continues”.
With eleven minutes left in the first half of the 2019 Rugby World Cup, England won possession at South Africa’s 22-metre line.
The confetti swept, the Cup boozy, silver medals rubbished, composite teams selected, Japan in the rear view mirror, and Rassie Erasmus’ stock price in the stratosphere.
Wales and South Africa play on Sunday to see who will reprise the role of the 2015 Wallabies, losing gallantly to New Zealand.
Uruguay: five tries. Bankers, vintners, carpenters, White tee-shirts; winners.
You don’t have to support Japan against the Springboks.
The Springboks lost the first half of their Pool B match against the All Blacks in the 2019 Rugby World Cup badly: 3-17.
This is the battle of the best first names in the competition: on the one hand, Desiderius, Tjiuee, Thomasau, Clivan, Prince and Helarius. On the other, Lood, Beast, Kwagga, Elton, Cheslin, Siya, and Warwick. And there will be three Jantjies on the field. South Africa vs Namibia in the Rugby World Cup. Join us on […]
The five players in my block of our greatest World Cup players are legends in South Africa and Australia. Two Queenslanders, a foundation Brumby, a set-piece legend from Pretoria, and a Durban beach boy.
Wales, New Zealand, Ireland, South Africa, England and Australia have identifiable paths to winning the William Webb Ellis Cup.
As 1942 began, the Vichy French controlled Madagascar. The Imperial Japanese Navy planned to use the ports of this perfectly-placed island to cut off the Allies’ shipping routes, and rule the entire Indian Ocean.
Twice this year, I’ve heard Michael Cheika say ‘Team is King’ in the context of losing his top try-scorer.
Seasons are on the line tonight when the Stormers host the Sharks in the final round of the Super Rugby season. Tune in live on The Roar to follow this make-or-break derby between the coastal powerhouses of South Africa, starting from 11:05pm AEST.
I prefer your posts when you mention my name.
Super Rugby Week 9: The ultimate pen round
So, the top spots will stay as is; next round is the one.
Super Rugby Week 9: The ultimate pen round
Will McG be a Lion this time?
As a lock, you probably had your favourite front row positioning; I look at TT and see a bum easy to locate and push!
Any which way you can: Australia’s intriguing choice at tighthead prop
Haha he just never gets his due. A team wins the cup, primarily on forward power, and the final is won by scrum, yet unfit Frans is just a footnote.
Any which way you can: Australia’s intriguing choice at tighthead prop
200 kg bench press by TT. Scary compact man. Good shout on EJ’s mea culpa; but let’s call that what it is: Frans Malherbe’s awesome sweaty power!
Any which way you can: Australia’s intriguing choice at tighthead prop
Robbie Blair underrated. Fabulous kicker
Loose forwards on the loose in Cape Town in the unwoke '80s
Harry Wilson is my new favourite Aussie player! He wears his shorts a bit short, though, like Picamoles. He seems like a hard man. Samu maybe better, at test level, because of the feet.
Dear Australian rugby: Cool your jets. Love, Australian rugby
This guy sounds like a concussed parrot. Liverpool is led by a charismatic German (oxymoron?); the best player walks like an Egyptian. Captaincy’s effect on a team is minuscule compared to coaching. The best coaches win anywhere and everywhere they go.
A rebuttal of Alan Jones
What’s funny is BOD is saying—and lots of English “experts” also saying—they must use Itoje at BS to counter PSDT. But they would do better to throw Tipuric, Navidi, Underhill, Curry types at our guys.
My Springboks starting XV for the 2021 Lions series
I like DW’s understanding of space, and that he has two boots.
My Springboks starting XV for the 2021 Lions series
I actually agree with that, even if I rate Notshe highly. Also, I like Notshe especially against the B-I Lions because he is faster than any loosies in their camp and faster than any they see in the 6N. On hard fields … look out!
My Springboks starting XV for the 2021 Lions series
Notshe (8) and Willemse (15) over Kwagga and Willie.
My Springboks starting XV for the 2021 Lions series
One of your best Wraps. Top ten, at least.
The Wrap: Super Rugby AU comes of age in Canberra thriller
Good, careful analysis. All choices have tough issues; so it is a “best of the bad alternatives” scenario. Australia mustn’t let go of NZ. SA and ARG will go North.
How five plus five doesn’t add up: Part 1, 2021 transition
What about 1.98 and 150 kg? I know a guy
Super Rugby Week 8: Lessons learned. Or learnings gained.
“I am packing my belongings in the shawl my mother used to wear when she went to the market. And I’m going from my valley. And this time I shall never return. I am leaving behind me 50 years of memory. Memory. Streams that the mind will forget so much of what only this moment has passed, and yet hold clear and bright the memory of what happened years ago — of men and women long since dead. Yet who shall say what is real and what is not? Can I believe my friends all gone when their voices are a glory in my ears? No. And I will stand to say no and no again, for they remain a living truth within my mind. There is no fence nor hedge around time that is gone. You can go back and have what you like of it, if you can remember. So I can close my eyes on my valley as it is today, and it is gone, and I see it as it was when I was a boy. Green it was, and possessed of the plenty of the Earth. In all Wales, there was none so beautiful. Everything I ever learned as a small boy came from my father and I never found anything he ever told me to be wrong or worthless. The simple lessons he taught me are as sharp and clear in my mind as if I had heard them only yesterday. In those days, the black slag — the waste of the coal pits — had only begun to cover the sides of our hill, not yet enough to mar the countryside, nor blacken the beauty of our village. For the colliery had only begun to poke its skinny black fingers through the green. I can hear, even now, the voice of my sister Angharad.”
Too big to fail: Why Rugby Australia must not make the same mistake again
He’s like a golfer who really needs to do well in the first five holes. Then, he’s hard to beat.
Super Rugby Week 9: The ultimate pen round