All Blacks prop Ofa Tu’ungafasi is more used to dealing out punishment than receiving it, but this was one of the rare occasions that the latter was the case. Tomas Lavanini, the most feared player in World Rugby, folds him like a deck chair here. Ofa Tuungafasi was playing his 40th Test and Jordie Barrett […]
Springbok coach Jacques Nienaber pulled no punches and offered no excuses after South Africa went down by 30-17 to the Wallabies in their Castle Lager Rugby Championship Test match in Brisbane on Saturday, admitting that they were outplayed in all areas. Nienaber described the performance as the Boks’ worst since 2018, and said they will […]
Diving in the NRL now is it? Never. League tough guy Blake Ferguson was out for the count but then a member of the opposition call him a “cat” or something and he immediately jumps to his feet and attacks like a dehydrated wombat. Aussie League meatheads hate being called cats for some reason. God […]
It was an act of desperation. Faf de Klerk was smashed metaphorically for playing Wallabies scrumhalf Nic White. Referee Matthew Carley wasn’t having it. But was Faf actually in the wrong here? There’s a convention in rugby not to play to scrumhalf when he’s getting the ball out of the ruck, but actually, it’s a […]
