With his side losing 30-7 to Lyon in the closing minutes of the Challenge Cup last week, Toulon and South Africa lock Eben Etzebeth would have thought he could not have been humiliated more. Enter Davit Niniashvili. The Springbok was caught ball and all by the 19-year-old Georgian winger and was then picked up and […]
Lyon scrum-half Baptiste Couilloud went viral after France’s Grand Slam triumph in March when he decided to jump into the Seine in the middle of the night with the Six Nations trophy in hand. Doing that in the middle of the Parisian spring was nothing short of insanity, but it made for good viewing. This […]
The future of former Italy captain and current Toulon No8 Sergio Parisse is still uncertain, but we have to start entertaining the possibility that the 142-cap international will still play forever. Perhaps he is still harbouring hopes for that one final swansong for Italy after having his hopes consistently scuppered over the past couple of […]
For Wasps scrum-half Dan Robson, losing to Lyon in the Challenge Cup semi final on Saturday was bad enough, but coming away with 4G pitch-induced battle scars added insult to injury (or more accurately injury to insult). The 14-cap England international was on the score sheet for Wasps, scoring the first points of the match […]
