A trio of South African pundits have called for referees to clamp down on the ‘cannon arm’ technique that Irish teams have been using recently. The technique is where a ball carrier around the edge of a ruck places the non-ball-carrying arm on the ground when they carry, allowing them to get as low as […]
Munster’s John Hodnett can be forgiven for being somewhat overexcited on Saturday after scoring the winning try and being named man of the match in the United Rugby Championship final win over then reigning champions the Stormers in their own back yard in Cape Town. But it is hard to say whether he can ever […]
You would have thought that Stormers and South Africa scrum-half Herschel Jantjies would have seen fellow No9 Jamison Gibson-Park anger Will Skelton in the Heineken Champions Cup final last weekend, and decided not to copy him. However, it looks as though he did the very opposite in the United Rugby Championship final on Saturday as […]
One of the talking points heading into the United Rugby Championship final this weekend between the Stormers and Munster has bizarrely been the state of the Cape Town Stadium pitch. It looked as though their win over Connacht in the semi-finals was going to be the Stormers’ last game at the stadium this season until […]
