So we are one week into the RWC for 2011 and I must say I need to eat some words which I posted on my Twitter feed @GregHurvitz accusing the International Rugby Board (IRB) of not doing much for the "minnow" teams. I apologise to the IRB for this as ...
On average a game of 80 minutes of Super 14 rugby, has just 34 minutes of playing time. The rest of the 47 minutes is directly attributable to the referee and how he blows the game.
The standard of refereeing this 2010 Super 14 competition has go...
At the beginning of every season the call goes out from the rugby public for refs to blow according to the laws. Strictly according to the laws, I might add.
Then the games begin, and refs blow for so called miniscule infringements and the call ch...
Rugby is acknowledged as one of South Africa's "big three" when it comes to discussing professional sports. The game, plus football and cricket, forms the triangle of opportunity where a person can make a decent living, if not more.
If you had to ...
What a bowl of cock-custard we have to put up with every time Manchester United are involved in a transfer deal. In fact it's gotten so bad you can't read a British newspaper unless you've swallowed a goodly amount of Valoid, just in case you stumble...
Last week, the Bok pack held its own against an All Black unit full of grunt, experience and guile. This afforded the halfbacks and loose forwards plenty of forward momentum and space to work with. We know they made less use of that last weekend than...
Was it or was it not a try of Ma'a Nonu shortly after the restart of the All Blacks-Wallabies Tri-Nations clash at Eden Park?
Mark Lawrence, one of the world's best referees, referred the decision to Shaun Veldsman, a fellow South African who was ...
