Category: The Tight Head

Although it already feels like 2014 has been on the go for months, complements of the season to all! January is always a funny sort of month for us rugby fans. There really are only two months during the →

The last International rugby has finally been played for the year. Through the contentious refereeing, the absurdly poor turfs and the Ruan Pienaar, there were also some great positives. In a year that →

Seriously, how hard is it to arrange that a panel of international quality referees all interpret the rules of the game along the same, or at least similar, lines? Before I continue, I realise that →

For purposes of this week’s column let’s assume for a moment that I am in favour of selecting overseas based players for the Springboks. For the record I’m not and one day, when I can muster the →

It’s been a little over a week since the Ellis Park Test between the Springboks and the All Blacks and I’m finally starting to recover from the sheer magnitude of the occasion. It needs to be discussed →

When I was at school, my rugby coaches taught me how play the game. They taught me how to tackle, avoid getting tackled, scrum and maul. In hindsight, they must have been rubbish because I hashed all four →

Sport romantics the world over live for traditions. From small anecdotes of a cricketer duct taping his bat to the ceilings of the change room until it was needed, to administrators of massive teams choosing →

Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock for the last few days, you’ll be well aware of the controversial refereeing calls made during the Boks vs All Black Test this past weekend. Almost every rugby →

Well, that didn’t take very long. In fact it took all of 20 minutes. To be fair though it was a pretty decent 20 minutes. The dust had hardly settled at the FNB Stadium after the Boks’ first win →

The debate around scrum laws is a bit like that of cricket’s DRS or football’s goal-line technology; it’s highly controversial and likely to outlive us all. The scrum debate has been rucked →