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Cyclo; when the loosehead stands up the tighthead twice in the first half-hour, that looshead is getting munched. Moreover, he has no interest in taking it down from there. They did a number on your scrum. They could have done more; that scrum five, for example. You did not get parity. You did...

Incidentally, I am really interested in this game; because (not hugely surprisingly, when you consider Oom Gert), we play a rather similar style to the Bokke in many ways. Certainly, the use of the lineout as an attacking fulcrum is a shared feature. If pinging the corners and going for the...

Hoe het dié klein BloedworsBeretBoertjie gespeel? ;)

Isn't it just. There are few things more beautiful than a pack grinding over from the corner and spitting the bones of the opposition out as they jog back to half-way while the conversion is taken. :D

The entire pack would volunteer, plus Genia. To quote one of the lads on Gwlad: "Genia's interior monologue when he passes to Cooper must be like mine standing over a roulette wheel"...

Kepu popped at least once. Alexander at least three times. The entire front row at least once. You never once went forward. They did, every time. The penalties were 2-1, and wrong, because Joubert missed the bind. After all; why would a loosehead try to take it down when he goes forward each...

Paddy O'Brien couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery, let alone a conspiracy. He just inflicts his half-assed ideas like that "hands-in isn't" piece of genius that tubed six months of rugby in 2009, and appoints his favourites like Bryce the Bollockless come what may because he hasn't got the...

Your scrum was munched. They kicked seven bells out of it. Go back through that game, and watch the scrums. Listen on the Fox feed at the scrum in the AB half in the second half where Alexander gets punched back a metre on the TH, losing any right shoulder - yet it's claimed to be a right...

He is. It was a scooter, not a motorbike. http://www.sport24.co.za/Rugby/CurrieCup/Scooter-accident-halts-Kaplan-20110724 God knows how he managed it, given no traffic ever bloody moves above a crawl in Slaapstad city bowl anyway.

To quote the ref in the England-Bok game last November: "Look at him. He's almost asleep. He's slurring his words. Make a reasonable decision." Chris Ashton played another fifty five minutes, remembers nothing and has said it wasn't worth it. The regs are in place, but - as far as I can...

Nog hier, Oom: http://rugbylaw.blogspot.com/2011/06/concussion-guidelines.html

Asked this on another thread, but I'm looking for an answer, so I'll repeat it here: given that the concussion regs came in over a month ago, and that the Boksmart program in SA and Rugbysmart program in NZ mean that at least two of the 3N teams should be well used to them - are they being...

Burke's Boot - we'll find out. There's a class action being launched in the US. Now, a question, which I'll repeat elsewhere - given that the concussion regs came in over a month ago, and that the Boksmart program in SA and Rugbysmart program in NZ mean that at least two of the 3N teams should...

Your inside leg as a loosehead unstable? Nope, not a runner. You'd destabilise the unit with your hooker and offer a lovely chink for the oppo TH to tear open.

Isn't scrummaging marvellous? The look of child-like delight on the Bull's face after the first one is everything right and splendid about rugby. :D

His most recent appearance: http://youtu.be/VHSa41aP0f8 :D

Why on earth are you so worried about England, given the pools? I'd worry a hell of a lot more about the Italians, if I were you. They've a truly magnificent scrum; and if they go to town on your scrum in the first game, it could set a perception about your scrum in stone in the minds of every...

I think you're correct on all the above. Front-on, high-speed, high-run up tackles are the ones that do the damage. http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/44/3/159.full.pdf Also, headgear can only protect - if it does at all - against direct impact/trauma; the indirect trauma of the deceleration in the...