One of Britain’s top rugby writers, Mike Cleary, shares his thoughts on the new ELV’s:
“When you want a miserable bugger, you can’t find one anywhere. According to my highly reliable sources in Bath on Saturday, there was not a whingeing, whining, grumpy soul to be found in and around the Recreation Ground. Well, apart from […]

Found this in the New Zealand Herald:
“The earnings of professional rugby players in New Zealand are dwarfed by their counterparts in other sports - no surprise there - but compare favourably with averages in English and French rugby, writes Gregor Paul.
In the next few weeks, someone is going to have their bones rattled by Jerry […]

We have all played Monopoly. In fact it’s where the SARugby.com staff honed their skills to produce a world dominating rugby website…!
Turns out the Monopoly okes are putting together a game with cities of the world instead of streets. So without any further b***S*** check it out and vote for Cape Town so it ends […]

Chris Hewett writes in the Independent (UK)
Toby Flood, the Newcastle midfielder who has it in him to provide a lasting solution to one of England’s most pressing positional problems, made a number of striking comments at red-rose base camp yesterday, the least accurate of which was that Jonny Wilkinson “played really well” against Wales in […]

Former All Black Buck Shelford is widely considered as one of rugby’s toughest. His biography on Wikipedia tells us just how tough…
Shelford’s first game for the All Blacks was against Club Atlético San Isidro in Buenos Aires on 12 October 1985. He then joined the unauthorized Cavaliers tour of South Africa in 1986, which included […]

Wales defence coach Shaun Edwards writes in his Guardian blog:
Defence coaches are meant to be gimlet-eyed curmudgeons who spend endless hours peering at rugby DVDs (true), Scrooges who like nothing better than frustrating attackers (true again) and obsessives who never sleep better than when they have celebrated an unbreached try line (also true). So, on […]