‘Biggest load of tripe we’ve seen in world rugby’
Reece Hodge will be hauled in front of a hearing over the tackle which left Fiji’s Peceli Yato concussed in the Wallabies’ World Cup opener – but the charge has left one former legend fuming.
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Wales saving something special for Wallabies
Wales coach Warren Gatland warned the Wallabies ahead of their Rugby World Cup crunch group game this weekend that they ‘have a few things up our sleeves’ after an up-and-down performance against Georgia.
Flushpoint as Wallabies cop a few crappy questions
Most tend to give toilet humour a wide berth but the Wallabies couldn’t avoid it when quizzed on the ‘super loos’ they’d encountered in their travels at World Rugby Cup in Japan.
Has rugby’s clean-up of foul play lost the plot?
The citing of Reece Hodge just confirms what most rugby diehards have feared for years, that in trying to stamp out foul play, the sport’s blazers are making the game too soft.
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