“I don’t understand this meanness.” Romain Ntamack has played a staggering 32 times for club and country, this season. He started 30 of those games, scored 10 tries, logged 2,380 minutes, reached two semis with Toulouse and helped France to a Grand Slam. He would have so dearly loved that 33rd game. On Friday night, […]

4 years ago

Pushing his luck to the brink. Antoine Dupont is a national treasure to the French. To all rugby, in fact. He must be protected at all costs. “It think he was a touch fortunate there, to be honest with you. Crikey!” Not since the 2005 Lions Tour to New Zealand has a commentator under-sold a […]

4 years ago

“Lucu…. Oooooooff! Goodness me!” You could hear the sheer horror of the Premier Sports commentator as Ryno Pieterse attempted to tackle Maxime Lucu into another dimension. Castres were trailing Bordeaux-Begles 23-20 in their Top 14 encounter, with under 15 minutes on the clock, when Pieterse took matters into his own hands. On the pitch only […]

4 years ago

French Top 14 rugby club Bordeaux-Begles announced the signing of star full-back Nans Ducuing by having him dress as the president’s wife

5 years ago

Yep, no complaints here Stuart Olding was off to a flyer in France’s PRO D2 but he was shown a red card today after a quite reckless tackle. There was an honest effort to stop his man fairly but events literally spiralled out of control. The versatile back was given his marching orders just after […]

8 years ago

Rugby is back and lads are getting busted up Simon Zebo has had the pleasure of sharing the pitch with Jamie Roberts (Lions, 2013) and Teddy Iribaren (Racing, 2018). Both men were in the wars this weekend. Roberts scored an early try in Bath’s 37-32 win over Harlequins. He also got a ripper of a black eye: […]

8 years ago