
The Boks’ Italian Job – A Blindsided Rugby Man take on a fresh, hungry XI
Right – first up: let’s not pretend this is going to be a lullaby. Italy showed teeth last weekend (they beat Australia), and Rassie Erasmus has answered with a team

Right – first up: let’s not pretend this is going to be a lullaby. Italy showed teeth last weekend (they beat Australia), and Rassie Erasmus has answered with a team

Picture it: the roar of 80,000 French fans in Saint‑Denis, the gauntlet of hostile crowd noise, the pressure of playing away from home. And yet: time and again, the Springboks

If you like your rugby tidy, consistent and ruled by the sort of logic that fits neatly into a press release, then the last week has been a slow, furious

There comes a point in every era of sporting dominance where neutrals stop politely clapping and start foaming at the mouth. With the Springboks, that point arrived somewhere between “four

If you thought you’d already seen everything from the 2019 Rugby World Cup Final, think again. HD cellphone footage has just surfaced in 2025, giving us a look at South

If you thought a rugby scrum was just eight men crouching and pushing each other until someone yells “stop,” think again. The 2023 Rugby World Cup Final gave us a

Imagine this: a stadium lights up in late summer. The crowd is buzzing – American football jerseys mingled with black fern and green-gold scarves. The players emerge. On one side,

The first five rounds of the 2025/26 United Rugby Championship have already separated the grown men from the flat-track bullies. South Africa’s quartet have taken the field with varying levels

There’s a Welsh troublemaker stirring up Bok tempers – and his name’s Taine Plumtree. 📅 10 October, Llanelli: Scarlets vs Stormers. Plumtree squares up to Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu – bump, chirp,