Tighthead prop Thomas du Toit will start his fourth game in a row for the Springboks when they face Argentina in their first Rugby Championship Test at Kings Park, Durban, on Saturday (kick-off 5.10pm ...

The scrum remains one of rugby union’s great contradictions: eight enormous humans willingly folding themselves into a kind ...

The Springboks will be the first to tackle the Pumas since the introduction of the “crouch, bind, set” scrum engagement when they meet at the FNB Stadium on Saturday and they could be in for a shock.

Rob Hoadley, the Englishman who is the head coach of the San Diego Legion of Major League Rugby, has been around the game for most of his 39 years. He played rugby professionally with a couple of ...

1 UCT/MRC Research Unit for Exercise Science and Sports Medicine, Department of Human Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa 2 Department of Public and ...

Anyone can contribute to The Roar and have their work featured alongside some of Australia’s most prominent sports journalists. The Wallabies and Springboks square off for a scrum.(Photo: Getty Images ...

Background In 2012, the South African Rugby Union approved a new set of scrum Laws for amateur rugby, to be implemented at the start of the 2013 rugby season. These Law changes were based on the ...