Author: Hugh Cavill

Can't write, can't play.

It’s the rugby whodunit of the century. Like most Aussies, the first thing I do every morning is check the Waratahs twitter feed. It’s the perfect way to start my day. But this morning I was confronted with something abhorrent, so much so that it forced me to spit my morning beer all over the floor: In the wake of Warner-gate and Beale-gate, this seemed like yet another ill-advised (presumably drunk) tweet from the fingers of a wayward media staffer. It raised plenty of questions, the first of which being ‘what do we call this scandal?’ It could be Tah-gate,…

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The Waratahs broke their drought in the Republic in fine style, demolishing the Southern Kings 72-10. The Match The Kings were never in it. I could give you a blow-by-blow account of the tries, linebreaks, runs, tackles, scrums and lineouts, but I don’t think that would come close to the previous sentence. The Kings were never in it. It all started with the kick-off, as all games do. Just 20 seconds after that, Israel Folau was away (thanks to a lovely screen by Cliff Palu). Two deft passes later and Cam Crawford was over and the Waratahs were on the…

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