Who is the dirtiest rugby team in history?

Question

rugby

Answer 1

South Africa.

Answer 2

Wigan RL. May not be dirtiest on the pitch, but are ceriently the dirtiest, cheating team off it.

Answer 3

The French. They come from a country which does not have a word for bathe in its vocabulary. The French play dirty and smell dirty from yesterday’s garlic and cheese. There is a reason why France is known as the sewer of Europe.

Answer 4

Loins to NZ in the 70's (about '78 I think).  Have you seen the picture of Frannie Cotton at the front of the lineout?  He's filty you can't see what colour shirt he's got on.  The other 29 were nearly as bad it was a farce.

That and the Royal Engineers vs Royal Signals 1996.  I nearly lost my eye!

Answer 5

tonga and england!

Answer 6

richard loe for the all blacks, and the dirty old french from the 90s back.

Answer 7

The Jindabyne Bush Pigs.  Those guys could use a wash.

I wonder of Richard Loe is their coach

Answer 8

My high school A team, they were terrible, but they won all the time.

Answer 9

Matches with South Africa are usually bloody brutal affairs.

The All Blacks often flirt with the illegal quite often. I remember Sean Fitzpatrick deliberately shorten his step to stand on Kieron Bracken's ankle, breaking it.

Answer 10

england only get started on they never start. If anyone it would be a pacific isles team

Answer 11

definately one of the island countries, my history is not great but whoever played the welsh on a tour in the 70's or 80's.

but the welsh team remarked that it was the dirtiest team they ever played... I think it was manu samoa

Answer 12

tonga

Answer 13

over the last couple of years it would have to be france or south africa and i think its pretty stupid how some people are saying and island team every1 knows theyr only saying that because the team is full of brown people stupid racists

Answer 14

France and South Africa.  Just ask Buck Shelford about France.

Answer 15

In history it could be an All Black team of 1956. Most teams get branded as dirty because of one or two players. It was no different with this team. His name was Kevin Skinner.

What was exceptional, was that Skinner,an ex heavyweight boxing champion of New Zealand,  was chosen for one reason only and that was to sort out the props of the touring Springbok team.

The All Blacks and Springboks. like today, were great rivals ever since they started competing against each other in 1921. With the tour of 1956 the All Blacks had still to win a test series against the boks

In the five test series the boks were leading 2 - 1 with two games remaining. The Springbok props were really getting into their opponents in the first three tests - not without a bit of 'dirty' play of their own , I'm sure.

Skinner had been retired from rugby for two years when he was called up for the last two matches. The result was a bloodbath. Players on both sides took a h**l of a beating, but it was the Springbok props who were beaten into submission by Skinner. The AB's won the remaining two tests, the series and the fight.

Answer 16

Owera College. Every single one of their teams was so dirty. From their 1st 15 right down to the lowest weight and age grade. Huge rivalry between their school and my old school. We beat them over 90% of the time though.

Answer 17

england

Answer 18

Aussies