'Nic White diving school': Cam Roigard under fire for tip tackle incident with Reinach

It was such bad acting that it was hilarious.

Didnt see any Safas jump on the Moral Pedestal when Kolbe swan dived at end of 2nd Test vs Ireland in 2024 to try and milk a penalty. What a bunch of losers.

Under World Rugby’s laws on foul play, Law 9.18 states that a player must not lift an opponent and then drop or drive them so that their head and/or upper body makes contact with the ground.

However, there is another element to the incident. Law 9.14 states that a player must not tackle an opponent who is not in possession of the ball, while Law 9.15 also prohibits certain forms of holding, pushing, charging or obstructing an opponent without the ball.

Why are SA supporters not worried about Marx fake, play acting 3 times in the game faking injury, should be a yellow card for poor sportsmanship

Roigard was clearly tipped by Reinach, stop the BS. There was nothing in it anyway. Safas are such desperados to cast shade everywhere but themselves.

make it a yellow card offence

Temu Ben lol I love that! Fits perfectly with his pathetic writing! In what universe is Roigard backing off? Why was he interfering and tackling Reinach in the first place! Ball was still at Wiese’s feet, that was already a cynical act! Your writing is as bad as Roigards acting! Alot of respect for Roigard lost after seeing that clip of him in SRP aswell as last night!

Lol i dont cant even read your dumb articles anymore, I’ll just keep coming to laugh at the comments! Keep it up boys!

ABs supporter here: Roigard antics shameful. Reinach throwing him off fully justified and not a penalty.

Roigard backing off?? Seriously TEMU Ben?? This is almost as pathetic as the Roigard Oscar effort.

Disgraced our country. Should be on a plane home, or tarred and rolled in chicken feathers in Baltimore or both. That is absolutely not our way and there should be consquence.

Diving is clearly against the spirit of rugby. Surely the NZ rugby high priests will call this out, right?

Not what I expect from

AB player.. this is not soccer.

What really irks me about this is how referees and TMOs, watching the same replays as everyone else, can’t see what we can all see.

If there was one rule change I’d lobby for it would be to eliminate the involvement of ARs in TMO reviews.

1. The referee and TMO must surely be able make a sensible call without the flagsmen.

2. As soon as the ARs chime in it seems to become an echo chamber for the most Nancy/Nanny state outcome possible.

Butt out.

Dave Rennie should drop him for the next test. Send a clear message about the spirit of the game.

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Not the first time Roigard is feigning injury to milk a penalty. It’s despicable. Some commentators complain about the sportsmanship of Rassie changing his starting team from the 23 on his team sheet. Here we have Roigard tackling his opposition without the ball, then feigning injury when he falls on the ground to milk a penalty. That’s the height of poor sportsmanship. We need Nigel Owens to tell him to go play soccer.

It really detracts from his reputation. That Blues incident earlier this year was disgusting. Because rugby is generally a non fake game, when someone is injured, players stop to help. If it turns into a diving match like soccer, players will ignore injury because they won't know if it's real or fake. And then someone could really get hurt. He should be sanctioned.

Refs should yellow card players who feign injury like that. Rougard’s head was nowhere near the ground but he lay there clutching it like he was suffering a brain bleed. He should have gotten a yellow for the dive and/or the original cynical foul to prevent Reinach playing the ball.  

Pathetic! Reprehensible! Cowardly! Football-style CHEAT!

Cam Roigard is against the spirit of the game.

Cam has made his bed, standard kiwi “games”. Noticed a few kiwis clutching their faces after legit tackles in the hope the TMO would intervene.

You don't want rugby players to act like this. This was ridiculous from Roigard. He was highly regarded by most rugby fans. I reckon he lost quite a lot of stock.

Clearly some football theatrics I think they ABs spend a lot of time on how to cheat it's part of their DNA

The absolute desperation to scrape together a few salty tweets to build a “The Springboks are the bad guys" narrative is truly a masterclass in sportswriting grief.

Stay mad, Ben.

The tears are delicious😭