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George Smith arrested in Japan
By RugbyPass
Wallaby legend George Smith was arrested in Japan following an incident with a taxi driver on New Year's Eve.
The Yomiuri Shimbun daily reported that the Reds star was arrested after assaulting a taxi driver on December 31.
According to the report, the assault occurred after the intoxicated Smith refused to pay the taxi fare.
The 111 Test-capped Wallaby, who is currently based in Tokyo at Suntory Sungoliath during Super Rugby's off-season, denied the allegations, the paper added.
However, Suntory confirmed his arrest in a statement.
"It is true that George Smith, under contract to our rugby team, has been arrested," the statement stated.
"We issue a heartfelt apology to the victim, as well as other related people, as well as to the many people who have worried and been caused problems by this."
Source: Rugby 365
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Apart from the scrum a really sloppy AB performance. Through successive coaching regimes they just don't seem to be able to cope with motivated and physically aggressive opposition, getting knocked off the ball and scrambling around with back foot ball. A lack of proper 10 means we are then not turning the opposition around and pinning them in their corners.
Go to commentsSheesh Goldie, South Africa actually lost two tests, IRE & ARG. Everyone got beaten at least twice this year so I'm not sure why the Boks are the "standard". I'd hate the ABs to follow their example. Our standard should be ABs (version 2015).
But I agree, the ABs are definitely in the B range. For me, it's a B+, the + mainly reflecting the lifting of the teams baseline from wobbly to now comfortably being able to win ugly.
Bring on 2025.
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