Hope For Australian Rugby As NSW Waratahs Appear To Be Acting Like A Grassroots Footy Club

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The Australian Rugby fraternity is looking to the year ahead with a renewed sense of optimism, after a big week in the news cycle.

With the sport of Rugby currently in the bad books with the largest media organisation in Australia (and not really on the radar of plenty of other media organisations), some welcome reprieve has come in the way of a Waratahs training brawl.

Hitting the headlines last week, the punch on at Tahs training managed to achieve the rare feat of making news across the media landscape.

The blue between Miles Amatosero and Angus Scott-Young has since drawn plenty of online commentary, with some claiming it's a healthy sign of competitiveness while others have labelled it a 'disgusting act of barbarity'.

Regardless of moral position on the punch on that left one of the boys with a fractured face, it has since been confirmed that it's good to see a bit of a heartbeat at the Tahs.

The positivity of some players actually showing a bit of ticker and emotion on a hot sunny arvo in January, has also been accentuated by one of the players dad's weighing into the debate and trying to fight the other player.

Minus the racial slurs, the training paddock to Facebook drama has fans feeling like the Tahs are acting a bit more like the tried and tested local grass roots footy club that everyone knows and loves.

"Mate, this is some proper UNSW shit," said local rugby pundit Drew Ashley-Giteau, about the local grass roots club the Tahs share a facility with.

"And I think we should all relish in a bit of life being breathed into Aussie rugby."

"Now the boys need a lock in with 3o cases of piss and a cask of red wine to sort out their differences and bond ahead of the season."

More to come.