{"id":609492,"date":"2026-05-29T01:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T01:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/609492\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T01:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T01:42:08","slug":"rugbys-top-10-shthouses-of-the-21st-century-ranked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/609492\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby\u2019s Top 10 Sh*thouses of the 21st Century \u2014 Ranked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every great rugby team needs at least one player who can get under the opposition\u2019s skin. The best \u201cshithouses\u201d aren\u2019t necessarily dirty players \u2014 they\u2019re masters of psychological warfare, sledging, dark arts at the breakdown, referee manipulation and pure, relentless annoyance.<\/p>\n<p>\u2b50 Save us to your <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/4bziEdo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Google Favourites <\/a>for nonstop RUCK content!<\/p>\n<p>From elite-level chirping to post-whistle handbags and world-class gamesmanship, rugby union has produced some truly iconic wind-up merchants over the years.<\/p>\n<p>So, with absolutely no scientific method whatsoever, here are rugby\u2019s ultimate shithouses ranked from 10 to 1.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/channel\/AbYd2l05pp1bM_Ix\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Join RUCK\u2019s Instagram broadcast channel <\/a>and get the latest rugby news straight to your phone.<\/p>\n<p>10. Henry Pollock<\/p>\n<p>Far too early for a definitive ranking, but the signs are outrageously promising. Swagger? Check. Mouth? Check. Ability to annoy seasoned internationals before he\u2019s fully established? Elite potential. The kid has franchise-shithouse upside.<\/p>\n<p>9. Dan Biggar<\/p>\n<p>No player in world rugby has ever looked more personally offended by a referee\u2019s decision. Arms out, eyebrows raised, theatrical disbelief dialled to maximum. Even neutral fans occasionally wanted to penalise him themselves.<\/p>\n<p>8. Owen Farrell<\/p>\n<p>The icy glare. The late shove. The constant simmering sense that something unpleasant is about to happen. Farrell doesn\u2019t do cartoonish shithousery \u2014 his is cold, clinical and deeply irritating.<\/p>\n<p>7. Johnny Sexton<\/p>\n<p>Every match felt like a personal vendetta. Constant complaints, relentless edge, passive-aggressive chirping and enough glaring at officials to power Dublin for a week. An all-time elite rugby irritant.<\/p>\n<p>6. Austin Healey<\/p>\n<p>Before social media, before podcasts, before rugby fully embraced chaos, there was Healey \u2014 winding people up for the love of the game. The spiritual grandfather of modern rugby shithousery.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ruck.co.uk\/rugbys-top-10-shthouses-of-the-21st-century-ranked\/2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CONTINUES ON PAGE TWO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Every great rugby team needs at least one player who can get under the opposition\u2019s skin. The best&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-609492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}