Scrum

For a film abouta team of rugby players competing for a hallowed Cup, Poppy Stockell’sScrumshirks much of what is expected of asports documentary, taking one of the early lines ofvoiceover as its mantra – “it’s not just rugby.” What it is, then, is a story about connection and acceptance. Following the 2014 Bingham Cup campaign of Australia’s first gay and inclusive rugby union team, the Sydney Convicts, the film finds its strengths in small, intimate moments – the camaraderie of training se...