European Club Rugby
-
@mariner4life said in NH club rugby:
This really is astounding. Now, personally, this looks completely the correct decision.
However, either i have not correctly interpreted the latest guidelines, or the panel have just completely ignored them.
Yep, me too, they said he was set for a OK tackle but Parling being knocked out by Barrit meant it was a head high. So thats sensible, but the new laws read like that mitigation doesn't count.
-
@Crucial said in NH club rugby:
On a slightly different note I read someone on the rugbyrefs site put up the idea of a colored hoop across the jersey from armpit to nipple (roughly). Tackle (or line up) below this line and you are not to blame. Above the line is RC, within the line means you take the responsibility to get it right and not have head contact.
Someone's always got a stupid idea. All that would lead to is arguments about whether it was above, on or below this ugly hoop. The current law is simple enough to understand; dive head first at tacklers.
-
European Championship Cup and Challenge Cup games televised in NZ at the Rugby Channel (NZT):
Sat 8.40am: Leinster v Montpellier (Champ Cup - live) / replays Sat 2.00pm, Sat 8.00pm
Sat 11.00am: Bristol v Bath (Chall Cup - delayed) / replay Sat 10.00pm
Sun 1.55am: Connacht v Zebre (Champ Cup - live)
Sun 4.10am: Wasps v Toulouse (Champ Cup - live) / replay Sun 3.30pm
Sun 6.25am: Glasgow Warriors v Munster (Champ Cup - live)
Sun 8:40am: Racing 92 v Leicester Tigers (Champ Cup - live)
Sun 11.00am: Northampton Saints v Castres (Champ Cup - delayed)
Sun 1.00pm: Brive v Worcester Warriors (Chall Cup - delayed)There are more games (replays and live games) in Sky's tv schedule, but they don't say which games.
-
Leinster making mincemeat of the Sharks/Brumbies Old Boys side that is Montpellier.
Francis Steyn red carded for a flying coat hook to Sextons head.
The greatest number eight of all time that ever existed in Piers Spies has been anonymous.
-
Committed and Sexton ducked into it.
-
-
Charlie with a couple of well taken tries for Ulster, in a losing cause.
-
@Billy-Tell Video?
-
@Tim said in NH club rugby:
@Billy-Tell Video?
Best I can find.
5 tries for kiwis anyway: piutau 2 Waldron 2 reidy
-
@Billy-Tell Thanks dude.
-
@Tim said in NH club rugby:
That was a pretty shoddy tackle attempt from him though.
It was. He looks completely disinterested. Ulster are a shambles.
-
@Pot-Hale He looked well up for it with the ball in hand but less so in defence all night. Was probably still the class act o the field though - close between him and Nowell.
-
@Pot-Hale said in NH club rugby:
@Tim said in NH club rugby:
That was a pretty shoddy tackle attempt from him though.
It was. He looks completely disinterested. Ulster are a shambles.
Did you watch the game? He was very busy all night and his only mistake was that missed tackle on Nowell (and a bit of dodgy restart when Jackson was in the bin). Ulster are not a shambles. They just don't have a very good forward pack.
-
@Billy-Tell said in NH club rugby:
@Pot-Hale said in NH club rugby:
@Tim said in NH club rugby:
That was a pretty shoddy tackle attempt from him though.
It was. He looks completely disinterested. Ulster are a shambles.
Did you watch the game? He was very busy all night and his only mistake was that missed tackle on Nowell (and a bit of dodgy restart when Jackson was in the bin). Ulster are not a shambles. They just don't have a very good forward pack.
Bolded = A shambles.
Ask any forward.
-
@Billy-Tell said in NH club rugby:
@Pot-Hale said in NH club rugby:
@Tim said in NH club rugby:
That was a pretty shoddy tackle attempt from him though.
It was. He looks completely disinterested. Ulster are a shambles.
Did you watch the game? He was very busy all night and his only mistake was that missed tackle on Nowell (and a bit of dodgy restart when Jackson was in the bin). Ulster are not a shambles. They just don't have a very good forward pack.
I did watch it. And I watched Piutau at the game in the RDS - hence my observation.
Shanahan is not a good enough standard scrum-half for a must-win European game. The back-line play was obvious and evident and once Exeter had worked that out and Jackson's plays, they were pretty muted. The pack is seriously missing talent in the locks and back row.
Ulster are unfortunate in signing Marcel Coetzee for this season and then him not being available due to injury. They'll need him and Pienaar back badly if they want to hit the top 6 which they're in danger of missing out on.
Signs on it that today that Ulster have announced the signing of No 9, John Cooney from Connacht (brilliant game deputising at 10 at the weekend) for next season to replace Pienaar. And they've also signed Arno Botha - a capped NIQ - to come into the back row. And they plan to announce another second row player in the next few weeks. I also suspect that Kiss will stay put, but Nucifora will help give the chop to local assistant coaches Clarke and Doak, and bring in other foreign coaches to support Kiss.
