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Sarries look pretty unstoppable at home at the moment. Score was a fair reflection of the game for me, especially give they had 3/4 tries called back by the TMO. Actually pretty decent to watch these days. Lots of go forward, managed to engineer plenty of holes in the Glasgow defence with Farrell having a decent game pulling the strings at 10. That said, Munster in Dublin will be a much harder test and could go either way.
Complete opposite from Wasps yesterday, who definitely have a weak underbelly despite the galacticos they've assembled. Well beaten by a good Leinster team.
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@Stargazer said in NH club rugby:
Sad to read this: Conrad Smith's French rugby horror show continues
He had a pretty blessed run with the ABs compared to most and I could think of worse things than being an injured pro rugby player in France.
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@MN5 said in NH club rugby:
He had a pretty blessed run with the ABs compared to most
He had a bad run of injuries at the start of career didn't he?
I remember some posters here questioning if he had the durability to play Tests matches.. they were almost as wrong as the people who said Mealamu wasn't physical enough to handle Super Rugby
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@MN5 said in NH club rugby:
@Stargazer said in NH club rugby:
Sad to read this: Conrad Smith's French rugby horror show continues
He had a pretty blessed run with the ABs compared to most and I could think of worse things than being an injured pro rugby player in France.
Strange comment. Does that make it any less sad for him to be out injured like that? Badly injured is badly injured.
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@Stargazer said in NH club rugby:
@MN5 said in NH club rugby:
@Stargazer said in NH club rugby:
Sad to read this: Conrad Smith's French rugby horror show continues
He had a pretty blessed run with the ABs compared to most and I could think of worse things than being an injured pro rugby player in France.
Strange comment. Does that make it any less sad for him to be out injured like that? Badly injured is badly injured.
Not strange at all, he's had a career that few can match and hopefully he'll make a full recovery. It's not like he's an up and comer who ended up quadraplegic before even getting a chance to play test rugby. I'm sure it's frustrating as hell for him but not the end of the world.
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@Billy-Tell said in NH club rugby:
Anyone else watching Leinster vs Wasps? Kurtley Beale with an absolutely scintillating break to put Le Roux away - who dropped it over the line. Otherwise Leinster a class above so far, just steamrolling what is currently the top side of the English championship. Cipriani has been woeful for Wasps.
And Jimmy Goperth looking like one of Wasps best players in that game & all season at 12. Jeez he has had a great second career up north
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@Stargazer said in NH club rugby:
@MN5 said in NH club rugby:
@Stargazer said in NH club rugby:
Sad to read this: Conrad Smith's French rugby horror show continues
He had a pretty blessed run with the ABs compared to most and I could think of worse things than being an injured pro rugby player in France.
Strange comment. Does that make it any less sad for him to be out injured like that? Badly injured is badly injured.
Agree with MN5, Conrad's had a great career and it's now winding down. If I was the POTUS and I was about to end a tweet I'd say "Not that sad!"
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@profitius said in NH club rugby:
Next year's champions cup final is going to be in Spain. Bilbao the place. It's good timing because rugby is on the rise in Spain. They got 25,000 for their own league final last season.
Steven Jones will be happy, his dream of Spain replacing the ABs in world rugby is one step closer!
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@Nepia said in NH club rugby:
@profitius said in NH club rugby:
Next year's champions cup final is going to be in Spain. Bilbao the place. It's good timing because rugby is on the rise in Spain. They got 25,000 for their own league final last season.
Steven Jones will be happy, his dream of Spain replacing the ABs in world rugby is one step closer!
Their U20s just missed out on qualification for this year's U20 world championship in Georgia. They led Samoa by 8th points with 9min to go in last year's U20 trophy final.
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Straight into a comentating gig on Sky last Saturday morning for the Super Rugby coverage too, he was pretty good opposite Noddy. A hell of a lot better than Fitzy tends to be, good chance to step into the roles that Ali Williams had sewn up until he got nose snuffle issues & shot his future earning in the face.
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Toulouse loosie and former France captain (80 caps) Thierry Dusautoir has announced today that he will retire from rugby at the end of the season.
Thierry Dusautoir annonce la fin de sa carrière en fin de saison
Thierry Dusautoir (35 ans) a annoncé ce mercredi matin en conférence de presse la fin de sa carrière, à l'issue de la saison en cours. Avec le départ de l'ancien capitaine des Bleus (80 sélections) et de Toulouse, une page du rugby français se tourne.
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Nasi Manu moving from Edinburgh to Treviso at the end of the season
http://www.scrummagazine.com/2017/04/19/lifelong-friends-made-edinburgh-manu-away-italy/
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Andre Taylor moving from Kintetsu Liners to Sanix Blues. All fine, but geez, playing for Japan? Trying not to judge because if you're not good enough for the ABs but are still dreaming of playing international footy.... I can - sort of - understand that.
I have already seen people fuming on social media about "too many foreigners" in the Brave Blossoms taking the spots of Japanese players. Can't really blame them.
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@Stargazer That sort of mercenary professionalism should be dealt with by World Rugby. Time for Pichot's better rules.
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