European Club Rugby
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Watched Scarlets take down La Rochelle. Inexplicably Kerr-Barlow was on the bench. The LR starting 9 was pure gash
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Just looking at the latest update on Irish senior squad provincial hires, transfers and releases for 2018/19.
Ulster
In
Moore - Irl capped
Murphy Irl capped
Addison (Eng) IQ uncapped
Out
Piutau (NZ) - Bristol - capped
Herron (Eng) - Jersey Reds - uncapped
Bowe - ret.
Black (IQ) - Worcs - uncappedConnacht
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Claffey, Gallagher, O'Donnell (Irl) - Academy
Copeland (Irl) capped
Godwin (Aus) capped
Horwitz (Aus) uncappedOut
Heenan (NZ) uncapped - Bristol
Pita Ahki (NZ) uncapped - released
Ilii (NZ) uncapped - released
Deegan (Aus) - Brumbies - capped
Dawai (Fij) - capped - released
Muldoon (Irl) - ret.
Coulson (Irl) - released
Brennan (Irl) - released
O'Toole (Irl) - released
Crosbie (Irl) - releasedLeinster
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Larmour (Irl) Academy - capped
Out
Murphy (Irl) - Ulster - capped
Heaslip (Irl) ret.Munster
In
O'Connor, Wycherley, Nash (Irl) - academy
Beirne (Irl) uncapped
Haley (Eng) - IQ uncapped
Out
Zebo (Irl) - Racing - capped
Copeland (Irl) - Connacht - capped4 NZ leaving
1 Aus leaving
1 Fiji leaving
1 Eng leaving
2 Irish leaving Ireland
2 Irish transfer between provinces
2 Irish retired
4 Irish released2 Irish returning
2 Aus NIQ
2 Eng IQ
7 Irish academy
2 Irish transferringThe foreign player contingent seems to be changing - so far anyway
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Connacht having a cleanout.
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@antipodean said in NH club rugby:
Connacht having a cleanout.
Aye - and there’s more to leave apparently.
And up in the north, once the IRFU/Ulster Rugby complete their review of the Jackson/Olding case, I expect a few more of the lead-swingers in the squad to be gone too.
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Munster look like they’re down and out after conceding a score and are 6 points down to Toulon in the last five minutes of the European Cup quarterfinal. Trinh-Duc receives the ball from a breakdown and kicks for safety of touch on the halfway line. Except, Andrew Conway used to play GAA football and is used to fielding overhead balls. 8 seconds later, Thomond Park lifts off...
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Conway is bloody rapid! Great hands, pretty much saw the try line as soon as he caught it
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@paekakboyz said in NH club rugby:
Conway is bloody rapid! Great hands, pretty much saw the try line as soon as he caught it
He took his chance bloody well but where was the kick chase? Where was the defence?
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@catogrande said in NH club rugby:
@paekakboyz said in NH club rugby:
Conway is bloody rapid! Great hands, pretty much saw the try line as soon as he caught it
He took his chance bloody well but where was the kick chase? Where was the defence?
No no you’re doing this all wrong. Weak defence only exists in Super Rugby.
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@billy-tell said in NH club rugby:
@catogrande said in NH club rugby:
@paekakboyz said in NH club rugby:
Conway is bloody rapid! Great hands, pretty much saw the try line as soon as he caught it
He took his chance bloody well but where was the kick chase? Where was the defence?
No no you’re doing this all wrong. Weak defence only exists in Super Rugby.
Oh man, sorry. Schoolboy error.
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Brilliant game at a packed Lansdowne Road for the Leinster v Saracens QF. Raucous atmosphere for an Easter Sunday game with both sides giving it their all. It finished 30-19 to the Boys in Blue - Dan Leavy got himself a try and my Motm - he’s having a superb season. Ringrose scores early on and looks have made the 13 shirt his own.
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So it's
Champions Cup semi-finals - 21/22 April
SF1: Leinster v Scarlets - Aviva Stadium, Dublin
SF2: Racing 92 v Munster - Stade Chaban-Delmas, BordeauxNo English side for quite some time
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Leinster v Munster in Bilbao....
A tempting prospect for Irish fans.
Although as ardent Catholics, we all know temptation leads to a sin so I’ll be cheering on Scarlets and Racing.
Well nearly kinda cheering.
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@pot-hale said in NH club rugby:
Leinster v Munster in Bilbao....
A tempting prospect for Irish fans.
Although as ardent Catholics, we all know temptation leads to a sin so I’ll be cheering on Scarlets and Racing.
Well nearly kinda cheering.
A little bit, in anyway.I hope it’s not an Irish derby. Great for Irish fans a bit of a yawn fest for everyone else not least because Leinster would wipe the floor with munster.
Leinster or scarlets vs racing would be my wish.
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@mikethesnow said in NH club rugby:
So it's
Champions Cup semi-finals - 21/22 April
SF1: Leinster v Scarlets - Aviva Stadium, Dublin
SF2: Racing 92 v Munster - Stade Chaban-Delmas, BordeauxNo English side for quite some time
Que?
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@catogrande said in NH club rugby:
@mikethesnow said in NH club rugby:
So it's
Champions Cup semi-finals - 21/22 April
SF1: Leinster v Scarlets - Aviva Stadium, Dublin
SF2: Racing 92 v Munster - Stade Chaban-Delmas, BordeauxNo English side for quite some time
Que?
Just pointing out that after Saracens dominance the past two seasons and losing finalist 4 seasons ago not to have an English team in the last 4 is a big change
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@mikethesnow said in NH club rugby:
@catogrande said in NH club rugby:
@mikethesnow said in NH club rugby:
So it's
Champions Cup semi-finals - 21/22 April
SF1: Leinster v Scarlets - Aviva Stadium, Dublin
SF2: Racing 92 v Munster - Stade Chaban-Delmas, BordeauxNo English side for quite some time
Que?
Just pointing out that after Saracens dominance the past two seasons and losing finalist 4 seasons ago not to have an English team in the last 4 is a big change
Ah, I read it that you thought that there hadn't been an English team for some time.
Nope, we've underachieved by a long way this season both domestically and internationally.
