European Club Rugby
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Wake up on the wrong side of the bed this morning chaps?
Yes the good club/provincial sides can & do give international touring sides a hard time / a loss.
This wasn't an English club side are better than a NZ Super team pissing contest.
It was a comment on the structure of their play and tactics. Reminded me a lot of Ireland and Wales despite having lots of English internationals in the team.
And I turned over too.
To the Rugby League Challenge Cup match between Bradford and Leeds.
Far more entertaining.
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Stephen Jones is just a bit early with his gloating.
This year Crusaders vs Saracens would be a good game. Next year, the Crusaders - and I suspect most Super teams - will be significantly weaker.
Razor will need to retain people like Todd and Romano as well as unearth some real nuggets in the forwards if the Crusaders are to be realistically comparable to the best Euro teams.
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I enjoyed the final. The Saracens forward pack would be a decent match for the ABs, Australia could do worse than pick Will Skelton who is unrecognisable from his Waratah days. Leinster did a good impression of Ireland vs England in the 6N, just physically outmuscled and couldn't work a way around the defence. Not helped by a couple of howlers on attack. I would pick Saracens to win comfortably enough vs the Crusaders on English soil, probably the reverse in Chch. But if you felt the Sharks forwards went well enough in Chch, Saracens is a step up.
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I though the final was a cracking advert for weight grade rugby.
The forwards were just colossal. I don’t think it’s sustainable.
@MajorRage said in NH club rugby:
I though the final was a cracking advert for weight grade rugby.
The forwards were just colossal. I don’t think it’s sustainable.
Indeed.
There was a time when rugby league forwards and rugby union forwards were starting to look similar.
Not anymore.
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I enjoyed the final. The Saracens forward pack would be a decent match for the ABs, Australia could do worse than pick Will Skelton who is unrecognisable from his Waratah days. Leinster did a good impression of Ireland vs England in the 6N, just physically outmuscled and couldn't work a way around the defence. Not helped by a couple of howlers on attack. I would pick Saracens to win comfortably enough vs the Crusaders on English soil, probably the reverse in Chch. But if you felt the Sharks forwards went well enough in Chch, Saracens is a step up.
@Billy-Tell said in NH club rugby:
I would pick Saracens to win comfortably enough vs the Crusaders on English soil, probably the reverse in Chch. But if you felt the Sharks forwards went well enough in Chch, Saracens is a step up.
Yeah - though to be fair adding Owen Franks and Sam Whitelock to the Crusaders'starting pack vs the Sharks is also a step up.
Not to mention adding Mo'unga, Crotty and Havili to the backs - and some adjustments to the bench.
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I though the final was a cracking advert for weight grade rugby.
The forwards were just colossal. I don’t think it’s sustainable.
@MajorRage said in NH club rugby:
I though the final was a cracking advert for weight grade rugby.
The forwards were just colossal. I don’t think it’s sustainable.
It has become a different game from even a few years ago.
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Alex Goodes celebration
https://www.ruck.co.uk/timelined-the-full-story-of-alex-goodes-incredible-drinking-session/ -
funny...but he does look to have at least had a shower at some point given playing images in kit he wasnt wearing skins...
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funny...but he does look to have at least had a shower at some point given playing images in kit he wasnt wearing skins...
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@taniwharugby maybe he left them in a toilet somewhere?
But yeah I'm wondering how much of it is a publicity stunt/ jolly japes
@Machpants said in NH club rugby:
@taniwharugby maybe he left them in a toilet somewhere?
But yeah I'm wondering how much of it is a publicity stunt/ jolly japes
Who cares?
In his kit, on the piss. Happy days.
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@Machpants said in NH club rugby:
@taniwharugby maybe he left them in a toilet somewhere?
But yeah I'm wondering how much of it is a publicity stunt/ jolly japes
Who cares?
In his kit, on the piss. Happy days.
@MiketheSnow said in NH club rugby:
@Machpants said in NH club rugby:
@taniwharugby maybe he left them in a toilet somewhere?
But yeah I'm wondering how much of it is a publicity stunt/ jolly japes
Who cares?
In his kit, on the piss. Happy days.
Agreed we need more of this in Rugby. Having a great time and not hurting anybody!
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Doug Howlett will be leaving Munster and come home to NZ later this year.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/rugby/news/article.cfm?c_id=80&objectid=12233123
