European Club Rugby
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Some highlights. Seen him play a few times at hooker for Wellington College (not that one) and backrow for London Irish. Plays like the highlights. Big hits and some abrasive carrying in the tight, but generally unflashy. Not sure about his drop goal game.
@Margin_Walker cheers. Solid looking player
I have to say highlight reels are starting to have a different meaning. Some of the "highlights" of him running the ball up with the effectiveness of Owen Franks could possibly be removed.
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@Margin_Walker cheers. Solid looking player
I have to say highlight reels are starting to have a different meaning. Some of the "highlights" of him running the ball up with the effectiveness of Owen Franks could possibly be removed.
@Bones said in NH club rugby:
@Margin_Walker cheers. Solid looking player
I have to say highlight reels are starting to have a different meaning. Some of the "highlights" of him running the ball up with the effectiveness of Ben Franks could possibly be removed.
Fixed that for you.
I don't think the All Blacks are missing out too much here. Not much about him screams future superstar at the moment and he's not troubled the England age grade selectors so far. You never know though.
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@Bones said in NH club rugby:
@Margin_Walker cheers. Solid looking player
I have to say highlight reels are starting to have a different meaning. Some of the "highlights" of him running the ball up with the effectiveness of Ben Franks could possibly be removed.
Fixed that for you.
I don't think the All Blacks are missing out too much here. Not much about him screams future superstar at the moment and he's not troubled the England age grade selectors so far. You never know though.
@Margin_Walker oh you reckon my eyes fail me and he was actually making half a metre more than I thought?
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@Margin_Walker oh you reckon my eyes fail me and he was actually making half a metre more than I thought?
@Bones Meh, Ben must have toned down his epic carrying game when he came north then. I never saw any of those half a metres.
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Sound move.
@Bones said in NH club rugby:
Sound move.
Yep
Only going to play for Wales if we have a calamity at 9.
4th choice on his best day.
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@Bones said in NH club rugby:
Sound move.
Yep
Only going to play for Wales if we have a calamity at 9.
4th choice on his best day.
@MiketheSnow said in NH club rugby:
@Bones said in NH club rugby:
Sound move.
Yep
Only going to play for Wales if we have a calamity at 9.
4th choice on his best day.
Shit, that guy got a chin for Xmas.
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@Stargazer Is he still shit do you know? Or did he massively improve after leaving NZ?
Naturally, I assume he's still injured.
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@Stargazer Where's @Davidav?
@sparky said in NH club rugby:
@Stargazer Where's @Davidav?
I believe he imploded after ICE won a medal at the RWC.
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I've copied and pasted the bits about Japan from the article below, because I've now read the same view in several articles. I definitely wouldn't count on Japan, or Japanese clubs, becoming part of a future TRC or SR competition just yet.
.Over in Japan some believe it may already be too late, regardless of the post-coronavirus landscape. With 30 years of experience in sports marketing worldwide, Robert Maes knows his subject and says rugby union’s rulers need to wise up.
“The players are professional but the global management isn’t,” he says. “They bury their heads in the sand and think a shining knight will come on a big white horse and say: ‘Here is a billion dollars’. That’s what everyone is hoping for but that’s not running or organising a global sport.”
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Having recently been invited to raise funds for cash-strapped Asia Rugby, Maes is also highly sceptical of claims that last year’s World Cup in Japan will usher in an era of oval-ball prosperity across the region. “The JRFU are worse than World Rugby, which is hard to imagine. They never prepared for anything after the World Cup. It all looked very nice to the outside world but afterwards there is nothing left. Good luck trying to sell a rugby shirt here now. It’s completely finished.
“In Japan we’re looking at the death of rugby. The future is very, very bleak. The clubs will still pay big salaries for a couple of years but it’s basically just a few rich companies pouring money in because they’re old school and their executives played rugby themselves. They talk about the World Cup legacy but the sport is shrinking in Japan.”
This is absolutely not what World Rugby wants to hear. The governing body prefers to highlight the estimated wider economic impact of RWC 2019 to Japan of £3.9bn and research suggesting 49 million Japanese are now “interested” in rugby.
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I've copied and pasted the bits about Japan from the article below, because I've now read the same view in several articles. I definitely wouldn't count on Japan, or Japanese clubs, becoming part of a future TRC or SR competition just yet.
.Over in Japan some believe it may already be too late, regardless of the post-coronavirus landscape. With 30 years of experience in sports marketing worldwide, Robert Maes knows his subject and says rugby union’s rulers need to wise up.
“The players are professional but the global management isn’t,” he says. “They bury their heads in the sand and think a shining knight will come on a big white horse and say: ‘Here is a billion dollars’. That’s what everyone is hoping for but that’s not running or organising a global sport.”
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Having recently been invited to raise funds for cash-strapped Asia Rugby, Maes is also highly sceptical of claims that last year’s World Cup in Japan will usher in an era of oval-ball prosperity across the region. “The JRFU are worse than World Rugby, which is hard to imagine. They never prepared for anything after the World Cup. It all looked very nice to the outside world but afterwards there is nothing left. Good luck trying to sell a rugby shirt here now. It’s completely finished.
“In Japan we’re looking at the death of rugby. The future is very, very bleak. The clubs will still pay big salaries for a couple of years but it’s basically just a few rich companies pouring money in because they’re old school and their executives played rugby themselves. They talk about the World Cup legacy but the sport is shrinking in Japan.”
This is absolutely not what World Rugby wants to hear. The governing body prefers to highlight the estimated wider economic impact of RWC 2019 to Japan of £3.9bn and research suggesting 49 million Japanese are now “interested” in rugby.
@Stargazer I'm shocked. shocked i tell you.
I can't work out whether World Rugby are complete fucking idiots, or really are hell bent on centering Rugby in Europe, based on the Club game, to be just like Soccer.
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@Stargazer I'm shocked. shocked i tell you.
I can't work out whether World Rugby are complete fucking idiots, or really are hell bent on centering Rugby in Europe, based on the Club game, to be just like Soccer.
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@mariner4life The problem here is the JRFU. This is not about World Rugby for once.
@Stargazer said in NH club rugby:
@mariner4life The problem here is the JRFU. This is not about World Rugby for once.
I'm not absolving the JRFU of anything, i have heard enough about them in the past for this not to be a surprise at all.
My shot at World Rugby is their constant bullshit lip service to "growing the game" when they do anything but. Anyone who thought that holding a World Cup in Japan, a mature rugby market, was going to do anything, is fucking deluded. So again, they are either idiots, or actually not focused on "growth" at all.
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Leicester Tigers in deep, deep financial doodoo. Jordan Taufua and Manu Tuilagi released.
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Leicester Tigers in deep, deep financial doodoo. Jordan Taufua and Manu Tuilagi released.
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@sparky Tuilagi is big, big news.
