European Club Rugby

OomPB

Loftus crowd was disappointing. Pretty sure this saturdays Stormers vs Rochelle will pull a good crowd. Will be the first game on the new surface at Cape Town.

Leicester had a good crowd for the Stormers game last night.

Dodge

@OomPB said in NH club rugby:

@Dodge is this for the European Leagues round1?

those are the European Champions Cup round one home attendances

OomPB

@Dodge link please?

Dan54

@Dodge , I caught a couple of those games on weekend, Sarries ,Quins and I think Tigers playing their matches, I have to say do enjoy the comp up there (mind you I pushed to not enjoy any rugby) and even Mrs who saw bits was commenting that crowds looked bloody good.

Machpants

Arundel turns down larger offer first ever dual contact from RFU/Bath, and stays with racing. For less money and no option of an England shirt. A bit of a slap in the face

Catogrande

@Machpants said in NH club rugby:

Arundel turns down larger offer first ever dual contact from RFU/Bath, and stays with racing. For less money and no option of an England shirt. A bit of a slap in the face

Says a lot about the current England environment I feel.

Daffy Jaffy

Daffy Jaffy

Big Lesters first start (on the right wing) for Toulon v Northampton Saints, live Sky Sport 1 Saturday morning at 8:55am.

Bovidae

I watched the Stormers-La Rochelle game from Cape Town over the weekend. The main (controversial) point in this match was the influence of the home TV producer who showed head-on-head contact on the big screen which caught the attention of the ref. While the correct decision was eventually made you can clearly hear Christophe Ridley say everything had been checked off by the TMO prior to this. This resulted in a La Rochelle try being disallowed, and eventually the Stormers scored late with a clutch sideline conversion from Libbok to win the game with time up.

WR needs to sort out the correct procedure ASAP as it's not the first time this has happened in SA. I've no idea why the TMO wasn't shown the video footage first.

I can only imagine what ROG had to say post-game.

Dodge

Was at the Quins game yesterday, I have never been in a stadium live and seen a team play as well as Toulouse did. They were magnificent. Huge power, work off the ball, pace, offloads, just absolutely class. Their fans were a joy too. Quins were good in patches but just couldn’t keep up with the intensity. Cadan Murley looked injured in the warm up, can’t believe he got through as long as he did and was on crutches at the end - weird decision by the Quins coaching staff to play him. Oh and Ramos is a dick

Bones

@Dodge said in NH club rugby:

Oh and Ramos is a dick

Is that because he attacked Smith? Because if so, I'm surprised it took this long and I like him even more now.

MiketheSnow

@Bones said in NH club rugby:

@Dodge said in NH club rugby:

Oh and Ramos is a dick

Is that because he attacked Smith? Because if so, I'm surprised it took this long and I like him even more now.

If I was Smith I’d head to Super Rugby

He’d excel

Once games turn Test like, he becomes anonymous

Bones

@MiketheSnow he'd have to play for the blues.

Catogrande

@MiketheSnow said in NH club rugby:

@Bones said in NH club rugby:

@Dodge said in NH club rugby:

Oh and Ramos is a dick

Is that because he attacked Smith? Because if so, I'm surprised it took this long and I like him even more now.

If I was Smith I’d head to Super Rugby

He’d excel

Once ~~games turn Test like~~ he gets coached by the England set up and stifled by their game plan and insistence on playing Farrell as well, he becomes anonymous.

Sorted.

MiketheSnow

@Catogrande said in NH club rugby:

@MiketheSnow said in NH club rugby:

@Bones said in NH club rugby:

@Dodge said in NH club rugby:

Oh and Ramos is a dick

Is that because he attacked Smith? Because if so, I'm surprised it took this long and I like him even more now.

If I was Smith I’d head to Super Rugby

He’d excel

Once ~~games turn Test like~~ he gets coached by the England set up and stifled by their game plan and insistence on playing Farrell as well, he becomes anonymous.

Sorted.

He went AWOL last weekend playing for the Mighty Quins

Catogrande

@MiketheSnow

I’m not saying he is the messiah, I have concerns that he still tries to “make things happen” when under the cosh and there’s nothing on. But and for me this is a bigger but than Kim Kardashian’s, is that he gets selected based on his game and then is not allowed to play that game.

See also: S Barnes, A Old, D Cipriani, C Hodgson.

OomPB

The URC derbies starts this weekend. Stormers vs Bulls will be massive in Cape Town. Yesterday already 30,000 tickets sold. Bulls the favorites. Jake White did some great shopping with the likes of Willie le Roux, Wilco Louw & Akker vd Merwe.

R8 – Friday, December 22

Glasgow Warriors v Edinburgh | 19.35 IRE & UK / 20.35 ITA / 21.35 SA | Viaplay, SuperSport, Premier Sports

Ulster v Connacht | 19.35 IRE & UK / 20.35 ITA / 21.35 SA | BBC NI, TG4, Viaplay, SuperSport, Premier Sports

Saturday, December 23

Zebre Parma v Benetton | 13.00 IRE & UK / 14.00 ITA / 15.00 SA | ITA, Viaplay, SuperSport, Premier Sports

DHL Stormers v Vodacom Bulls | 17.00 IRE & UK / 18.00 ITA / 19.00 SA | SuperSport, Viaplay, Premier Sports

Tuesday, December 26

Cardiff Rugby v Dragons RFC | 15.00 IRE & UK / 16.00 ITA / 17.00 SA | BBC Wales, Viaplay, SuperSport, Premier Sports

Scarlets v Ospreys | 17.15 IRE & UK / 18.15 ITA / 19.15 SA | S4C, Viaplay, SuperSport, Premier Sports

Munster v Leinster | 19.35 IRE & UK / 20.35 ITA / 21.35 SA | RTÉ, Viaplay, SuperSport, Premier Sports

Saturday, January 6

Cell C Sharks v Emirates Lions | 15.00 IRE & UK / 16.00 ITA / 17.00 SA | SuperSport, Viaplay, Premier Sports

R9 – Saturday, December 30

Benetton v Zebre Parma | 13.30 IRE & UK / 14.30 ITA / 15.30 SA | ITA, Viaplay, SuperSport, Premier Sports

Edinburgh v Glasgow Warriors | 15.00 IRE & UK / 16.00 ITA / 17.00 SA | Viaplay, SuperSport, Premier Sports

DHL Stormers v Cell C Sharks | 17.00 IRE & UK / 18.00 ITA / 19.00 SA | SuperSport, Viaplay, Premier Sports

Monday, January 1

Ospreys v Cardiff Rugby | 15.00 IRE & UK / 16.00 ITA / 17.00 SA | BBC Wales, Viaplay, SuperSport, Premier Sports

Dragons RFC v Scarlets | 17.15 IRE & UK / 18.15 ITA / 19.15 SA | S4C, Viaplay SuperSport, Premier Sports

Leinster v Ulster | 17.15 IRE & UK / 18.15 ITA / 19.15 SA | RTÉ, Viaplay, SuperSport, Premier Sports