European Club Rugby
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Blaming the Saffers for a failed competition make no sense. Glasgow field a B team on the weekend. Leinster do this all the time as do many French clubs for ages. The Sharks and Stormers have the most Springboks and like Plumtree quoted, they are not robots but athletes. The Stormers are under pressure in the URC with the local derbies coming up. The ruling of no SA teams can host semi finals also dont help. This will change from June 2025 after we paid our debt to become full partners.
However I think they can fix the competition easily by playing it in the end of the season. SA teams can stay and play their 2 matches or chuck the SA teams meaning we can play our CC.earlier and prepare for TRC.
i don't feel that the blame was being laid on the Saffer teams, notwithstanding the weakened sides argument. More that WITH the inclusion of the Saffer teams allied to extending the number of qualifying teams from Europe, the whole things has just become too bloated.
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Bust trio of English Premiership clubs owed the taxman £30 million in unpaid COVID loans.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/articles/cdx9y1e487yo
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Basically you Kiwi cun*s have to get in line and change your season so we can have a logical progression in the NH
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@Dodge I am going to offer a controversial opinion to express on the Fern that I think Toulouse are currently better than any team in Super Rugby.
I am going to offer an even more controversial opinion to express on here that I think this article by Stephen Jones on how to fix the European Champions Cup is pretty much spot on.
@sparky said in NH club rugby:
@Dodge I am going to offer a controversial opinion to express on the Fern that I think Toulouse are currently better than any team in Super Rugby.
I am going to offer an even more controversial opinion to express on here that I think this article by Stephen Jones on how to fix the European Champions Cup is pretty much spot on.
I think you should be permabanned for posting a readable Jones article.
TBF, I guess a Jones clock is going to strike 12 at least once in every 30 years.
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It's rather to the NH to change its season as December and January matches are often played under woeful weather conditions.
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@Daffy-Jaffy said in NH club rugby:
Didn't show the Aki incident but Leinster were just better
Barrett is having a ball
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@Daffy-Jaffy earning his Irish atripes
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Oh that yellow card against was it Jennings? Absolute bullshit, braced himself for a player running directly into him, should've been a penalty the other way.
@Bones said in NH club rugby:
Oh that yellow card against was it Jennings? Absolute bullshit, braced himself for a player running directly into him, should've been a penalty the other way.
Nah
He made himself as wide as possible and leaned to starboard
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It was a good rant from Hansen and obviously heartfelt but I'm not sure he was following the match. 2 yellow cards for Leinster v zero for Connacht wasn't it? Mind you Jennings lucky not to see yellow as well.
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It was a good rant from Hansen and obviously heartfelt but I'm not sure he was following the match. 2 yellow cards for Leinster v zero for Connacht wasn't it? Mind you Jennings lucky not to see yellow as well.
@Catogrande said in NH club rugby:
It was a good rant from Hansen and obviously heartfelt but I'm not sure he was following the match. 2 yellow cards for Leinster v zero for Connacht wasn't it? Mind you Jennings lucky not to see yellow as well.
Hansen looking for excuses. I really strongly dislike the 'whaah the refs don't like us' !! If there one thing that really pisses me is the refs are against us comments by players or supporters. Coached for plenty of years and first thing I ever taught players whether kids or adults is the ref is always right , even when he wrong. And players/coahes (or supporters) who use refs as excuse do themselves no favours. I have watched/coached etc rugby from schoolboy level to senior 1st, and yet to see ref make more mistakes than the players on the field!
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Oh that yellow card against was it Jennings? Absolute bullshit, braced himself for a player running directly into him, should've been a penalty the other way.
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@Bones said in NH club rugby:
Oh that yellow card against was it Jennings? Absolute bullshit, braced himself for a player running directly into him, should've been a penalty the other way.
I thought the same while watching the highlights..
@Nepia said in NH club rugby:
@Bones said in NH club rugby:
Oh that yellow card against was it Jennings? Absolute bullshit, braced himself for a player running directly into him, should've been a penalty the other way.
I thought the same while watching the highlights..
Nah. Dipped his shoulder into the attacker with a slight change of direction for me. Not the worst by any but these days you just can’t take that chance. Did he get yellow? On the highlights I saw I wasn’t sure.
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@Catogrande said in NH club rugby:
It was a good rant from Hansen and obviously heartfelt but I'm not sure he was following the match. 2 yellow cards for Leinster v zero for Connacht wasn't it? Mind you Jennings lucky not to see yellow as well.
Hansen looking for excuses. I really strongly dislike the 'whaah the refs don't like us' !! If there one thing that really pisses me is the refs are against us comments by players or supporters. Coached for plenty of years and first thing I ever taught players whether kids or adults is the ref is always right , even when he wrong. And players/coahes (or supporters) who use refs as excuse do themselves no favours. I have watched/coached etc rugby from schoolboy level to senior 1st, and yet to see ref make more mistakes than the players on the field!
100%. Disrespect for the referee is the main reason I don’t watch football any more. Once you allow that the sporting spectacle has gone.
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@Nepia said in NH club rugby:
@Bones said in NH club rugby:
Oh that yellow card against was it Jennings? Absolute bullshit, braced himself for a player running directly into him, should've been a penalty the other way.
I thought the same while watching the highlights..
Nah. Dipped his shoulder into the attacker with a slight change of direction for me. Not the worst by any but these days you just can’t take that chance. Did he get yellow? On the highlights I saw I wasn’t sure.
@Catogrande said in NH club rugby:
@Nepia said in NH club rugby:
@Bones said in NH club rugby:
Oh that yellow card against was it Jennings? Absolute bullshit, braced himself for a player running directly into him, should've been a penalty the other way.
I thought the same while watching the highlights..
Nah. Dipped his shoulder into the attacker with a slight change of direction for me. Not the worst by any but these days you just can’t take that chance. Did he get yellow? On the highlights I saw I wasn’t sure.
Well there was a yellow card immediately following it in the highlights, but yeah they were shit, disjointed highlights that just seemed to be random snippets of anything other than highlights.
