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This weekend's European Champions & Challenge Cup games & NZ broadcast times (Rugby Channel):
Sat 21/1, 8.40am: Castres v Leinster (LIVE - Champ Cup pool 4) - replay Sat 2pm, 8pm
Sat 21/1, 11.00am: Montpellier v Northampton Saints (Delayed - Champ Cup pool 4) - replay Sat 10.30pm, Mon 6.30pmSun 22/1, 2.00am: Ulster v Bordeaux-Begles (LIVE - Champ Cup pool 5) - replay Mon 12.00am
Sun 22/1, 4.15am: Sale Sharks v Scarlets (LIVE - Champ Cup pool 3) - replay Wed 2.30pm
Sun 22/1, 6.30am: Leicester Tigers v Glasgow Warriors (LIVE - Champ Cup pool 1) - replay Sun 6.00pm
Sun 22/1, 8.40am: Clermont v Exeter Chiefs (Delayed - Champ Cup pool 5) - replay Sun 8.00pm
Sun 22/1, 11.00am: Saracens v Toulon (Delayed - champ Cup pool 3) - replay Sun 10.00pm
Sun 22/1, 1.00pm: Munster v Racing 92 (Delayed - Champ Cup pool 1) - replay Mon 11.00am, 8.30pm
Sun 22/1, 3.00pm: La Rochelle v Treviso (Delayed - Chall Cup pool 1) - replay Thu 4.30pmMon 23/1, 2.00am: Stade Francais v Harlequins (LIVE - Chall Cup pool 5) - replay Mon 8.30am
Mon 23/1, 4.15am: Toulouse v Connacht (LIVE - Champ Cup pool 2) - replay Mon 1:00pm
Mon 23/1, 6.30am: Zebre v Wasps (Delayed - Champ Cup pool 2) - replay Mon 4.30pmThere are more replays througout the week.
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I watched bits of Leinster v Castre the other day. Leinster looked pretty good except for their halfback, who barely looked club standard. Pot Hale is he their usual bloke? he was fucking terrible, and stifled so many attacks.
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Jamison Gibson Park
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@mariner4life said in NH club rugby:
I watched bits of Leinster v Castre the other day. Leinster looked pretty good except for their halfback, who barely looked club standard. Pot Hale is he their usual bloke? he was fucking terrible, and stifled so many attacks.
Luke McGrath, yeah he is their first choice. Superb athlete but his skills lets him down. They've been spending a few years trying to upskill him and overall he mixes the good with the bad but imo his basics are not good enough and it often leads to error ridden performances. He is probably Ireland's 3rd choice in that position!
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I see Munster have signed three players from English Premiership and Top 14 clubs for next season - James Hart, scrum half from Racing 92 and formerly Grenoble, Chris Farrell from Grenoble, and JJ Harrahan moves back from Northampton to his old province.
Good signs to see all three are Irish-born/qualified.
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Jono Gibbes leaving Clermont to become the new Head Coach of Ulster (2 year contract)
News | news 15731.php | Ulster Rugby
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According to the French paper Midi Olympique, Ma'a Nonu has extended his contract with Toulon with one year.
https://www.midi-olympique.fr/breve/28530-maa-nonu-un-an-plus-au-rct
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Apparently DC has been caught driving almost twice the legal limit and not carrying a licence.
Surely this is Steve TEw and NZ Rugby's fault too?
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@taniwharugby said in NH club rugby:
Apparently DC has been caught driving almost twice the legal limit and not carrying a licence.
Surely this is Steve TEw and NZ Rugby's fault too?
Blame the Chiefs
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I have no idea what penalties are usually handed out or whether it impacts his visa/ work permit but French drink driving laws have got quite strict from what I have read. I know that you are expected to carry your own breathalyzer in your car at all times so there is no excuse of not knowing if you are over or not. You can be heavily fined just for not carrying one.
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@Crucial All that's true but remember, this is France. You sometimes get the idea that the laws are only applied every other day or something.
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@Catogrande said in NH club rugby:
@Crucial All that's true but remember, this is France. You sometimes get the idea that the laws are only applied every other day or something.
My theory for adhering to their law despite knowing this was that I had a 'GB' number plate making me a prime target for a gendarme wanting to get his quota with some Rosbifs.
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@Crucial said in NH club rugby:
@Catogrande said in NH club rugby:
@Crucial All that's true but remember, this is France. You sometimes get the idea that the laws are only applied every other day or something.
My theory for adhering to their law despite knowing this was that I had a 'GB' number plate making me a prime target for a gendarme wanting to get his quota with some Rosbifs.
Yep - I did the research into their batshit-crazy laws for motorcyclists before a trip over there - and was very very tempted to ignore half of them... but figured that "GB" would be a fucking malign-cop-magnet.
For a while - every motorist had to carry 2 "hazard triangle signs" to put out if they break down. Including bikers. WTF?
And I believe you still have to put 4 reflective stickers of a certain size on your helmet, which have to be of a design that they will "damage the helmet if ever removed". -
@Kruse said in NH club rugby:
@Crucial said in NH club rugby:
@Catogrande said in NH club rugby:
@Crucial All that's true but remember, this is France. You sometimes get the idea that the laws are only applied every other day or something.
My theory for adhering to their law despite knowing this was that I had a 'GB' number plate making me a prime target for a gendarme wanting to get his quota with some Rosbifs.
Yep - I did the research into their batshit-crazy laws for motorcyclists before a trip over there - and was very very tempted to ignore half of them... but figured that "GB" would be a fucking malign-cop-magnet.
For a while - every motorist had to carry 2 "hazard triangle signs" to put out if they break down. Including bikers. WTF?
And I believe you still have to put 4 reflective stickers of a certain size on your helmet, which have to be of a design that they will "damage the helmet if ever removed".It is also classed as a 'Major Offence' (high fines, imprisonment and loss of licence) to have a sat nav identifying speed camera locations. As most garmins and TomToms do this in their default settings you need to find the menu to toggle this off as you sure as hell won't have time to do it if you get pulled over for any reason and they want to check.
Fuckin hated having that GB label on the vehicle.Oh, and you still have to carry all of that 'emergency equipment' like triangles AND you have to have a hi-vis vest within easy reach to put on. Can't have it in the boot.
