NH club rugby
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@Pot-Hale said in NH club rugby:
@Catogrande said in NH club rugby:
@Pot-Hale said in NH club rugby:
Exeter would be a brilliant breakthrough and I'm looking forward to see if they can make the Prem final and win this year.
As requested.
Cracking final.
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@MiketheSnow Yeah a great game and a fairy tale ending for Exeter. There will be beer flowing down this way tonight
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@Frye said in NH club rugby:
Munster are getting pumped by Scarlets in the Pro12 final.
29-3 after 30 minutes.
Highly enjoyable.
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The Top 14 Final next weekend will be played between Toulon and Clermont. Again!
While Toulon only narrowly beat La Rochelle 18-15 last night, Clermont dominated the second semi-final against Racing 92, despite playing the second half with only 14 men due to a red card to Flip van der Merwe for a high tackle. They defeated Racing 37 to 31.
Chris Masoe scored two tries for Racing during this game and converted the last try of what was his last game as a professional rugby player! Tameifuna scored the other try for Racing. Fritz Lee scored one of the Clermont tries, with Camille Lopez dotting down 2 and Damian Penaud one.
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So Exeter and Scarlets are two refreshing winners of their leagues that knocks over the hegemony of the bigger clubs that have dominated for a while.
Very pleased for Scarlets and can only hope this gives a boost to regional rugby in Wales next season and get more punters through the gates.
Don't know the injury count yet to see if it's affected any Lions tourists but a good end to the NH season.
Roll on September.
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@Stargazer and boy did they try hard to throw it away again. Always happy to see Toulon lose. The state of some of their players is a disgrace.
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Saw Ma'a Nonu's highlights from the final, looks like he had a bit of a day out with ball in hand, some nice offloads in contact as well
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@mariner4life said in NH club rugby:
Saw Ma'a Nonu's highlights from the final, looks like he had a bit of a day out with ball in hand, some nice offloads in contact as well
He was MOTM for me. Boy Toulon have some real fattys in their squad though.
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Francis Saili moves from Munster to Harlequins, where he's signed a "long-term contract". Not sure for how many years that is.
http://www.quins.co.uk/news/all-black-francis-saili-joins-harlequins/
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The two SA clubs being axed from Super Rugby - Cheetahs and Kings - are likely to join the PRO12 from this September. Negotiations have been underway with Martin Anayi, PRO12 CEO and SARU over the last number of months.
PRO12 have been planning to move to a two conference structure for the 2017/18 season with a new TV deal with Sky Sports up for negotiation. The SA teams will bring a €12m deal with them including travel costs and SA TV rights monies.
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@Pot-Hale I was gonna say it'll be interesting to see how the timing works - might see some players featuring in both comps perhaps?
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@Pot-Hale said in NH club rugby:
The two SA clubs being axed from Super Rugby - Cheetahs and Kings - are likely to join the PRO12 from this September. Negotiations have been underway with Martin Anayi, PRO12 CEO and SARU over the last number of months.
PRO12 have been planning to move to a two conference structure for the 2017/18 season with a new TV deal with Sky Sports up for negotiation. The SA teams will bring a €12m deal with them including travel costs and SA TV rights monies.
Based where?
Europe or SA?
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@MiketheSnow said in NH club rugby:
@Pot-Hale said in NH club rugby:
The two SA clubs being axed from Super Rugby - Cheetahs and Kings - are likely to join the PRO12 from this September. Negotiations have been underway with Martin Anayi, PRO12 CEO and SARU over the last number of months.
PRO12 have been planning to move to a two conference structure for the 2017/18 season with a new TV deal with Sky Sports up for negotiation. The SA teams will bring a €12m deal with them including travel costs and SA TV rights monies.
Based where?
Europe or SA?
I can't see any official news released about it,
I see the figure "12m" used as a description of the total current TV revenue (in £),
And the assumption seems to be teams would be based in SA.But yeah, every bit of news I can see about it is just quoting somebody else talking about the possibility - no concrete facts/confirmation.
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@Bones said in NH club rugby:
@Kruse ouch to SA pitches in summer.
Ooh - yeah, that could be nasty. Just looking at average temperatures/rainfall/rain-days - Port Elizabeth doesn't look like it would be that bad... but Cape Town could be a bit of a surprise to some Scots, at the least.
