European Club Rugby
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@pakman said in NH club rugby:
Went to the Toulon match. Home crowd were not happy! Ashton is most definitely not a 15.
Very cold in first half. Bath 12, Ben Tuapai, looked very sharp.
Agreed, he's a winger and that's it. A shame though that the howler that led to Joseph's try for Bath was more the fault of the idiot that threw the quick line out. Shame because that will symbolise Ashton at 15 for evermore.
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Watching a Bristol game at the moment and it is a massacre. Quite obviously a Premiership team playing a level below where they should be.
Even with that they are probably the level of a good, but not really good NPC side.As an indicator, Tusi Pisi looks a star at this level.
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I'll do a Stargazer and this is the Bristol lineup
15. Jordan Williams; 14. Luke Morahan, 13. Siale Piutau, 12. Tusi Pisi (c), 11. Alapati Leiua, 10. Ian Madigan, 9. Rhodri Williams, 8. Jack Lam, 7. Dan Thomas, 6. Sam Jeffries, 5. Chris Vui, 4. Joe Joyce, 3. Gaston Cortes, 2. Jason Harris-Wright, 1. Soane Tonga'uiha.
Reserves: 16. Nick Fenton-Wells, 17. Ryan Bevington, 18. Sione Faletau, 19. Jordan Crane, 20. Andy Uren, 21. Callum Sheedy, 22. Mat Protheroe.
As you can see there are a few players that stood out in the NPC as well as being on the fringe of Super Rugby starting. I guess we will have too wait until next season to see whether Pat Lam can "do a Connaught" with them.Other names in the squad but not playing tonight that we might recognize include Steven Luatua (ribs), Joe Latta (ankle), Sione Faletua and David Lemi.
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@crucial said in NH club rugby:
Watching a Bristol game at the moment and it is a massacre. Quite obviously a Premiership team playing a level below where they should be.
Even with that they are probably the level of a good, but not really good NPC side.As an indicator, Tusi Pisi looks a star at this level.
To be fair to Pisi, he looked like a star for the Sunwolves in Super Rugby before he left for Bristol.
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@bones Doesn't look like it with the fullback Williams being Welsh and the first five Madigan an Irishman. Surprisingly reserve halfback Uren is a Pom but the other two reserves backs (Sheedy and Protheroe) are both Welsh.
There was an oops with Sione Faletua , he should have been named as Sione Faletau, the tighthead prop out of Patumahoe and Counties Manakau. -
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@tim said in NH club rugby:
Weird how that link in @Tim 's post only becomes visible once you try to reply to that post, but still doesn't appear when you actually post the reply. It doesn't embed, but at least the link becomes visibile when you remove the "http://www." bit.
stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/100164906/hurricanes-coach-chris-boyd-one-of-three-kiwis-eyeing-wales-job
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@stargazer Seems their is a problem with embedding stuff links at the moment.
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