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@MiketheSnow said in NH International Rugby:
@Machpants said in NH International Rugby:
@MiketheSnow North had played a fair bit at centre though, some for Wales and some for club, right? More than Rieko Ioane, for sure!
Nope
Wow. Was Pivac suffering a power outage when they moved Cullen to centre?
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@MiketheSnow He's played, sorry, 'outside centre' for sure. I've seen it and even wikipedia backs me up
EDIT: And Pivac: "George has played a couple of games in the centre for Ospreys and has had four starts for Wales so it is not foreign to him."
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they're playing italy, he could start himself at centre and still be golden.
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@mariner4life said in NH International Rugby:
@Catogrande said in NH International Rugby:
@Tim said in NH International Rugby:
2 straight reds these days if the ref had the minerals to do it.
Nothing in it...
Winger milks it.
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@mariner4life said in NH International Rugby:
they're playing italy, he could start himself at centre and still be golden.
Halfback even.
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@Machpants said in NH International Rugby:
@Derm-McCrum Young team, once sour-puss-grumpy face and Murray move on, it will be a good aged squad for RWC23
It'll be more than them. Healy, Toner, POM, Stander, Murray, Sexton, Earls will all be too old - 33/34+ - for RWC 2023 in my view. Transition should be complete by 2021 when their central contracts finish. Cronin, John Ryan and Rob Kearney are already past their use by date it would seem.
Nucifora's 6-year plan to have 3 or 4-deep in every position by 2023 is still running. I reckon a 2023 squad might look like:
Porter, Kelleher, Furlong, Ryan, Baird, O'Donoghue, Leavy, Doris
McGrath, Carbery, Stockdale, Henshaw, Ringrose, Balacounne, Larmour
Heffernan, O'Sullivan, O'Toole, Henderson, Deegan, Casey, Byrne, Addison.Ulster have another Sexton under their wing - a young fella who has personal bests at 10.43 seconds over 100m and 20.69 over 200 - so he might prove useful. He's on 7s circuit at the moment.
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@Derm-McCrum That's interesting I didn't realise the core was that sort of age. Ireland are doing pretty darn well for development, esp considering player numbers
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Reasonable over view for the interested
The Breakdown | Six Nations 2020: team-by-team guide
England may be the pre-tournament favourites, but France in Paris is a tricky first hurdle for Eddie Jones’s side
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@Machpants said in NH International Rugby:
@MiketheSnow He's played, sorry, 'outside centre' for sure. I've seen it and even wikipedia backs me up
EDIT: And Pivac: "George has played a couple of games in the centre for Ospreys and has had four starts for Wales so it is not foreign to him."
Not the question you asked.
A couple of times at club level and four times for Wales is hardly experienced.
And he hasn't set the world on fire in any of those matches.
Defensively it could be a long afternoon.
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6N: ENG vs FRA
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Geez rugbypass is mostly shit. Imagine how many players France might get if they won?
Six Nations XV of the Week - Round 1
We have picked out our standout XV from the opening weekend of the 2020 Guinness Six Nations, with Ireland and Wales featuring prominently after big wins.
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@cgrant said in NH International Rugby:
Antoine Dupont was the best halfback of the day and Gregory Alldritt was immense.
Fagerson was better than Furlong IMO, putting a lot of pressure on the Irish scrum and being a nuisance in the rucks. Sutherland better than Marler, too.Agree on first two points. Alldritt probably my player of the round. Marler was excellent in scrum, but not a lot more. Poirot was a complete nuisance at ruck time when he came on.
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@Bones yeah I saw that earlier, the more I read about that fella, seems a right GC
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@taniwharugby worth seeing the slightly Irish horse again.
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Anyone from Wellington who is today at Murrayfield for the England-Scotland game is going to be reminded a wee bit of home:
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Ignore the title. Reading the article, there is no spat between WR and JRFU.
The JRFU just seems to have no clue about what they're doing with their domestic competition. Apart from the fact that they seem to be changing the competition every other year, they're also planning it wrong (scheduling it for the wrong months: August/September to January), much to the frustration of Jamie Joseph.
Rugby: Jamie Joseph caught in middle of spat between World Rugby and JRFU
An escalating spat between World Rugby and the Japan Rugby Football Union was behind Brave Blossoms coach Jamie Joseph's recent comments about the timing of a new domestic league, a source close to the matter tells Kyodo News.
