European Club Rugby
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Ali Williams unretired for Racing 92
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I assume the Nou Camp crowd was a record for a rugby game? It is was s sell out or near sell out.
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Perhaps for a club game. The 2 Bledisloe Cup games at Stadium Australia in 1999 and 2000 had 100,000+ in attendance.</p></blockquote>
Oh yeah, of course.<br><br>
The reason I though this was last year during RWC the NZ v Arg game at Wembley was trumpeted as a record crowd, then broken by Ireland v Rumania.<br><br>
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<p>The 2000 Bledisloe "Best Game Ever Played" was in front of 109,874.</p>
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<p>Ali Williams unretired for Racing 92</p>
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<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Some interesting stats from the 2015-16 Top14 season in an AGM report adopted by the French rugby union:</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">- the Top 14 final in Barcelona had a world record crowd for a <strong>club </strong>game of 99,124</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">- the total number of spectators for the entire season was 2,620,870 for the Top 14 (an average of 13,425 per round robin game) and 1,197,000 for the Pro D2 (an average of 4,816 per round robin game)</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">- the average number of tries scored per match in the Top 14 was 4.5 (an increase of 36% since 2014) and in the Pro D2 4.1 (an increase of 12% since 2014)</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">They're also going to change the promotion-relegation procedure between the Top14 and Pro D2 from the 2017-18 season.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.lnr.fr/ligue-nationale-de-rugby/actualites-ligue-nationale-de-rugby/assemblee-generale-du-9-juillet-2016'>http://www.lnr.fr/ligue-nationale-de-rugby/actualites-ligue-nationale-de-rugby/assemblee-generale-du-9-juillet-2016</a></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The Top 14 semi finals in 2017 (26, 27 or 28 May) will be played in Marseille. l’Orange Vélodrome has 67,404 seats.</span></span></p>
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<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.lnr.fr/rugby-pro-d2/actualites-rugby-pro-d2/top-14-marseille-accueillera-les-demi-finales-2017'>http://www.lnr.fr/rugby-pro-d2/actualites-rugby-pro-d2/top-14-marseille-accueillera-les-demi-finales-2017</a></p>
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<p>The Top 14 final will be played in Stade de France (Paris, 81,338 seats) on 4 June 2017.</p>
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<p>Interesting development, which will promote the development of local French players:</p>
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<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Major rule change in Top 14 regarding young players</strong></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Date published: July 11 2016</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The Ligue Nationale de Rugby (LNR) have ruled that foreign players signed to youth contracts will no longer be considered as JIFF players from next season.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">JIFF players – <em>joueurs issus des filières de formation</em>, otherwise known as academy-trained players – are required to have either been registered with the FFR for five years by the age of 23, or to have spent three years in an FFR-approved training centre by 21.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Each team last season was required to have 55 percent of their matchday squad (12 out of 23) made up of JIFF players.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">However the law change now means that the number of young French players featuring on a regular basis is set for a substantial increase, with those young players from overseas now set to be listed as foreigners rather than JIFF players from 2017, according to <em>Midi Olympique</em>.</span></span></p>
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<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.planetrugby.com/news/major-rule-change-in-top-14-regarding-young-players/'>http://www.planetrugby.com/news/major-rule-change-in-top-14-regarding-young-players/</a></p> -
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<p>Interesting development, which will promote the development of local French players:</p>
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<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.planetrugby.com/news/major-rule-change-in-top-14-regarding-young-players/'>http://www.planetrugby.com/news/major-rule-change-in-top-14-regarding-young-players/</a></p>
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<p>That has to be good news for French rugby.</p>