NH club rugby

[taniwharugby]

@Duluth I've always been a fan of his, used to love listening to his segment on RS several years back, analysis was always insightful.

[Canes4life]

@taniwharugby yeah hopefully they stay clear of Holland. O'Halloran with Spencer as an assistant backs coach would be awesome. Maybe keep Chris Gibbes in there to look after the forwards aswell.

[KiwiMurph]

@Canes4life what's wrong with Holland?

[Canes4life]

@KiwiMurph just prefer O'Hallaron. Canes will probably botch it though and sign the wrong person.

[Stargazer]

[Stargazer]

Nick Williams’ Christmas surprise

[Steven Harris]

Amazing...!.

[taniwharugby]

@Stargazer they just had that on TV1 News.

Dusty.

[Machpants]

Interestingly the bottom four teams of Eng Prem have 27 of 32 titles between them. How the mighty have fallen. Wasps playing their best team so far, Soapy can't even make the bench. Umaga to start at 10 - he can come back to NZ for the Canes, thanks.

EDIT oh Sopoanga might be ill.

[antipodean]

Gloucester vs Worcester.

The ref is bent. The match is a good argument for the TMO, correcting the ref from making an appalling decision on a try.

Also, how is Ackerman not red carded? South Africans love raising an elbow into the tackle. I played in a game very early this year where a player got the snot flogged out of him for doing the same thing.

[Stargazer]

Haven't watched Premiership Rugby for a while. Now watching Leicester Tigers v Exeter Chiefs, and I'm surprised how often the ref just allows players diving into a ruck (clearly going off their feet). Breakdowns are really messy. Players living offside all the time, too.

[Steven Harris]

@Stargazer just watched the Quinn’s v Wasps game..plenty of boarder line offsides in this game that were not call by Wayne Barnes..Fekitoa looks a shadow of the player he once was..

[Stargazer]

Ben Smith got a red card, this morning, in the game between Stade Francais and Pau.
I'm watching Toulon v Clermont at the moment and the commentators said that Smith was "a bit unlucky". Did anyone see what happened?

[Machpants]

Taufua flattens Hogg, on debut I think

[Stargazer]

@Machpants Taufua had a great game, yesterday. Very dominant in that Tigers' pack, interestingly, playing in the 7 jersey.

He was voted Fans' Player of the Match.

[Toddy]

@Stargazer https://i.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/international/118403997/former-all-black-ben-smith-sent-off-on-debut-for-pau-in-french-top-14

[Machpants]

@Toddy unlucky in that it happened - it was careless & not intentional, but not unlucky to get a red once it happened.

[Toddy]

Poor tackle technique too. Rugby is still struggling for the balance between protecting the head and the defenders responsibility.

[Stargazer]

To me, that's not a red card; maybe a yellow.
It's similar to Kerevi being penalised (just a penalty) for doing the same (except that first contact was with the chest) against Wales.

[Nepia]

@Stargazer said in NH club rugby:

@Machpants Taufua had a great game, yesterday. Very dominant in that Tigers' pack, interestingly, playing in the 7 jersey.

He was voted Fans' Player of the Match.

He's finally playing openside?

Damn, that's a rough red on Smith, fair enough give him a yellow for being careless but it was hardly a deliberate act aiming to maim an opposition player and therefore worthy of a red.