NH club rugby
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@catogrande Looks like he learned a thing or two from Razor. Could have been England's new coaching duo but they stuck with Eddie and Cueball.
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@catogrande said in NH club rugby:
@billy-tell said in NH club rugby:
LAR with a kiwi 8,9,10 axis into European rugby final. Vito is still excellent.
He’s been very good every time I’ve seen him. Amazing that he didn’t really nail down an AB squad place
VV had Kaino, the GOAT, Read and Sam Cane ahead of him so not so surprising. Think he would have replaced Kieran Read at 8 in 2018 if he'd stayed in NZ.
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@sparky said in NH club rugby:
@catogrande said in NH club rugby:
@billy-tell said in NH club rugby:
LAR with a kiwi 8,9,10 axis into European rugby final. Vito is still excellent.
He’s been very good every time I’ve seen him. Amazing that he didn’t really nail down an AB squad place
VV had Kaino, the GOAT, Read and Sam Cane ahead of him so not so surprising. Think he would have replaced Kieran Read at 8 in 2018 if he'd stayed in NZ.
For sure, not an easy group to break into, but latterly and looking to the future you could argue that Vito was the better option than Read and maybe Kaino. Admittedly I wouldn’t have seen as much of all three as you guys but it seems quite a loss currently.
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No one really expected Read to drop off as much as he did in his last few years, but at their peaks Read was a better player. Vito has 2 RWC medals and is 34, absolutely no one can begrudge him chasing the coin.
What's surprising is West is a first choice 10 in a European final.
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@mofitzy_ said in NH club rugby:
No one really expected Read to drop off as much as he did in his last few years, but at their peaks Read was a better player. Vito has 2 RWC medals and is 34, absolutely no one can begrudge him chasing the coin.
What's surprising is West is a first choice 10 in a European final.
West was bloody good too. Nailed all but 1 kick and a DG. Brought his usual flat line attacking threat.
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@machpants
He is so good at 8 that Gregory Aldritt, Les Bleus' 8, has been moved to 6. -
@cgrant said in NH club rugby:
@machpants
He is so good at 8 that Gregory Aldritt, Les Bleus' 8, has been moved to 6.Alldritt is a bloody good 8 but also more versatile than Vito. If you want them both in your back row then Vito is your 8. It would be interesting to see what would happen if they got another really good 6. Close call imo.
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@billy-tell said in NH club rugby:
@mofitzy_ said in NH club rugby:
@dice
Sounds pretty kiwi to me?Kiwi with English accent thrown in. No way that accent is pure kiwi.
That he picked up in Ulster?
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@bones said in NH club rugby:
@billy-tell said in NH club rugby:
@mofitzy_ said in NH club rugby:
@dice
Sounds pretty kiwi to me?Kiwi with English accent thrown in. No way that accent is pure kiwi.
That he picked up in Ulster?
No Bristol. Where he currently plays rugby.
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I'm keeping an eye on the announcements from Top League clubs about players and staff leaving the club.
Obviously, some of these players may just go to other Japanese clubs, but others may come back to NZ (like Perenara and Retallick). Some of those coming back may retire because they're older; others may be available for NPC.
Here's the first list of names:
DoCoMo Red Hurricanes: TJ Perenara, Marty Banks, Tom Marshall
Mitsubishi Dynaboars: James Wilson
Canon Eagles: Jesse Parete
Kobe Kobelco Steelers: Brodie Retallick
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Even better than Thomas the Tank Engine!
But less (ZERO!) caps for England
Sam Simmonds breaks Premiership record in Exeter’s win over London Irish
Sam Simmonds broke the Premiership record for tries in a season as he scored three times in Exeter’s 31-12 victory at London Irish
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@machpants said in NH club rugby:
Even better than Thomas the Tank Engine!
But less (ZERO!) caps for England
Sam Simmonds breaks Premiership record in Exeter’s win over London Irish
Sam Simmonds broke the Premiership record for tries in a season as he scored three times in Exeter’s 31-12 victory at London Irish
Cough. Cough. 7 caps and I think 2 tries.
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@catogrande said in NH club rugby:
@machpants said in NH club rugby:
Even better than Thomas the Tank Engine!
But less (ZERO!) caps for England
Sam Simmonds breaks Premiership record in Exeter’s win over London Irish
Sam Simmonds broke the Premiership record for tries in a season as he scored three times in Exeter’s 31-12 victory at London Irish
Cough. Cough. 7 caps and I think 2 tries.
Oh, I didn't realise. Just eddie ignoring him last few years then.
Either way he should have had a fuck load more caps!
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@bones said in NH club rugby:
Ok so NH refs maybe not much better. Champions cup final and Ntamack kicks it, Skelton stops dead and Ntamack runs straight into him from miles away, penalised and Pearce almost cards him (Skelton). Bollocks.
Pearce is normally very good ref but that one was just crap. Funny listening to him as well, he obviously has a few rugby phrases in French that he's practised but then lapses into stuff like "let's have a good game boys".
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@catogrande yeah he is. Funnily enough I know a Luke Pearce who just moved back to Welly from Spain to ref and is already doing Swindale stuff (top club comp), so we could have a couple of them soon if he keeps up his rise ..
But back to the rugby.
