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[Bones]

@Machpants met them on their way up, first time I've had to fly for a club league game. I think it was the second, or 3rd year of some rich guy throwing money at the club. Stacked with kiwis, Aussies and a couple of Fijians.

Clubs that buy their way to the top via talent only don't tend to last long.

[Dodge]

Just because.

[MiketheSnow]

That's one example of rugby becoming NFL I can warm to

[Catogrande]

@Dodge

A thing of beauty. Smith gets the assist but that was all about Tyrone Green.

[OomPB]

All SA teams tour up north. Struggling without their Boks.

[Stargazer]

Can someone, please, remind me where/how we can watch the Top 14 in New Zealand?

[Machpants]

Sky, the occasional game

Edit: well it used to be, looks like they didn't bother with the licence for this year

[Dodge]

Just watching the Bath vs Bristol game from last night and finally believe England may have a centre worthy of the name in Olly Lawrence. Been slightly skeptical for a while that he was just a poor man’s Manu, but last night he had strength, cut great angles, through some lovely passes. Looked a class apart. Just shows sometimes you have to let a player with potential get better and not write them off too early. Hope he bring this into the England set up

[Bones]

@Dodge I'd never heard of him until the last 6n, but rate him very highly, he's got the goods to go far.

Once he figures out he should go through tackles rather than passes he'll be gold.

[Daffy Jaffy]

Jared Wright  /  Apr 22  /  New Zealand

French club target former All Blacks coaches Ian Foster and Joe Schmidt

Former All Blacks boss Ian Foster and his assistant Joe Schmidt are reportedly headlining the shortlist to take over at Montpellier.

[OomPB]

Champions Cup starting next weekend.

Fixtures & Results | Investec Champions Cup

Get all the latest results of the Investec Champions Cup matches and the detailed fixtures of the upcoming games with TV broadcasters.

[OomPB]

Leicester vs Stormers going to be interesting. Pollard vs Libbok, Wiese vs Roos.

Pool 4 is a pool of death.

Pool 4: La Rochelle, Leinster, Stade Francais, Leicester Tigers, Stormers, Sale Sharks

[KiwiMurph]

At what point is O'Gara just a twat?

[mariner4life]

@KiwiMurph said in NH club rugby:

At what point is O'Gara just a twat?

i mean, he's Irish...

[OomPB]

Champions Cup starting this weekend.
ROUND 1

Friday 8th December
Connacht 20:00 Bordeaux-Begles
Glasgow Warriors 20:00 Northampton

Saturday 9th December
Toulon 13:00 Exeter
Bath 15:15 Ulster
Toulouse 15:15 Cardiff Rugby
Bulls 17:30 Saracens
Munster 17:30 Bayonne
Bristol Bears 20:00 Lyon

Sunday 10th December
Sale Sharks 13:00 Stade Francais
La Rochelle 15:15 Leinster
Leicester Tigers 15:15 Stormers
Racing 92 17:30 Harlequins

ROUND 2

Friday 15th December
Bayonne 20:00 Glasgow Warriors
Northampton 20:00 Toulon

Saturday 16th December
Saracens 13:00 Connacht
Stormers 13:00 La Rochelle
Bordeaux-Begles 15:15 Bristol Bears
Leinster 17:30 Sale Sharks
Lyon 17:30 Bulls
Cardiff Rugby 20:00 Bath
Ulster 20:00 Racing 92

Sunday 17th December
Exeter 13:00 Munster
Harlequins 15:15 Toulouse
Stade Francais 17:30 Leicester Tigers

ROUND 3

Friday 12th January
Northampton 20:00 Bayonne

Saturday 13th January
Exeter 13:00 Glasgow Warriors
Lyon 13:00 Connacht
Bristol Bears 15:15 Bulls
Toulon 15:15 Munster
Leinster 17:30 Stade Francais
Stormers 17:30 Sale Sharks
Cardiff Rugby 20:00 Harlequins
Ulster 20:00 Toulouse

Sunday 14th January
Bath 13:00 Racing 92
La Rochelle 15:15 Leicester Tigers
Bordeaux-Begles 17:30 Saracens

ROUND 4

Friday 19th January
Connacht 20:00 Bristol Bears
Glasgow Warriors 20:00 Toulon

Saturday 20th January
Bulls 13:00 Bordeaux-Begles
Harlequins 13:00 Ulster
Leicester Tigers 15:15 Leinster
Racing 92 15:15 Cardiff Rugby
Munster 17:30 Northampton
Stade Francais 17:30 Stormers
Saracens 20:00 Lyon

Sunday 21st January
Sale Sharks 13:00 La Rochelle
Toulouse 15:15 Bath
Bayonne 17:30 Exeter

[cgrant]

La Rochelle - Leinster should be a cracker.

[OomPB]

@cgrant said in NH club rugby:

La Rochelle - Leinster should be a cracker.

We will back Leinster. The Stormers have a 6 day turn around from Leicester Tigers to La Rochelle in Cape Town. We were looking forward to a Libbok vs Pollard & Roos vs Wiese clash but it wont happen. B team will go to Leicester.

[Daffy Jaffy]

La Rochelle boss Ronan O'Gara has been given a touchline ban for Sunday's Investec Champions Cup opener against Leinster.

The former Ireland fly-half has been handed a one-match suspension by the French National League for ill discipline during last month's Top 14 defeat by Racing 92.

It is O'Gara's fifth suspension from the league since he took over as La Rochelle's director of rugby in 2021, amounting to 21 weeks of punishment.

[Dan54]

@Daffy-Jaffy said in NH club rugby:

La Rochelle boss Ronan O'Gara has been given a touchline ban for Sunday's Investec Champions Cup opener against Leinster.

The former Ireland fly-half has been handed a one-match suspension by the French National League for ill discipline during last month's Top 14 defeat by Racing 92.

It is O'Gara's fifth suspension from the league since he took over as La Rochelle's director of rugby in 2021, amounting to 21 weeks of punishment.

He genuinely needs to pull head in a bit if he wants to get an internayional team gig doesn't he?

[Catogrande]

@Dan54

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