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Looks like Northampton will beat Castres, while giving away half a dozen scrum penalties for not even a warning. Meanwhile Castres had their hooker binned after 2 penalties for a ruck offence.
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Charlie with a couple of well taken tries for Ulster, in a losing cause.
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@Billy-Tell Video?
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@Tim said in NH club rugby:
@Billy-Tell Video?
Best I can find.
5 tries for kiwis anyway: piutau 2 Waldron 2 reidy
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@Billy-Tell Thanks dude.
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That was a pretty shoddy tackle attempt from him though.
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@Tim said in NH club rugby:
That was a pretty shoddy tackle attempt from him though.
It was. He looks completely disinterested. Ulster are a shambles.
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@Pot-Hale He looked well up for it with the ball in hand but less so in defence all night. Was probably still the class act o the field though - close between him and Nowell.
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@Pot-Hale said in NH club rugby:
@Tim said in NH club rugby:
That was a pretty shoddy tackle attempt from him though.
It was. He looks completely disinterested. Ulster are a shambles.
Did you watch the game? He was very busy all night and his only mistake was that missed tackle on Nowell (and a bit of dodgy restart when Jackson was in the bin). Ulster are not a shambles. They just don't have a very good forward pack.
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@Billy-Tell said in NH club rugby:
@Pot-Hale said in NH club rugby:
@Tim said in NH club rugby:
That was a pretty shoddy tackle attempt from him though.
It was. He looks completely disinterested. Ulster are a shambles.
Did you watch the game? He was very busy all night and his only mistake was that missed tackle on Nowell (and a bit of dodgy restart when Jackson was in the bin). Ulster are not a shambles. They just don't have a very good forward pack.
Bolded = A shambles.
Ask any forward.
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@Billy-Tell said in NH club rugby:
@Pot-Hale said in NH club rugby:
@Tim said in NH club rugby:
That was a pretty shoddy tackle attempt from him though.
It was. He looks completely disinterested. Ulster are a shambles.
Did you watch the game? He was very busy all night and his only mistake was that missed tackle on Nowell (and a bit of dodgy restart when Jackson was in the bin). Ulster are not a shambles. They just don't have a very good forward pack.
I did watch it. And I watched Piutau at the game in the RDS - hence my observation.
Shanahan is not a good enough standard scrum-half for a must-win European game. The back-line play was obvious and evident and once Exeter had worked that out and Jackson's plays, they were pretty muted. The pack is seriously missing talent in the locks and back row.
Ulster are unfortunate in signing Marcel Coetzee for this season and then him not being available due to injury. They'll need him and Pienaar back badly if they want to hit the top 6 which they're in danger of missing out on.
Signs on it that today that Ulster have announced the signing of No 9, John Cooney from Connacht (brilliant game deputising at 10 at the weekend) for next season to replace Pienaar. And they've also signed Arno Botha - a capped NIQ - to come into the back row. And they plan to announce another second row player in the next few weeks. I also suspect that Kiss will stay put, but Nucifora will help give the chop to local assistant coaches Clarke and Doak, and bring in other foreign coaches to support Kiss.
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Piatau, botha, coetzee, pienaar, nucifora, kiss "irish" rugby
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@mariner4life said in NH club rugby:
Piatau, botha, coetzee, pienaar, nucifora, kiss "irish" rugby
Nothing wrong with getting outside expertise.
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@profitius said in NH club rugby:
@mariner4life said in NH club rugby:
Piatau, botha, coetzee, pienaar, nucifora, kiss "irish" rugby
Nothing wrong with getting outside expertise.
It's certainly made them better.
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@mariner4life said in NH club rugby:
Piatau, botha, coetzee, pienaar, nucifora, kiss "irish" rugby
And your alternative is?
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@Pot-Hale not take posts on the Fern too seriously?
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@mariner4life said in NH club rugby:
@Pot-Hale not take posts on the Fern too seriously?
😀 Very true. Touché.
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Can't believe he's only 30!
Can believe he's injured.
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This weekend's European Champions & Challenge Cup games & NZ broadcast times (Rugby Channel):
Sat 21/1, 8.40am: Castres v Leinster (LIVE - Champ Cup pool 4) - replay Sat 2pm, 8pm
Sat 21/1, 11.00am: Montpellier v Northampton Saints (Delayed - Champ Cup pool 4) - replay Sat 10.30pm, Mon 6.30pmSun 22/1, 2.00am: Ulster v Bordeaux-Begles (LIVE - Champ Cup pool 5) - replay Mon 12.00am
Sun 22/1, 4.15am: Sale Sharks v Scarlets (LIVE - Champ Cup pool 3) - replay Wed 2.30pm
Sun 22/1, 6.30am: Leicester Tigers v Glasgow Warriors (LIVE - Champ Cup pool 1) - replay Sun 6.00pm
Sun 22/1, 8.40am: Clermont v Exeter Chiefs (Delayed - Champ Cup pool 5) - replay Sun 8.00pm
Sun 22/1, 11.00am: Saracens v Toulon (Delayed - champ Cup pool 3) - replay Sun 10.00pm
Sun 22/1, 1.00pm: Munster v Racing 92 (Delayed - Champ Cup pool 1) - replay Mon 11.00am, 8.30pm
Sun 22/1, 3.00pm: La Rochelle v Treviso (Delayed - Chall Cup pool 1) - replay Thu 4.30pmMon 23/1, 2.00am: Stade Francais v Harlequins (LIVE - Chall Cup pool 5) - replay Mon 8.30am
Mon 23/1, 4.15am: Toulouse v Connacht (LIVE - Champ Cup pool 2) - replay Mon 1:00pm
Mon 23/1, 6.30am: Zebre v Wasps (Delayed - Champ Cup pool 2) - replay Mon 4.30pmThere are more replays througout the week.
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Challenge Cup quarter finals: (home team first)
Bath v Brive
Edinburgh v La Rochelle
Gloucester v Cardiff Blues
Ospreys v Stade Français ParisTo be played 30/31 March, 1/2 April
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I watched bits of Leinster v Castre the other day. Leinster looked pretty good except for their halfback, who barely looked club standard. Pot Hale is he their usual bloke? he was fucking terrible, and stifled so many attacks.
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Jamison Gibson Park
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@mariner4life said in NH club rugby:
I watched bits of Leinster v Castre the other day. Leinster looked pretty good except for their halfback, who barely looked club standard. Pot Hale is he their usual bloke? he was fucking terrible, and stifled so many attacks.
Luke McGrath, yeah he is their first choice. Superb athlete but his skills lets him down. They've been spending a few years trying to upskill him and overall he mixes the good with the bad but imo his basics are not good enough and it often leads to error ridden performances. He is probably Ireland's 3rd choice in that position!
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I see Munster have signed three players from English Premiership and Top 14 clubs for next season - James Hart, scrum half from Racing 92 and formerly Grenoble, Chris Farrell from Grenoble, and JJ Harrahan moves back from Northampton to his old province.
Good signs to see all three are Irish-born/qualified.
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Jono Gibbes leaving Clermont to become the new Head Coach of Ulster (2 year contract)
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According to the French paper Midi Olympique, Ma'a Nonu has extended his contract with Toulon with one year.
https://www.midi-olympique.fr/breve/28530-maa-nonu-un-an-plus-au-rct
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Apparently DC has been caught driving almost twice the legal limit and not carrying a licence.
Surely this is Steve TEw and NZ Rugby's fault too?
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Yawn. I'm sure this will give the media reason to bore us with click bait for the next few weeks.
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@taniwharugby said in NH club rugby:
Apparently DC has been caught driving almost twice the legal limit and not carrying a licence.
Surely this is Steve TEw and NZ Rugby's fault too?
Blame the Chiefs
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To be fair this is a club that was plying the players with booze before kick off a month ago...
For all the 'better people make better All Blacks' stuff a surprising amount of core ABs from Henry/Hansen have been involved in off field stuff.
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I have no idea what penalties are usually handed out or whether it impacts his visa/ work permit but French drink driving laws have got quite strict from what I have read. I know that you are expected to carry your own breathalyzer in your car at all times so there is no excuse of not knowing if you are over or not. You can be heavily fined just for not carrying one.
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@Crucial All that's true but remember, this is France. You sometimes get the idea that the laws are only applied every other day or something.
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@Catogrande said in NH club rugby:
@Crucial All that's true but remember, this is France. You sometimes get the idea that the laws are only applied every other day or something.
My theory for adhering to their law despite knowing this was that I had a 'GB' number plate making me a prime target for a gendarme wanting to get his quota with some Rosbifs.
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@Crucial said in NH club rugby:
@Catogrande said in NH club rugby:
@Crucial All that's true but remember, this is France. You sometimes get the idea that the laws are only applied every other day or something.
My theory for adhering to their law despite knowing this was that I had a 'GB' number plate making me a prime target for a gendarme wanting to get his quota with some Rosbifs.
Yep - I did the research into their batshit-crazy laws for motorcyclists before a trip over there - and was very very tempted to ignore half of them... but figured that "GB" would be a fucking malign-cop-magnet.
For a while - every motorist had to carry 2 "hazard triangle signs" to put out if they break down. Including bikers. WTF?
And I believe you still have to put 4 reflective stickers of a certain size on your helmet, which have to be of a design that they will "damage the helmet if ever removed". -
@Kruse said in NH club rugby:
@Crucial said in NH club rugby:
@Catogrande said in NH club rugby:
@Crucial All that's true but remember, this is France. You sometimes get the idea that the laws are only applied every other day or something.
My theory for adhering to their law despite knowing this was that I had a 'GB' number plate making me a prime target for a gendarme wanting to get his quota with some Rosbifs.
Yep - I did the research into their batshit-crazy laws for motorcyclists before a trip over there - and was very very tempted to ignore half of them... but figured that "GB" would be a fucking malign-cop-magnet.
For a while - every motorist had to carry 2 "hazard triangle signs" to put out if they break down. Including bikers. WTF?
And I believe you still have to put 4 reflective stickers of a certain size on your helmet, which have to be of a design that they will "damage the helmet if ever removed".It is also classed as a 'Major Offence' (high fines, imprisonment and loss of licence) to have a sat nav identifying speed camera locations. As most garmins and TomToms do this in their default settings you need to find the menu to toggle this off as you sure as hell won't have time to do it if you get pulled over for any reason and they want to check.
Fuckin hated having that GB label on the vehicle.Oh, and you still have to carry all of that 'emergency equipment' like triangles AND you have to have a hi-vis vest within easy reach to put on. Can't have it in the boot.
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@Kruse @Crucial Some mates of mine did a long weekend driving trip going down to La Rochelle. There were a fair few monied up guys with serious cars and they did get sorted by the Gendarmerie. Four of them got pulled at a speed trap. 2x 911s, a 458 Italia and a Bentley Continental. The two 911s didn't actually get clocked by the speed trap but were told that "we know you were speeding so we're going to fine you 200 Euros each". The Ferrari and the Bentley were both clocked around 130mph so were bang to rights. They were fined something like 1500 Euros each. Cash only. So a few guys had to go into town and get the cash. By the time they came back a more senior policier was on the scene and he was furious. The Bentley guy and the Ferrari guy were subjected to a half hour grilling and once it had been ascertained that the co-drivers were insured both drivers were banned on the spot. The Ferrari was hired so allowed to go. The Bentley was owned so they felt able to seize it pending a court action. High possibility of it being crushed.
In the end both guys had to attend court some months later where they had their bans confirmed and then had to pay significant costs on top. The guy got his Bentley back but by this time he was a broken man.
No further trips planned.