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Machpants

@machpants said in NH club rugby:

Even better than Thomas the Tank Engine!

But less (ZERO!) caps for England

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/may/18/london-irish-exeter-premiership-match-report

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!

Bones

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.

sparky

La Rochelle 12 Toulouse 9. Kolbe try just ruled out.

Catogrande

@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".

Bones

@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.

sparky

Kerr-Barlow huge for La Rochelle.

sparky

Victor Vito and Jerome Kaino both coming off at the venue where they were part of the squad that won the All Blacks' Third World Cup.

sparky

Mallia with a try for Toulouse. 19-12

sparky

Toulouse 22-12 up with the extra man with 10 to go.

sparky

Try for Kerr-Barlow. Sniping break on the blind side. 22-17

sparky

West hits the post with the conversation. 5 minutes to go.

sparky

Kerr-Barlow with the break again.

sparky

Silly kick by West giving the ball back to Toulouse.

sparky

All over. Toulouse 22 La Rochelle 17. Toulouse win their 5th European Cup.

sparky

Pleased for Jerome Kaino that he got to lift the European Cup. He is arguably the greatest NZ player of the pro era never to play in a Super Final.

pakman

Toulouse were very lucky. Had Bourgarit not developed butterfingers a foot from the line, I think they would have been out of sight.

TKB stood good up well in comparison to ‘best player on the planet’!

Bovidae

I was hoping for a La Rochelle victory. TKB and Vito would then be in a small group of players to have won a Super Rugby and European Champions Cup title.

mofitzy_

Some interesting stats: 3/4 starting locks were Aussie, 3/4 starting wings were South African and 4 members of the AB 2015 RWC final team started (2 per side - including both 8s).
Wasn't a great game. If West had a better day off the tee, LR would've won, but there was a (proper) red card less than 30 minutes in which really should have been the difference.

Stargazer

https://twitter.com/top14rugby/status/1396767941362819073

Stargazer

Shaun Treeby is hanging up the boots

https://www.instagram.com/p/CPVBMqrFUyy/

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