European Club Rugby
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Went to the Toulon match. Home crowd were not happy! Ashton is most definitely not a 15.
Very cold in first half. Bath 12, Ben Tuapai, looked very sharp.
@pakman said in NH club rugby:
Went to the Toulon match. Home crowd were not happy! Ashton is most definitely not a 15.
Very cold in first half. Bath 12, Ben Tuapai, looked very sharp.
Agreed, he's a winger and that's it. A shame though that the howler that led to Joseph's try for Bath was more the fault of the idiot that threw the quick line out. Shame because that will symbolise Ashton at 15 for evermore.
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Watching a Bristol game at the moment and it is a massacre. Quite obviously a Premiership team playing a level below where they should be.
Even with that they are probably the level of a good, but not really good NPC side.As an indicator, Tusi Pisi looks a star at this level.
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I'll do a Stargazer and this is the Bristol lineup
15. Jordan Williams; 14. Luke Morahan, 13. Siale Piutau, 12. Tusi Pisi (c), 11. Alapati Leiua, 10. Ian Madigan, 9. Rhodri Williams, 8. Jack Lam, 7. Dan Thomas, 6. Sam Jeffries, 5. Chris Vui, 4. Joe Joyce, 3. Gaston Cortes, 2. Jason Harris-Wright, 1. Soane Tonga'uiha.
Reserves: 16. Nick Fenton-Wells, 17. Ryan Bevington, 18. Sione Faletau, 19. Jordan Crane, 20. Andy Uren, 21. Callum Sheedy, 22. Mat Protheroe.
As you can see there are a few players that stood out in the NPC as well as being on the fringe of Super Rugby starting. I guess we will have too wait until next season to see whether Pat Lam can "do a Connaught" with them.Other names in the squad but not playing tonight that we might recognize include Steven Luatua (ribs), Joe Latta (ankle), Sione Faletua and David Lemi.
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I'll do a Stargazer and this is the Bristol lineup
15. Jordan Williams; 14. Luke Morahan, 13. Siale Piutau, 12. Tusi Pisi (c), 11. Alapati Leiua, 10. Ian Madigan, 9. Rhodri Williams, 8. Jack Lam, 7. Dan Thomas, 6. Sam Jeffries, 5. Chris Vui, 4. Joe Joyce, 3. Gaston Cortes, 2. Jason Harris-Wright, 1. Soane Tonga'uiha.
Reserves: 16. Nick Fenton-Wells, 17. Ryan Bevington, 18. Sione Faletau, 19. Jordan Crane, 20. Andy Uren, 21. Callum Sheedy, 22. Mat Protheroe.
As you can see there are a few players that stood out in the NPC as well as being on the fringe of Super Rugby starting. I guess we will have too wait until next season to see whether Pat Lam can "do a Connaught" with them.Other names in the squad but not playing tonight that we might recognize include Steven Luatua (ribs), Joe Latta (ankle), Sione Faletua and David Lemi.
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Watching a Bristol game at the moment and it is a massacre. Quite obviously a Premiership team playing a level below where they should be.
Even with that they are probably the level of a good, but not really good NPC side.As an indicator, Tusi Pisi looks a star at this level.
@crucial said in NH club rugby:
Watching a Bristol game at the moment and it is a massacre. Quite obviously a Premiership team playing a level below where they should be.
Even with that they are probably the level of a good, but not really good NPC side.As an indicator, Tusi Pisi looks a star at this level.
To be fair to Pisi, he looked like a star for the Sunwolves in Super Rugby before he left for Bristol.
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@bones Doesn't look like it with the fullback Williams being Welsh and the first five Madigan an Irishman. Surprisingly reserve halfback Uren is a Pom but the other two reserves backs (Sheedy and Protheroe) are both Welsh.
There was an oops with Sione Faletua , he should have been named as Sione Faletau, the tighthead prop out of Patumahoe and Counties Manakau. -
@tim said in NH club rugby:
Weird how that link in @Tim 's post only becomes visible once you try to reply to that post, but still doesn't appear when you actually post the reply. It doesn't embed, but at least the link becomes visibile when you remove the "http://www." bit.
stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/100164906/hurricanes-coach-chris-boyd-one-of-three-kiwis-eyeing-wales-job
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@tim said in NH club rugby:
Weird how that link in @Tim 's post only becomes visible once you try to reply to that post, but still doesn't appear when you actually post the reply. It doesn't embed, but at least the link becomes visibile when you remove the "http://www." bit.
stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/100164906/hurricanes-coach-chris-boyd-one-of-three-kiwis-eyeing-wales-job
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@stargazer Seems their is a problem with embedding stuff links at the moment.
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@higgins said in NH club rugby:
Mark Hammett must be one of the unnamed "fireside chat" coaches referred to!
It would have been a great chat though.
There would have been talk of visions, new brooms, 5 year plans on a 4 year contract...@crucial that shows the ultimate positivity planning beyond your initial term!
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Great St Stephen’s Day derby match between Munster and Leinster today at Thomond Park with the Blues running out eventual 34-24 victors. What was seen as a Leinster B side by some commentators in comparison to the side they fielded in the European Cup over the last 2 weeks, built up a 27-5 scoreline by halftime before the full-strength Munstermen rallied and brought themselves back to within 8 points with 12 mins to go. Then new Leinster full back Jordan Larmour had another star turn running 60m around 3 players before getting over the line and the bonus point. Munster’s Andrew Conway got himself a second try to close the gap again and secure their try bonus point. But Leinster did enough in the end to to close out the match. They put an extra 1000 seating in for this one and it was worth the ticket price.
