RaboPro12 13/14 season thread

Cookiemunster

pickarooney wrote: »

What the hell was going on here?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJg8jj9N9jc

How is that a try?

While it was an awful TMO decision and never a try it was also from last season. Last nights game was in treviso.

irishbucsfan

phog wrote: »

I see on Twitter that the TMO in the Treviso/Ospreys game had a bit of a brain fart. It seems the AR called the refs attention to a jersey pull by Os 5, ref asked the sanction, AR indicated just a penalty, ref asked TMO, have you anything to add and he agreed even though footage showed no jersey pull.

Tight game and could have cost Ospreys their win.

The welsh commentators were quite funny during it. "I wonder what movie he's watching and things like that."

It was the refs fault also, but it's tough to explain. Basically the ref spring it on him ish

thomond2006

irishbucsfan wrote: »

The welsh commentators were quite funny during it. "I wonder what movie he's watching and things like that."

It was the refs fault also, but it's tough to explain. Basically the ref spring it on him ish

At Musgrave Park during one of the TMO checks, someone roared "We're going to be late for the hurling!"

Hagz

The linesman was the main person to blame. First he didn't recognise that the quick throw was taken in the dead ball area, and secondly he didn't see Biggar's foot in touch. You can't really blame the ref as he clarified with the linesman multiple times. I don't know if that prevented the TMO from making a comment on the line-out, but he should have seen the foot in touch anyway.

bilston

thomond2006 wrote: »

The fact that Seymour isn't a guaranteed starter with Van Der Merve, Hogg and Maitland in the squad says a lot about Glasgow's firepower out wide!

I was always sorry Ulster lost him, I suppose he was always up against given the depth we have out wide, shame one of the other provinces couldn't have picked him up but I suppose the lure of test rugby in Scotland was the key factor.

bilston

Cookiemunster wrote: »

While it was an awful TMO decision and never a try it was also from last season. Last nights game was in treviso.

I hadn't seen that one before!

Inexcusable! But funny...

who_me

.ak wrote: »

Scorcher of a try. You can tell as soon as he gets the ball he's going to cause damage. Great footwork and explosiveness.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tW-qBOdOzk

Great try.

...but... you know if that same try had been scored against "our" side, we'd just be complaining about the missed tackles, where was the cover etc. IMO, it's a bit of a shame that we can't just appreciate good play from the opposition rather than focusing entirely on our defensive lapses. Isn't EVERY try the result of a defensive lapse?

phog

Citings from last weekend - http://www.rabodirectpro12.com/news/12822.php

wp_rathead

Go on Zebre!!!!

Fireball07

Zebre beating Cardiff in Cardiff at half-time. I know they were beating Munster at ht last week too, but I really hope they can get their first win.... they're not as bad as some of their results make out, just have a habit of falling away in crucial parts of games. A win will give them a big confidence boost.

irishbucsfan

13-13 in the Zebre game.

Dragons beating Scarlets

irishbucsfan

Cardiff beating Zebre now

irishbucsfan

Zebra winning 22-23!

irishbucsfan

Another try for Zebre! 22-30!

awec

irishbucsfan wrote: »

Another try for Zebre! 22-30!

22-33 now.

irishbucsfan

Zebre win 25-30!

Fireball07

irishbucsfan wrote: »

Zebre win 25-30!

Well done Zebre! Delighted for them.

awec

awec wrote: »

22-33 now.

RTÉ got that wrong, not me!

Podge_irl

HUZZAH FOR ZEBRE!

P_1

Fair play Zebre happy for them to get the monkey off their back.

Slightly embarrassing for Cardiff being the first team to lost to them and at home at that.

CatFromHue

Zebre beat Cardiff, in Cardiff

thomond2006

Zebre!

They were +17 with PP! :O

P_1

thomond2006 wrote: »

Zebre!

They were +17 with PP! :O

9/1 to win, feck knows what Cardiff were

wp_rathead

delighted for Zebre
Parma is a wonderful city and hopefully this captures the locals imagination

who_me

Great stuff for Zebre. Both Italian sides winning, Dragons and Glasgow up at/near the top.

I'm doing the lotto tomorrow.

Hagz

So far this week has been terrible for my prediction score.

Mal-Adjusted

I'm sad for Munster losing to Treviso but it's early stages yet. I'm actually delighted for Zebre to finally win a match! let's hope they can keep that momentum going and win a few more (not against us though!)

CatFromHue

It's not really a surprise that Munster lost in Treviso. In their 3 previous games in Italy in the Rabo they've lost two of em.

errlloyd

Zebre had a man binned at the end, but brought on a sub prop without bringing anyone off. Had 15 men for a crucial phase. Hope this doesn't haunt them.

thomond2006

errlloyd wrote: »

Zebre had a man binned at the end, but brought on a sub prop without bringing anyone off. Had 15 men for a crucial phase. Hope this doesn't haunt them.

A team was fined for it a few seasons back (I think it was Ospreys who beat Leicester), but the result wasn't changed.

phog

Inquiry into how Zebre had 15 men on the field at some stage towards the end, one was carded. Hope they don't lose the result.

Edit. Must be going blind, didn't see it already posted above.

errlloyd

thomond2006 wrote: »

A team was fined for it a few seasons back (I think it was Ospreys who beat Leicester), but the result wasn't changed.

I think it's rightfully impossible to retrospectively change a result. But I hope it doesn't taint the victory.

Taco Corp

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-union/24183597

durkadurka

Incredible try from the sprays


http://thescore.thejournal.ie/wont-see-better-try-long-time-rabo-ospreys-morgan-1094646-Sep2013/?utm_source=twitter_self

its_phil

Captain_Hindsight wrote: »

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-union/24183597

Jamie Heaslip likes this

irishbucsfan

durkadurka wrote: »

Incredible try from the sprays


http://thescore.thejournal.ie/wont-see-better-try-long-time-rabo-ospreys-morgan-1094646-Sep2013/?utm_source=twitter_self

Northamptons try today was phenomenal. But not in keeping with this thread I suppose!

former legend

durkadurka wrote: »

Incredible try from the sprays


http://thescore.thejournal.ie/wont-see-better-try-long-time-rabo-ospreys-morgan-1094646-Sep2013/?utm_source=twitter_self

This Morgan guy is top class. Even last season the ospreys looked much more threatening with him at ten than Biggar.

irishbucsfan

former legend wrote: »

This Morgan guy is top class. Even last season the ospreys looked much more threatening with him at ten than Biggar.

I wouldn't say top class. He was highly rated at 20s level but didn't live up to the hype. He has some serious flaws in certain areas of his game. But if he can do this sort of thing every week from now on it won't matter!

Buer

Jesus. You know you're muck when you lose 22-9 at home to the Scarlets and the Scarlets have three yellow cards.

Edinburgh Rugby will surely go bang if they lose the HEC money.

Fireball07

Buer wrote: »

Jesus. You know you're muck when you lose 22-9 at home to the Scarlets and the Scarlets have three yellow cards.

Edinburgh Rugby will surely go bang if they lose the HEC money.

Which would be really bad for the Pro12 imo.

irishbucsfan

Buer wrote: »

Jesus. You know you're muck when you lose 22-9 at home to the Scarlets and the Scarlets have three yellow cards.

Edinburgh Rugby will surely go bang if they lose the HEC money.

Aye they're shocking. Had money on them because I figured Scarlets were away and had just lost to the Dragons. Bastards!

I think the money will be there. And they SHOULD be a good team. They just need a good sorting out.

CatFromHue

Just had a quick flick through Edinburghs home attendance figures for the last few years.

Tonights attendance would have been higher than most of their attendances for the 09/10 to 11/12 seasons!

CatFromHue

Glasgow won again tonight to make it 5 from 5.

They've beaten some of their close competitors too, both Ulster and Lanelli away and then Leinster at home.

thomond2006

CatFromHue wrote: »

Glasgow won again tonight to make it 5 from 5.

They've beaten some of their close competitors too, both Ulster and Lanelli away and then Leinster at home.

I'll be very interested to see how they get on at Toulon next week.

CatFromHue

Sure will be.

I'd say they're in with at least a good shout of the Amlin if not one of the best second placed QF qualifiers.

CatFromHue

Zebre drew with Lanelli tonight, could possibly even have won it.

They're now in 10th on 7 points. That's 3 ahead of Edinburgh and Connacht. Edinburgh are currently beating Treviso and Connacht play away to Leinster tomorrow.

durkadurka

Very tight at the top of the league . Leinster really need a BP win to keep up.

Tin Foil Hat

durkadurka wrote: »

Very tight at the top of the league . Leinster really need a BP win to keep up.

Ah jaysus, I don't know about that. A standard win would see only four points between the top five. Even if they lose, I don't think there's any question about Leinster not making the playoffs. We're only six games into a long season.
We are seeing a definite top five sides tough.

errlloyd

Does anyone know what happened to Faletau tonight? I heard he hurt his neck.

Hagz

errlloyd wrote: »

Does anyone know what happened to Faletau tonight? I heard he hurt his neck.

Won't hear until the scan results are out, but the Dragons staff seem optimistic. He took a bang to the head while tackling Eli Walker and was stretchered off.