2017-18 Champions Cup

Former Former

What a finish.

Keeps Ospreys somewhat alive but they'll need a lot of luck from here on.

Tigerandahalf

Another great converted try at the end for Ospreys.
They only became effective when they started throwing the ball wide and running from their own half. Some brilliant handling by them.

This was the way to beat Saracens, not the way Munster play.

Hadderfield was the Ospreys 9. He looked very good and has a very good pass off both sides. He also did very well when forced onto the wing.

Reminiscent of the old Ospreys.

thomond2006

Exeter Chiefs

Stade Francais lose again in the Challenge Cup: 7-44 to London Irish at home. :eek:

Burkie1203

Exeter Chiefs

thomond2006 wrote: »

Stade Francais lose again in the Challenge Cup: 7-44 to London Irish at home. :eek:

Saw photo on twitter. Looked like Edinburgh in murrayfield sort of attendance

ScrubsfanChris

Racing 92

thomond2006 wrote: »

Stade Francais lose again in the Challenge Cup: 7-44 to London Irish at home. :eek:

Bloody hell, Irish second from bottom in the English Prem too

Scythica

Wasps

falcons beat bordeaux 21-20 in Bordeaux.

Toby flood played well. bit of a mishmash game otherwise.

Onwards to La Rochelle!!

Burkie1203

Exeter Chiefs

Early rounds so far have shown the pro14 in a very positive light. Hopefully Ulster can make it a great start for the irish sides in particular.

Munster a little lucky with refs not going for penalty tries (2 last week, could have been 1 yday for maul collapse - other refs might have given them) but then again you make your own luck sometimes

Connacht have had two good wins just when they are needed.

Leinster have put themselves into a great position, I think 6 points would have been seen as acceptable. 10 is just fantastic

Hopefully Ulster can squeeze a win today

Yeah_Right

Montpellier

DDC1990 wrote: »

Terrible performance today.

Also on certain streams BT comms could be heard slating him at half time when they thought the mics were off.

Called him a dickhead and Ben ****ehouse aparently.

I'm watching a replay of the match. Are there any incidents I need to look out for as its 35 min in and he's been fine.

Did Ugo Monye play for Northampton because he makes the BBC NI commentary look fair and impartial.

DDC1990

Northampton try disallowed for slapping the ball, when the ball went backwards (aparantly legal). They were giving out about him leaving Parra back on yhe field when he was "unconcious" in Whitehouse's own words. Hartley's yellow. The farce toward the end of the first half with scrums and looking for another hooker. Lots of little things as well like the Northampton foot in touch which after a penalty 2 phases later lead to the try. (not his fault but another officiating error). He should have sent Slimani off later for a sgoulder to the head, but Whitehouse ignored the TMO saying head/neck area and went with his own interpretation of lower neck area and gave a yellow.

I thought he had a poor day at the office but the BT boys being inashamedly biased ripped into him (especially at half time when their mics were meant to be off). Haven't found any video or audio footage of them bashing him at half time but there is some discussion of it on reddit.

irishbucsfan

The BT lads let themselves down badly. The EPCR need to have a word with them.

Erik Shin

Racing 92

irishbucsfan wrote: »

The BT lads let themselves down badly. The EPCR need to have a word with them.

Don't think that's actually going to happen, do you?

thomond2006

Exeter Chiefs

#BTBantz

Bridge93

Castres

Monye burgled a lions test jersey and he's now burgling a pundit career. If he put as much time into his work as he does to what he's wearing he might be half useful

irishbucsfan

Erik Shin wrote: »

Don't think that's actually going to happen, do you?

Yep, don't think it'll make any difference though

Erik Shin

Racing 92

irishbucsfan wrote: »

Yep, don't think it'll make any difference though

If there's any disciplinary proceedings.. it'll be completely internal, EPCR would be better off not even commenting I would think

Yeah_Right

Montpellier

DDC1990 wrote: »

Northampton try disallowed for slapping the ball, when the ball went backwards (aparantly legal). They were giving out about him leaving Parra back on yhe field when he was "unconcious" in Whitehouse's own words. Hartley's yellow. The farce toward the end of the first half with scrums and looking for another hooker. Lots of little things as well like the Northampton foot in touch which after a penalty 2 phases later lead to the try. (not his fault but another officiating error). He should have sent Slimani off later for a sgoulder to the head, but Whitehouse ignored the TMO saying head/neck area and went with his own interpretation of lower neck area and gave a yellow.

I thought he had a poor day at the office but the BT boys being inashamedly biased ripped into him (especially at half time when their mics were meant to be off). Haven't found any video or audio footage of them bashing him at half time but there is some discussion of it on reddit.

Disallowing the try for slapping the ball down was the correct decision. The ball hit the ground in front of the player who slapped it. If he did that to a pass, there wouldn't even be a discussion.

Hartley's YC was a fair call. He dives over the tackle area and the only contact he makes is smacking an opponent in the face with a swinging arm. It's Hartley so I think it's fair to say it was intentional and should have been a red

I couldn't hear much of what the ref said so can't really comment on the Parra incident. He passed his HIA so we shouldn't be second guessing medical professionals. However Clermont has a history of this.

The shambles with the scrum at the end of the first half was a mess but I got the impression that the ref wasn't getting much help from the sideline and that there was a whole bunch of people trying to give their opinion.

I agree that Slimani should have seen red. Very similar to SBW in the 2nd Lions test.

I don't think it was a great performance by Whitehouse or his team but they weren't as bad as BT were making them out to be and Northampton were a lot worse than the BT guys would admit. I clearly heard someone say at half time "what sort of prick is Whitehouse". Couldn't identify who it was though.

Bazzo

Pienaar being stretchered off in a bad way here... Hope he's alright.

Clegg

Bad injury for Ruan Pienaar.

Hit his head off his own teammates hip. Being carried off in a neck brace.

Clegg

Exeter Chiefs

Clegg wrote: »

Bad injury for Ruan Pienaar.

Hit his head off his own teammates hip. Being carried off in a neck brace.

Lot of the time these things are precautionary, lets hope it's the case here.

DDC1990

Yeah_Right wrote: »

I don't think it was a great performance by Whitehouse or his team but they weren't as bad as BT were making them out to be and Northampton were a lot worse than the BT guys would admit. I clearly heard someone say at half time "what sort of prick is Whitehouse". Couldn't identify who it was though.

Oh absolutely. I thought he had a bad day but you'd swear he was riding Northampton the way they went on. He was just having a **** day, and seemed a bit frazzled by it all. Players from both sides didn't help. It was pathetic.

On the try I wasn't sure, but the BT guys were going nuts about it so I presumed they knew their stuff. I had no opinion either way. It looks like something which should be a penalty but the laws change so often.

irishbucsfan

Erik Shin wrote: »

If there's any disciplinary proceedings.. it'll be completely internal, EPCR would be better off not even commenting I would think

Noone said anything about disciplinary proceedings, I'm talking about their production meeting.

Castres

Exeter very much the better team so far.

Buer

What happened on BT yesterday?

Buer

10-5 to Exeter with Mogg in the bin and Pienaar gone.

An Exeter win here would be a bad result for Leinster.

Buer

Castres

Buer wrote: »

10-5 to Exeter with Mogg in the bin and Pienaar gone.

An Exeter win here would be a bad result for Leinster.

Montpellier get a try, time for them to switch off for another 10 minutes!

Bridge93

Castres

Two shambles of conversions

Swan Curry

surely i'm not the only one who thought nadolo knocked that on

Bridge93

Castres

I thought Slade kind of ripped it out and it went back but hit nadolo’s knee or something and went forward again

Bazzo

****ing hell, you could play a game of hurling in them in goal areas

Erik Shin

Racing 92

irishbucsfan wrote: »

Noone said anything about disciplinary proceedings, I'm talking about their production meeting.

Even less chance of something being said there I would think

Buer

Swan Curry wrote:

surely i'm not the only one who thought nadolo knocked that on

Possibly but certainly not clear. Looked as much a rip by the defender as it did a knock on. I think they were right to give the try.

Bridge93

Castres

That was a knock on however

Bridge93

Castres

And that’s one of the worst plays I’ve ever seen

irishbucsfan

Erik Shin wrote: »

Even less chance of something being said there I would think

Well definitely not less chance of it being said at a production meeting that actually exists than a disciplinary process which doesn't

irishbucsfan

Jesse Mogg suffering that age-old embarrassment of the toilet paper stuck to the shoe

Clegg

For someone with 22 caps for at scrum half for Australia Nick White is quite ropey at passing.

Clegg

Ian Whitten's descendants will be feeling that for generations.

Swan Curry

skip passes must be stopped

Erik Shin

Racing 92

irishbucsfan wrote: »

Well definitely not less chance of it being said at a production meeting that actually exists than a disciplinary process which doesn't

An internal BT process...I'd be fairly sure that would actually exist

Castres

Mogg is having a pretty poor game. Lot of poor execution.

Exeter Chiefs

Really good defence from Exeter there close in. Stopping their big carriers dead.

Clegg

That's an unbelievable finish from Nadolo.

irishbucsfan

I refuse to believe the laws of physics allow for that try to have been scored. Rugby is scripted and that was CGI.

Castres

Oh my god. Nadolo's try. Wow.

Benetton

Me oh my I have enjoyed that yes boy

Clegg

Exeter's lineout work has been quite dodgy today.

Neil3030

Nadolo.

NA DO LO

Not f**king NANdolo.

DDC1990

How does a man as big as that place it so gracefully?

Deleted User

Castres

Deleted User wrote: »

Me oh my I have enjoyed that yes boy

this guy reddits

sigh. i hated typing that.

Neil3030

Castres

Neil3030 wrote: »

Nadolo.

NA DO LO

Not f**king NANdolo.

Are you sure this isn't a Tuilagi thing where it's actually pronounced Tuilangi despite the spelling...? Similarly Nandolo might be the correct regional pronunciation.