General Rugby Discussion II

sydthebeat

swiwi_ wrote: »

I see the Aussie women's 7s team won their home tournament without conceding a single point.

Fair dinkum.

mightn't have conceded a point....
but did take a bit of a hit from the russians

http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-union/union-news/russian-womens-sevens-captain-banned-for-eight-matches-for-kicking-australian-player-in-head-20180128-h0pe4w.html

pickarooney

Not sure she makes any contact there. The Aussie girl got up and played on without a bother anyway.

irishbucsfan

Was listening to The Hard Yards at the weekend and I thought it was fascinating to hear Tomas O'Leary's take on the difference between "celtic" rugby and the rugby played in France/England.

According to him the preperation levels put in overseas are nowhere near the standard of those in the Pro 14, in terms of analysis etc. I wonder if he just ended up in bad situations at LI and Montpellier...

pickarooney

I can't even imagine an in-depth analysis session with the Montpellier squad. When you have a group of players of vastly different backgrounds cobbled together there's a limit to what you can teach them collectively in a short space of time.

swiwi_

NZ’s most valuable exports

1) Meet & Wool
2) Dairy products
3) Rugby coaches
4) Honorable mention Swiwi

Chris Boyd off to resurrect Northampton. That is a good signing.

prawnsambo

swiwi_ wrote: »

NZ’s most valuable exports

1) Meet & Wool
2) Dairy products
3) Rugby coaches
4) Honorable mention Swiwi

Chris Boyd off to resurrect Northampton. That is a good signing.

Either spell checking software is not a NZ export or there's a different interpretation of "meet and wool" that us more refined types can't quite decipher. :P

irishbucsfan

prawnsambo wrote: »

Either spell checking software is not a NZ export or there's a different interpretation of "meet and wool" that us more refined types can't quite decipher. :P

It's a New Zealand dating website. Does well in Wales, hence the exports.

prawnsambo

irishbucsfan wrote: »

It's a New Zealand dating website. Does well in Wales, hence the exports.

Ah, that explains it. I believe it does well in Kildare too. :pac:

RugbyLover123

Didn't see it posted anywhere but Haskell is leaving Wasps at the end of the season. Any idea where he'd be off to?

Dog Botherer

RugbyLover123 wrote: »

Didn't see it posted anywhere but Haskell is leaving Wasps at the end of the season. Any idea where he'd be off to?

rugbylad.com

c.p.w.g.w

RugbyLover123 wrote: »

Didn't see it posted anywhere but Haskell is leaving Wasps at the end of the season. Any idea where he'd be off to?

Back to France or off to Japan for one last big contract?

molloyjh

c.p.w.g.w wrote: »

Back to France or off to Japan for one last big contract?

Rumours of him going to Bristol were floating about in the last week or two.

thomond2006

Dog Botherer wrote: »

rugbyl*d.com

*Triggered*

Interested Observer

thomond2006 wrote: »

*Triggered*

What exactly did that site ever do to you?

errlloyd

Interested Observer wrote: »

What exactly did that site ever do to you?

They had some poorly researched article where they commented on the death of a fan or something (it was a high profile terminal illness case, where the fan in question had been raising money). Anyway, ultimately the person in question had not yet died. It was a bloody awful thing to do.

Interested Observer

errlloyd wrote: »

They had some poorly researched article where they commented on the death of a fan or something (it was a high profile terminal illness case, where the fan in question had been raising money). Anyway, ultimately the person in question had not yet died. It was a bloody awful thing to do.

Oooooh lordy. That is pretty appalling.

Burkie1203

Dave attwood going on loan to Toulon for rest of season from Bath

Sangre

Allister Coetzee is gone.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/feb/02/south-africa-sack-allister-coetzee-after-two-years-of-struggle

Sangre

Sangre wrote: »

Allister Coetzee is gone.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/feb/02/south-africa-sack-allister-coetzee-after-two-years-of-struggle

I for one am shocked.

razorblunt

I hope the non disclosure agreement is water tight, otherwise its popcorn time!

razorblunt

razorblunt wrote: »

I hope the non disclosure agreement is water tight, otherwise its popcorn time!

I'm pretty sure that if they've sacked him he is released from any restrictive covenants in his contract, could be different in SA and I'm not even overly familiar with the enforcement side of those covenants here so who knows.

Despite this I'm not sure what else Coetzee has to say, he has already given SARU both barrel's in his recent letter.

SARU have traditionally been reasonable with coaches and given them time to turn things around. Coetzee would long since have been sacked by any other top 8 team. Maybe not France, but his position was completely untenable and it's ironically only the wins over France that bought him an extra few months.

thomond2006

Boards: Sit down and listen.

The ligind speaks.

https://twitter.com/RTECountryWide/status/959448709980413953

molloyjh

thomond2006 wrote: »

Boards: Sit down and listen.

The ligind speaks.

https://twitter.com/RTECountryWide/status/959448709980413953

One of these days we're going to have to get Isabelle to interview Hayes about Furlong......

thomond2006

molloyjh wrote: »

One of these days we're going to have to get Isabelle to interview Hayes about Furlong......

Nearly sick watching this. Hilarious.

https://www.facebook.com/rugbypass/videos/1896505783756069/

sydthebeat

Tasty try Spain v australia in sevens.

Spain winning 7-5 ht

sydthebeat

And... That didn't last long

Losty Dublin

Match thread is up

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057837352

sydthebeat

Is that Angus gardner reffing the women's game??

I would have preferred him reffing the men's one

Elvisjuice

England giving Nz a game in the 7s