2018-2019 Champions Cup

steves2

Glad to see Toulon imploding, years of bought success won't build a club if there's no culture there. And Savea's missus shouldn't be let near social media.

bennyl10

Oh no a player celebrated a try..

Lowry's a big biy and professional I'm sure he'll get over it..

Zeebs has always been a flamboyant player, amd some of the stuff posted here about him tonight is waay ott

Munsters all time points scorer
7 tries in 8 for racing..

any club team would welcome him with bells on!

First Up

Eod100 wrote:

What was so bad about his celebrating?

Pointing in a mocking fashion at an opponent is more than "celebrating".

He has been inclined to Ashton style triumphalism in the past and he really should stop.

Boscoirl

It was just Owens trying to be the center of attention again

irishbucsfan

bennyl10 wrote: »

Oh no a player celebrated a try..

He taunted an opponent.

The sycophants have arrived though to tell us its completely normal despite his apologies clearly showing he doesn't agree.

Eod100

First Up wrote: »

Pointing in a mocking fashion at an opponent is more than "celebrating".

He has been inclined to Ashton style triumphalism in the past and he really should stop.

I didn't see that bit, just saw his silly dance over by cheerleaders

jhenno78

pickarooney wrote: »

Nobody gets relegated in October.

It's France though, they're already 37 games into the season.

pickarooney

jhenno78 wrote: »

It's France though, they're already 37 games into the season.

With 161 left to play before the final in August.

stephen_n

So will Bath be asking for this one to be replayed too?

Buer

bennyl10 wrote: »

Oh no a player celebrated a try..

Lowry's a big biy and professional I'm sure he'll get over it..

Zeebs has always been a flamboyant player, amd some of the stuff posted here about him tonight is waay ott

I don't think it deserves some of the grief but, to play devil's advocate, I'd ask if you had the same opinion when Armitage taunted Brock James in the HEC final in identical fashion?

It was completely crass and lacking in any class. He deserves some criticism.

prawnsambo

stephen_n wrote: »

So will Bath be asking for this one to be replayed too?

We'll have to wait for any citings first. :rolleyes:

Peregrine

Peregrine wrote: »

English clubs have been particularly awful this season. Wasps vs Bath is so bad.

Two English clubs playing against each other and they both still managed to lose.

Great news for Leinster though.

Eod100

Eod100 wrote: »

What was so bad about his celebrating?

There's nothing wrong with celebrating. There's very much something wrong with pointing at an opponent and laughing at them. I think this is pretty obvious. I can remember tries being disallowed back in my schools days for celebrating. The Zeebs defence force has mobilised though.

Tigerandahalf

The Champions Cup hasn't been great quality thus far with the exception of Leinster who along with Saracens look strong favourites.

The new tackle rule is sort of ruining games at the moment but hopefully it will force players to go lower which might mean more offloads.

As someone else said they could do with getting rid of the choke tackle. It doesn't do much for the game, just ending up with another scrum reset.

Buer

Peregrine wrote: »

Peregrine wrote: »

English clubs have been particularly awful this season. Wasps vs Bath is so bad.

Two English clubs playing against each other and they both still managed to lose.

Great news for Leinster though.

A Wasps win would have been better for Leinster. As it stands, Bath have a strong interest with Leinster coming. A loss would have eliminated them in reality and Wasps would have been out by the time Leinster visit them anyway.

sydthebeat

Tigerandahalf wrote: »

The new tackle rule is sort of ruining games at the moment....

Is there actually a new tackle law?? I don't think so.

Or have the refs been told to enforce the existing ones more stringently? It seems any contact with the head now is at best a yellow card and most likely a red. A stand up soak tackle now carries a huge risk as any contact with the ball carriers head means a probable red.

Im all for it, but I just wish this had been done by clear world rugby edict. What we now have is confusion among players, current and ex, as to what's allowed and what's not. Kaino last week, cips this week... Had players been told at the start of the season "lads, if you stand up tackle, rugby league style, and any part of your body makes contact with the head of the ball carrier, it's most likely a red.

Eod100

Juan Magnificent Locomotive wrote: »

There's nothing wrong with celebrating. There's very much something wrong with pointing at an opponent and laughing at them. I think this is pretty obvious. I can remember tries being disallowed back in my schools days for celebrating. The Zeebs defence force has mobilised though.

Like I already replied , I hadn't seen that bit. And I was asking a question. No need for defence force guff

Elvisjuice

everyone thought it was great when North did it

OldRio

Everyone?
Everyone?

Elvisjuice

OldRio wrote: »

Everyone?
Everyone?

bar Australia

Former Former

Elvisjuice wrote: »

everyone thought it was great when North did it

No, they didn't.

He got dog's abuse from all corners and apologized to Genia afterwards.

OldRio

Elvisjuice wrote: »

bar Australia

Bar anyone with common decency.

eagle eye

Fancy Montpelier will give the Falcons a good going over today.

Podge_irl

Newcastle off to some bloody start.

Heymans

Sh1te stadium

Podge_irl

That scrum should be a penalty to Newcastle for offside surely?

Podge_irl

Podge_irl wrote: »

That scrum should be a penalty to Newcastle for offside surely?

Almost like everyone else has decided watching Newcastle v Montpelier isn't worth their Sunday afternoon :pac:

realhorrorshow

Scrum aside Montpellier are woeful. If Newcastle can cut out the errors they can cut through them, can’t keep spurning try scoring opportunities though.

Podge_irl

realhorrorshow wrote: »

Scrum aside Montpellier are woeful. If Newcastle can cut out the errors they can cut through them, can’t keep spurning try scoring opportunities though.

Just appalling. 28 phases and a stupid knock-on. They are bringing nothing outside of the scrum.

Former Former

Podge_irl wrote: »

Just appalling. 28 phases and a stupid knock-on. They are bringing nothing outside of the scrum.

28 phases with no real invention.

Every time Cruden gets it, he's looking around for ideas and there's just nothing on.

Buer

Newcastle need to put this to bed. Montpellier will take heart if they're still in touch after an hour given how mediocre they've been.

Dave_The_Sheep

Lucky to get out of that phase with 3 points, Montpellier. Another knock on, saved by an unlucky high tackle.

troyzer

If Newcastle win today, they'll have more wins from two European games than from six Premiership games.

I'm not sure what to make from that.

thomond2006

The commentary audio needs to cut out the crowd beside them.

realhorrorshow

Newcastle have really let Montpellier grow into it. They don’t lack for effort but a quality would have put Montpellier to the sword in the first half.

Swan Curry

newcastle giving a great lesson in how to throw a game away

Kevski

Practically every Newcastle involvement results in a penalty. Unbelievable.

realhorrorshow

Swan Curry wrote: »

newcastle giving a great lesson in how to throw a game away

You’d know they’re inexperienced at this level.

thomond2006

thomond2006 wrote: »

The commentary audio needs to cut out the crowd beside them.

****ing hell it's like listening to a Fanzone.

Did refs always apologise so much when giving cards? I've noticed it a lot this weekend.

Heymans

Great play by Picamoles on 2 rucks there

bilston

What a finish by Newcastle!

troyzer

Fantastic finish to an awful game.

Former Former

INCREDIBLE

Kevski

This is intense!

Podge_irl

Christ that was grim stuff

thomond2006

That is phenomenal.

Bazzo

Great finish

vienne86

That was something else - fair play to Newcastle forwards.

Kevski

Unbelievable!