European Club Rugby
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@Tim said in NH club rugby:
I really hope the NZRU don't let this crisis go to waste.
Opportunity to set up a low cost domestic professional competition with minimal overseas 'luring' - maybe for a few years, maybe longer.
Every rugby body facing a crisis of reduced advertising, TV revenues, travel restrictions, social distancing, restrictions on events. Except 90% have been doing this on extend and pretend. Roosters coming home to roost, maybe, IMO. a quarter of English Premiership clubs won't survive this. Although, god knows what realistic state the Top 14 is in and what may happen in France behind the 'impenetrable wall' of a foreign language. Some like the Racing Capri-Sun guy are genuinely rich .....
Only body with $100m reserves is the NZRU.
Could take the 1996 approach when first year S12 were only paying max $60k. (Obviously inflate that for inflation)
Set up a sustainable competition, with no rotation and AB selector interference, that fans (hopefully) care about.
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@Machpants said in NH club rugby:
@Catogrande said in NH club rugby:
@Bovidae said in NH club rugby:
@Bones said in NH club rugby:
@Catogrande funny I can't think of a Wellingtonian who's come north and been a hit (kipper isn't really). Lima is a very kiwi type player in my eyes, works extremely well off guys running lines and varying it up rather than the more conservative EP play.
Welly backs?
Thomas Waldrom was a star wasn't he.
Certainly a try scoring folk hero, first at Leicester then Exeter. Very fondly remembered down here. Not the greatest athlete though...
Yeah top try scorer in Premiership, two times! Pretty impressive for a forward.
Or an indictment on the general type of rugby in the NH
His ability to be in the right place at the right time was uncanny. I generally dislike the term intelligent player because it seems somehow disparaging to both that player and all the others at the same time. But it really does suit Thomas the Tank.
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@Catogrande said in NH club rugby:
@Machpants said in NH club rugby:
@Catogrande said in NH club rugby:
@Bovidae said in NH club rugby:
@Bones said in NH club rugby:
@Catogrande funny I can't think of a Wellingtonian who's come north and been a hit (kipper isn't really). Lima is a very kiwi type player in my eyes, works extremely well off guys running lines and varying it up rather than the more conservative EP play.
Welly backs?
Thomas Waldrom was a star wasn't he.
Certainly a try scoring folk hero, first at Leicester then Exeter. Very fondly remembered down here. Not the greatest athlete though...
Yeah top try scorer in Premiership, two times! Pretty impressive for a forward.
Or an indictment on the general type of rugby in the NH
His ability to be in the right place at the right time was uncanny. I generally dislike the term intelligent player because it seems somehow disparaging to both that player and all the others at the same time. But it really does suit Thomas the Tank.
Like Deano before him
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A fairly sizeable wodge
Premiership clubs lost a staggering £88.7million in the two years before CVC buy-in
The extensive salary cap report by Lord Myners accessed Companies House records to learn that a combined total of nearly £89million was collectively lost by the Premiership clubs in 2017 and 2018.
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Interesting to read what Slade has to say about the difference between Top 14 and Super Rugby.
'You can play up to 32 games a year and it's just mental': Colin Slade explains why the Top 14 is on a completely different level to Super Rugby
Exclusive: Colin Slade spent almost half a decade slogging it out in the turgid conditions of France's Top 14 and will now turn his attention to Japan. What's prompted the move for the World Cup-winning former All Black?
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Starts off with a great quote: “I wasn’t there before we arrived”. Classic! Interesting read though.
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The latest Brooke off the rugby production line is qualified for England and has just signed his first contract
As Zinzan Brooke prepares for the 25th anniversary of the most remarkable drop goal ever scored at a RWC, the No8 finally has some good news for England.
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Some highlights. Seen him play a few times at hooker for Wellington College (not that one) and backrow for London Irish. Plays like the highlights. Big hits and some abrasive carrying in the tight, but generally unflashy. Not sure about his drop goal game.
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@Bones said in NH club rugby:
The latest Brooke off the rugby production line is qualified for England and has just signed his first contract
As Zinzan Brooke prepares for the 25th anniversary of the most remarkable drop goal ever scored at a RWC, the No8 finally has some good news for England.
Headline should read: ZInzan Brooke fails as a father.
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@Margin_Walker cheers. Solid looking player
I have to say highlight reels are starting to have a different meaning. Some of the "highlights" of him running the ball up with the effectiveness of Owen Franks could possibly be removed.
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@Bones said in NH club rugby:
@Margin_Walker cheers. Solid looking player
I have to say highlight reels are starting to have a different meaning. Some of the "highlights" of him running the ball up with the effectiveness of Ben Franks could possibly be removed.
Fixed that for you.
I don't think the All Blacks are missing out too much here. Not much about him screams future superstar at the moment and he's not troubled the England age grade selectors so far. You never know though.
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@Margin_Walker oh you reckon my eyes fail me and he was actually making half a metre more than I thought?
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The Welsh teenage talent ranked among the world's best youngsters and likened to All Blacks' elusive playmaker | Wales Online
Lloyd is highly-rated in Wales, England and, seemingly, France
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Sound move.
