European Club Rugby
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The worm has turned, first 4 weeks English prem versus SRP
Competition/Team Ball-in-play time [average minutes]
Force [Australian highest] 33.8’
Super Rugby Pacific 34.0’
Gallagher Premiership 36.8’
Crusaders [NZ highest] 36.9’
Exeter Chiefs [English highest] 40.1’Category Super Rugby Pacific English Premiership
Average # points per game 57 60
Average # tries per game 7.4 8.0
Average # penalties awarded per game 23.2 22.7
Percentage turnover tries per game 30%. 31%Referees are very tight on releasing tackler, rolling away East West, and any jackal being straight onto ball
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@Higgins said in NH club rugby:
@Machpants said in NH club rugby:
@taniwharugby said in NH club rugby:
@Bones wonder if we have anyone doing similar in nz with our refs, cos when you watch the way some of these guys ref and the errors they keep making you wonder if they get reviewed at all.
Reffing is a critical part of the game, and a poor ref can ruin a game, so helping refs be better should be a high priority (that's without talking about the rules, although that's probably part of the issue with some refs)
We need more Pro refs, and I don't know what they are paid, but maybe not enough? But certainly multiple international training camps, better oversight throughout the world, refs doing other countries domestic comps not just NH refs doing SH internationals. While they are at it, a group of a dozen, whatever, full time judiciary members who do all international disciplinary commissions via video. Get some consistency there
I see NZR is trying to recognise refs more by giving them carrots, I was a bit confused a couple of weeks ago when I saw a bunch of people dressed up posh, then noticed two refs with caps on!
Pretty apt then given the old wives tale that eating carrots improves eyesight!
Especially in the darkness of the scrum & ruck
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Oh dear
Wasps suspended from Premiership and set to enter administration ‘within days’
Wasps will enter administration and be condemned to relegation from the Premiership with Saturday’s match against Exeter already called off
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@Machpants said in NH club rugby:
Oh dear
Wasps suspended from Premiership and set to enter administration ‘within days’
Wasps will enter administration and be condemned to relegation from the Premiership with Saturday’s match against Exeter already called off
Real worry
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@MiketheSnow Agree mate, I take no pleasure in all at reading this, and really hope we not seeing tip of iceberg. Wasps are also in the position of not really being a community based club, so will struggle to have lower grade amateurs to keep club alive.
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@Dan54 No sympathies from me. They should live within their budgets like everyone should. In addition they received a massive payout from some outfit that brought a chunk of something to do with their Premiership a year or two back that was supposed to be the panacea to all the financial problems overzealous and overspending owners had indulged in.
Guess the owners of the television rights will now be withholding a decent chunk of money now the sellers of those rights are unable to supply the number of matches for telecasting they contracted to do? -
@Higgins said in NH club rugby:
@Dan54 No sympathies from me. They should live within their budgets like everyone should. In addition they received a massive payout from some outfit that brought a chunk of something to do with their Premiership a year or two back that was supposed to be the panacea to all the financial problems overzealous and overspending owners had indulged in.
Guess the owners of the television rights will now be withholding a decent chunk of money now the sellers of those rights are unable to supply the number of matches for telecasting they contracted to do?Not suggesting sympathy for them mate, just saying I get no pleasure out of it. And as a rugby man, I don't want these things happening to any clubs. There are reports some clubs in MLR are struggling a bit too.
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Typical shit that PR pull, bunch of piston wristed gibbons - along with the RU more than happy to shit on Championship teams
Saracens lacking safety certificate to admit 10,000 or more fans to stadium
Saracens are not able to safely admit 10,000 or more supporters to their stadium because they do not have the necessary certificate, raising questions over the stringent criteria that govern promotion to the Premiership
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Red tape to me
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@MiketheSnow said in NH club rugby:
Red tape to me
Cheating Saracens fluffybunnies don't deserve any leeway, and should have lost their titles
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Does this have anything to do with Suzie and/or her daughter?
Squad Update | 23 October 2023 | Ulster Rugby
The Ulster Rugby Medical team has confirmed that 29 players and 13 support staff were unwell whilst in Durban in the lead-up
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A Netherlands international
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#PROD2 Quel coup de pompe de 60m de l'international néerlandais Peter Lydon ! ☄️
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Looking forward to next weekend Heineken Champions/ Challenge Cup. A first for SA franchises.
Fixtures & Results | Investec Champions Cup
Get all the latest results of the Investec Champions Cup matches and the detailed fixtures of the upcoming games with TV broadcasters.
Get all the latest results of the EPCR Challenge Cup matches & the detailed fixtures of the upcoming games with TV broadcasters.
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They're nuts!
Sin-Bin 'Power Play' proposed by RFU along with other huge reforms to the domestic game | Rugbydump
The Rugby Football Union has set out its plans for a brand new Premiership and Championship cup competition which will include a raft of new rules.
One of the key individuals behind the plans is RFU director of performance, Conor O’Shea, who also outlined changes to the game which will be trailaed during the competion. It is unclear how the majority of these adaptions will be achived pratically, but O’Shea noted the following reforms:
- Incentivising tries scored from outside the opposition’s 22
- Reducing the amount of kick-tennis”
- Reducing the time wasted by reset scrums
- A sin-bin ‘Power Play’
The last point is of particular note – once a game the opposing team captain will be able to chose a player to spend 10 minutes in the sin bin. The captain can choose when to use this but will have the power to reduce their opponents to 14 men, without them being sent off by the ref. Quite the radical proposal!
There's also an article in the Telegraph about this, but it's pay-walled, so I don't know whether there's more info.
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lol rugby just fucking hates itself aye
