European Club Rugby
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@Catogrande said in NH club rugby:
It was a good rant from Hansen and obviously heartfelt but I'm not sure he was following the match. 2 yellow cards for Leinster v zero for Connacht wasn't it? Mind you Jennings lucky not to see yellow as well.
Hansen looking for excuses. I really strongly dislike the 'whaah the refs don't like us' !! If there one thing that really pisses me is the refs are against us comments by players or supporters. Coached for plenty of years and first thing I ever taught players whether kids or adults is the ref is always right , even when he wrong. And players/coahes (or supporters) who use refs as excuse do themselves no favours. I have watched/coached etc rugby from schoolboy level to senior 1st, and yet to see ref make more mistakes than the players on the field!
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@Nepia said in NH club rugby:
@Bones said in NH club rugby:
Oh that yellow card against was it Jennings? Absolute bullshit, braced himself for a player running directly into him, should've been a penalty the other way.
I thought the same while watching the highlights..
Nah. Dipped his shoulder into the attacker with a slight change of direction for me. Not the worst by any but these days you just can’t take that chance. Did he get yellow? On the highlights I saw I wasn’t sure.
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@Catogrande said in NH club rugby:
@Nepia said in NH club rugby:
@Bones said in NH club rugby:
Oh that yellow card against was it Jennings? Absolute bullshit, braced himself for a player running directly into him, should've been a penalty the other way.
I thought the same while watching the highlights..
Nah. Dipped his shoulder into the attacker with a slight change of direction for me. Not the worst by any but these days you just can’t take that chance. Did he get yellow? On the highlights I saw I wasn’t sure.
Well there was a yellow card immediately following it in the highlights, but yeah they were shit, disjointed highlights that just seemed to be random snippets of anything other than highlights.
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URC attendance record broken again
Previous best single-round attendances:146,046 – Round 9 of the 2023/24 season
135,747 – Round 8 of the 2023/24 season
123,307 – Round 11 of the 2022/23 season
121,117 – Round 21 of the 2017/18 seasonRound Eight Attendances
Ulster v Munster: 14,313
Benetton v Zebre Parma: 5,000
Stormers v Lions: 22,410
Sharks v Bulls: 34,827
Ospreys v Scarlets: 6,836
Leinster v Connacht: 33,963
Glasgow Warriors v Edinburgh: 27,538
Dragons v Cardiff : 8,511153,398
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@OomPB said in NH club rugby:
URC attendance record broken again
Previous best single-round attendances:146,046 – Round 9 of the 2023/24 season
135,747 – Round 8 of the 2023/24 season
123,307 – Round 11 of the 2022/23 season
121,117 – Round 21 of the 2017/18 seasonRound Eight Attendances
Ulster v Munster: 14,313
Benetton v Zebre Parma: 5,000
Stormers v Lions: 22,410
Sharks v Bulls: 34,827
Ospreys v Scarlets: 6,836
Leinster v Connacht: 33,963
Glasgow Warriors v Edinburgh: 27,538
Dragons v Cardiff : 8,511153,398
That’s a very big crowd for a Scottish club game!
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@DaGrubster said in NH club rugby:
@OomPB said in NH club rugby:
URC attendance record broken again
Previous best single-round attendances:146,046 – Round 9 of the 2023/24 season
135,747 – Round 8 of the 2023/24 season
123,307 – Round 11 of the 2022/23 season
121,117 – Round 21 of the 2017/18 seasonRound Eight Attendances
Ulster v Munster: 14,313
Benetton v Zebre Parma: 5,000
Stormers v Lions: 22,410
Sharks v Bulls: 34,827
Ospreys v Scarlets: 6,836
Leinster v Connacht: 33,963
Glasgow Warriors v Edinburgh: 27,538
Dragons v Cardiff : 8,511153,398
That’s a very big crowd for a Scottish club game!
Yes and worryingly, 2 Welsh Derbies didn’t get anywhere near that total between them.
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@Catogrande said in NH club rugby:
@DaGrubster said in NH club rugby:
@OomPB said in NH club rugby:
URC attendance record broken again
Previous best single-round attendances:146,046 – Round 9 of the 2023/24 season
135,747 – Round 8 of the 2023/24 season
123,307 – Round 11 of the 2022/23 season
121,117 – Round 21 of the 2017/18 seasonRound Eight Attendances
Ulster v Munster: 14,313
Benetton v Zebre Parma: 5,000
Stormers v Lions: 22,410
Sharks v Bulls: 34,827
Ospreys v Scarlets: 6,836
Leinster v Connacht: 33,963
Glasgow Warriors v Edinburgh: 27,538
Dragons v Cardiff : 8,511153,398
That’s a very big crowd for a Scottish club game!
Yes and worryingly, 2 Welsh Derbies didn’t get anywhere near that total between them.
Effectively a Scotland Trial match
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Tasty try:
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Mack Hanson gets 3 week ban for his Ref rant and the Ref quits -
https://www.theroar.com.au/2025/01/10/mack-hansen-banned-and-his-ref-target-quits-after-f-bomb-blow-up/
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I watched the Sharks-Toulouse game. As Stransky told us 1000x the conditions were difficult (30C, 80% RH) in Durban but it was the Sharks who made more handling errors. Toulouse didn't play that well but did win the territorial battle. Two tries to one in the end with the Sharks try the best of the three. The 1st half was like watching an NFL game with so many "injury" stoppages.
Tomorrow is La Rochelle-Leinster.
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I still don't see why the SA teams are playing this European competition. None of them are up to the task. The Bulls were trounced (49-10) yesterday by an average Castres outfit, while the Lions suffered a 28-5 loss against Montpellier which was fielding an A' team. The Sharks were poor. They scored a beautiful try but were woeful during the other 79 minutes.
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