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Wikipedia thinks this is correct. Residency is 60 months immediately leading up to when you play, or 10 years of continuous residence, which doesn’t have to be immediately prior. I suppose this is to avoid a player accidentally becoming ineligible for a country they legitimately grew up in. https:/...

Torquemada 1420 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 27, 2025 11:38 am But his Fre club was quite happy to off him and given the amount of money sloshing around in T14, no other Fre club picked up his contract?

When he moved to Bath it was reported that he was the highest paid player in Europe.

He's subsequently been overtaken by Farrell, so.....

Potentially. Lots of young SQ back rows kicking about and doubt the SRU/Glasgow would match the salary of Brive given Venter is 33 very soon.. Agree on the age profile. I think my surprise was mostly due to Mann moving on too - Venter and Mann are the two hard carriers at the moment in the Glasgow ...

Biffer wrote: ↑Wed Mar 12, 2025 10:49 am As ever, no mention of reckless, only deliberate. Fucking journalists need to start trying to understand the game.

it's bizarre

It's not just Ireland who are ruck goblins. No, it's not... and many of us have bemoaned the state of the ruck for years. There's a pretty clearly set out Law framework for managing it that the sport turns a blind eye to. Now we're at a juncture that a champion player is seriously injured... that s...

It's not clear to me how this incident is different from the ones in the Ulster Munster game, England Japan game, Scotland SA game. All of those were reviewed at the time, led to reds and bans.

ETA: He coulda doid

fantastique

inactionman wrote: ↑Thu Feb 27, 2025 3:42 pm Felix Jones back with South Africa. I thought it was supposed to be Munster but who knows what any more.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union ... dee4ey6qjo

Think Munster have the chief’s coach coming in for next season.

I wouldn’t have listed trucking the ball up as one of Jordan’s strengths to be honest. He’s a hard tackler and decent distributor but I have to say that I think Hutchison has the class to slot in there if given a chance Really? I’d say Jordan’s ability to retain the ball or offload when running har...

This has been discussed billions of times before on here and the exact total of zero people have changed their minds. ‘Placed on a more even footing’ generally means rectifying issues in prior generations by targeting a younger one, often clapped along with by the older generation as it happens. De...

Interesting comment. I see Jordan as a physical player who can cary into traffic, be strong defensively and act as first receiver, ie much like Sione, if not quite at the same level in terms of the physicality. Is this what you mean regarding Hutch not being that physical type of player? Yep. For m...

I think there was (maybe still is?) a delusion on the centre left that a new generation entering the voter pool would guarantee them success, forgetting angry young men have throughout history acted in deeply unpredictable ways when marginalised and their living standards can’t be maintained. Can’t...

What’s the compelling offer from the mainstream to them? They are particularly failed by a system that is falling apart at the seams Yeah I'm not commenting on it being a good/bad thing I'm just saying it's a clear and growing trend. I agree they aren't being offered anything by mainstream parties....

Classy

Tom Jordan is a great player. But I’d rather have seen Hutchinson get the nod here. It frustrates me that Toony clearly dislikes him so much. Pretty much anyone would be behind Sione, but with him out of commission you’d think he might have had a shot. You’d need to change a lot about how we play t...

20250220_134005.jpg No Darcy. Probably about as strong as they can go, 6/2 split gives me the fear. Tom Jordan is a great player. But I’d rather have seen Hutchinson get the nod here. It frustrates me that Toony clearly dislikes him so much. Pretty much anyone would be behind Sione, but with him ou...

The whole situation around these child rape gangs is absolutely awful and we need to be clear headed to deal with it. It’s no surprise, given the population, that there are more white gangs but as far as I’m aware (and I fully accept I may be wrong), there isn’t a systematic issue with these white ...

Who the fuck is Chris Foy? If that article is anywhere near the truth then English rugby is in a far worse state than I thought, even with all the salary cheating and clubs going bust. yeah... glad it's not just me who thinks 'we are a much better side than recent results against Scotland suggest b...

We're all screwed Asteroid triggers global defence plan amid chance of collision with Earth in 2032 If I was more measured I'd acknowledge there's a circa 1 in a 100 chance of this happening, and damage will not be fully global, but I'm in a pessimistic mood today. https://www.theguardian.com/scien...

Says the Namibia B fanboy

Has Mack Hansen posted his ref review anywhere? I'm watching it back and seeing the Scots give the officials lip over the DVDM yellow makes me wonder what is going through their heads. You talking about Russell? I think he was claiming for an earlier infringement. (FWIW, I thought it was a nailed o...

How the fuck did the ref call that backwards off France?

Torquemada 1420 wrote: ↑Sat Feb 08, 2025 5:17 pm Ramos is p*ssing me off now.

Weird. You’ve always been such a huge fan of him.

Slick wrote: ↑Sat Feb 01, 2025 6:43 pm You know already that the jammy bonus point at the end there is going to be the difference between us in the final table

yup. just said the same.

charltom wrote: ↑Sat Feb 01, 2025 2:50 pm Dave Cherry MotM for me so far...

On the first half, darge for me.

Wales get rid of Alex King and bring back Rob Howley as attack coach. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/articles/cn0y50r0w0eo It's quite funny, but also desperately sad. Almost as if Gatland's conducting an experiment into how shit he make them before the WRU find their bollocks and give him ...

Biffer wrote: ↑Thu Jan 23, 2025 6:44 am Six Nations to use twenty minute red cards.

I really don't like this.

I don’t like it either. I could ‘get it’ if it made refs less reluctant to issue red cards, but I haven’t seen much to suggest that’s the case.

clydecloggie wrote: ↑Tue Jan 21, 2025 11:42 am I'm veering towards Tom Jordan simply because I want him on the pitch, and he's also a bosh/playmaker hybrid - not as bosh as Sione but still really phyiscal for a guy in his role.

That’s what I’d do too

I think Blackmac is largely correct in that Glasgow will need to improve massively from Saturday to stand a chance of progressing any further - the Glasgow supporters keep on about the culture at the club, it was sadly missing against Quins. However I would expect them to beat Leicester at Scotstou...

I think Blackmac is largely correct in that Glasgow will need to improve massively from Saturday to stand a chance of progressing any further - the Glasgow supporters keep on about the culture at the club, it was sadly missing against Quins. However I would expect them to beat Leicester at Scotstou...

Ooft. Final score flattered Edinburgh .

ASMO wrote: ↑Thu Dec 19, 2024 8:51 am French Kissing and fingering was on the unofficial curriculum.

Were you taught by priests?

I really wish that the coaches etc would stop moaning about the format of these competitions. Did they not fvcking understand that when they signed up to play in the URC and ECC that they are European based competitions? Plumtree is moaning that the SA players are treated as robots. Thy take the mo...

Is it not only a drop because the previous year’s figures were revised up by ~20% tho? And the most recent year’s figures are also just provisional (ie could still be revised up too).

OomStruisbaai wrote: ↑Wed Nov 20, 2024 11:31 am Should be Eben, won the SA player award already.

Most saffer post ever?

He tried to step down previously but the WRU declined his resignation, I think?

Nope, the announcement yesterday was that the only way to keep it going is to have a smaller, core number of events without extending in the future. Sad really. Are you sure about that? Lots of international orgs representing excluded sports have put out statements that they’ve been assured the dec...

So Glasgow are stepping up to take over from (skint) Brisbane for the 2026 Commonwealth Games. HOWEVER in order to curb costs in the future and help the Games survive, a lot of sports have been dropped permanently. THE 10 AXED SPORTS Rugby sevens Cricket Hockey Table tennis Squash Badminton Beach v...

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