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Posted: **Sat Jan 22, 2022 8:34 pm**

C69 wrote: Sat Jan 22, 2022 8:32 pm
Torquemada 1420 wrote: Sat Jan 22, 2022 8:14 pm
C69 wrote: Sat Jan 22, 2022 8:09 pm

Raynaud was appalling today as well.The standard of officiating is terrible.
Raynal? You are having a laugh?
Oh yeah I forgot you blindly support all things French

Yes. That's me.

Raynal and his aides were excellent in what was a hugely entertaining match. The fact that the Scarlets surrendered in the 2nd half really had nothing to do with officiating.

Posted: **Sat Jan 22, 2022 8:34 pm**

sockwithaticket wrote: Sat Jan 22, 2022 8:32 pm
C69 wrote: Sat Jan 22, 2022 8:32 pm
Torquemada 1420 wrote: Sat Jan 22, 2022 8:14 pm

Raynal? You are having a laugh?
Oh yeah I forgot you blindly support all things French
He was fine. Quit bitching.

What bitching? I thought he was poor, just like most of the officials. But I'm not going all Aki on him.

Posted: **Sat Jan 22, 2022 8:35 pm**

sockwithaticket wrote: Sat Jan 22, 2022 8:20 pm I really hate listening to Andy Nichol.

Scott Hastings and Andy Nicol together is just awful.

Posted: **Sat Jan 22, 2022 8:36 pm**

Torquemada 1420 wrote: Sat Jan 22, 2022 8:34 pm
C69 wrote: Sat Jan 22, 2022 8:32 pm
Torquemada 1420 wrote: Sat Jan 22, 2022 8:14 pm

Raynal? You are having a laugh?
Oh yeah I forgot you blindly support all things French
Yes. That's me.

Raynal and his aides were excellent in what was a hugely entertaining match. The fact that the Scarlets surrendered in the 2nd half really had nothing to do with officiating.

No one has made that assertion. The Scarlets do what they always do capitulate.
I feel he was poor, made some terrible calls and missed quite a lot.

Posted: **Sat Jan 22, 2022 8:36 pm**

C69 wrote: Sat Jan 22, 2022 8:34 pm
sockwithaticket wrote: Sat Jan 22, 2022 8:32 pm
C69 wrote: Sat Jan 22, 2022 8:32 pm
Oh yeah I forgot you blindly support all things French
He was fine. Quit bitching.
What bitching? I thought he was poor, just like most of the officials. But I'm not going all Aki on him.

He was hardly an Adamson or Whitehouse. Like what did he actually get wrong that had any material impact on the game?

Posted: **Sat Jan 22, 2022 8:40 pm**

sockwithaticket wrote: Sat Jan 22, 2022 8:36 pm
C69 wrote: Sat Jan 22, 2022 8:34 pm
sockwithaticket wrote: Sat Jan 22, 2022 8:32 pm

He was fine. Quit bitching.
What bitching? I thought he was poor, just like most of the officials. But I'm not going all Aki on him.
He was hardly an Adamson or Whitehouse. Like what did he actually get wrong that had any material impact on the game?

Impact on the game? That is irrelevant.
I don't think the pen try was valid, there was no grounding of another Brizzle try for me.
The number of forward passes missed was ridiculous and he lacked empathy for the game and players.

The Scarlets were obviously gash.

Hey thats just my opinion, feel free to defend him.

Posted: **Sat Jan 22, 2022 8:42 pm**

Botica dropping the ball when he was about to score under the posts for a definite 7 points and the missed kicks to goal had a material impact on the game last night

Posted: **Sat Jan 22, 2022 8:44 pm**

Glasgow have lost or misplaced their clinical finishing.

Posted: **Sat Jan 22, 2022 8:45 pm**

Feel like, as a former 9, Dickson's being fairly generous about the amount of time Price is getting at the back of the ruck.

Posted: **Sat Jan 22, 2022 8:49 pm**

Needed to get that after the amount of 22 pressure they've exerted this half.

Posted: **Sat Jan 22, 2022 8:52 pm**

C69 wrote: Sat Jan 22, 2022 8:40 pm I don't think the pen try was valid, there was no grounding of another Brizzle try for me.
The number of forward passes missed was ridiculous and he lacked empathy for the game and players.

The pen try was perfectly justifiable. Look at the freeze frame Raynal called for: at the moment of the slap, there are 2 Briz players outside the ruck and no Scarlet defenders for a moment.

Which Briz try?

Lack of empathy for the game? Seriously? He allowed 2 free flowing sides go hammer and tongs which provided us with a great spectacle.

Posted: **Sat Jan 22, 2022 9:03 pm**

earl the beaver wrote: Sat Jan 22, 2022 7:55 pm
Jim Lahey wrote: Sat Jan 22, 2022 7:23 pm Ulster's bench completely outclassed by the intensity that Clermont's brought onto the pitch.

Enjoyable game to watch. Definitely never a dull moment watching Ulster play these days. I said after last week that our defence is not good enough yet to be at the big boy's table in Europe, I think tonight is another example that you can only out-attack a shite defence for only so long. We need a big improvement in that area in the knockouts.
We're missing a shedload of players and that is having an impact on the 23. With some more players back (Henderson and one if Reidy or Murphy in particular) you all of a sudden have so much more quality on the pitch for 80mins.

Similarly we started with our 3rd choice 12 and ended up with an Academy wing in the centre.

Yes we could get rolled by a big team but equally we can score from just about anywhere and make a fight of the game.

Any word on why McCann hasn't been involved for the last while? Injured or dropped?

Posted: **Sat Jan 22, 2022 9:05 pm**

That's more like it

Posted: **Sat Jan 22, 2022 9:08 pm**

Antonio is a rather large human

Posted: **Sat Jan 22, 2022 9:10 pm**

Tichtheid wrote: Sat Jan 22, 2022 9:08 pm Antonio is a rather large human

I think he's putting the children, of at least two Pâtisseries thru University

Posted: **Sat Jan 22, 2022 9:15 pm**

How did Glasgow defeat Exeter?

Posted: **Sat Jan 22, 2022 9:17 pm**

Torquemada 1420 wrote: Sat Jan 22, 2022 9:15 pm How did Glasgow defeat Exeter?

Exeter were in pretty bad form around then, they've come on leaps and bounds since.

Posted: **Sat Jan 22, 2022 9:17 pm**

The Glasgow collapse came a few minutes early this week

Posted: **Sat Jan 22, 2022 9:18 pm**

What on earth was that try?

Posted: **Sat Jan 22, 2022 9:20 pm**

sockwithaticket wrote: Sat Jan 22, 2022 9:18 pm What on earth was that try?

Clown show almost on a par with some of the ASM/Sale stuff of last week.

Posted: **Sat Jan 22, 2022 9:21 pm**

sockwithaticket wrote: Sat Jan 22, 2022 9:17 pm
Torquemada 1420 wrote: Sat Jan 22, 2022 9:15 pm How did Glasgow defeat Exeter?
Exeter were in pretty bad form around then, they've come on leaps and bounds since.

Glasgow are struggling for consistency in their form, they pretty much battered Exeter that night and were leading at the 50 minute mark last week before it all turned runny very quickly

Posted: **Sat Jan 22, 2022 9:26 pm**

Torquemada 1420 wrote: Sat Jan 22, 2022 8:52 pm
C69 wrote: Sat Jan 22, 2022 8:40 pm I don't think the pen try was valid, there was no grounding of another Brizzle try for me.
The number of forward passes missed was ridiculous and he lacked empathy for the game and players.
The pen try was perfectly justifiable. Look at the freeze frame Raynal called for: at the moment of the slap, there are 2 Briz players outside the ruck and no Scarlet defenders for a moment.

Which Briz try?

Lack of empathy for the game? Seriously? He allowed 2 free flowing sides go hammer and tongs which provided us with a great spectacle.

Presumably Sheedy's try where he rolled over the line with the ball. You'd have to be very one eyed to claim that as not grounded, and I suspect c69 is just having a little joke at everyone else's expense.

Posted: **Sat Jan 22, 2022 9:32 pm**

Not sure West is what La Rochelle need right now, but the game should be relatively safe with only 16 minutes left.

Posted: **Sat Jan 22, 2022 9:33 pm**

sockwithaticket wrote: Sat Jan 22, 2022 9:32 pm Not sure West is what La Rochelle need right now, but the game should be relatively safe with only 16 minutes left.

Maybe Glasgow could do the decent thing and break him?

Posted: **Sat Jan 22, 2022 9:36 pm**

Torquemada 1420 wrote: Sat Jan 22, 2022 9:33 pm
sockwithaticket wrote: Sat Jan 22, 2022 9:32 pm Not sure West is what La Rochelle need right now, but the game should be relatively safe with only 16 minutes left.
Maybe Glasgow could do the decent thing and break him?

You want Glasgow to injure him badly?

Posted: **Sat Jan 22, 2022 9:37 pm**

Boudehent's made some good defensive interventions in difficult looking positions.

Nichol's desperation is pitiful to hear sometimes. "They've still got time" - 19 point defecit and 10 minutes left to play.

Posted: **Sat Jan 22, 2022 9:38 pm**

Tichtheid wrote: Sat Jan 22, 2022 9:36 pm
Torquemada 1420 wrote: Sat Jan 22, 2022 9:33 pm
sockwithaticket wrote: Sat Jan 22, 2022 9:32 pm Not sure West is what La Rochelle need right now, but the game should be relatively safe with only 16 minutes left.
Maybe Glasgow could do the decent thing and break him?

You want Glasgow to injure him badly?

Posted: **Sat Jan 22, 2022 9:38 pm**

At last Glasgow's scrum dominance gets a penalty

Posted: **Sat Jan 22, 2022 9:40 pm**

sockwithaticket wrote: Sat Jan 22, 2022 9:37 pm Boudehent's made some good defensive interventions in difficult looking positions.

Nichol's desperation is pitiful to hear sometimes. "They've still got time" - 19 point defecit and 10 minutes left to play.

Assume you mean Pierre (wing)? Interesting player. Could have a very good club career but unlikely to be intl material.

Posted: **Sat Jan 22, 2022 9:42 pm**

Torquemada 1420 wrote: Sat Jan 22, 2022 9:40 pm
sockwithaticket wrote: Sat Jan 22, 2022 9:37 pm Boudehent's made some good defensive interventions in difficult looking positions.

Nichol's desperation is pitiful to hear sometimes. "They've still got time" - 19 point defecit and 10 minutes left to play.
Assume you mean Pierre (wing)? Interesting player. Could have a very good club career but unlikely to be intl material.

Yeah, number 11. Hadn't clocked there were two players with that surname in the side, related presumably?

Re: the bolded, every club can do with a few of those types.

Posted: **Sat Jan 22, 2022 9:45 pm**

Interested to see how La Rochelle manage these last 5 while 2 men down.

Posted: **Sat Jan 22, 2022 9:47 pm**

sockwithaticket wrote: Sat Jan 22, 2022 9:45 pm Interested to see how La Rochelle manage these last 5 while 2 men down.

It's easy when the opposition are bleeding penalties

Posted: **Sat Jan 22, 2022 9:48 pm**

Good play by LaR with 13. ASM would have kicked the ball away.

Posted: **Sat Jan 22, 2022 9:49 pm**

sockwithaticket wrote: Sat Jan 22, 2022 9:42 pm
Torquemada 1420 wrote: Sat Jan 22, 2022 9:40 pm
sockwithaticket wrote: Sat Jan 22, 2022 9:37 pm Boudehent's made some good defensive interventions in difficult looking positions.

Nichol's desperation is pitiful to hear sometimes. "They've still got time" - 19 point defecit and 10 minutes left to play.
Assume you mean Pierre (wing)? Interesting player. Could have a very good club career but unlikely to be intl material.
Yeah, number 11. Hadn't clocked there were two players with that surname in the side, related presumably?

Re: the bolded, every club can do with a few of those types.

Yes. Brothers.

Posted: **Sat Jan 22, 2022 9:53 pm**

La Roch worthy winners, after their early pressure they took advantage of their opponents' mistakes. Glasgow almost worked their way back into the game but there is a soft underbelly there, two weeks in a row they've capitulated somewhat.

Posted: **Sun Jan 23, 2022 9:47 am**

Can someone run me through likely KO round and permutations for today's games?

Posted: **Sun Jan 23, 2022 1:00 pm**

Ospreys taking the piss and picking a team.
Sale should win by 45 at least

Posted: **Sun Jan 23, 2022 1:12 pm**

Jono Ross is a fucking liability, Sale need to dump him asap

Posted: **Sun Jan 23, 2022 1:14 pm**

ASMO wrote: Sun Jan 23, 2022 1:12 pm Jono Ross is a fucking liability, Sale need to dump him asap

Yeah if were a DoR he'd be on my fucking blacklist for recruitment. There's almost no amount you can do on the field that compensates for the continual loss of territory, possession and points that results from his constant stream of penalties and cards.

Posted: **Sun Jan 23, 2022 1:16 pm**

Questioning the knock on?

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