sturginho wrote: ↑Sat Jun 10, 2023 4:35 pm
Is there any particular reason why Mori and Giammarioli never seem to feature for UBB any more?
Mah, la risposta mi sembra talmente semplice.....che infatti nessuno la dà...
cioè? che non sono all'altezza? puo darsi, pero l'anno scorso Mori stava giocando con continuità nonostante le sue carenze in difesa quindi mi viene da chiedere cosa è cambiato nel frattempo.
Re: Le Taupe XIV et la mégalomanie d'un secretaire d'état ripoux
Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2023 2:44 am
by TheFrog
Hastoy is not a fancy player but he is proving to be reliable and dependable. To which extent playing alongside Keer-Barlow and behind a dominating pack makes him look good remains the question.
Re: Le Taupe XIV et la mégalomanie d'un secretaire d'état ripoux
Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2023 7:08 am
by laurent
TheFrog wrote: ↑Wed Jun 14, 2023 2:44 am
Hastoy is not a fancy player but he is proving to be reliable and dependable. To which extent playing alongside Keer-Barlow and behind a dominating pack makes him look good remains the question.
He was fine against australia a few years back and fine in Pau last year.
Re: Le Taupe XIV et la mégalomanie d'un secretaire d'état ripoux
sturginho wrote: ↑Sat Jun 10, 2023 4:35 pm
Is there any particular reason why Mori and Giammarioli never seem to feature for UBB any more?
Mah, la risposta mi sembra talmente semplice.....che infatti nessuno la dà...
cioè? che non sono all'altezza? puo darsi, pero l'anno scorso Mori stava giocando con continuità nonostante le sue carenze in difesa quindi mi viene da chiedere cosa è cambiato nel frattempo.
Il TOP 14 è un altro livello. I playoff un livello più su. Un playoff con La Rochelle (non so se si è vista la partita) un altro livello più su ancora. Se uno colleziona una quindicina di presenze in campionato per dare il giro a tutta la rosa non significa che sia adatto ai livelli superiori.
Re: Le Taupe XIV et la mégalomanie d'un secretaire d'état ripoux
Mah, la risposta mi sembra talmente semplice.....che infatti nessuno la dà...
cioè? che non sono all'altezza? puo darsi, pero l'anno scorso Mori stava giocando con continuità nonostante le sue carenze in difesa quindi mi viene da chiedere cosa è cambiato nel frattempo.
Il TOP 14 è un altro livello. I playoff un livello più su. Un playoff con La Rochelle (non so se si è vista la partita) un altro livello più su ancora. Se uno colleziona una quindicina di presenze in campionato per dare il giro a tutta la rosa non significa che sia adatto ai livelli superiori.
I agree.
Re: Le Taupe XIV et la mégalomanie d'un secretaire d'état ripoux
Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2023 5:45 pm
by TheFrog
Skelton vs Meafu
The clash of the Australian locks. Add Arnold to the mix and in fact we have 3 Australian locks for 1 French in the Top14 final. This says a lot about France production of locks.
I am surprised that Retiere has become Toulouse first choice on the right wing but he certainly is a warrior and has that extra luck when it matters. Playing against his former club adds to the spice.
Re: Le Taupe XIV et la mégalomanie d'un secretaire d'état ripoux
Tichtheid wrote: ↑Sat Jun 17, 2023 8:42 pm
But let's not dwell on Ntamack, you know that's coming in the thread later
How did you know?
Re: Le Taupe XIV et la mégalomanie d'un secretaire d'état ripoux
Posted: Sun Jun 18, 2023 11:43 am
by sturginho
Re: Le Taupe XIV et la mégalomanie d'un secretaire d'état ripoux
Posted: Sun Jun 18, 2023 11:45 am
by Uncle fester
Cracking game. What a magnificent player he is.
Re: Le Taupe XIV et la mégalomanie d'un secretaire d'état ripoux
Posted: Sun Jun 18, 2023 4:10 pm
by TheFrog
I need to watch the game, only saw the first 20min, but from what I read, the French internationals were not at their best, except maybe Atonio, Wardi and Aldritt.
Re: Le Taupe XIV et la mégalomanie d'un secretaire d'état ripoux
Posted: Sun Jun 18, 2023 9:47 pm
by TheFrog
One for Torque. It has the good, the bad and the uggly. Gosh, Ntamack is fast. He even drops Dupont.
Re: Le Taupe XIV et la mégalomanie d'un secretaire d'état ripoux
Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2023 8:34 am
by TheFrog
Watched the game finally. The intensity was insane and both defenses mean.
What worries me really was the number of mistakes made by French internationals or candidates for the World Cup squad. Dupont wasn't at his best, Ntamack blew hot and cold, Marchand didn't weigh as much as usual, Aldegheri was owned, Cros okish, Ramos had a mare except from the tee, Danty accumulated mistakes...
Re: Le Taupe XIV et la mégalomanie d'un secretaire d'état ripoux
Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2023 5:42 am
by Torquemada 1420
Tichtheid wrote: ↑Sat Jun 17, 2023 8:42 pm
But let's not dwell on Ntamack, you know that's coming in the thread later
I was watching in Crete. He was dogsh*t and Seuteni's brainfart in defence doesn't alter that.
As for Romain Ntamack. What can you say? He was awful for much of the game – while O’Gara’s comments were not becoming of a top-level coach with international aspirations, he was not wrong in his assertion that Toulouse did not play particularly well, and Ntamack was at the heart of much of it. His facial expression after he had sent a match-saving penalty kick beyond the corner was that of someone who had cracked. And he was saved from giving away a match-clinching penalty to the opposition because the referee had blown to stop the game for injury rather than for a penalty – there were milliseconds in that decision.
It's here for the record again, if Ntamack is the starter for the RWC, France won't win it.
Re: Le Taupe XIV et la mégalomanie d'un secretaire d'état ripoux
Tichtheid wrote: ↑Sat Jun 17, 2023 8:42 pm
But let's not dwell on Ntamack, you know that's coming in the thread later
I was watching in Crete. He was dogsh*t and Seuteni's brainfart in defence doesn't alter that.
As for Romain Ntamack. What can you say? He was awful for much of the game – while O’Gara’s comments were not becoming of a top-level coach with international aspirations, he was not wrong in his assertion that Toulouse did not play particularly well, and Ntamack was at the heart of much of it. His facial expression after he had sent a match-saving penalty kick beyond the corner was that of someone who had cracked. And he was saved from giving away a match-clinching penalty to the opposition because the referee had blown to stop the game for injury rather than for a penalty – there were milliseconds in that decision.
It's here for the record again, if Ntamack is the starter for the RWC, France won't win it.
Another way of looking at the final was that even at the very end of what had been a very poor game from him he had that ability to win the Bouclier de Brennus with a try that would be scarcely believable if it had been written in a boy's adventure story - what's the French equivalent of Roy of the Rovers?
It was a 65m screamer with only a couple of minutes to go.
