General Rugby Discussion II

thomond2006 · 14-12-2017 9:37pm

Tadhg Furligind has no equal.

swiwi_ · 14-12-2017 9:53pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Tadhg Furlong is the best player in the world.

And he easily has the best fashion sense.

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A rugby player "farmer of the year" comp would actually be quite cool reality TV IMHO.

Across all rugby playing nations there must be a reasonable number of farmers. The Barrett family are farmers.

You could have shearing, milking cows, docking, herding with the dogs, racing a 3-wheel motorbike...

I'd watch it anyways.

DGRulz · 15-12-2017 11:34am

The NZ Rugby end of the year awards are obviously above international standard.

scott1974 · 15-12-2017 11:36am

Good news for Champions cup rugby followers.

https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/bt-sky-strike-deal-supply-leading-channels-others-platforms/1452928

Interested Observer · 15-12-2017 5:23pm

scott1974 wrote: »

Good news for Champions cup rugby followers.

https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/bt-sky-strike-deal-supply-leading-channels-others-platforms/1452928

Just reading down through it, not sure it's going to impact us at all really, will still have to subscribe to both in order to watch all the games (for as long as they split the games between the providers).

If you're BT customer in the UK you can subscribe to Sky now pretty much. You've always been able to subscribe to BT via Sky anyway.

DGRulz · 15-12-2017 5:34pm

It it not just on BT Sport going forward?

Bazzo · 15-12-2017 6:12pm

DGRulz wrote: »

It it not just on BT Sport going forward?

Yeah it's all BT from next year anyways so this makes very little difference.

ScrubsfanChris · 16-12-2017 1:51pm

scott1974 wrote: »

Good news for Champions cup rugby followers.

https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/bt-sky-strike-deal-supply-leading-channels-others-platforms/1452928

UK customers only, doesn't affect Rep. of Ireland.

Assume this is to do with the partnership between Eir and BT Sports over here.

Jump_In_Jack · 16-12-2017 2:39pm

Buer wrote: »

Faletau confirmed out until March at least. That's him, Warburton, Jon Davies and Jake Ball all out. If Ross Moriarty doesn't make it back soon, they could be in real difficulty in the back row for the 6N.

I'm not sure what sort of back row they'd put out. Tipuric, Lydiate and Navidi potentially and Tupuric hasn't played in 2 months at this stage.

Dan Baker picking up a season long injury back in October was a blow, he was in cracking form.
James King injured now also, so Navidi/Tipuric/Lydiate looks likely for 6 nations.

swiwi_ · 18-12-2017 6:36pm

Now cracks a noble heart. Goodnight, sweet prince;
And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest (at season's end)

Adieu, Freddy. You bought us rugby fans great entertainment...your epitaph will never read "here lies a boring man".

Hope he has a go at commentary!

errlloyd · 18-12-2017 6:43pm

swiwi_ wrote: »

Now cracks a noble heart. Goodnight, sweet prince;
And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest (at season's end)

Adieu, Freddy. You bought us rugby fans great entertainment...your epitaph will never read "here lies a boring man".

Hope he has a go at commentary!

I'll be in Lyon during the weekend of their CC game with Cardiff. I think I'll try see him in skin one more time. I love and hate Freddie Michalak.

pickarooney · 18-12-2017 10:25pm

Just reading about how Darren Cave has been completely ostracised because Kiss hates him and won't even let him train with the A team. Is this common knowledge?

Interested Observer · 18-12-2017 10:28pm

pickarooney wrote: »

Just reading about how Darren Cave has been completely ostracised because Kiss hates him and won't even let him train with the A team. Is this common knowledge?

Had heard various internet rumours as such alright but had no idea if it was true or not.

pickarooney · 18-12-2017 10:31pm

Just saw it being discussed in the Ulster thread. At least I think I did, I couldn't understand any of their accents.

swiwi_ · 19-12-2017 6:10am

pickarooney wrote: »

Just saw it being discussed in the Ulster thread. At least I think I did, I couldn't understand any of their accents.

Aye, you did.

molloyjh · 19-12-2017 9:41am

More noises from players in England about being played too much. Tom Youngs this time basically saying they needed the week after the AIs off. The player welfare thing here gets a lot of stick, from at home and abroad, but the truth of the matter is that it's something that really does work in our favour.

https://www.express.co.uk/sport/rugbyunion/894021/Champions-Cup-English-teams-off-their-game-Tom-Youngs-news

sydthebeat · 19-12-2017 10:15am

Clermont looking to bring in George moala.

Winters · 19-12-2017 11:18am

molloyjh wrote: »

More noises from players in England about being played too much. Tom Youngs this time basically saying they needed the week after the AIs off. The player welfare thing here gets a lot of stick, from at home and abroad, but the truth of the matter is that it's something that really does work in our favour.

https://www.express.co.uk/sport/rugbyunion/894021/Champions-Cup-English-teams-off-their-game-Tom-Youngs-news

I think I heard fast Eddie saying that Ben Youngs has played every game for Leicester so far.

While player welfare is the obvious topic of discussion the lack of player resting and rotation cant be doing player and squad development any good.

Clegg · 19-12-2017 11:36am

molloyjh wrote: »

More noises from players in England about being played too much. Tom Youngs this time basically saying they needed the week after the AIs off. The player welfare thing here gets a lot of stick, from at home and abroad, but the truth of the matter is that it's something that really does work in our favour.

https://www.express.co.uk/sport/rugbyunion/894021/Champions-Cup-English-teams-off-their-game-Tom-Youngs-news

I was listening to last weeks podcast of The Ruck and they were talking about this very subject. A member of the RFU says England needs to play a 4th test in November in preparation for the World Cup, completely disregarding player welfare. Most of the English based players have been flogged since returning from the Lions tour. They started playing for their clubs in September whilst their Irish counterparts didn't come back until October. They're playing so many matches for their clubs and England and they're not getting any proper rest.

They also talked about injury Taulupe Falatau sustained against Toulon. He has been flogged by Bath all season, starting 11 games for them. Was only a matter of time before he picked up some kind of injury.

Interested Observer · 19-12-2017 11:39am

Billy Vunipola has been pretty vocal on this subject as well, he's had a lot of injuries recently and I think he attributes it somewhat to being flogged.

Yeah_Right · 19-12-2017 11:59am

swiwi_ wrote: »

Now cracks a noble heart. Goodnight, sweet prince;
And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest (at season's end)

Adieu, Freddy. You bought us rugby fans great entertainment...your epitaph will never read "here lies a boring man".

Hope he has a go at commentary!

I hope your NZ citizenship is revoked! How dare you post that ****ing video :mad:

Michilak was the quintessential French player in my opinion. Brilliant and crap. He could be an unstoppable match winner or leave his fans saying WTF was he thinking. Then there were the times he just seemed bored and didn't want to be there. So French.

Clegg · 19-12-2017 12:16pm

GLoucester coach Johan Ackermann and his son Ruan who also plays for Gloucester are the subject of a police investigation. It's concerning a row in a nightclub that left a man with facial wounds.

Podge_irl · 19-12-2017 12:28pm

Who goes to a nightclub with their dad?

molloyjh · 19-12-2017 12:29pm

Podge_irl wrote: »

Who goes to a nightclub with their dad?

I did on my stag if that counts....

irishbucsfan · 19-12-2017 12:33pm

Podge_irl wrote: »

Who goes to a nightclub with their dad?

I've gone to a nightclub with my coach, was it after a match?

Sephiral · 19-12-2017 2:55pm

Re: player welfare. There simply has to be an upper limit on the amount of time professional rugby players are allowed on the pitch. Within a decade or two, it will become a completely untenable career because of the long term damage it is doing to player's bodies. Some type of harmonised global calendar will need to happen to allow this.

re: Freddy. My favourite memory is him coming off the bench in a close game, BOD lining him up on the 22 off set piece ball, skinning him and winning the game with a try. Can't remember for the life of me the game.