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Champions Cup 2020/2021 General Thread

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    #782
    Eod100
    Registered Users Posts: 11,651 ✭✭✭✭Eod100


    Buer wrote: »
    The latest quarantine regulations do not make an allowance for elite sport and France has been added to that quarantine list.

    At this point in time, if Leinster are drawn at home, they cannot play the game in Dublin.

    Edit: https://mobile.twitter.com/gavreilly/status/1381162257774694400?s=19

    Yeah issue too with it being in France. Guess will likely be added as an exemption. Was put through so relatively quickly that not sure was any of this considered. Presume he means neutral venue as in Ravenhill or somewhere in England. Draw is due to be home or away but say exemption could be granted alright.


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    #783
    Spotted Hyena
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13 ✭Spotted Hyena


    Could Bordeaux throw a spanner in the works? Need to sort out their discipline.


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    #784
    KH25
    Registered Users Posts: 5,822 ✭✭✭KH25


    Spotted Hyena wrote: »
    Could Bordeaux throw a spanner in the works? Need to sort out their discipline.

    Neither team look up to much based on the first half. A lot of sloppy play and errors.


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    #785
    sydthebeat
    Subscribers Posts: 41,038 ✭✭✭✭sydthebeat


    BT pay masters won't be happy with Austin denigrating this game, even though he's dead right


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    #786
    ironingbored
    Registered Users Posts: 2,073 ✭✭✭ironingbored


    Don't think that we even a penalty.
    Beale a foot and a half off the floor and Bordeaux player attempting a perfectly legal tackle.


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    #787
    KH25
    Registered Users Posts: 5,822 ✭✭✭KH25


    ironingbored wrote: »
    Don't think that we even a penalty.
    Beale a foot and a half off the floor and Bordeaux player attempting a perfectly legal tackle.

    I think the arm around the neck was the reason for the penalty. Agree that there wasn’t really anything the tackler could do, but by the letter of the law there was contact with the neck. I thought it was well reasoned by the ref and TMO.


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    #788
    Clegg
    Registered Users Posts: 16,710 ✭✭✭✭Clegg


    Looking like a red for a high hit by a Racing player?


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    #789
    Burkie1203
    Registered Users Posts: 11,145 ✭✭✭✭Burkie1203


    Red card


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    #790
    Larbre34
    Registered Users Posts: 23,824 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    Very poor technique. Gotta be red you'd think.


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    #791
    Squidgy Black
    Registered Users Posts: 21,605 ✭✭✭✭Squidgy Black


    Hilarious that Healey is trying to play this down by saying he hit the ball with his arm after clobbering the player in the face with his shoulder


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    #792
    KH25
    Registered Users Posts: 5,822 ✭✭✭KH25


    Is the TMO actually trying to talk this down because the Bordeaux player wasn’t flattened?


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    #793
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Austin Healy "yeah, there's the contact on the ball" as the contact is fully on the head!


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    #794
    Larbre34
    Registered Users Posts: 23,824 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    Fair dues to the 15 for keeping trucking. Easiest thing to do would've been to go down like a sack.


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    #795
    Euphoriasean
    Registered Users Posts: 1,010 ✭✭✭Euphoriasean


    TMO running the show,ref hasn't a clue what to do!


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    #796
    Squidgy Black
    Registered Users Posts: 21,605 ✭✭✭✭Squidgy Black


    There's no chance this is passive, the players head flew back!


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    #797
    [Deleted User]
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    Am I right in saying that the players / small audience are going "ooof" at each replay?

    It's like they're trying to replicate an angry audience!


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    #798
    awec
    Administrators Posts: 53,386 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


    Definitely no consistency issues with referees and head contact...

    The ball saved him as it undoubtedly soaked up some of the impact.


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    #799
    Squidgy Black
    Registered Users Posts: 21,605 ✭✭✭✭Squidgy Black


    That is an absolute shocker.

    The consistency is non-existent.


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    #800
    thomond2006
    Registered Users Posts: 45,433 ✭✭✭✭thomond2006


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Am I write in saying that the players / small audience are going "ooof" at each replay?

    It's like they're trying to replicate an angry audience!

    It's panto stuff. The ref would be in the right to issue a warning.


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    #801
    Dave_The_Sheep
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    Ref bottled that, he was looking for any reason not to give a red, when it quite clearly is.


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    #802
    KH25
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    What I’m taking from that is that the Bordeaux player should have gone down. The fact that he ran through the hit seemed to be used against him.


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    #803
    Larbre34
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    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Am I write in saying that the players / small audience are going "ooof" at each replay?

    It's like they're trying to replicate an angry audience!

    That was Monty Python levels of nonsense, but hilarious all the same.

    OOOOOOOOOOOOO! HE'S DEAD REFFFFFF!!


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    #804
    BoardsMember
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    Crazy chat there. Straight hit to the head they agreed on, no mitigation. And yet because the player wasn't knocked out and kept running its a passive tackle?


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    #805
    KH25
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    BoardsMember wrote: »
    Crazy chat there. Straight hot to the head they agreed on, no mitigation. And yet because the player wasn't knocked out and kept running its a passive tackle?

    It’s baffling.


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    #806
    Clegg
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    I've no idea what is a red card anymore. A few weeks ago I would've said that a high hit with force and with no sign of tackler/carrier dipping meant a certain red.

    But the TMO and referee did everything to not give a red.


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    #807
    Eod100
    Registered Users Posts: 11,651 ✭✭✭✭Eod100


    I hope there isn't a draw


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    #808
    KH25
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    Clegg wrote: »
    I've no idea what is a red card anymore. A few weeks ago I would've said that a high hit with force and with no sign of tackler/carrier dipping meant a certain red.

    But the TMO and referee did everything to not give a red.

    I can’t understand how they can make such a sensible call for the hit on Beale earlier, and then do this for a clear hit to the head with no mitigation. It makes no sense.


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    #809
    hahashake
    Registered Users Posts: 827 ✭✭✭hahashake


    I can't be the only one who subconsciously reads it as Bordeaux Beagles.


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    #810
    BoardsMember
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    Is there a reference to the concept of a passive tackle in the directives? And what the definition is? Even if there is, the impact was heavy, he clattered him. If that is passive and this is the right call, we're in a degree of trouble, and player safety is being relegated to secondary to trying not to send people off.


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    #811
    BoardsMember
    Registered Users Posts: 4,439 ✭✭✭BoardsMember


    hahashake wrote: »
    I can't be the only one who subconsciously reads it as Bordeaux Beagles.

    Never occurred to me and now you've messed it up forever. Thanks!


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