Heineken Cup Final 2020/2021 - Toulouse vs La Rochelle

AlfaZen · 22-05-2021 06:37PM

RugbyLover123 wrote: »

That’s the shortest penalty advantage I’ve seen in months, regardless of yards made

Game over now.

And a soft penalty there too.

schmoo2k · 22-05-2021 06:38PM

Why not come back for the penalty? Toulouse had a knock on advantage and went ten meters beyond and he came back for them?

vetinari · 22-05-2021 06:38PM

That's about four big decisions that have gone Toulouse's way

thomond2006 · 22-05-2021 06:39PM

Shame the final got called off and never happened.

Lost Ormond · 22-05-2021 06:41PM

vetinari wrote: »

The contest doesn't matter. Every other ref for the last decade talks about a duty of care to the player in the air.

The contest does matter and its been relevant in most big cases that have come up in this area of the game...

Really poor game. Like all french finals all too often....

Larbre34 · 22-05-2021 06:41PM

Are you not entertained now?

lawrencesummers · 22-05-2021 06:42PM

This could get interesting now

AlfaZen · 22-05-2021 06:43PM

Costly miss

thepogues · 22-05-2021 06:44PM

Come on La Rochelle!

AlfaZen · 22-05-2021 06:46PM

Time for an O’Gara special. 40 plus plays then a winning score!!

A-Train · 22-05-2021 06:47PM

Why kick the ball away

RugbyLover123 · 22-05-2021 06:48PM

West has had one to forget

vetinari · 22-05-2021 06:48PM

West has had an absolute shocker. Really bottled it in the final

Larbre34 · 22-05-2021 06:49PM

Yeah really.

thomond2006 · 22-05-2021 06:49PM

Ihaia West has had a game worthy of Brock James.

Digifriendly · 22-05-2021 06:51PM

Should that have been a penalty to La Rochelle at the end?

Larbre34 · 22-05-2021 06:51PM

SR cheated out of a final penalty there to be sure. The ref clearly seen bottling it, after what had been a good day for him.

bilston · 22-05-2021 06:52PM

Digifriendly wrote: »

Should that have been a penalty to La Rochelle at the end?

There were definitely two or three tight decisions that could have gone the other way at the end.

The injury to the Toulouse property seemed to be the result of a no arms tackle.

The 8 looked to have knocked it on at the scrum

That last ruck was total carnage so I don't envy Luke Pearce there

Utopia Parkway · 22-05-2021 06:52PM

Toulouse got a kind whistle off Pearce today.

Can't have any complaints about the red though.

Sabre0001 · 22-05-2021 06:53PM

West had a shocker, but ROG will feel for him and knows what that's like so can hopefully rally him. Rub of the green for TLS at times and lucky to get away with losing the heads in the last min! Good to see LAR stay in it despite the red. Thought entertaining enough.

thecomedian · 22-05-2021 06:55PM

Terrible game.
La Rochelle Are the better team but the red card cost them today.
Disappointed Toulouse didn’t play better with the extra man.

Hippo · 22-05-2021 06:55PM

ST deserved to win for producing the one moment of real quality in attack. LAR, plenty of spirit and bosh but not a lot else.

Aidric · 22-05-2021 06:58PM

Sabre0001 wrote: »

Good to see LAR stay in it despite the red. Thought entertaining enough.

Yep, thought they would have fizzled out in the last quarter but showed huge balls to stay in there. We'll never know how it would have panned out with 15 v 15 but I think LAR might have edged it.

All said great template for ROG to build on for next season.

RugbyLover123 · 22-05-2021 07:07PM

You’d feel for Marchand

Sabre0001 · 22-05-2021 07:30PM

ROG his usual honest self in interview anyways. Questioned last call but acknowledged ref had good game.

He prob hasn't seen it back so BT analysis then looked at it. Only saw it the once but LAR could have been pinged for straight off feet too.

TLS negated the physical side of LAR again. Skelton much quieter today!

lawred2 · 22-05-2021 07:34PM

those last few rucks were "on the edge" to say the very least

swiwi_ · 22-05-2021 08:09PM

Last 10 minutes aside that was a pretty dud match. Champions cup was pretty dull this season, can barely think of any match that will go down as a classic. Brawn > brain is the current NH style.

22-05-2021 08:25PM

swiwi_ wrote: »

Last 10 minutes aside that was a pretty dud match. Champions cup was pretty dull this season, can barely think of any match that will go down as a classic. Brawn > brain is the current NH style.

For some reason leinster and tolouse have gone a lot more brown the last two years or so also they where both electric a few years back more so than probably any other clubs in Europe

prawnsambo · 22-05-2021 08:54PM

Belle Big Logging wrote: »

For some reason leinster and tolouse have gone a lot more brown the last two years or so also they where both electric a few years back more so than probably any other clubs in Europe

Well a partial loss of electricity is known as a brown-out, so makes sense.

I'll get me coat.

hahashake · 22-05-2021 09:10PM

Belle Big Logging wrote: »

For some reason leinster and tolouse have gone a lot more brown the last two years or so also they where both electric a few years back more so than probably any other clubs in Europe

Qué?

Heineken Cup Final 2020/2021 - Toulouse vs La Rochelle

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