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Which out of today's starters have become potential starters for the full team. It looks as if the 8 and 15 are getting lots of right ups I would say only Gael Fickou but he is already more or less a starter. Mickael Guillard (who is a 2nd row but played at 8 today) and Theo Attissogbe (15) did hav...

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The dreadlocks guys featured well (Guillard for the full 80 and Attisogbe for 40). That humidity was probably never going to reward an all court game. This wasn't an occasion where the result was all and I felt both sides could have shown a tad more ambition. But Eng were playing through Ford who d...

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I do obviously have some sympathy. It's a horrific injury. Leinster and Ireland lost a star player in Dan Leavy to something similar (with a number of crucial differences). But he went way over the top. Porter's family were subsequently abused on social media. Galthie didn't back down in the slight...

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Even Yannick Bru getting in on it is fairly embarrassing. I've already mentioned Aldritt. Galthie was a disgrace after the 6Ns game in Dublin this year. I said it on the Irish thread yesterday. Massive generalisation but the French tend to be absolutely terrible winners. Fairly gracious losers mind...

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Yep, where is all this coming from? When did he say UBB were just a bunch of mercenaries or whatever? Or was Jaibait just making that up as per Aldritt and James Ryan a couple of years ago? He, or any other Saints player, haven’t said anything remotely of the sort. I’ve read Dallaglio said somethin...

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The French can't help themselves. Its in their DNA to be cvnts. They get a pass and since they won, it is their prerogotive. Macron's wife must be celebrating as well as I saw a clip of her shoving him in the face yesterday Jalibert is as good and world class talent as he is a prick. Actually he is...

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Pleased for James Ryan. Think Faz is missing a trick not picking Tom Willis. I think he mostly missed a trick by not picking his brother, you know, the guy who is possibly the world best poacher and the best forward in the world best club/province team. Jack is overhyped, imo. He spent the entire '...

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Pleased for James Ryan. Think Faz is missing a trick not picking Tom Willis. I think he mostly missed a trick by not picking his brother, you know, the guy who is possibly the world best poacher and the best forward in the world best club/province team. He's played no test rugby The last CC final w...

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Scaramouche wrote: ↑Thu May 08, 2025 2:54 pm Pleased for James Ryan.

Think Faz is missing a trick not picking Tom Willis.

I think he mostly missed a trick by not picking his brother, you know, the guy who is possibly the world best poacher and the best forward in the world best club/province team.

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lemonhead wrote: ↑Sat Apr 19, 2025 7:18 pm
Winnie wrote: ↑Sat Apr 19, 2025 7:09 pm Neither team deserves to win this
Nope. Bulls came with a simple gameplan and while dull, it was more than enough. We barely merit the lbp.

At the same time, call me when you'll see a SA team come with a complicated game plan.

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Very happy with that one. 6N trophies have been scarce for us these last decades. We broke the all time record for tries scored in a single tournament. It's a testament of the attacking style Galthie has been implementing. On a side note, the TV viewership has been impressive with high numbers for ...

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I take it you're not impressed with the Irish players :lol: Honestly, only JGP (in the first 3 games anyway...and he would have made that team if it wasn't for DuPont), Lowe and Sheehan impressed me for Ireland in that campaign. And i think most of Irish fans will agree that it's been an average 6N...

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If they only play half a game it makes including them more difficult - compared to someone like Tom Curry who mostly plays the whole 80 and does it very well. Perhaps if we were picking the best match day squad it'd be easier. Anyway, where's your team selection ? There it is: Kinghorn Freeman Huw ...

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That's whining. France might have more in the 6N team but it is a bit hard to select your forwards when they only play half a game ! So going by your logic, none of the Bok bomb squad players should have made last team of RWC, right? ;) If they only play half a game it makes including them more dif...

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You could, simply, stop whining and just put up your team of the 6N ! I'm actually not whining, just being a bit ironic about England having more players than France in most of users Team of 6N despite the fact France had one of the most dominant 6N ever for a non GS winning team. ;) That's whining...

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Your view. I was at Twickers that day. And while not happy, one of the first time I wasn’t too disgruntled. And I also believe we may not have won in Ireland if it wasn’t for this game. I was kind of “meh, should have won, but hey, well done England, not our day”… I agree with your second point or ...

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They beat France - who can't play rugby in the rain. Get back in your box and stop turning swarmish. "L'essaim" bigging it up. They beat them at Twickenham by the record margin of.... 1 point in a last minute try after France missed god know how many clear try scoring opportunities in the first hal...

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Best team in the tournament by a long way Should have slammed No idea still how they lost that England match They weren't good enough. It was raining, apparently. So they lost by 1 point in a last minute try away from home (and in a game where they dominated if not completely dominated in the first...

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Looking at most users Team of this 6N, you would believe that it was England who won this 6N by scoring the most tries ever They beat France - who can't play rugby in the rain. Get back in your box and stop turning swarmish. "L'essaim" bigging it up. They beat them at Twickenham by the record margi...

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Looking at most users Team of this 6N, you would believe that it was England who won this 6N by scoring the most tries ever

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If you look at the stats, and even though JGP had a great 6N, it should really be Dupont at 9. Despite having missed one game and half, his stats actually trump all scrummies stats in this 6N. And for the few he was playing in the Ireland game, he was already outplaying JGP despite having had to def...

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CM11 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 09, 2025 3:42 pm Sheahan looks like the same player after his ACL.

Hard to judge if his pace is the same but general movement doesn't look to have been affected.

Again, I don't think the impact is the same for a forward and for a back where you have to do much more explosive fast running

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Jack Willis had his ACL minced up and he’s better than ever, especially jackling. Dupont will probably be fine coming back You can't compare the effect of an ACL on a forward and on a back, especially an explosive, fast one like DuPont. And also, DuPont has been playing at a level not reached by a ...

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Jack Willis had his ACL minced up and he’s better than ever, especially jackling. Dupont will probably be fine coming back You can't compare the effect of an ACL on a forward and on a back, especially an explosive, fast one like DuPont. And also, DuPont has been playing at a level not reached by a ...

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Hope he can come back the same player. He's done an ACL already. Don't remember which knee. Freak injury. Barassi left with a commotion as well. Some damage before we play Scotland. Lucu was great, you're fine there at least. Your 7 is very good. It was only one game and against an Irish team who a...

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Dupont is the best player we've seen in a couple of decades, isn't he? Just watched the replay. Bloke is a cheat code. Carter wasn't that long ago I've watched Carter as actively as DuPont and to me, DuPont is another level and i'm honestly being as objective as I can, talking first and foremost as...

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Macalou should be binned here, kept going over and over What about Landon then? He was the one who actually kept going over and over on that fight and made Macalou react at the end. No, Langdon and the 7 were going then it calmed down. Macalou came steaming in acting the big man and continuing the ...

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Nice win forToulouse and Bordeaux today. If a French team should win the Champion Cup this season, it'll be one of these two. They are on another level as far as French clubs are concerned. Regarding the French teams being poor travellers, the issue is that there's too many French clubs in the comp...

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polyallstar wrote: ↑Sat Jan 11, 2025 7:57 pm Macalou should be binned here, kept going over and over

What about Landon then?
He was the one who actually kept going over and over on that fight and made Macalou react at the end.

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I already can't wait for the next SA-France....oups sorry Sharks-Toulouse game. Let's see if Dupont (the fit one, not the masked one) and co will manage to humble a bit our beloved Bakkie. I'll be surprise if they dont send their C team like Leinster do. Except it's not a URC simple regular season ...

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I already can't wait for the next SA-France....oups sorry Sharks-Toulouse game.
Let's see if Dupont (the fit one, not the masked one) and co will manage to humble a bit our beloved Bakkie.

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they have announced spending the whole week in SA and also take time to go to beach where young medhi narjissi was lost out to sea Indeed ST and Mola have almost certainly marked this game as a key one and will throw everything at it... As i said a bit with Dupont's example, i think that for most o...

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I think the Sharks will put out their Boks against them and beat them in Durban. They're favourites for a 7th star no doubt Basing on what both teams have showed so far, I see nothing to suggest Sharks even with all theirs Springboks can beat this Toulouse team (just compare their showing at home a...

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you would have to fancy toulouse to go back to back-they level above any other team right now. would also mean french teams,if they did, winning it 5 years in a row showing their total dominance of this comp. I think the Sharks will put out their Boks against them and beat them in Durban. They're f...

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Is anyone going to take Irish lineouts in hand? Or do we need to start a gofundme? Amazingly, the Irish lineout resembles the Leinster lineout, I wonder is that down to the players and not the coach? The Irish attack resembles the Leinster attack as well. If Ireland's discipline was better we'd be ...

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Dupont is the best 9 I've seen. I can't say I watched much Edwards or Going, slight excuse of not being born and all that, but Dupont is ahead of Smith, Gregan, Joost and Genia for mine. https://youtu.be/Faj3RA2ZBI8?si=jSD7c2nqE1vxXjDm So what does Dupont do better than this guy who won a WC and sc...

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The man's a freak. Not just the range of kicking, it's the accuracy that's more impressive. Off both feet. The skills, the reading of the game. Definitely the strongest 9 I've ever witnessed and still somehow one of the quickest. Nearly the most amazing thing is that despite all the superpowers - t...

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Time and time again we see French and even some other Euro media claiming Dupont is the GOAT. Dupont has never even played outside of Europe/Japan. Can you imagine trying to claim the likes of McCaw being the GOAT if he never played a single minute in Europe? :lol: Genuinely curious, are the French...

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Fidji going past France despite having had a yellow.

A bit harder when you don't have DuPont in your team, isn't it?

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Rugby2023 wrote: ↑Tue Nov 26, 2024 11:09 pm
UncleFB wrote: ↑Tue Nov 26, 2024 11:04 pm I'm not sure I'd have EE as the best modern Springbok lock over Matfield.
I used to think the same, but he's kind of an amalgamation of Matfield and Botha, some of the best elements of both. More physical than Matfield, more cerebral than Botha.

He's better in open play than both though.

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