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it is a shame toulouse and bordeax playing each other in quarters-there is daylight after those 2 teams to the rest. Whoever wins that will be the strong favourite. Yes, Toulouse demonstrated that in their pool games. Oh. Wait. That's not right. every good team loses from time to time. and surely i...

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I watched Toulouse-Bristol. Rugby has changed. Tackling is optional. We are seeing more and more huge score lines, it's amazing. I actually think that contrary to Bristol yesterday and despite the scoreline, Leicester defended with their hearts out at least for the first 40/50 min but from the 30th...

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I watched Toulouse-Bristol. Rugby has changed. Tackling is optional. We are seeing more and more huge score lines, it's amazing. I actually think that contrary to Bristol yesterday and despite the scoreline, Leicester defended with their hearts out at least for the first 40/50 min but from the 30th...

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Da iawn diolch wrote: ↑Sat Mar 14, 2026 10:38 pm England have been so good at putting Dupont on the deck tonight.

Late, after the pass, whatever. Just put him down, and make him get up.

Scotland did it last week, and they got in his head.

He might be brilliant, but teams give him far too much time and space.

Might be? lol

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Can someone explain the fuss about Capuozzo to me please? I don't get what he does, or why he's picked. He feels like the player who, if you picked him for 10 tests, might do one completely gamebreaking thing. But otherwise he looks small and moderately fast, and that's about it. The Italian Marcus...

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TheFrog wrote: ↑Sun Feb 22, 2026 8:06 pm
Akkerman wrote: ↑Sun Feb 22, 2026 6:30 pm LBB has now scored at least once in his last 8 six nation matches, a record
25 caps, 24 tries.

Another one whose luck has the British fans angry.

Very impressive strike rate though our SH friends are used to that with their wingers (W.Jordan, Rokocoko, Howlett, Habana, J.Savea, etc....)

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France coasting in second gear. Italy spoiled well but has nothing apart from a scrum Hopefully the Scots will beat France and France destroy England Italy have good backs neutralised, today, by France. They will beat England quite handily . France, as you say, should destroy us Yep, Menoncello and...

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They are not. England are back on top. Yeah seems so....wait England tripped away in Scotland. Don't underestimate Scotland though. Compare their Provinces performances in the Champions Cup to that of French clubs. I'm not underestimating Scotland, just pointing that England were widely overrated (...

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I think the Champions Cup is a good test of each country' health. England are for me the strongest team in this tournament even if France may benefit from the home games. And Scotland the next one to watch. Ireland, predictably are no longer the well oiled machine they were before. England are over...

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I think the Champions Cup is a good test of each country' health. England are for me the strongest team in this tournament even if France may benefit from the home games. And Scotland the next one to watch. Ireland, predictably are no longer the well oiled machine they were before. England are over...

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ZuLurk wrote: ↑Sat Dec 06, 2025 5:31 pm Jalibert keep on missing here and there

Lol reading your posts about Jalibert, you would believe he had a shite game even though he was exceptionnal and deserved MOTM.
Let me guess, you're another Toulouse/Ntamack fanboy?

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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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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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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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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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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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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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