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I think the biggest issue right now is the flight schedules. The SA teams are currently spending up to 24 hours flying to Europe that should be a 10 hour flight. Basically they are spending the same amount of time on flights right now as they did in Super Rugby, minus the time difference. If SA rugb...

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Holy shit, episode 3 was good. The producers ended the episode in a weird place but whatever. Can’t wait for episode 4. Yes that was banging. Listening to Rassie is fascinating. They could make an entire documentary on the France SA game. Just simply incredible. Yeah I think this was the best episo...

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There was huge wind, otherwise I feel he would have nailed it. Yeah, very difficult kick from that side for him in the wind. Would have been much easier from the other side. Try aside his kicking from hand was way off all day. Great running threat but not a top quality 10. Surely Willemse would be ...

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Libbok's kicking game is woeful. There was huge wind, otherwise I feel he would have nailed it. Yeah, very difficult kick from that side for him in the wind. Would have been much easier from the other side. If Willemse did not try to be fancy, he would have had that kick from the correct side

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Great job La Rochelle ! The commentators said it's the first win ever for a foreign team in South Africa in the Champions cup. That's pretty impressive. La Rochelle has not been too good this season in the Champions cup and the Top 14 but today they certainly showed up :thumbup: They are a good cup...

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Hard Luck stormers. I do think the ref allowed LAR to get away with a bit, specially with the LAR players resting their legs/bodies on players when stealing the ball. At one stage in the 2nd half you could hear a stormers player telling the ref that LAR use are not keeping on their feet but resting ...

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Willemse butchered that, i guess trying to make the kick easier instead of making sure of the try first and not getting anything as a result

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Stormers will do well if they can somehow win from here on. They seem to be out of it and giving away to many penalties.

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At this rate the Stormers are going to lose all their forward players.

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How was the Lyon try allowed to stand? Im in the stadium and it looked like the game was stopped and water boys even came on for Lyon. And then suddenly he takes a tap. The crowd was not happy with that try.

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Bulls doing much better than I expected against a team stacked with 6N players. Bulls kicking more than I would have wanted them considering the players in their backline. Arendse has a lot of power for someone his size. He consistently over last few seasons managed to get through bigger players. Si...

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Bulls to play Leinster: 15 Willie Le Roux, 14 Kurt-Lee Arendse, 13 Canan Moodie, 12 David Kriel, 11 Devon Williams, 10 Johan Goosen, 9 Embrose Papier, 8 Marcell Coetzee (co-captain), 7 Elrigh Louw, 6 Marco van Staden, 5 Ruan Nortje (co-captain), 4 Ruan Vermaak, 3 Wilco Louw, 2 Akker van der Merwe, ...

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I definitely think Southgate has underachieved with England considering the group of players he had to choose from over the years. With a proper manager. England most likely would have won one of the last 2 major tournaments. The group of players he has available makes him look better than he is in ...

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So Trump's latest grift for Easter is to sell $60 Bibles and only these bibles are endorsed by him. Bibles have been around for 100's of years and never needed any endorsements of how good day they are before until now

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What a frustrating performance by the Bulls, school boy errors throughout. Glad they managed to get the bonus point at the end, but that performance did not really deserve it. Chris Smith needs to be replaced unfortunately. He can only play 10 man rugby. Play like that against Leinster next week and...

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Hope Chris Smith gets pulled relatively early in the 2nd half. He is so slow in his decision making, delaying everything. There were several attacking chances that just died with his indecision. Very frustrating to watch. Some of those Bulls players have not played a match in almost 2 months. Its li...

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Sharks need to just do the basics and get it right, then they try all the fancy stuff. Right now they are just all over the place and as a result they do not even look good on the basics. I did not realise that hooker had that much speed. Unfortunately for him his game time will be limited once Este...

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How did they not see that Ulster hand pushing the ball? From the one angle that was quite clear, but they did not look at it until after the ref said he is going to make a decision.

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Bulls: 15 Willie le Roux, 14 Sebastian de Klerk, 13 Canan Moodie, 12 Harold Vorster, 11 Kurt-Lee Arendse, 10 Chris Smith, 9 Zak Burger, 8 Marcell Coetzee (co-captain), 7 Mpilo Gumede, 6 Marco van Staden, 5 Ruan Nortje (co-captain), 4 Ruan Vermaak, 3 Wilco Louw, 2 Jan-Hendrik Wessell, 1 Gerhard Stee...

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Only reds... Yellows are competition specific. Correct but this is a red card in the end, so he will be available for the semi finals. He will... thankfully. But still strange that yellow card accumulations are competition specific but red cards aren't. But I'm glad he can be picked for the semi......

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https://fortune.com/2024/03/15/why-economy-bad-making-most-money-ever-living-by-paycheck/ Living in the US is tough. I struggle to explain this back home in France where the HR think my salary is insanely high (I am paid 2.5 times what I was paid in France, 2 times if you consider all costs for the...

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They were talking before the game about players on yellow cards who risked missing the semi... Wiped after this game... But not before accumulated bookings take affect? Or the commentators had it wrong? But red cards apparently don't apply... which is odd.. Yes the cards are across all FA competiti...

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By moving the CC to July-Sep brought a different challenge to our URC franchises. 1. To big player squads. The franchise are use to play up to 3 competitions in the same time.Champions/challenge Cup, URC & Currie Cup. 2. Player Union in dispute with SARU about playing 20 months non stop. Springbok ...

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I think FA Cup bookings/Red Cards stay in FA Cup? Premier League bookings stay in PL matches? According to this article red card bans are across competitions: https://theathletic.com/4901178/2023/09/27/yellow-red-cards-suspensions-premier-league-fa-carabao-cup/ Bans for accumulating yellow cards ar...

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The worst thing is the scalpers who buy up a bunch of tickets and then resell, on reselling sites the tickets are already selling at 5 times the price. I saw tickets behind the post that originally cost R550 now going for R2300. The viagogo site has 500 tickets for resell already at ridiculous prices.

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Another article on ticket sales ffs. It was always going to sell out. Hardly newsworthy. That is just because it sold out so quickly, in a couple of hours all the tickets were gone. Normally it takes a few days, sometimes a couple of weeks to sell out. A couple of my friends all missed out on ticke...

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Bulls Stormers game delayed. Big lighting storm close to the stadium. If the rain starts coming down it will be beneficial to the stormers. They tend to play better than the bulls in the wet. :(( Always thought that but it’s not true Johan Goosen can kick a mile, Libbok struggling when the weather ...

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Bulls Stormers game delayed. Big lighting storm close to the stadium. If the rain starts coming down it will be beneficial to the stormers. They tend to play better than the bulls in the wet.

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Loftus official sold out. Bulls: 15 Devon Williams, 14 Kurt-Lee Arendse, 13 Stedman Gans, 12 David Kriel, 11 Canan Moodie, 10 Johan Goosen, 9 Embrose Papier, 8 Marcell Coetzee (captain), 7 Rienhardt Ludwig, 6 Marco van Staden, 5 Ruan Nortjé (captain), 4 Ruan Vermaak, 3 Wilco Louw, 2 Johan Grobbelaa...

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Only 1500 tickets still available. Yup going to be a sellout. Think quite a few people who normally come to the stadium to buy tickets on matchday are going to be a bit disappointed. The crowds in south Africa has slowly but surely started to get bigger over the last year or so it seems, even the l...

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Only 6000 tickets left as of Wednesday, so about 46000 sold so far. Looks like they are going to get the sell out crowd they were looking for. Glad to me going to the game. Hopefully it will be a game to match as well as a Bulls win at last

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I cant remember if the Stormers/WP has ever beat the Bulls/N Tvl so many times in a row. Like BB posted, in Dobson we trust. He mention the Stormers defense DNA after the Sharks game, spot on thats usually the difference between the two teams. The Bulls have also been shooting themselves in the foo...

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I was just thinking back to my time at UJ(RAU) in the early 90's. We had such a good team then. Guys Like Francois Pienaar, Johan Roux, Hennie Le Roux, Japie Mulder, etc. There were 5-6 players in the 95 Springbok squad that played for RAU in the early 90's. The days when quite a few rugby players s...

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The 'dip' in coaching talent is an interesting claim. What we're certainly seeing now is many coaches coming from a playing background, whereas a great many leading coaches being at least part of a setup historically came from a teaching background. So we're perhaps seeing more technically astute c...

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ROUND 11 Friday, March 1, 2024 Munster vs Zebre Edinburgh vs Ospreys Saturday, March 2, 2024 Lions vs Sharks Benetton vs Glasgow Bulls vs Stormers Connacht vs Scarlets Cardiff vs Leinster Ulster vs Dragons It is a shame the Lions/Sharks and Bulls/Stormers games are on the same day. Otherwise I migh...

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Although they're good I don't think the combo will work as both Venter and Louw are blindside flankers. Which of the ones coming through are out and out opensides you reckon? Obviously Van Staden is one, but I guess he’s already established. He’s class too. It’s a backrow conveyor belt! Any centres...

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One would think that eventually the Bulls will have a win over the Stormers, particularly at home. Hopefully Dobson and co have got some tricks up their sleeve to put one over the Bulls again. It is always enjoyable to see Jake lose. The last few seasons has been a nightmare for the Bulls against t...

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Netwerk24 Meanwhile, Bulls CEO Willem Strauss told Netwerk24 that 25,000 tickets have already been sold for the clash. “The matches between the Bulls and Stormers all attract more than 40,000 spectators,” he said. “We hope to host the first league match on 2 March where the stadium is fully sold ou...

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What happens if 3 teams make the URC semi finals? They will only have Sharks and Japanese based players Yeah that is a big problem. There is a high chance that 2 teams can reach the semis. So if the Bulls and Stormers do reach the semis, then you cannot even say that you will give a runout to young...

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What happens if 3 teams make the URC semi finals? They will only have Sharks and Japanese based players Yeah that is a big problem. There is a high chance that 2 teams can reach the semis. So if the Bulls and Stormers do reach the semis, then you cannot even say that you will give a runout to young...

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