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grimoald

As brill as the offload was - a big part of that was Beirne actually flicking the ball back to CJ to speed things up too. Not sure he would have felt empowered to do that under Joe.

grimoald

A few offloads!!!!

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How is that offside? Knock on maybe, but comes off Italian.

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Not even a penalty.

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Itoje was onside last week I think, but that one Sarries player (Billy?) was bloody miles off there.

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How the fudge did Mako get away with that?

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jezzer wrote: ↑Sat Sep 19, 2020 3:49 pm
El Homerino wrote: ↑Sat Sep 19, 2020 3:48 pm Henshaw is an empty Jersey when he comes up against top level sides.
Would help him if there was an offside line.

There is, McGrath’s passing/control is killing everything outside him.

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Really dangerous by Loughman there, lucky Toner got down ok.

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I am baffled by the TMO there, only one of the replays was rewinded far enough, and that was clear he was down, then he wriggled, then he placed the ball (slightly short), then he pushes it on the line.

Nonsense.

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Yeah, Sarries still have an excellent XV, but their depth has gone back to where it was 5 or 6 years ago. If Furlong and Ryan are fit you shouldn't have anything to worry about.

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I'm not sure they had the evidence to make the other one a red.

That one is though, very stupid.

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It's a potentially very dangerous tackle, but none of those angles show clear shoulder to head contact to me.

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Just flicked on. Definite pen there, but despite the new interpretations Clancy is very happy to see the attacking team leave their feet at the ruck. Massively different to all the recent rugby I've watched.

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The Stander penno on 34:45 Leinster players ask ref if CJ was supporting his body weight (which he clearly wasn't) when he latched onto the ball Ref says, he (Stander) "had a good body position and was pulled off his feet" Eh, exactly ref ... :lol: That one was absolutely bizarre. It's actually not...

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Much better game than I expected, losing RG and Killer so early cost us the game , Leinster will have learnt a hell of a lot from it,lineout needs a ball of work. Bloody enjoyed it. Agree it had a big influence, but wouldn't say it cost us the game. Leinster were playing within themselves a fair bi...

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Duff Paddy wrote:Oh Casey I don’t like that

It looked to me he was pissed off too, but playing to instructions.

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Well again, Toner didn’t touch him, unless “got shoved in the back by” is the same as touching him. 2 tries during the sin bin. You've never been allowed to jump across the lineout. It's always been illegal as it's really dangerous as there is a big risk of taking out either the jumper or the lifte...

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DOB wrote:Is Toner not allowed try and catch a crooked Munster throw now? When did that law change?

You can't jump across like that no. It's always been the law as it's dangerous.

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Duff Paddy wrote:
grimoald wrote:Cian looks like he's got bigger again, interesting.
You reckon he’s hanging around with Munster’s saffa forwards?

I didn't mean it in that way. Thought it is interesting he seems to have decided to put a bit more bulk on, when he previously decided to slim down a bit.

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Cian looks like he's got bigger again, interesting.

grimoald

Brilliantly executed, but if we were playing the SRA refs/interpretations it would've been holding on off the ruck before.

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The Lions Tour is the nearest we’ll ever get to a real life “what’s the best combined team?” type game, where the players take it seriously and everyone actually cares who wins. (Ryder cup being different in that golf isn’t a team sport normally) Other sports have All-Star games, or charity matches...

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Just watched the highlights, that holding on call at the end is one of the crappest reffing decisions I've seen in a long time. Goodhue must have been astonished to have won the pen and not got a yellow when he got back to his feet.

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What exactly are the new guidelines? Just being stricter on how players enter a ruck? Tv hosts seemed to be saying there is only one chance to place the ball when on the deck. A lot of whinging by the commentators in the Highlanders/ Chiefs game about the high penalty count, but the I thought the r...

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I am also kind of worried, but I think the reason we might be f**ked is not having a jackler openside - loads of turnovers in both games have come from backs. The problem will be the pace of the game. If you aren't keeping the ball alive it is going to be so easy to get isolated and have ball turned...

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I really like tacklers having to roll away and the strictness on angles of entry. But as defenders are at such an advantage the ref really does need to be hot on the jackler going off their feet. Quite a few times the defending team won a penalty despite the defender's hands going straight to ground...

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Bowe really is comfortably the best Irish back 3 player in the pro era. He's one of the best in the entire NH over that period.

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Dunno why you’d yellow Ritchie. Yeah he came across, but the France hooker was the first player to escalate unnecessarily by getting involved in other players pushing.

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The problem with that tip tackle is that Willemse’s impact is what made it made, his hit and weight was what drove Gilchrist to the ground.

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Not a huge amount of contact, but clearly no arms

Edit - actually that other angle is at least yellow if not red.

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Farrell flopping and trying to buy the pen in the background.

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Lazy rucking by the Welsh prop, but technically he was there first.

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I think he’s f ucking great. There’s been whole articles written on how it was great that AWJ targeted and wound up Sinkler last year, all deliberate and illegal. itoji is going to be a great, he is no more niggly than a dozen players, you’re irrational in your critique. Oh I’ve never claimed he wo...

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On Itoje, he obvs pushes the line and sometimes does the odd stupi thing because of that, but is clearly a smart player. What's noticeable in this game is that he's not attacking the 9 at the ruck - and the O'Keefe has told him not to a few times. I bet that came up in ref meetings during the week (...

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Clive Simms wrote:Our attack has nothing

That is the weirdest thing about Pivac's tactics/selection - he looks to be doing a really good job of upskilling forwards, but then has a backline with Parkes, North & 1/2p, none of whom have the skill-level to play the level or pace to do what he wants.

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Jeff the Bear wrote:Crap reffing. He allowed England to chase the hit.

Try directly from it.

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The early shove at that scrum.

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It's still going to be a very strong team, a lot of whom will be able to build on their experience from 4 years ago.

Scrum-half is the only real 'problem' area.

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We still have a massive problem of taking the ball static imo. There was one instance yesterday where Murray passed out to Sexton who was miles away from him and just standing waiting for the ball. The pass didn't go in front of him so we had Sexton just standing still for about a second waiting fo...

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The 'worse' Ryan clearout was right at the end of the first half, where he flew in without much control and should have been penalised (and basically got lucky with where he hit the England player). But it, the Stander/Farrell incident and similar England infringements were directly because Peyper ...

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