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TheFrog

Les nouvelles règles pour la saison prochaine. La plus intéressante pour le jeu est peut être Règle 16.7 L’International Rugby Board a approuvé lors de sa réunion annuelle à Dublin ce mardi les changements de règles qui affecteront tous les championnats à partir de la saison prochaine. Les essais v...

TheFrog

So, either it is decided there is no hit, and teams bind like school boys do. then it is 20.1 (j) only. I don't think we need to go that far. You can still have a firm hit, but it requires an element of co-operation. That is essentially what happens at lower levels, where we do not really have the ...

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Or we accept that the battle for the better hit is the essence of the scrum, but then scrap 20.1(j) and focus on 20.5 This would mean giving up on a straight feed. The scrum will be in some sort of motion, and I don't see how the scrum half could do it or the referee judge it. Why not allow the tou...

TheFrog

First, the law: 20.1 (j) Stationary and parallel. Until the ball leaves the scrum half’s hands, the scrum must be stationary and the middle line must be parallel to the goal lines. A team must not shove the scrum away from the mark before the ball is thrown in. 20.5 No Delay. As soon as the front r...

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http://t.co/3ae8TFXp f**king brilliant; another change to the engagement sequence and er.... and that's it - I despair. What would you rather have bcm? Personally, I think the only way you will ever get near 100% guaranteed scrums set that don't collapse on impact is to remove the impact altogether...

TheFrog

Well done Leinster, a legend in the making. You win the next one, you'll be on the history book as the greatest side ever.

Good luck.

TheFrog

As an aside, after the earlier goodbyes of players who've been a major part of our lives for sometime, Bernol has a few more: - Audebert: who has been virtually a one club player. - Marconnet: I don't suppose I'll get over the fact that his wife's name is Sylvia (apparently) but for some time he wa...

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Audebert has been a true great at Clermont. Not a shinning star, but one of those player that anybody would follow, anywhere. A true warrior, he gave always everything for the club, and had the ability to gather the players around him. I am still so bitter he got suspended for that "stamping" on O'G...

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I have decided that I have to go to at least one of the semi-finals. I mean, I've spent 6 years away from France, waking up at 3:00 in the morning to watch Clermont, and now they're coming to me, I can't pass that opportunity! So I have launched a hunt for tickets, let me know if you've got couple t...

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Talking about proper scrumagers, I think we owe to express our recognition for one of the best props in France, a man who has always been at the heart of our pack's efforts, and never a man to seek glory and lights. Good luck to you in your new carier, Mr Milloud, you were a true representative of ...

TheFrog

Talking about proper scrumagers, I think we owe to express our recognition for one of the best props in France, a man who has always been at the heart of our pack's efforts, and never a man to seek glory and lights. Good luck to you in your new carier, Mr Milloud, you were a true representative of t...

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SF, €€€s X results = Cheika fired. not entirely surprising the new boss was not going to keep someone hired before if he did not get results (no matter how bad things were before. Now who will take over ? I think he should have kept him one year more, it takes time to rebuild a club from scratch. S...

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Stolen from rugbyrama Clermont-Brive: 57-14. Marc DUZAN Thomas Domingo est en forme. Les deux droitiers de Brive, Pat Barnard et Pablo Cardinali, peuvent en témoigner. Après un an d'absence et deux graves blessures au genou, l'enfant d'Egletons a aujourd'hui évacué tous les stigmates de plusieurs m...

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Simu wrote:To the guy asking about Domingo,

He asked his counterpart where they were living, "Si vous voulez, on vous dépose ?" (S. Simon moking catalan's prop during SF-Perpignan final in 1996).

Domingo is not Barcella... He is a good scrummager definetely.

Feels good.

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La soule wrote:Anybody else's think the two red for Gorgodze & Maestri were a bit harsh?

I missed that, but this could be a blow to Montpellier. If Gorgodze is suspended 3 weeks, he'll be out for the QF and the SF.

I watch the rest of the game, and Beauxis is definitely not a great 10.

TheFrog

Has someone had a chance to see Domingo play? I couldn't watch the game. How did he hold himself in the scrum? How long did he last? Good that he came through it uninjured. Clermont did Brive no favour, they completely destroyed them. What tough sent off. EDIT: just found on Rugbyrama the live repor...

TheFrog

On intermittens du spectacle I was referring to this: http://www.ouest-france.fr/ofdernmin_-La-Cour-des-comptes-vise-les-intermittents-du-spectacle_6346-2042351-fils-tous_filDMA.Htm It was about deficits of the unemployment funds. Leftists hippies account for 33% of this deficit while they represen...

TheFrog

@Frog et all: if you want to know why so many young people have voted FN I think you ought to read this... http://lhorreurduchateau.blogspot.fr/2012/05/cest-lhistoire-dun-mec.html This is the kind of people, the kind of world, leftists have created in France. Ils commencent à peine à se prendre en ...

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FN abstentionists ? 25 % of FN first round voters voted for Hollande in the second round. That's close to 1.6 million. Hollande won by a little over 1.1 million votes. I read only 14% voted Hollande, it is amazing how those polls differ. Anyway there are 2.2M blank votes, roughly twice as much as u...

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Heymans, Je pense que c'est plus complique que ca. Je pense que le constat est vrai. As-tu lu l'article par exemple? C'est cette situation qui cree des tensions dans un contexte ou on doit serrer la ceinture. Ne pas la regarder en face, c'est prendre le risque de laisser se degrader les choses enco...

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Heymans, Je pense que c'est plus complique que ca. Je pense que le constat est vrai. As-tu lu l'article par exemple? C'est cette situation qui cree des tensions dans un contexte ou on doit serrer la ceinture. Ne pas la regarder en face, c'est prendre le risque de laisser se degrader les choses encor...

TheFrog

From the same guy.

TheFrog

Xupi wrote:http://lesalonbeige.blogs.com/.a/6a00d8 ... 970d-popup

I can see the Peruvian flag!

TheFrog

Interesting debate if you have some time to waste.

Sarkozy - Retired people

Hollande - Civil servants

TheFrog

I missed Clouseau's post, so my answer will be a mixed one. Comparing 1950 with 2012 is always a dodgy argument, and even dodgier it is referring to a crappy cliché-laden 19th century short story to exemplify what's the reality nowadays. For starters, I have no will or time discussing about "left",...

TheFrog

DAC* wrote:
Ipsos says that 56% of the high income class voted Sarkozy
Sorry, but how do they know that? Is someone's income clearly stated on their polling card?

The same way others have been able to evaluate Moslem vote, I guess...

TheFrog

The rich vote Sarkozy. :lol: :lol: Unfortunately, in all the analysis of the vote, the cut off point is an income of Euros 3,500 per month (as if this made you rich), but the trend is clear when you look at this data. The more people earn, the more they vote for Sarkozy (and the less for Le Pen). A...

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@Frog: as for debt, I do not want us to pay for it, obviously. Debt enriches the banksters and has helped pay social welfare for the past 30 years and a failed education system, it has also finacially helped the colonization of our country. So I prefer a default and a reset, asking young French and...

TheFrog

The rich vote Sarkozy.

TheFrog

Xupi, Could you give me a honest appraisal of Hollande please? What can we expect from him? Very smart man, moderate among the left, convinced European, excellent tactician. On a personal level I believe him to be a nice guy, low key, humble. But that's not the point DAC, the point is who has elect...

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Hollande didn't need Le Pen to win, he needed Bayrou. Sarko needed Le Pen. And it will be worse for the parlamientary elections. Hollande did not give a damn about Bayrou, and he won with a very low report of his votes (less than 30% vs 40% to Sarko). What was criticial for Hollande was not to scar...

TheFrog

Xupi wrote:@Frog, more info here:
http://www.fdesouche.com/299054-le-vote ... ore-299054

Thanks

For better reading of the data

TheFrog

Interesting his analysis of the actual number of votes: Of 100 French people who were 18 or more and qualified for voting: 10 were not registered on the lists - meaning they could not vote 19 did not vote 1 posted a blank ballot. That is already 1/3 of the people who either didn't care, didn't want...

TheFrog

From this site. Practising Catholic Vote: 47% - Sarkozy 17% - Bayrou 15% - Le Pen 14% - Hollande 7% - Melanchon Nothing surprising there, though you might note the support to Le Pen is slightly lower among Catholics than in the rest of France. The Catholic vote amounts to 3 to 4% of the votes. Prot...

TheFrog

Interesting analysis here as well.

TheFrog

Interesting his analysis of the actual number of votes: Of 100 French people who were 18 or more and qualified for voting: 10 were not registered on the lists - meaning they could not vote 19 did not vote 1 posted a blank ballot. That is already 1/3 of the people who either didn't care, didn't want ...

TheFrog

Actually, some facts, which correct some of my statement: http://www.les-crises.fr/images/3100-democratie/3130-presidentielles-2012/41-resultat-presidentielle-2012-1-tour-csp-1.jpg Le Pen does well with the workers, and employees. The middle class is suicidal and votes for Hollande a lot. Sarkozy ge...

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That the Catholic vote Sarkozy a 80% is surely not a new trend. I'd also like to see the vote of French muslims in the past elections to see whether there is a trend really or whether this has always existed. Where do you get your figures from? I wasn't aware that the flags appeared everywhere in Fr...

TheFrog

I'm guessing ASM is trying to get him in shape before the semis. Seeing how Barcella got hammered in the scrum last weekend I can't blame them. :?: Reference to Biarritz being minced at scrum time by Montpellier in the first half of the game. When Barcela (and the other prop) were taken off, things...

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surely Bourgoin should be forced to merge if they want to retain their pro status. Too important for French Rugby to lose a club that produces players. You do not make a rich man by merging 2 poor ones. (often used in the béziers Narbonne area. Grenoble and Bourgoin should join forces somehow. But ...

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