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Dupont does some very ordinary stuff at times. He has a tendency to pick the ball up without really having a plan. Just then he picked up and wandered laterally towards the first receiver, before popping it to him with a defender standing in front.

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iarmhiman wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 3:31 pm French tv director trying to help

Just a horror show all round. French TV directors doing their best to get the chavs in the stadium riled up, and the refereeing team ignoring clear head contact.

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They are now booing because the referee is having his microphone fixed. What a bunch of absolute chavs.

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God French rugby fans are so toxic.

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Looks like Big Stu has the hump with Ferris. Feels a bit needy.
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Exeter just got so oddly narrow under really not that much pressure. Complete system failure to number up properly.

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Waboso has just bounced off a lock. Incredible strength for a sub-100kg player.

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Comms really talking Christ up here, in between the usual Drico cliché-fest. If he carries like he did last week he's going to get absolutely munched by the Toulouse pack.

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Unless Exeter play out of their skin and Toulouse don't show up, or something mad like red card happens, this is probably the easiest match of the weekend to call. That said, it's a bit weird to look at the names on that Toulouse teamsheet and see them as all-conquering. Kinghorn, Arnold, Costes, A...

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Jarrod with the final kick as quins win away for a semi in Europe :smug: *notwithstanding He missed it, and they were already winning, but nonetheless Sounds like a similar situation to when he absolutely spooned an easy kick against Tigers earlier this season in the last minute, although in that c...

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Unless Exeter play out of their skin and Toulouse don't show up, or something mad like red card happens, this is probably the easiest match of the weekend to call. That said, it's a bit weird to look at the names on that Toulouse teamsheet and see them as all-conquering. Kinghorn, Arnold, Costes, Ak...

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lorcanoworms wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 11:00 am
DragsterDriver wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 7:49 am Nobody from Leinster should moan about Dickson, he's useless but favoured Leinster massively.
Foul play he was poor.

He's a shite referee, but I don't think he swung that game any.

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I've only seen him a few times but Hendy is great. Just seems to find gaps effortlessly. That Saints team look so well coached in general though. Vesty has done a brilliant job. Hopefully Wiggy had his notebook to hand while he was watching that one. Saints have a lovely shape in first phase attack...

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RodneyRegis wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2024 9:36 pm Ollie.

Sleightholme.

Reminds me of a young Mike Brown, but with pace. So tricky to put down and endless energy, but rarely makes mistakes.

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Sleightholme has to tour this summer. Ramm should also be under consideration. And by all accounts Baxter had a decent game today as did Dombers. All of the above have been performing well over a number of months, not just today. Squad selection is going to be tough for Borthwick. Mercer needs to t...

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And so today was the day when the French sides eventually shat the bed. Much fancied hipster favourites Bordeaux shipped 42 points at home to a mid-table Premiership side, while Radge's La Rochelle limped out without a fight looking like a shadow of themselves. I'm sure Toulouse will get past Exete...

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And so today was the day when the French sides eventually shat the bed. Much fancied hipster favourites Bordeaux shipped 42 points at home to a mid-table Premiership side, while Radge's La Rochelle limped out without a fight looking like a shadow of themselves. I'm sure Toulouse will get past Exeter...

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Leinster v La Rochelle seems to be the pick of the action this weekend, but I surely can't be alone in feeling a bit underwhelmed by the Frogs/Mercenaries last weekend. They laboured past a pretty ordinary and injury-impacted Stormers side last weekend, and needed a missed kick to make sure of the ...

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Fair play, Mitchell has had a rare stinker this evening, overplaying his hand far too often. Saints too good in the end, creating opportunities whenever they got past a couple of phases. That said they looked vulnerable when the Bulls started to get more physical in the first half.

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And you'd be wrong. Looked at buying a little place on Cap Ferret last year. Wonderful wine, fabulous seafood, great people and pace of life. Would be nice if the sea was a bit warmer. Couldn't make the sums add up for the use we'd get. A lot of money for stoney beaches and dodgy neighbours Have be...

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:lol: Tell you the truth I hate France outside the Basque and the Alps And you'd be wrong. Looked at buying a little place on Cap Ferret last year. Wonderful wine, fabulous seafood, great people and pace of life. Would be nice if the sea was a bit warmer. Couldn't make the sums add up for the use w...

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I keep driving to Arcachon like most people with taste Nouveau central How gauche :lol: Tell you the truth I hate France outside the Basque and the Alps And you'd be wrong. Looked at buying a little place on Cap Ferret last year. Wonderful wine, fabulous seafood, great people and pace of life. Woul...

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Duff Paddy wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2024 7:19 pm
Da iawn diolch wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2024 7:14 pm
TranceNRG wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2024 7:12 pm

I was thinking no way La Rochelle is the Blackpool of France..
Suspect he's probably not visited...
I keep driving to Arcachon like most people with taste

Ah, you like the nouvelle riche. You should have said.

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Just don’t have the balls for the big occasion They've been shite all season for such a highly paid squad. Won 10/20 in the league and miles off the leaders. They only won last weekend because of a missed conversion. You are.missing the context...these are all statements thrown at leinster recently...

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Can't wait to hear the Radge interview after this. He was far too smug when his bunch of highly-paid mercenaries were wiping the floor with everyone.

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Massive choke by LAR Not really a choke based on their form, but they've been shite all the same. Just don’t have the balls for the big occasion They've been shite all season for such a highly paid squad. Won 10/20 in the league and miles off the leaders. They only won last weekend because of a mis...

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TranceNRG wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2024 7:12 pm
Da iawn diolch wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2024 7:11 pm
Duff Paddy wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2024 7:10 pm

The French version of Blackpool paying him 500k
La Rochelle is a beautiful part of the world. More power to him for somehow convincing them to pay him that much to live there.
I was thinking no way La Rochelle is the Blackpool of France..

Suspect he's probably not visited...

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RWC2015 wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2024 7:10 pm Massive choke by LAR

Not really a choke based on their form, but they've been shite all the same.

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Duff Paddy wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2024 7:10 pm
Da iawn diolch wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2024 7:09 pm
TranceNRG wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2024 7:08 pm

Complete waste of money..
They are paying him 500 bags a year to plod.
The French version of Blackpool paying him 500k

La Rochelle is a beautiful part of the world. More power to him for somehow convincing them to pay him that much to live there.

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TranceNRG wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2024 7:08 pm
DragsterDriver wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2024 7:07 pm Nowell is a leaden footed carthorse.
Complete waste of money..

They are paying him 500 bags a year to plod.

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Last week told us everything we needed to know about this La Rochelle side. They made heavy weather of beating an average side with a boatload of injuries. Radge has an Atonio sized problem to solve with this squad. The core of this side have fallen off a cliff in form and fitness, and those who wer...

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Nolanator wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2024 6:58 pm If Botia didn't earn a penalty there, it had to one against him

I thought he'd lifted it before he was cleared. Dickson was looking at him lying on the floor with the ball in his hands and called to release. What a bluffer of a referee.

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Atonio has been an absolutely empty jersey for 52 minutes. Utterly useless.

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Nolanator wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2024 6:56 pm Commentators talking like Leinster have won.

They have. La Rochelle have been shite. 51 minutes in and their defensive line speed has dropped to vets level.

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Clive Simms wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2024 6:56 pm Dick son having a laugh there. JGP never on the ball let alone lifting it

He's a 'vibes' sort of referee.

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RodneyRegis wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2024 6:53 pm Idiotic miss-pass

Clueless stuff.

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La Rochelle were going nowhere but Gibbo was nowhere near that ball for the turnover penalty.

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Furlong absolutely munched his opposite number there. Surely time for La Rochelle to rotate the fatties?

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Radge and his 6/2 split not looking so clever. Relying on Botia to play centre at 47 years old is not a Heiny Cup winning plan.

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TranceNRG wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2024 6:42 pm That's probably the game. Don't see La Rochelle coming back from this.

They've honestly been bang average. Such a shame for the competition, but great news for Leinster.

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