Official Rugby Thread

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Crusaders-Blues has been a heck of a contest.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Great game. Blues are real contenders.

 

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Bloody hell. What's the record for red cards in a Super Rugby season? This year would be getting close already.

 

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The Reds are all over the Hurricanes here.

EDIT: But a good comeback from the Canes since I posted that - from 17-0 to 17-14.

 

[andruid]

Just found out that Kenya and Zimbabwe are in this year's Currie Cup. Preparation for World Cup qualifiers apparently.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Highlanders beaten by the Brumbies. Now in danger of not making the 1/4 finals. Really need to start winning

 

[Flem274*]

Brumbies look good.

Canes, Reds, Crusaders and Rebels all awful.

 

[Smudge]

Highlanders beaten by the Brumbies. Now in danger of not making the 1/4 finals. Really need to start winning

Unfortunately, a team can't win much without a decent 10 and both of ours aren't up to the upper levels of Super Rugby.

 

[Flem274*]

Hunt was pretty solid last year I thought. Before Reuben Love (and now Aiden Morgan too) I was hoping we would nab him or Perofeta in the offseason to finally get rid of the protected species JGB.

Hunt this year has been JGB tier.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Or perhaps not:

World Cup: Spain investigated for player eligibility breach

World Rugby has announced an investigation into the eligibility of one of the Spanish team during the Rugby Europe Championship.

www.planetrugby.com

Seems as if they may've been altogether too enthusiastic in their borrowings.

Now confirmed:

Spain kicked out of 2023 Rugby World Cup after alleged passport fraud

Spain, who were found to have illegally fielded the South African-born Gavin van den Berg, will be replaced by Romania but could appeal the decision

www.theguardian.com

As Lady Bracknell might've had it, to be kicked out of one world cup for fielding unqualified ringers might be considered misfortune; to be kicked out of two looks like you're taking the Mickey Bliss.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Waratahs beat the Crusaders!!!
Amazing result. Awesome weekend of Super Rugby (NZ teams playing poorly; Aussie teams playing really well).

 

[Fuller Pilch]

And the Brumbies over the Hurricanes as well as Rebels over MP. Well done to the Aussies

 

[GotSpin]

Should have gone to leichardt and watched

 

[Flem274*]

Surely we're finally done with Holland and JGB right?

Right?

 

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Dozy start for the Blues here - down 14-0 after only five minutes!

EDIT: But now they're on the board less than a minute later.

EDIT 2: And again. If anyone's wandering into the stadium a few minutes late, they've missed four tries already.

 

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So, a fair bit happened in that half in the end.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Great win from the Highlanders. Could be a genuine chance in the 1/4 finals if they make it.

 

[andruid]

We might not win another game so...

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1522953190140157952

 

[BoyBrumby]

We English union fans have a little bit of a tendency to get over excited when a new attacking talent emerges (James Simpson-Daniel, anyone? If you have to look him up, that's kinda my point) because we're not exactly overburdened in that department, but this is a fair effort from London Irish's Henry Arundell, a 19 year old tyro.

He takes a hastily shoveled pass practically on his own try line, barely has time to look up to assess the field of play and sets off.

Firstly, kudos for the ambition, but the way he stands up the Toulon defenders before skinning them on the outside has shades of Jason Robinson, probably our last genuinely incendiary attacking player.

The French commentary adds something too; I don't speak it at all, but one doesn't need to to get the gist.

It seems almost churlish to point out Nick Phipps's original pass was forward...

 

[Howe_zat]

Lad's got wheels

He was playing the U20s six nations this winter and watching him skin some of the Scots schoolboys was very funny.

Incidentally, there's rumours that Edinburgh have been trying to get him capped for Scotland ever since.