Luke Burgess very good again in Toulouse victory over Connacht 36-10 : http://stadetoulousain.tv/2011-2012/connacht-rugby-stade-toulousain/les-temps-forts-du-match-5.html
Dunno if its you or the laaitie but I cant get it loaded.
Thought Leinster were superb in that first half. Best Heaslip has played for ages and Luke Fitzgerald best player on the field for me. Toner is playing very well and pleased to see Cronin starting, on merit IMHO. SOB looks like he has got a bit smaller to me. Playing more of the classic 7 role maybe? Munster are getting better with each game and POC is the best second row in the world right now, he is simply awesome.Great win by Leinster today, BP win by half time. Took the foot off a little in the 2nd half. Nice piece of clearing out at ruck time by Glasgow when they got Andrew Small when he stray a little to close to the breakdown. Good return to form by Heaslip, O'Brien had a quiet game and was taken off midway through the 2nd half. By the time the next pool game comes around he'll be back to his best I'm sure. I thought O'Malley had a great game, ran some good lines and rewarded with 2 tries. There's so much young talent in Ireland at the moment just bursting for a chance on the international stage.
Montpellier gave Bath a good game today. The difference for Bath in the first half was Donald and also the fact Bath knew a defeat meant they were out. Gorgodze a lot quiter today but came into the game in the 2nd half. Was good to see Ollie Barkley come on in the 2nd half after being out for so long. Don't rate him as an amazing player but no one likes to see a player break their leg.
Can't believe WRFU agreed to this game, the regions must be livid that they get the players back for three weeks and off they trot for a high impact friendly, incredible but will make things easier for any teams playing welsh opposition in HEC round 3 and fortunately Munster ae playing scarlets!?!Hello again, Not sure if this is the right place to post this, but the hieneken cup has taken its toll on the welsh team that meet you in Cardiff on the 3rd dec
Adam Jones................ injured
Paul James .................injured
Alun Wyn-Jones .........injured
Luke charteris............ Injured
Dan Lydiate................injured
Jamie Roberts ............injured
George North..............injured
Liegh Halfpenny........... injured
Mike phillips,.......... James Hook.......... Liegh Byrne.......... Andy Powell,........... Gareth delve, Unavailable, because of French, English, as well as Australian club commitments
Part of Saints problem is that the refs have got on top of their illegal scrummaging and are ensuring they stay square which has taken away some of their potency. Ashton is turning into a complete prima Donna, witness his not running back against scarlets which gifted them a try and saw Ashton jeered by the saints fans. Plus they are after blaming all their troubles on the refs which has created an unhealthy excuse/ blame culture. Don't buy the missing player thing, Leinster had more missing than anyone in the whole tournament and they are going fine even without BOD. English rugby is rotten to the core and the back biting and self interest of all parties extends from top to bottom. Apart from Saracens who are basically Saffer and Quins which are run by Conor O'Shea the English teams are underperforming massively and all the bull shit coming out of the RFU is a large part of the reason for it IMHO, my heart bleeds.I don't know if one player has made such a difference. The whole team has been average, literally, when I have seen them this year, even taking into account the RWC period when they had 8 players missing. I forget some of the games I have seen them play this year but they were poor against Worcester and Quins. Their best game this year I can recall is probably their Round 1 HEC loss at Thomond Park. At lest they showed up to play.
But Leicester have been even worse. They had 12 players missing for the RWC and they've had injuries too, but even so they have been a shadow of themselves. Was their win last weekend against Ulster their first home win of the season? If so, it's an incredible stat.
As for the Exiles: as you indicated: it looks like they are out of the HEC. Cardiff played OK but you have to beat teams like that. I used to follow them but there's so many changes in personnel I don't know some of the players now.
I'd like to know what the Quins players are drinking and order some for the Waratahs. They're unbeaten this season aren't they? Who would have thunk up that as the situation at the end of November?
Meh. A hugely destructive carrier of the ball, and at 6'5 and 18-19 stone its not surprising, but he missed what was a fairly simple tackle on Cronin to conceed the draw to Leinster.Gorgodza? Yeah he is a force of nature. Everybody knows him now from the RWC but those of us that have been watching the Top 14 for a while knew the quality of the best blindside flanker in the world (IMO); not that he always plays there.
Part of Saints problem is that the refs have got on top of their illegal scrummaging and are ensuring they stay square which has taken away some of their potency. Ashton is turning into a complete prima Donna, witness his not running back against scarlets which gifted them a try and saw Ashton jeered by the saints fans. Plus they are after blaming all their troubles on the refs which has created an unhealthy excuse/ blame culture. Don't buy the missing player thing, Leinster had more missing than anyone in the whole tournament and they are going fine even without BOD. English rugby is rotten to the core and the back biting and self interest of all parties extends from top to bottom. Apart from Saracens who are basically Saffer and Quins which are run by Conor O'Shea the English teams are underperforming massively and all the bull shit coming out of the RFU is a large part of the reason for it IMHO, my heart bleeds.
Ashton is turning into a complete prima Donna, witness his not running back against scarlets which gifted them a try and saw Ashton jeered by the saints fans.
Meh. A hugely destructive carrier of the ball, and at 6'5 and 18-19 stone its not surprising, but he missed what was a fairly simple tackle on Cronin to conceed the draw to Leinster.
I'm a fan of him, but the hype is getting silly really. Almost Chabal like.
Lee, As you say ospreys were lucky to get the draw, Cardiff Blues did fine in the first 20min against london Irish, but when they had a player sent off (LI) cardiff seemed to take their foot off the pedal a little, Irish came back and cardiff must have been relieved when the final whistle went.
I know the format of the HC can be a little infuriating but, its what we have, it starts geting serious now Munster Llanelli, mouth watering, like you cant wait.
As an aside most of the sky rugby pundits didn't give Llanelli scarlets a dogs chance against Northhampton. ;-)
I had been imbibing for most of the day when I posted that, Munster are a team that knows how to steal a game, ROG drop goals were sublime, of course the pack need to put him in a position to kick, so well done the pack, Die, turk scum, a little strong that paddy, By the way I don't support reginal rugby I'm a senghenydd boy, there's a long story there somewhere ,but I'm sure some one of your demeanour would not be interested.Well, since ewe mention it:
I have only one thing to say.
Die, Turk Scum.
Die, Turk Scum.
I had been imbibing for most of the day when I posted that, Munster are a team that knows how to steal a game, ROG drop goals were sublime, of course the pack need to put him in a position to kick, so well done the pack, Die, turk scum, a little strong that paddy, By the way I don't support reginal rugby I'm a senghenydd boy, there's a long story there somewhere ,but I'm sure some one of your demeanour would not be interested.
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