/rug/

Great choice in jersey colour in this Sharks game, like how they put thought into it so we can easily distinguish the 2 teams apart

There have been so many cases this year of teams wearing alts for 0 reason and yet when there is a reason they don't.

fucking shit maul call there wtf

SPEDS

le coinflip in full effect this round

>Saracens vs Munster, Ricoh Arena, Coventry

Saracens:
15. Alex Goode, 14. Sean Maitland, 13. Alex Lozowski, 12. Brad Barritt (captain), 11. Liam Williams, 10. Owen Farrell, 9. Ben Spencer, 1. Mako Vunipola, 2. Jamie George, 3. Titi Lamositele, 4. Maro Itoje, 5. George Kruis, 6. Mike Rhodes, 7. Jackson Wray, 8. Billy Vunipola

Replacements:
16. Joe Gray, 17. Richard Barrington, 18. Vincent Koch, 19. Will Skelton, 20. Schalk Burger, 21. Richard Wigglesworth, 22. Nick Tompkins, 23. David Strettle

Munster:

15. Mike Haley, 14. Andrew Conway, 13. Chris Farrell, 12. Rory Scannell, 11. Darren Sweetnam, 10. Tyler Bleyendaal, 9. Conor Murray, 1. Dave Kilcoyne, 2. Niall Scannell, 3. John Ryan, 4. Jean Kleyn, 5. Tadhg Beirne, 6. Peter O’Mahony (captain), 7. Jack O’Donoghue, 8. CJ Stander

Replacements:
16. Rhys Marshall, 17. Jeremy Loughman, 18. Stephen Archer, 19. Billy Holland, 20. Arno Botha, 21. Alby Mathewson, 22. JJ Hanrahan, 23. Dan Goggin

>Leinster vs Toulouse, Lansdowne Road, Dublin

Leinster:

15. Rob Kearney, 14. Jordan Larmour, 13. Garry Ringrose, 12. Robbie Henshaw, 11. James Lowe, 10. Johnny Sexton (captain), 9. Luke McGrath, , 1. Cian Healy, 2. Sean Cronin, 3. Tadhg Furlong, 4. Devin Toner, 5. James Ryan, 6. Rhys Ruddock, 7. Sean O’Brien, 8. Jack Conan

Replacements:
16. James Tracy, 17. Ed Byrne, 18. Michael Bent, 19. Scott Fardy, 20. Max Deegan, 21. Hugh O’Sullivan, 22. Ross Byrne, 23. Rory O’Loughlin

Toulouse:

15. Thomas Ramos, 14. Yoann Huget, 13. Sofiane Guitoune, 12. Pita Ahki, 11. Cheslin Kolbe, 10. Antoine Dupont, 9. Sébastien Bézy, 1. Clément Castets, 2. Peato Mauvaka, 3. Charlie Faumuina, 4. Richie Arnold, 5. Richie Gray, 6. Rynhardt Elstadt, 7. Joe Tekori, 8. Jerome Kaino (captain)

Replacements:
16. Guillaume Marchand, 17. Cyril Baille, 18. Maks Van Dyk,, 9. Selevasio Tolofua, 20. Piula Faasalele, 21. Francois Cros, 22. Romain Ntamack, 23. Maxime Médard

>saffer commentator bitching about the one 50/50 call that's gone the Reds way

Kerevi heemed off the ball

can guarantee we will be shit next week

>7. Sean O’Brien

I know Leavy's out but have we no one better?

Big Lunster fan myself ama

Van Der Flier is injured too, Deegan is primarily covering 8, Doris, Murphy and Penny are all kids. O'Brien it has to be.

McDermott will get 60+ Wallabies caps

>Dupont at 10
>Ntamack on the bench
What?

>le drop the ball winger

>le throw the ball into touch instead of scoring Sharks
they are hopeless, how were they topping the conference a week ago?

How many chances do you want until you stop fucking up the final pass
SA conference is a meme

gammon reds

BASED WRIGHTY DABBIN ON HIS HOMETOWN

nice work Reds

gnite lads

Knew picking the reds would pay off one day.

Challenge Cup Semi Finals
Saturday
>La Rochelle vs Sale
Stade Marcel Deflandre, La Rochelle 17:30 IST
Neither team looks amazing but the rub is definitely home advantage. Sale haven't impressed away all season while La Rochelle have only lost at home this season to Clermont and Bristol(the latter during a hurricane). Sale's only hope is that La Rochelle are still in contention for the Top14 playoffs and they'll play conservatively to protect. La Rochelle by 7.

>Clermont vs Harlequins
Stade Marcel-Michelin, 20:00 IST
Is this even a competition? Clermont are going to win the challenge cup. Quins probably won't get fucked up as bad as Northampton but they'd have to play better than they have all season to be in with a chance. Clermont by 20.

Champions Cup Semi Finals
Saturday
>Saracens vs Munster
Ricoh Arena, Coventry 15:00 IST
With the teams out I'm finding seeing a really close game with Munster looking worse for injuries. Bleyendaal is doing fine in the place of Carbery but no Earls is a serious blow. Sweetnam is fine but he's just not comparable. At least they have their strongest centre pairing and their forwards are all up to scratch. This will be a really physical game with Munster's back 3 having a lot of work to do against Maitland and Williams when the ball gets wide. Heart says Munster by 1. Brain says Saracens by 4.

Sunday
>Leinster vs Toulouse
Lansdowne Road, Dublin 15:15 IST
Both sides near full strength. Toulouse potentially with the edge of game time while most of Leinster's squad haven't played much or at all since the end of the 6 Nations. All the same it seems clear that Leinster haven't been full committing to the last few rounds of the Pro14 and will hit this game with similar intensity to what they showed against Ulster. For Toulouse it all comes down to whether Dupont can manage at 10. Heart says Leinster by 2. Brain says Toulouse by 10.

Could have started Fardy, moved Ruddock to 7 and had O' Brien on the bench.

Yeah that wouldn't be too bad actually. Have to ope that O'Brien doesn't shit the bed, i suppose.

I live in hope of an all Ireland CC final.

>tfw no big smelly prop gf

Is SOB off to London Irish before or after the World Cup?

Im worried he'll be on the plane as Schmidt is too loyal to players who are out of form or well past it

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Muscular thread.

Yesterday would have been a fantastic day of upsets if the Sunwolves had held on. Still, considering the best games are probably yet to come I have to say that the state of Super Rugby is pretty darn good right now. It's hard to imagine people using the age old complaint of the game being too start-stop. I think rugby is the most entertaining spectator sport its ever been by a long shot.

He’s technically done with Leinster by the end of this season, but Schmidt will almost assuredly bring him along.

been a great season.

man I wish Blues Landers were at Eden park tonight. An easter rugby match and beers in Kingsland would've been mint.

happy passover

>they really like their potatoes

Just passed over the lawn quickly 2bh

SOON

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Another shockingly bad OP image from irelel. Leave shit threads to the huemonkey lad.

the ultimate Good Guys™ derby

nice quads.
To be fair, he stepped in at 2am NZ time and saved us from a grim hue thread.

Blues by 12
*dabs*

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Gonna play some Tiberian Sun before the match m8s

For me, it's a quiet whisky and a round of Sekiro.

SAVE US NONU

having a shocker of a round so far

>reds year
>not in the bru it isn't

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Wonder if there's gonna be some slampigs in the zoo tonight?

Might give the Lust Deluxe a whirl, anyone tried it yet?

oh nonono

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I've looked at it before but never pulled the trigger. I say go for gold.

Like asking if there will be some rugby on the rugby field.

premium DMAC tackling

*teleports behind you*
*wins 3 WCs in a row*

heh..

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im in 4th
im still in this, kind of

I'm not in it at all, so you're beating me, well done m8

Happy Easter /rug/

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I've decided im gonna go to Blues v Hurrs and Blues v Chiefs back-to-back lads. Missus is away all May and I'm getting on it.

Might save it for free delivery on monday.

Well I'm getting help pizza tonight and you camt stop me

needs watching

Bitch has her holidays confused

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its next week lad

what is

anzac day ya poofta chook

Should wear it next week then.

its 5 days away

Poppy day was last friday you dumbfuck

Frizell v Robinson and Walden v Nonu

pretty excited

Exactly, thank you.

>Star Wars Imperial March plays as the Blues enter the field

Ordering pizza for HT.

#HTP and #HTS

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Wow, a dead even split.

I feel physically ill.

will be missing the games tonight unfortunately

you can see all the based cunts in the bottom half and all the shitters above.

bottom half = the lads

top half = big yikes

Good post.

GAMMON BLOO

Its a blues give up offensive penalties episode.

>knocks on despite the ball being passed right into his chest

looked in front tb h

>when nonu kicks

Blues forwards are really lazy and ill-disciplined, a lot like Wallabies forwards. They are always slow to reset/react in general play and going off feet/entering from side at the ruck.

Nice "straight" lineout you've got there.

do you hate gays lad

Blues winning the aerial ping pong minigame.

dirty auckland cunts

solid scuffle

yikes

BAW GAWD THAT'S KANE

>0-0

Probably a wise idea to only start scraps you have a chance of winning kek

kino ben smith moment there

The big red machine.

NONU

NONUUUUUU

bit of obstruction there

BAH GAWD NONU NONU BOOM

shhhhh, you're interrupting the NZRU-backed Blues resurgence

Well that's the dumbest thing I've ever seen.

Seriously if Nonu keeps this form, give him a test game before the RWC - and if he's still got goods at that level, reserve him a ticket to Japan

kek?

Start him at 12.
He's still elite.

Need to tear up Ruru's contract, he's fucking useless.

Nonu and Crotty would be the best midfield combination

Rebels Ruru > Blues Ruru

Crotty's a 12 la

Pulu > Ruru 2buru

>>ReRuru > BRuru
ftfy

nonu goodhue and sbw off the bench book it

Crotty's defence + Nonu's hard running would be a close recreation of the Nonu-Smith combination

Yes. Or even Laumape off the bench. SBW is a liability 2bh

shit lads just read that chris lilley has a new show and it's on Netflix

looks like auskino is back on the menu

off the bench he'd be fine

less likely to impact the game with a red card

Imagine still banging on about a red card that happened in 2017.

the card that drew the lions series

I thought the Lions won the series 1-1?

Sure you lost that one, but having won the other 2 you can't really call it a draw.

This is more like the Blues I know and love.

>bounces perfectly over all the chasers
kek

should have kicked it out lads haha

It's alb on the bench no matter who's picked though

The Lions drew with the ABs, which to NZ is pretty much a loss

You're actually correct.

Williams lost the plot there

HTS hit me

Holy fuck how didn't the touch judge call that pass?

probably high

would slam that blonde pig

you'd have to get in line by the looks of it.

The commentator mentioned Otere Black but I really haven't seen enough from him to believe he's test ready.

Fourth penalty try da poos have conceded.

would wife this qt in a heartbeat

grim

He's not a test player in any way shape or form

Faddes made up for not finishing that intercept last week

Complete nightmare.

blues have habit of doing that

another try thanks to ruru

WHEN IS IT GOING TO BE OUR TIME FUCK MY ARSE LADS

the ol blues are back lads

Fucks sake I'm switching over to the Warriors.

I'm switching to helium.

nonu boooomfa on poor little smithy

>>Hairy Plumber

comically bad

Plummer has to go
Ruru has to go
It's not good enough having club-tier halves in a professional fucking team, not fuvking good enough

Too bad Perofeta's injured. What happened to Gatland and Augustine Pulu? They were more reliable if not brilliant.

need a player that gets lucky bounces

Gatland went to Highlanders.
Pulu is bemch-warming for some reason.

LAZY looking fucking Blues side

Glad I didn't get that Blues Year tattoo after all lads

Ah I see, he's coming on for the Landers now

He's a true mercenary. just like his faggot dad.

OH WOW YEAH GREAT TRY BLUES FUCKING AMAZING STUFF

dont tell me Tuungafasi is a moozie too wtf

I lost the pick, but i kept my dignity

there is no dignity in this game for anyone

>Furacões
>not using the Barretts today and losing because of this

sorry im out drinking

canes won lad

Waratahs have won 13 of 15 against the Rebels (1 win 1 draw) but still picking the Rebels. Fuck the Tahs.

I'll watch this game but I'm very depressed

>Anzac ceremony
wtf is going on

Gotta remember all those lads that the Turks dabbed on at Gallipoli.

running out holding hands with little boys has always seemed so fucking weird and unnecessary

ANZAC day is Thursday though

>when you're trying to watch a game of rugby and they keep shoving imperialist propaganda down your throat

Some good bugling 2bh

>SCG
imagine paying to sit 100m from the sideline

No rugby on Thursday.

How about literally the following day.

While I agree, Clarkey said this was the official ANZAC round. Probably coz they'll get more viewers on Easter weekend.

there was no ANZAC commemoration in the nz games though. Clarkey and poopeelia have gone rogue

Maybe Kiwis dont want to commemorate murdering foreigners hundreds of miles away.

we love slaughtering brown foreigners as much as the next red blooded Westerner

Two-dads yeew

watching the last grand tour lads

tearing up

why would you pick the tahs after what happened this week

why would you pick the tards ever? even worse than the poos

Munster definitely wont win
Leinster might win but I think Johnny will play like shit and fuck us over
But man a munster leinster final would be so tasty

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That ball boy is huge.

I keep hoping FitzPatrick will comment on it when he's giving him the sweat towel but I suppose that'd get him sacked.

Pack him in the scrum. It might actually move.

His foot was on the line, doesnt that mean hes in the 22?

Comeback?

Watch them choke and lose it in the last 7 mins. Foley will miss another clutch kick.

For me, its anti-imperialistic communism

It's like watching a different sport to last game.

TWO DADS

Seriously, that ball boy has to be at least 200kg. Even more ironic is the Swisse shirt he’s wearing. Bad advertising for them, or what?

Would probably fuck over any remaining hopes we have for the WC. Ireland play like shit when Leinster and Munster are at each oter's throats. All the same I'd love to see it.

If ireland crash out in the QF again I will probably kill myself

god what a shitshow I wish I had fapped instead of watching that horseshit

Really was - who can play worse?

Will be watching the Brumbies game in just under an hour. Will anyone else?

Do you fuckers ever stop wearing poppies?

And then obviously switching to the Munster/Sarries game before it starts, right user?

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>murray and sexton heem each other in the final
>marmion and carty start in japan

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They still think its about honouring the dead and not an indoctrination symbol

am drunk

/rug/ kicking off

>bt sport and their ongoing agenda against Billy Vunipola and his support of Izzy Folau

They continue to expose themselves and the rest of the controlled medias forced cultural marxist agenda against anyone who in anyway is anti gay or speaks up against the medias agenda

So badly want the london, washington dc, tel aviv zionist mafia to cross Russia/Chinas red line so they get fucking nuked back to the stone age along with their blatant sick vile child targeting agenda

dumb nig nog

Anyone got a stream for the Munster match?

vipbox.live/saracens-vs-munster-1-live

Cannot believe the Brumbies got out of that one without conceding points or a card.

Cheers lad.

Absolutely hilarious - team is already in the change rooms when the ref decides to check for a high tackle and forced them back out.

Bleyendaal has a head the size of a fucking orange

Following on from this - the high tackle has led to a yellow card and a penalty try. Astonishing turnaround after the game had already been stopped.

Typical NH match. Waiting for decision by kick to H.

>Coventry stadium half empty
>More Munster supporters than Sarracenos ones
Where are the /pol/tards to say England is full of muslims?

Munster’s defence is fucking brutal.

Thought it was their biggest strength?

That’s what I mean yeah. Sorry, I can see why it sounds like I’m saying it’s bad. But it’s been so dominant this game.

Farrell is defending like a fucking monster, they seem to be looking more and more comfortable with Sarries attack as the game went on

Really good reads on what Sarries are trying in the 22. Attack needs to shape up though.

Ogretime for Munster

>stadium is basically half-empty at best

disgusting

*completely fucks up my round*

>Stadium basically empty

Do saracens actually have any fans?

Bumboys were monstrous in defence, had like 30% possession and made well over 200 tackles.

Pakistanis aren't saracens

im too drunk to watch

>toulouse
>leinster
>munster
>saracens

yeah, more of the same

"pro" 14

>le munster

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>English “Premiership”
>only 1 team makes the playoffs

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that munster defensive tactic consisting in not tackling the opponent is too IQ for my understanding, pour être honnête

>Lets kick high ball to the probable best full back in the world right now, that'll work

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Not like they can move up the pitch any other way.

>Billy Vunipola man of the match

Brilliant

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Seems like we only need one.

Big based Toner hasnt had his say yet

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Poite won’t backchat Ruddock again, that’s for fucking sure

Oh shit, how will Billy Vunipola EVER recover from this?

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looks irish

>Billy Vunipola

Anyone see the man of the match interview on bt? the woman interviewing him asked him about the booing and after the interview was finished she went up to him and apoligised for the question

Just proves not just bt but virtually all western media is pushing an agenda on people like him and Folau by constantly making an issue about their beliefs and trying to coerce even more idiots into booing them

The "EU" needs to fucking die already and all people need to get back control of our media

He's from Dublin (of course)

Here's another Dublin faggot

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I wonder what Munster's excuses will be this time?

They're a better side than they were 2 years ago when they were outclassed by Saracens, at least they were more competitive today and they are a good team but they're still a limited side. Big difference relying on the pack to dominate poorer Pro14 teams to when there is parity between the forwards and they run out of ideas very quickly when they don't.

They still seem happy to "front up" and frustrate opponents, live off their mistakes while doing little with ball in hand. Carbery seems to be the only player capable of going off script and creating anything in their backline, Mathewson too I guess.

>Toner back
>Lowe back
>Henshaw back

Just in fucking time, lets hope Toulouse playing their 9 at 10 backfires

They just need more South Africans and Leinster cast-offs. Then they can do it.

I'm glad they decided to play Lowe. He's worth at least 2 tries a game in scoring one and creating another.

They have no attack, no team deserves to win shit by defending they're way to it

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That and he's Mr Motivator, never stops talking and patting lads on the back and giving encouragement to them

He's been left out of way too many games this year especially when the Internationals were off in camp

Was caught by JGP being the only decent Scrumhalf available and Fardy being de facto captain.

Bet that little Welsh youtube faggot is cutting scars on his legs after Based Billy getting man of the match, stopped watching his vids a while back, think i might have to watch his next one to enjoy his liberal tantrum and tears

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His videos were always shite

He has one about Murray being our best player and then we go and beat an England looking for the most consecutive wins record and New Zealand without him

No idea why everyone seems to lap up his simplistic views and analysis

Because rugby's fanbase is literally red dit. There, I said it. Outside of /rug/, I hate pretty much everyone who likes this sport.

r/rugbyunion is the most red dit board on all of reddit. Pure cancer.

Bit sad if the only people you can enjoy this sport with are in this thread, lad.

I watch games with my friends. Me and a gang of three lads have season tickets, but most people I'm friends with prefer GAA or soccer.

>Munster lad running onto the pitch to call Vunipola a twat
Don’t think I’ll ever be that drunk

>r/rugbyunion is the most red dit board on all of reddit. Pure cancer.

Reddit is one big psyop website, all about mind control and manipulation, anyone with an alternative view gets shutdown by "downvotes" or the mods, probably the reason why im banned from r/rugbyunion for trying to educate them and telling them how the real world works

>/pol/tato has a reddit account

Why was he wearing slippers?

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I had to set one up to get into to a private rugby stream account, had no choice

Because that man wanted everyone to know, without a shadow of a doubt, that he is Limerick.

Meanwhile it’s 17 all between La Rochelle and Sale at half time. Yellow card and penalty try apiece.

>"from" limerick? no, you fool
>i AM limerick!

>mentally challenged cup

It’s actually an entertaining game so far.

If you play professional rugby you have to not be a cunt and set a good example.

If you can go around telling gay people they will burn in hell and rugby heads deem that acceptable, what sort of example does that set for club teams or local players? Will gay lads have to listen to cunts being homophobic and accept it?

I mostly find it laughable, because the very basic rule of Christianity is "love one another". If they believed anything, they wouldn't shit on other people and hate them. Also, if they want to be consistent, why aren't all his tattooed teammates being told they'll burn in hell? It's just cherry picking, being a homophobe and hiding behind religion to do it.

Fuck that guy.

Careful now, /pol/tato will take a break from upvoting his favourite deep-fried memes on reddit to tell you that you’re an EU plant, here to stop him from staying off his meds.

La Rochelle won. Last few minutes were a shitshow. LR missed an easy kick to put them beyond sale with 2 minutes on the clock. Sale made it to the LR 22 but lost the ball out to touch from a loose pass. But the tmo caught a LR player stomping on a Sale player so the got a penalty, only for play to have to stop again because the ensuing ruck included about 20 players. LR got a penalty off the ensuing scrum and kicked it out.

Is there a game on lads?

Clermont are plying Quins in the Challenge Cup. So far Clermont are looking dominant.

That Penaud guy, he's like a French Stockdale, Leinster could do with him on the right wing

He’s no Jordan Larmour. Might be useful for the As I suppose.

>Clermont folding with 10 to go. Quins might be in with a shout here.

If you have the time, go watch the meltdown that was their management of the end of the game against Toulouse last week. They're getting back to their Chokemont form more sooner than expected.
Can't say I'm too excited with the finale against La Rochelle or the next couple of games for that matter.

Clermont held on, but they nearly botched a 24 point lead.

That said, Clermont can accomplish a pretty cool feat if they win the final game : Win a final game (because of Clermont's history with Championship game) plus being unbeaten all season long in the European scene (second div. that is) and scoring 30 pts in the pool stage out of the 30.
However, I can't realy say if someone did it before on the real European Cup or in the irrelevant third one (European Shield) back a decade ago (or if that one counts, period).

>le sexton is shit
>le sexton's tantrums are ruining Ireland
>le etc.

It was only because of Sexton we won a double and had such a good season last year at test level. It was also his demanding attitude that was credited with raising standards and what drove us on.
When Sexton plays well, we play well and conversely when he plays bad we're shite. He'll prove tomorrow why he's the best Irish player currently playing.

Posting so no one can say it was le 20/20 hindsight.

I really hope you're right.

Poor fella will have dementia in a few years with all the concussions he's had. I agree, a team's fortunes can be decided based on whether good Jonny or bad Jonny turns up.

for me its getting a single win point for the entire round

>It was also his demanding attitude that was credited with raising standards and what drove us on

True, but you can see something in him cracked in that Munster/Leinster game at Thomand at the end of December, im sure some of the Munster lads were doing stuff to wreck his head but it worked, he went off the deep end and a few of the other Leinster lads followed his example resulting in a red card (should of been 2) and a few yellows for Leinster

Since then the whole fucking house of cards came down in both International and Provincial level for him, ever since he won player of the year he hasn't been able to deal with it

Something similar happened after we beat New Zealand in Chicago, we thought we were the best in the world and went into 2017 with our head up our arse and got beat by the Scots in the first 6 Nations game that year, it took us the best part of a year to pull it back out and get our shit together and thats what im worried about going into the WC this year

Steve Hanson was talking about it how its a completely different level getting to the top and staying there, i reckon we're still a few years away from the level

>potato rug posts:
Good
>/pol/tato posts in rug:
BAD

I say saved by an elite Brumbies pick. Never doubt the class and rugby culture of the Canberrans.

>dan carter is a possibility for the world cup

based henry

>no Sunday arvo /rug/

Glad to see all 12 waratahs fans showed up for the game

This bread head place in Tauranga is amazing

You cant see the game in the SCG so they were really just there for the booze. Atrocious game anyway.

What Izzy said wasn't hateful. He didn't even single out homosexuals. His message was that EVERYONE will go to hell unless they repent.

Not even /rug/ is free from r*ddit cancer. The only people I discuss rugby with are blokes from my church.

he could even argue that he wants them to repent because he wants them to go to heaven
whole thing is a mess and in other sports the comments would make a sun online article and that would be it

So you're saying professionalism was a mistake?

Fucking great day for a game. First consistently good weekend of the year.

hey, Chokemont managed to not choke
they tried, though

They have choked to choke

Clermont is one level above in choking

>Warren Gatland to be Lions coach for 2021 against South Africa
As expected.

Rugby is coming home

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>The limes

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ah not again

Forget all that shit, can none of you people (i mean everyone) actually see that the media continually forces this crap down peoples throats and has weaponized it against a certain group of society???

I wont even say what group it is and will let you decide, its as blatant as fuck whats going on with this forced ideology and from what i see people still have their head up their arse

is it the jews, perchance?

>/pol/tato
At least your mad ramblings are slightly rugby related this time

>8 things you need to know about the Israel Folau farce
youtube.com/watch?v=y2RUZHVlJXI

Comments section says it all

Was this from r/rugbyincels? Or did you come up with it all on your lonesome.

Toulouse already look like the better side

Ballsy Johnnie
Toulouse didn't get possesssion of the ball for the last, what, 5 minutes. Leinster has it in the bag.

Going to drink some French wine in celebration mon ami

>Ramos

Based Notre Dame logo

Looks like Richie Gray has grown tits

scotLEL

Phones off cunt
#respectthekicker

>Cronin goes off
>Leinster scrum goes to shite
>despite being 50 kilos lighter and still dominant beforehand

hmmm

It’s almost like Tracy is shite

We were missing Conan from the scrum as he had to cover for Henshaw being sent off. do you even scrum?

>tfw playing rugby with de lads
>tfw get an erection

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He's too lightweight for a front row forward

Nothing wrong with being aroused by a good play.

O' Sullivan has a great pass and good vision from the base of the ruck

Leinster

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>tfw fearing this Toulouse team in the very near future and having to face them because of the fucked-up seeding system for this competition
Aside that, they had the head above the water for what, 10 minutes max, in that game. Not that if they had the penalty try in the first half following the Henshaw's yelow card, it would have changed anything.

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Dont give a fuck if JGP is fit for the final, Lowe has to be played, if Cullen is insisting on bringing JGP then Fardy has to be left out

>Saracens vs Munster semi final attendance
16k, 10k of that being Munster Fans in Sarries own Country

Leinster vs Toulouse semi final attendance
43k, 90+% of that being Leinster Fans

Saracens "fanbase" is an abysmal joke and Newcastle might aswell rename itself Dublin for the 11th of May

Might go myself, actually. Way easier to get to than Bilbao last year.

If you pay i'll go with you

Dibs big spoon

Very grim stuff in Sri Lanka lads.

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>Attacks on Churches all around the world (Christian and Muslim)
>Izzy Folau and supporters attacked by "media" for expressing Christian Values
>Chaos and stupidity in all levels of government, media, sporting organisations

C'mon lads, you going to put the dots together or do i need to keep educating you's?

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>upvotes

Leinster shall win the final

Has to be Lowe and Fardy I reckon.

Lowe got left out of the final last year and we barely scraped beating Racing all because they were able to shut down our attack, it was only down to sheer will that we won it

The fact we're without Leavy this time means we need Lowe in there

Based fucking game of thrones lads

Got another GoT rugby related post lined up soon for all the fans out there

I'm HOME and ready to fuck up the bru.

Same except the missus.

oh nononono

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I went to a church today to contemplate the notion of having a life cut short just for being somewhere - maybe only to accompany a religious grandmother. I wish all the grievances in the world can be sweated out with a fair game of footy. I wish that right now with all my heart.

*could be

Izzy still in this lads.

bbc.com/sport/rugby-union/48010943

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He's never playing rugby again in Australia. He will play elsewhere for sure but at this point the only issue is whether he gets paid out his contract.

>He's never playing rugby again in Australia

Good thing the World Cup is in Japan.

kek

stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/rugby-world-cup/rwc-2019-japan/112193961/rugby-world-cup-why-dan-carter-shouldnt-be-a-shortterm-signing-for-the-all-blacks
nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=12224267
Based NZ still sorting out their first fives.

twitter.com/JamesGemmellTV/status/1111544984291995648

haha #banter

>haha #banter

Faggot

He should move to NZ with his NZ wife and become a muscular kiwi.

>Faggot

haha top #banter my friend!

roogby

league

>He will play elsewhere
where, who will want him?

Anyone who likes winning but doesn't have female gender experts on their board of directors.

Seriously who would take him
the Toulon owner btfod him, that Saracens coconut got ridiculed just for supporting him, no way the Kiwis will be more forgiving than the aussies
What other clubs/ leagues would be happy to take him and still be able to match his asking price?

Kiwis are quite forgiving when it comes to rugby, remember the apartheid tour?

>ringrose does literally anything
>commentator compares him to BOD

The absolute state of this Saracens pitch, stadium, and fanbase (lack of)

Literally any Euro or Jap club that doesn't have too many females on their panel.

He won't get a contract in NZ. Best bet is France or Japan.

No I don't, just how fucking old are you?

sheddy confirmed boomer

>remember the apartheid tour?
>1981
No I don't gramps.

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Not me. I still remember when the Blues were the bad guys though. My heroes were Jeff Wilson and Christian Cullen.

I wasnt born then either. My school had to study that time period and the stage play Foreskin's Lament for year 12 English

>Japan
>paying his salary
also they don't like any contentious players, granted that's usually due to violence and not this weird meme shit but I don't think they'll want to touch him regardless

>another aussie flag in here
this is just not going to work

Also no yuropeeons will touch him after the reception Vunipola has gotten

Japan still hasn't legalised gay marriage yet. He might have a chance.

nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=12224266
>So these are really striking figures and what they tell us is that a very small proportion of New Zealanders understand the deep history of conflict between Muslims and Christians that the word Crusade means
Yikes

>reeee why don't these people understand the name as I want them to understand it

I discard the "opinion" of any journalist not prepared to put their name to an article.

He wont be able to demand a massive salary in union anymore. Predicting he'll go to NRL 2bh.

I discard the """""""opinion""'"""" of any journalist*

I am the 17%
#changethename
#standwithsonny

NRL have said they wont take him iirc

Then I'm afraid he's screwed. only chance: settle for whatever in Japan.

I remember they backtracked on this statement when they made it the first time a year ago but they look adamant on it now

Can't believe Izzy made union and league actually agree on something.

Only NRL said no, Super League are open to having him. And there are literally dozens upon dozens of clubs in Europe and Japan which have given no opinion at all. He will absolutely not be short of employment.

Does Melbourne of all places really need this?

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>Super League are open to having him.
Huh. I didn't think they said anything.

The only thing worse than Wellingtonians is fucking Melbournites.

Just bought tix for Blues v Chiefs lads. Seriously considering the Hurs game too.

Should have bought the 3 matches for $65 deal lad.

wtf you cant even get into 1 Tahs game for that much

Jordie "#metoo" barrett at first receiver. Heard it here first.

I wouldn't be able to go to the Bulls game. Good idea though.

Well you do have a new stadium to pay for.

Shut the fuck up twerp.

>Super League
*inhales* OHNONONONONO

What if Foulau go to AFL? Would that work. It's difficult for me to believe he'll stay untouchable forever. All he has to do is to say something along the lines of "I wasn't at my most right", reach a compromise with his new employer that he'll continue to practice his religion but low-key and avoid dragging his employer's name into it. Voila, business as usual.

how fresh are you?

also cringe at how fucking stupid you are on all of those points

I thought even without the homophobic posts AFL don't want him? As in he just wasn't good enough for AFL?

>As in he just wasn't good enough for AFL?
No he wasn't. Absolutely no chance they take him back, GWS used him as a marketable player because they were a new franchise team in Western Sydney and he was high profile, but he was awful and now they're actually doing well so there's reason to have him even aside from all this drama

Yeah, that's what I thought too.

You have to be able to kick to play AFL.

Frogbros what will happen if no French nationality coach wants to coach your national team? Will Laporte just not appoint a coach at all?

>Seriously who would take him

Would love it if Leinster went after him as Rob Kearney is old as shit and is on his way to France by the sound of it so we need a fullback, but Ireland is still a liberal cess pool right now and Izzy would probably end up having some liberal nut job storm the pitch naked with a fag rainbow flag as a cape while wearing a cock ring and proceeding to chase Folau around the pitch chucking dildos at him

I take it you're talking about Sarries/Munster game? That was at Wasps ground, but still the attendance was 16k, 10k of that being Munster fans

>Leinster need a fullback
Should really commit to Larmour and specialise him into the role. Fuck picking up TRC’s 4th best fullback.

I just dont see full back in Larmour, he's great in attack against tier 2/unorganised defences but not great at collecting high ball.

At best he's Leinsters version of Keith Earls and the wing is really the only place for him

I reckon he just needs time in the position. Has a had a few good games there against good teams. The January Toulouse game comes to mind. Needs to work on his defensive game but that's something you'd say of a lot of young players.

Seriously considering dawn service tomorrow lads.

I thought he had his best game that I'd seem from him on Sunday. Now admittedly I was drunk but I thought he was very mature, didn't try any of his silly stopping and starting or lateral running, give up advantage on the gainline or be physically dominated, was solid defensively and protected the ball well in contact.

It's not glamourous but they're the things you need to be able to do to be a viable test level winger, before any innate ability or talent.

rugbypass.com/news/we-wanted-the-chiefs-to-believe-they-were-not-going-to-play-lions-ceo-admits-to-deliberately-duping-chiefs
Thoughts?

think this may be the start of false teams being named in order to trick the opponent

He made great ground off of contact too, rather than pissing about in open space. The 5 or so meters he made leading up to Fardy's 2nd was honestly shocking for a back 3 to manage.

I'd expect nothing less from those bottom feeders.

>no Thursday game
>only 1 Friday game and it's shit

>not having top derbies to commemorate Anzac Day
>literally spitting on our brave forefathers
Filled with shame m8.

theres 2 fridag games on

Just Crusaders v Lions.

hmm

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You are correct, for some reason Ultimate Rugby says that game is on Saturday afternoon.

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check again m8

Rugby?

Not today. me oh my no boy.

none of that round here m8

grim stuff. NEED M10 to start.

Only 3 months away aha

afl?

You're barking up the wrong tree pal.

Israel Folau did nothing wrong.

>no turkish sides to commemorate Anzac Day

Fuck Turkey.

youtube.com/watch?v=36sO84Hq6kw

sport24.co.za/Rugby/white-2019-rwc-will-be-the-most-competitive-ever-20190424
>White added that all of Wales, Ireland, England, South Africa, Australia, Scotland and France will be contenders.
>Australia
>Scotland
>France
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>Sport24
>underrating Argentina

Tony stark and black widow die. Terrible PC Disney crap movie. Ama

Reckon put in Beaver now that DMAC is out

Spain and Romania tours on South America confirmed for june

rogueby

strong NH showing here

Connacht

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I've always wondered: how do you guys feel when people compare your 2016 Pro12 win with Lestah's PL win?

newcastle represent
it's pure suffering

STILL no rug tonightfuck

Keep this thread bumped anyway, Yea Forums is going to be flooded with divegrass in about an hour and a half's time.

Will let it die and make a muscular Anzac thread instead 2bh.

>wanting /rug/ to die again
Suit yourself.

Goodbye tired old tread. I shan't miss you.

Annoying, but not as annoying as the weirdly paternal sense of “ownership” that Munster fans, and to a lesser extent Leinster, seem to have for >us.

Huh. Ulster don't have that?

I know a few catholics from Ulster and it’s generally accepted that they’ll either root for Connacht or Leinster. Might be changing now, but that’s certainly how it has been in the past.

I thought it was common knowledge a decent few Ulster Catholics supported Munster, as did a decent few Connacht people.

Maybe back when Munster were the most successful Irish province that was the case, but it has not been my experience.

I see. This is interesting stuff. Thanks.

Hope all Kiwi and Aussie poster went to dawn service.

Yea mate the Air Force did a flyover of the Museum in a C-130 which was pretty cool.

Just heard the warbirds out west.

even dad went despite not being australian

was there free beer?

extremely based and westpilled unfortunately not, might be a bit offensive dont you think

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>won't let thread die
>won't post in thread

great post
they’re starting to put some consistency together, good make a run at the finals

>unless Treviso and Edinburgh lose their games, no Welsh club will qualify for the Pro14 playoffs
Something has to change, right? The Welsh national team won the fucking grand slam but they can’t even manage 3rd in a conference?

Laporte has always the final say so chances are he would place a crony of his anyway. He wants to be reelected and the amateur clubs basically got him elected. And the amateur scene don't want a foreigner HC, as seen as of late. Simple as.

He'll always find someone, whenever his tank of friends will dry out (Jo Maso can go back at 74 yo, who fucking knows), it's still not a condition of him to resign as the FFR prez. Hell, Serge Simon could be a candidate for both position of prez or HC, even his fat piece of shit friend working at RMC would do the job. I guess that Fabien Pelous would be an option too.

But officially, it's Galthié's turn (with Laurent Labit, from RM92, as the backs coach and either Ibanez or Servat for the pack plus Shaun Edwards for the defence) after the RWC, disregard of the results because we know there's a push for him and that Brunel is essentially out (and was nothing more than a transitional HC for that matter). It can't be worse than Brunel's current tenure.

So, until there's a major shift and a TRUE re-assessment in the entirety of the French rugby scene (kek at the later), there will be no foreigner HC leading the French NT under Laporte. Not sure if that still won't be the case under his successor.

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Premiership' bankrupcy when?

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I see, so these amateur clubs are like "it doesn't matter how shit the guy you appoint is, what's more important is that he's born and bred French and not a filthy étranger".

>Shaun Edwards
I thought he's staying with Wales?

>It can't be worse than Brunel's current tenure.
I dunno about that. These last 3 French coaches have all been worse than their predecessors. Next thing you know you could be staring at yet another 6N wooden spoon.

The worse part is, it's not like any of those coaches did horribly at club level. It's as if just being appointed as France's head coach is guaranteed to drag your stock down to rock bottom because you were doomed to fail the moment you accepted. It's likely only a matter of time before any potential candidates start seeing the job as cursed and preemptively ruling themselves out of contention.

>So, until there's a major shift and a TRUE re-assessment in the entirety of the French rugby scene (kek at the later)
Well, they could do an England in 2023. England hired their first foreign coach right after that so France allowing the same is hardly far-fetched, even if Laporte stays.

Based Exeter Chiefs

Given the allegations that Saracens are breaking the salary cap by setting players up with shell companies, I wonder how accurate their financial report actually is.

This is several weeks old, but points out how European clubs are already at their limit paying for talent. Despite that, there are only 2-3 Australians in Europe with a half-decent chance of making the Wallabies. As I've said repeatedly, the Wallabies are paid very well and the alleged player exodus is a myth (referring only to Australia).

>I see, so these amateur clubs are like "it doesn't matter how shit the guy you appoint is, what's more important is that he's born and bred French and not a filthy étranger".
Pretty much

As for Shaun Edwards, multiple french sports sites and more specialized in rugby (L'Equipe amongst others - even rugbypass has an article on that subject : rugbypass.com/news/another-curveball-thrown-in-the-saga-of-shaun-edwards-future-beyond-2019-reports/) do report him as a potential recruit for the next staff these last 2 days. So, it can be real although the use of conditional.

>Pretty much
Its meant to be the other way around

>Appoint a foreign coach (If you have to)
>Only allow actual people of your own Ethnicity to play for your National Side

Theres France's problem right there, they need to get rid of French born Africans as they are not French and add to the Cultural Imbalance of the team, even if players like Teddy Thomas and Bastardro are great players on their day, Only fill your National Side with you own

>but they can’t even manage 3rd in a conference?

Either Conference, Ive said it before and ill say it agian, Welsh dick doesn't get hard without Gatland, as proven when he fucked off for a while to Coach the loyins

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Rugby tonight.
Grim rugby, but rugby nonetheless.

th'rug

Ybgur

what the hell happened here

Are the Wages accurate?
thought the premiership had a salary cap of 7 million + 2 marque players.

Toulon player takes the lineout on their own 5 quickly, with the other team basically in position. Ashton panics and tries to kick clearance but shanks it.

I think it's perfectly fair. "We" hadn't won anything outright before and we'd been around for over 130 years. Leinster were definite favorites for the final. Compare the players head to head, position by position. The only position where Connacht were better on paper was second row, but they outplayed them everywhere.

On balance, we definitely weren't as big an outsider as Leicester but given it happened so close together, in the same year as so many other upsets, it's only natural for people to make that connection.

rugbypass.com/news/china-asked-us-if-fiji-could-supply-about-200-coaches-which-was-impossible-for-us

>Fiji have turned down a request for around 200 sevens coaches to help develop the sport in China
>the request had been impossible for the reigning Olympic Sevens champions to grant as Fiji “had only three coaches who were accredited with level three qualifications”

Chinese rugby dominance when?

Really? I knew a few lads from Donegal in college and even though they were mainly into Gaelic football, they were big Ulster fans. They were always chatting shit when Ulster beat Connacht and going on about how much they loved Tommy Bowe (who must be the only international player ever from the border counties).

It surprised me, because I'd assumed Ulster would be seen as a Protestant team. They supposedly had very little underage presence outside the posh proddy schools and absolutely nothing in the three Ulster counties in the Republic until recently. They've plenty of Catholics alright, given their team is mostly lads from Leinster at this stage, but they've never really had any Ulster Catholics, have they?

Literally never. They've been trying the same shit with football for years and have gotten nowhere.

literally never, they have been throwing money at their football system for years with massive academies and shit and still suck

Fucking hell. Thought the flags had broken for a second.

hivemind in full effect

scary stuff lads

apecollide draft on today
hold on to your seats /rug/

Seriously though. China takes an industrial approach to team sports that just doesn't work. It's the same approach they take to all Olympic sports. And that's fine for routine performance sports or individual performance sports, but falls apart when you apply it to a game where teams need to be dynamic and think for themselves.
1 or 2 years down the line they'll get a team into the 7s world series via Hong Kong and then they'll get drubbed in every round, get booted out and we'll hear nothing about Chinese rugby until right before the next Olympic games.

Do we have a bru fro the world cup?

not yet

THANK GOD I WAS HERE

Fiji missing a trick here by not just sending 200 people over to make a quick buck off of Chinese ignorance.

Oh yeah, contract disputes. Fucking hell, should just shaft him off to Wigan after all.

>Its meant to be the other way around
Let them sink from their own logic.

>Only allow actual people of your own Ethnicity to play for your National Side
No problem with allowing a couple of coconuts for example. It's not like their rugby NT is filled with Africans anyway.

>established only one year apart
>never won anything of note before
>win something of note for the first time in the same month
Based

500

Kek, I thought so too.