@stephenjones9 Basically you’re asking high earning world class players to come home , at greatly reduced wages, to prop up a new untried league. Ain’t gonna happen when they have such a short window to earn big money
@andrewfrugby Perfect rehearsal for the WC for both teams, 4 games on the spin against quality opposition. Long time since I’ve seen so many dejected SA fan faces. Now they are forced to improve.
@EngRugbyDebate You can’t stop playing and within a few seasons you’re a coach at national level, absolute bonkers. The game moves on so quickly and all you can offer is what you know from playing, never mind switching from attack to defence in 2 months.
@echoandnineo@RugbyInsideLine Pepper is a solid quiet operator . Nobody deserves that except the king twat himself who bleaches hair, uses black headbands just to be more noticeable?
@MickClearyTel Virtually an Irish team but without their Irish coach equivalent to, say, the Sharks without Rassie. And where are they in European rugby?
@Tobias_Everton @T2Rugby Leinster have a lot of current internationals as do the Sharks. Under their present coaches they aren’t the sum of their parts but under Farrell and Rassie they are different beasts.
@ProgressiveRug Every goal-line defence involves no arms tackles. Seems like different rules for there and 10 yards back. Same with obstruction and blocking on the goal line.
Any of you Irish pundits, who I follow, know there was another province playing today? We got blow by blow posts on the Leinster game but nothing on a Challenge Cup semi-final !
@russellkeating@hfdnvfdeyh@Caolan_Scully Leinster can afford to have internationals on the bench, same as the French, other British teams cannot. Teams a few years ago would be 20 pts up at half-time.