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topofthemoon wrote: ↑Sun May 26, 2024 6:13 pm How is it possible for some sources to have Jack Willis with 41 tackles made (ITV) and others 29 made and 2 missed (ESPN and Rugbypass)?

Double tackles can be handled differently

29 or 41 depending on which stats you want to believe. Didn't win many turnovers but was a pain in the hole for Leinster all game. Huge engine.

Please stop calling it "the sixth star".

Enjoyable, both the game and the result.

Dupont up there with Carter as the best I've seen in the modern game. JGP did everything he could and had many outstanding moments, and clearly deeply second best. Dupont is just that good.

Mercer throws a dreadful offload and Sharks nearly score again. Game over.

I simply do not understand Gloucester's strategy today.

Mercer gets ragdolled in contact and coughs it up for a near try. Fair fucks to Austin for calling a spade a spade though.

Akkerman's anger at being substituted is related, I suspect.

Very fun end to this game mind

Good spot by Austin and the TMO tbf

Mercer finally decides to try and run straight, Glaws get momentum, Glaws score. Funny that

Makes no difference but the glaws reserve front row is getting screwed by Reynal here

Think May should've gone to fullback ten minutes ago tbh. Oh well. Lovely kick for the try

Unlucky there. Sharks tried to smash them on the hit in the first scrum and got away with it, and that penalty is a nonsense

There we go. Glaws with some early momentum in the sharks half and Mercer throws an obvious pullback instead of just carrying the fucking ball and the inevitable intercept means the sharks get a penalty 5m from the glaws line.

Edit: snap!

Fascinating watching Mercer in this half. He's practically the only person carrying regularly for Glaws, but he got smashed backwards a few times early on and he's given up on trying to carry directly into contact now. He's trying to step every time but just gets easily ankle tackled, and his pull b...

Providing in a comp you use players registered for said comp I don't know how you'd police it beyond that. I can imagine the league sponsors, game sponsors and TV company are a bit pissed off at having to sponsor/show a second rate game. It is this that will drive the money away from the game, why ...

A lot of that was Labour people who hated Corbyn saying ‘don’t know/won’t vote’ who then did so. Lots of people hate, hate the idea of a Labour government. The Tories will lose but they’re not about to be wiped out like the Canadian Tories were in the 90s Labour people didn't really have anyone els...

The Tesla board is literally Musk's best mates and family. Kind of a special case.

It's a nonsense, but we can dream... Corbyn was polling far behind the Tories in the run up to 2017, about 23% to the Tories 40%+, he was over 20 pts behind at times. That's where predictions of Labour wipe out come from. Corbyn then closed the gap in the final two months won over 40% and was 2.5 p...

Not exactly - shies away from talking about his historical interest in a magazine printing kiddy porn, which was run by a mate of his who he's supported over the years. It's grim stuff. When you're this much of a counter culture contrarian I guess it's easy to cross some pretty serious boundaries, ...

Not exactly - shies away from talking about his historical interest in a magazine printing kiddy porn, which was run by a mate of his who he's supported over the years. It's grim stuff. When you're this much of a counter culture contrarian I guess it's easy to cross some pretty serious boundaries, b...

Was there something with him before being absolutely plastered? Might have been Dublin after an international? Various folks said he didn't drink when the evidence suggested that he definitely did. I think it was a The Good, The Bad and The Rugby interview he did a while back where he said he didn'...

Saracens must be deeply disappointed...

...where has this version of Billy been over the last 12 months? They're probably making changes to the contents of his lucozade sports drinks as we speak

I had to half watch the game while doing other things, but he definitely did you dirty on at least a couple of occasions from what I saw. Shortly before the Care incident it looked like Lynagh was pretty obviously impeded off the ball while chasing a kick. Potential yellow card for Saints in that. ...

I think it's the fourth time he has reffed us. It's not gone well previously. I'd be thrilled if he didn't ref us again.

No arguments with the result, Saints were largely poor today and Quins deserved to win, but Dickson definitely shat it when he realised it was Care and a second yellow would have meant a red. He even started reaching towards his pocket until reality kicked in. Yeah I do think it's handled different...

Dickson is terrible but the recent suggestions on social media that he's biased towards Quins are fucking idiotic if you've ever seen him ref us before. He's genuinely fucked us on multiple occasions. The care non yellow was a weird situation, but it wasn't a ruck and I can see how both officials th...

Pretty terrible game. Right team won it.

Farrell repeatedly bitching at the ref for stopping play thanks to a bad head injury suffered by a Bath player... As Pearce said, not a good look

Hands up everyone who's surprised that Luke Pearce's determination to force teams to use the ball at the ruck just turned out to be performative

It used to be a European competition, but it's not anymore. Competitions evolve all the time. Four Nations became Six Nations. Tri-Nations became The Rugby Championship. Yeah but the question is are they adding more than they take away . I don't believe they are, and the travel is a big part of tha...

Yeah but the question is are they adding more than they take away. I don't believe they are, and the travel is a big part of that. I think they are adding to it, we've seen some great games involving them. I wonder if the Bulls beat Northampton we'd be asking the same question. The travel component...

If people following the URC like the URC that's great, but an African teams have no business in a European event, and worse it's not even a North African set of sides so the travel is way too much (even before one considers climate change and that flights should be discouraged) It used to be a Euro...

Yup until that moment, O'Flaherty looked possibly the sharpest winger on the pitch. Twice during the game Quins allowed poor high balls to end up in Sale hands - it's almost as if they have a great plan for when it's a good kick but if it's far too short no one knows what to do. Quite a funny examp...

Exeter would have had a couple more if Hodge had any interest in passing the ball.

Yup until that moment, O'Flaherty looked possibly the sharpest winger on the pitch. Twice during the game Quins allowed poor high balls to end up in Sale hands - it's almost as if they have a great plan for when it's a good kick but if it's far too short no one knows what to do. Quite a funny exampl...

He's looked pretty slow this season. Did he get an injury? The Sale v Quins game started off looking like another hiding and ended up being a classic. Some superb tries by both sides and credit to Quins for showing a huge amount of heart to scrap their way back into that game. Could have won it at t...

Didn't they lose the last one because they rested players for an actual knockout game against Munster, or am I misremembering?

Oh, my bad - I thought we were talking about the Super Rugby teams, not the lower tier stuff. But I know you're trolling if you're claiming the Cheetahs and the Kings are why Scotland and Ireland got better. You may as well point to the introduction of the Italian teams. Scotland hit that historica...

Think Exeter have been quite unlucky with this ref. But Hodge has been their biggest problem for sure.

I noticed this during England's shellacking of Portugal, but Hodge is an absolute crowbar. Incredibly greedy player.

There's maybe been SA sides in the Pro/URC for longer than you think. Definitely no correlation. SA sides joined in 2021. Ireland were #1 in the world going into the RWC in 2019. Scotland are the same rank now as they were in 2017/18 (I will agree they have improved on that team, but that era was t...

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