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Brilliant rugby. Racing have protected the ball at the breakdown and presented it superbly to allow continuity.

This is just a humiliation now.

Note how hard Racing are pressing even with the game won. Very different attitude to ASM,

Ashton is a cretin.

Torq better never compain about refs again. Hmm yes let's go back about 8 phases because Ashton touched Thomas on the back of the neck as he ran into someone. In a match with a penalty count something like 25-3 in the French side's favour.

Quins were crap, but lol, Racing definitely don't need to be allowed to do whatever they want at every breakdown - they're good enough there as it is.

Gashton sums up Quins' discipline for this game. Braindead.

JM2K6 wrote: Sun Dec 20, 2020 5:04 pm Torq better never compain about refs again. Hmm yes let's go back about 8 phases because Ashton touched Thomas on the back of the neck as he ran into someone. In a match with a penalty count something like 25-3 in the French side's favour.

Quins were crap, but lol

Yeah. That decision made all the difference.

Not sure how many phases there really were. it seemed to stay alive. Where were those Quins for the other 79 mins?

Torquemada 1420 wrote: Sun Dec 20, 2020 5:06 pm

JM2K6 wrote: Sun Dec 20, 2020 5:04 pm Torq better never compain about refs again. Hmm yes let's go back about 8 phases because Ashton touched Thomas on the back of the neck as he ran into someone. In a match with a penalty count something like 25-3 in the French side's favour.

Quins were crap, but lol

Yeah. That decision made all the difference.

Not sure how many phases there really were. it seemed to stay alive. Where were those Quins for the other 79 mins?

Playing like shit, mostly. But it was an astonishingly one-sided reffing performance. Racing by far the superior side, but a team that attacks the ball as much as they do should never win the penalty count in such an egregious manner. Machenaud being allowed to just dive on ball and scream at the ref to get a pen was particularly galling.

Torquemada 1420 wrote: Sun Dec 20, 2020 5:02 pm Note how hard Racing are pressing even with the game won. Very different attitude to ASM,

Yep. Very impressive, not sure any Enlish club pack bar Exeter could have handled the Racing forwards

JM2K6 wrote: Sun Dec 20, 2020 5:08 pm Playing like shit, mostly. But it was an astonishingly one-sided reffing performance. Racing by far the superior side, but a team that attacks the ball as much as they do should never win the penalty count in such an egregious manner. Machenaud being allowed to just dive on ball and scream at the ref to get a pen was particularly galling.

Trouble is when games are one sided, refs tend to play that way. Not justifying it at all and it still affects outcomes (pts differences down the line). I'd have more sympathy for Quins if they weren't the ones appearing to be the Fre side i.e. awful discipline and seemed to have learned nothing from last week.

Russell will kill Racing against a better side farther down the line.

Glad to see Le Garrec get some game time: he really speeds things up. Racing have Iribaren, Machenaud and this kid: SH overload.

SaintK wrote: Sun Dec 20, 2020 5:13 pm

Torquemada 1420 wrote: Sun Dec 20, 2020 5:02 pm Note how hard Racing are pressing even with the game won. Very different attitude to ASM,

Yep. Very impressive, not sure any Enlish club pack bar Exeter could have handled the Racing forwards

A side with no Chat, Claasen, Vakatawa, the highly rated Dupichot and Imhoff came on for 10 secs! Rugby even more a have and have nots.

BUT, FH is so, ahemm, pivotal, I'm sure it won't stop Russell blowing the riches.

This Connacht/Bristol game is entertaining.

30mins 0-0 is entertaining? u really must love soccer eh

bessantj wrote: Sun Dec 20, 2020 5:59 pm This Connacht/Bristol game is entertaining.

BBC Radio: "Not one player in the Connacht side who'd get into the Bristol team".
Humble.

Torquemada 1420 wrote: Sun Dec 20, 2020 6:05 pm

bessantj wrote: Sun Dec 20, 2020 5:59 pm This Connacht/Bristol game is entertaining.

BBC Radio: "Not one player in the Connacht side who'd get into the Bristol team".
Humble.

They're right though. not one but seven or eight would.

bessantj wrote: Sun Dec 20, 2020 6:10 pm

Torquemada 1420 wrote: Sun Dec 20, 2020 6:05 pm

bessantj wrote: Sun Dec 20, 2020 5:59 pm This Connacht/Bristol game is entertaining.

BBC Radio: "Not one player in the Connacht side who'd get into the Bristol team".
Humble.

They're right though. not one but seven or eight would.

That's a real stretch