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Reus is both a student and a rugby player and is studying at La Rochelle Business school, main reason why he is playing for La Rochelle.

Pool C is wide open, anything could happen

A red card after 10 minutes did not help, Italy played at 14 for 70 minutes yet scored first.

Jordan Joseph is still eligible for the U20 for the next two years.

The French team hasd suffered from widespread severe food poisoning one day prior to the Argies game, at least five players from the starting line up were still very sick during the game. Not an excuse but part of an explanation.

That is true in newton physics at low speed but not in relativity. The cube of lorenz factor quicks in at high speed in the motion direction. Hence force is mass times acceleration times lorenz factor power 3.

Just thought it would be nice to bring forward this old thread after last week end action

Not a bad selection but I would have Read at 8. Lauret 2 caps and Mc Grath 1? cap were amazing.

Le Havre, not Le Harve

Because the NZRU support a few dozen professional rugby player contracts while PRL and LNR support more than a thousand players jobs which cannot be financed by a 6 months competition.

Hook has been awesome so far this year for USAP, not just this week but almost every weeks. When Lopez came from Bordeaux, there was some worry about his future and positionning, but he was given great freedom at full back.

Broadly agree but I do not think a side with one win only in the first ten games and only 8 points has ever managed to stay up. Anyway, I just do not see where hope could come from within the team. Yachvili kicking may save them a couple of times but the attack is impotent averaging only 13...

Sorry mate but there is no way Biarritz is going to survive, they already have one if not two feet in the pro D2 and my assessment is not even based on their terrible record (9 losses and one very very lucky win with 5 tries for MHC disallowed by the TMO) but on their terrible pitch performance...

exactly, referees, discipline, anti-doping program, fairness of the overall competition are Irb/UNions restricted domain. the rest, marketing, organization and commercial aspects to clubs

It is exactly what I wrote, Argentina climbing the ladder of International rugby is the direct consequence of player exposure to NH clubs system (and a good national training setup). The problem is that NH clubs cannot employ them as easily as before because a player selected for Argentina in...

The reason of Argentina drop of from is the reduced number of players in Top 14, the full team was French based a few years back playing high level professional rugby weeks in weeks out. Now that the RC extend until October, clubs are highly reluctant to employ Pumas and only 6 of them (...

Precisely, the NZ system is the perfect machine to optimize international results but its is practically exactly the same today as it was almost 20 years ago (forget the exact year when super XV started). The second, more contentious comment is that the NZ system would not have survived without...

I certainly do not think that clubs are at odds with international rugby, the branding power of international rugby is second to none. Clubs will never sacrifice this marketing power but international rugby represent a core of at best 300 players across 10 teams. It does not provide a...

One side is beginning to flinch, at least this is right. http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2013/oct/22/wales-rugby-champions-cup-heineken

Maybe it is worth mentioning that a club system does not maximize the national team performance and that in that regards union system tend to perform better, but that is not the end of it. Former East Germany sport system was the ultimate performer independently from doping practice, what for ?