Comp: Top 14

Venue: Matmut Stadium, Gerland

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https://www.quins.co.uk/article/big-game-16-is-a-sold-out

Who said club rugby in England is dead?

I believe Harlequins will equal their own world record for a highest attendance at regular season club fixture should the game go ahead as expected

Could possibly be the highest attendance for any club game but willing to be corrected on that if someone knows different. Only other fixture I can think of Leinster vs Munster at Croke Park which is very close but just falls short of 82k at Twickenham

She’s been knocked down twice in the Glasgow - Edinburgh game. Just bounces back up laughing and gets on with things. Pretty sure it happened in the autumn too. Legend.

Per current rules, successfully holding a tackled player up creates a maul and grants your team a scrum. Which of course encourage the players to stay high while defending.

Change proposal : if a maul is created, a scrum is granted to the team who were in possession of the ball. Your move, World Rugby. I'm cheap.

Couldn't see one, I'm freezing my bits off listening to Skerryvore at Hampden, anyone else?

Comp: Premiership

Venue: StoneX Stadium

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Honda Heat v Black Rams 2,868 (they have a crap stadium)

Blue Revs v Steelers 8,498

Sungoliath v Wild Knights 20,263

Kubota Spears v Toyota Verbiltz 12,358

DynaBoars v D-Rocks 6,607

Canon Eagles v Brave Lupus 22,871

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/JAPAN_RUGBY_LEAGUE_ONE_2024-25

This average is more than the URC for last season. There is a huge mismatch in fanbases with the big Tokyo area clubs having most of the fans but the biggest teams are drawing similar crowds to top European sides. In light of this, it's obvious why NZ is looking at allowing more overseas selections, since Mo'unga and Frizell won't be a one off.

Are both the URC and Champions cup on tnt sports? Has anyone outside the UK streamed tnt sports with a VPN ? Thanks

He’s a stats king in the prem. Week in week out, he’s pulling off ridiculous attacking plays. An underrated part of his game is his strength in contact, which means he can often go into contact on his terms, keep his feet and offload.

Regarding England, his many, many detractors (which is odd in itself) accuse him of being a defensive liability and code him as another “Christian Wade”… However, you can’t deny his contribution to Bristol is a net one. He’s a virtuoso attacker. Again, he tops the stats charts.

I’d have him the England squad.

So I thought Leinster vs Connacht was actually an OK game all things considered, but I have to agree with Mack that we never get the rub of the green for 50:50 calls or things like that and we shafted a few times yesterday.

Like the head on head contact Jordie Barrett made on Bundee Aki; advantage was played for a few seconds then Busby ended advantage because he seen Leinster were slowing down our ball, this ended up as a Leinster try, when it should've been a Connacht try.

Then another incident which is ridiculous, Josh Ioane has to go off for a HIA, not even looked at as the touch official says to Mack himself he "bent down leading with his head so it's an OK, challenge" since when was head on head not a penalty.

Then you have the TMO official try to by penalties for Leinster throughout the game like the Jennings yellow card, whilst it was the correct call, it took for the TMO showing it a few times and the thousands of Leinster fans shouting and booing to force Busby's hand as it was just a penalty originally.

Then another incident was what Mack said was they reviewed the challenge on Gus McCarthy about x10 times, but chose to ignore ours. RIDICULOUS!

It's pretty obvious from it all that Busby had an inner bias for Leinster, he actually pinged Jordan Duggan on x1 occasion for not rolling away when Busby himself was in the way and when Mack put the ball through in the 2nd ½ at x1 stage and got tripped, there was check on it. All of this doesn't help with either with a TMO with a heavy bias for Leinster.

But should us Connacht supporters be surprised ? It was only 9 years ago the IRFU were trying to disband us remember and then Pat Lam came in and won us the Pro12 against this very team, so I guess this just proved the IRFU won't ever favour us in any way.

Another key point is that it's been documented that we(Connacht) get 2m less funding a year than Leinster.

Another key point is when Cian Prendergast had to step in and say to Busby "your letting the crowd make the decisions for you."

Edit: I forgot to mention this, there's clearly something that needs to happen in the games or after with the officials if the captain and x2 senior keep on raising things with the officials.

Comp: Japan Rugby League One

Venue: Nissan Stadium

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Comp: Japan Rugby League One

Venue: Chichibunomiya Rugby Stadium

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Comp: Japan Rugby League One

Venue: Sagamihara Gion Stadium

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NZ schools winning against 2 SA Schools & 1 Irish School

2024- Kelston Boys HS ( NZL ) 20-12 Paul Roos Gymnasium ( RSA )

2023- Westlake Boys ( NZL) 28-21 St Michael’s ( IRE)

2022- Hamilton Boys HS ( NZL ) 22-10 Grey College ( RSA )

2019- Paul Roos Gymnasium ( RSA ) 55-5 St Peter’s College AKL ( NZL )

https://www.fbcnews.com.fj/sports/rugby/racing-92-set-to-sign-ravutaumada/