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England and France showing that there are levels to this game but at least the other 4 teams get to have a genuine fight for 3rd place now.
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Proud coach time -- I've been coaching the revived women's rugby team at the university (in NC, USA) where my wife teaches, starting in the fall with an interest meeting of 3 women and building through the spring up to a group of about 10-12 athletes. None of them had ever played rugby before this year, and the university hadn't had a women's rugby side since 2015. Yesterday our women played their first-ever rugby games in a 4-team local Sevens cup round-robin ... and they DOMINATED the opposition. Won all 3 matches, 15-7, 25-0, and 22-7. Highlights included the club captain and president scoring the revived club's first-ever try, multiple length-of-field tries (some solo, some with great support running), and one of our players making THREE CONSECUTIVE TACKLES to completely shut down another team's attack. Several players from our men's team made the trip out to support and they were not only impressed, they were inspired - I heard them chatting with each other, saying things like "dude why can't we make tackles like that?" and "gently caress that's what we should be doing off our scrum" and so on. Now the challenge is to see if we can build to a women's XV in the fall...
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Apollodorus posted:Proud coach time -- I've been coaching the revived women's rugby team at the university (in NC, USA) where my wife teaches, starting in the fall with an interest meeting of 3 women and building through the spring up to a group of about 10-12 athletes. None of them had ever played rugby before this year, and the university hadn't had a women's rugby side since 2015. This is really awesome. As someone wrote in a rugby FB post recently, kudus to you and them!
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Great work!
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Apollodorus posted:Proud coach time -- I've been coaching the revived women's rugby team at the university (in NC, USA) where my wife teaches, starting in the fall with an interest meeting of 3 women and building through the spring up to a group of about 10-12 athletes. None of them had ever played rugby before this year, and the university hadn't had a women's rugby side since 2015. Man that's great. Building something for the future, best of luck to you I hope you succeed! EDIT: Remember the Wales job could come up at any time.
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Apollodorus posted:Proud coach time -- I've been coaching the revived women's rugby team at the university (in NC, USA) where my wife teaches, starting in the fall with an interest meeting of 3 women and building through the spring up to a group of about 10-12 athletes. None of them had ever played rugby before this year, and the university hadn't had a women's rugby side since 2015. That's really cool. Congrats on the success and seeing all the hard work paying off.
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Cardiff supposedly looking to go into administration and the WRU taking over in the meantime.
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Just turn all of Wales into a single regional team. That'll sort out the problem with getting a side into the North too. (Ponty fans will still insist they would win the league)
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Chiefs Tahs another awesome game. Try of the year etc etc.
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The Heineken cup is a strange old comp, some wacky rear end games so far in the knockouts - if Leinster don't get their 5th star this year though I don't know if they ever will.
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Ireland looked to be developing a good defensive mindset against England yesterday, they nearly kept England scoreless in the first half. Went sharply downhill in the second half but I think it's that classic situation where you just can't match the fitness and depth of a team like the Roses even if the skills are getting there First Irish try against them in 6 years!
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Rieko Ioane will miss the entirety of the 2026 season in NZ, having signed with a European club for a sabbatical. He will join Leinster for that year, where, presumably, the first thing he'll do is find where it is that Jonny Sexton lives in Dublin, so he can poo poo in his mailbox.
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Tough day for anyone in Johnny's office wearing stripes today after that news, what's the closest thing in a boardroom to a referee? Big boots to fill, Barrett has been unreal for Leinster in his short time there.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/articles/cr5dqy32dl0o Sexton heard Reiko was turning up and somehow managed to get a holiday to Australia. I assume his title will be "Assistant Coach: Ref Abuse"
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Interesting decision by the ref in the Dragons/Scarlets game. Scarlet's player throws a forward pass (Which the ref admits to) which is caught by an onside Dragons player. So she looks for a penalty try and settles on a Scarlets scrum. At one point she seemed to suggest the pass was forward because the player was offside, and I'm not sure how that works.
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