They are getting better only 91 points this weekend



Redruth (4icon_cool.gif 91 Manchester (0) 5

Australian rugby league star Karmichael Hunt is set to switch codes after agreeing to join Biarritz.



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Negotiations by Hunt's manager David Riolo with French rugby union officials early in the week paved the way for the player to take-up a six-month contract with Biarritz Olympique, reputedly worth more than $300,000.

This is only an interlude before he starts his aerial ping pong career and is old news anyway.

AFL.

Manchester 0 London Scottish 93

Manchester RL still going?





"The Guinness Premiership, having watched the games, is the weakest... I've ever seen," - [iWarren Gatland, Wales rugby union coach[/i



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Gatland's just having a whinge about player releases.



If the GP is so weak, why aren't the Celtic League sides dominating the Heineken Cup?

Leeds Carnegie finally pick up their first Guinness Premiership victory of the season with a hard fought 9-15 win at Adams Park giving them their first ever victory over London Wasps in their history and their first Premiership Away victory since November 2005.

Stourbridge (45) 95 Manchester (5) 5



still no losing bonus point for Manchester

They must be on for some kind of record.

No tries either !!!!

Watching Wales/Nz, the most interesting/promising RU match. Big advantage over RL is that I can do my marking, as I get plenty of notice if anything interesting is going to happen.

It's union.





Watching union while there's rugby league on? Heathen!

I don't have £25 a month to P!ss up against a wall for Sky Sports, especially since I don't have 6 hours a week to watch RL.

Manchester (0) 0 Newbury (31) 59



they are getting better

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the guy on the right is a real athlete

To be fair, the bloke on the left makes up for it.

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Is 20 tackles really remarkable in rugby union?

A few passes would have done today! I gave it a go today, thought I'd see these really scary and wild Argentinian forwards....they must have been replaced at the eleventh hour! What a dire spectacle, awful!

Yes, tackles made in Rugby Union that then become Rucks or Mauls are not included in the stats for individual tackles. It's a difference in accounting rather than activity.

normal service has resumed



Tynedale (52) 93 Manchester (0) 0

[url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog/2009/nov/17/england-autumn-internationals-richard-williamsRugby union's journey from the dark arts to the dark ages[/url



Something urgent needs to be done to ensure that even a side as unimaginative as England cannot ruin the spectacle.



Is modern rugby union really such a terrible game, or is that just the way England make it look? For the second week in a row, the prevailing noise among the throng leaving Twickenham on Saturday was a low groan of dissatisfaction. Any sort of a win is usually enough to keep England's fans happy, but no longer.



For comparison, there was Ireland's match against Australia at Croke Park the following day. Although this was a game in which backs did not actually suffer a fit of the vapours when the ball arrived in their hands, it still contained long passages of sterility, with scrums collapsing and meaningless kicks flying from one end to the other.

Wow. Not been on this thread for a while, and not feally followed the RU this year, but what the hell has happened at Mancs RU???



Manchester 14 vs 41 Sedgley Park

Manchester 0 vs 148 Esher

Nuneaton 95 vs 0 Manchester

Manchester 12 vs 145 Blaydon

Wharfedale 124 vs 5 Manchester

Manchester 3 vs 93 Otley

Manchester 3 vs 93 Cinderford

Redruth 91 vs 5 Manchester

Manchester 0 vs 93 London Scottish

Stourbridge 95 vs 5 Manchester

Manchester 0 vs 59 Newbury

Tynedale 93 vs 0 Manchester



-------------- Plyd Won Dw Lost - PF -- PA -- BP - Pnts

Manchester 11 -- 0 -- 0 -- 11 -- 33 - 1129 - 0 - -2

The focus is unfortunately on field position and not making mistakes. The simplest way to get both is to just lump the ball down the field and keep it as far away from your line as possible. Low risk, potentially high reward.