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United Rugby Championship

Benetton send Sharks packing to claim first URC win of season

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Andre Esterhuizen of the Sharks looks to offload the ball under pressure from Paolo Odogwu of Benetton during the United Rugby Championship match between Benetton and Hollywoodbets Sharks at Stadio Monigo on October 12, 2024 in Treviso, Italy. (Photo by Timothy Rogers/Getty Images)

Benetton got their United Rugby Championship season up and running with a convincing 38-10 bonus-point win over Sharks at Stadio Monigo.

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First-half tries from Paolo Odogwu, Rhyno Smith and Ignacio Mendy put the Italians in the box seat, with fly-half Jacob Umaga converting all three and adding a penalty.

Smith went over for the bonus-point score after 68 minutes, with Leonardo Marin also crossing, and Umaga converted both to take his personal haul to 13 points.

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Ntuthuko Mchunu scored a late consolation try for the visitors.

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MattJH 25 minutes ago
All Blacks label gruelling Northern Tour ‘exactly what we need’

Get Ollie Mathis in the ABs XV. Just tell Chay Fihaki to go away and do some ‘work ons’ or whatever and put Ollie in the squad. Chop chop.

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SC 1 hour ago
All Blacks label gruelling Northern Tour ‘exactly what we need’

My All Black Team vs England, Ireland, France


1 DeGroot

2 Taylor

3 Lomax

4 S. Barrett

5 Vaa’i

6 Sititi

7 Blackadder

8 Savea

9 Roigard

10 B. Barrett

11 Clarke

12 J. Barrett

13 Proctor

14 Ioane

15 Jordan


16 Aumua

17 Williams

18 Tosi

19 Tuipulotu

20 Jacobson

21 Ratima

22 McKenzie

23 Lienart-Brown

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Hellhound 1 hour ago
Will the withdrawal of the ‘top 20’ devalue France’s tour of New Zealand?

The English and Welsch players too. No certainty about contracts, insecurity about payments and all the problems over the last couple of seasons is tough to take. I don't blame players wanting to go to France. It's getting harder out there to become a sport professional. Immense talent with not enough clubs that can pay what they are worth.

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Hellhound 1 hour ago
Will the withdrawal of the ‘top 20’ devalue France’s tour of New Zealand?

I'm not blaming the top 14. Undeniably these competitions are good for the players, but not for international rugby as per say. If they would release those players during Test windows, it would be a great start, but they don't care about that. However, you are damned if you do and damned if you don't. You can't keep everyone happy. It is what it is.

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Hellhound 1 hour ago
Will the withdrawal of the ‘top 20’ devalue France’s tour of New Zealand?

Same happens to me. Now I must go to history to go to an article. There is very few that takes me to the comment

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peter dallas 2 hours ago
Ireland to play first ever Test match against Portugal in 2025

Porto would be a perfect destination for this game... flights from Ireland... airport to stadium metro line..

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rs 3 hours ago
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Literally unwatchable with that female commentator - so shrill, talks too much and doesn't understand the nuances required, it's not an all gals afternoon brunch.

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CN 3 hours ago
Wales avoid relegation from WXV 2 with clinical win over Japan

Wales still have some work to do before the 6N and indeed the World Cup next year but it is pleasing to see them developing to look to involve the backs more

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DP 4 hours ago
Wallace Sititi hailed by coach as ‘everything you want in an All Black’

This bloke is awesome. Play him, bed him in, that’s the next wave of quality back row player for NZ.

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Bull Shark 5 hours ago
Will the withdrawal of the ‘top 20’ devalue France’s tour of New Zealand?

Am I the only one who experiences this problem?


When I click on the notification that someone has responded to my comment - it takes me to a “page does not exist” screen. Or does nothing.


This only seems to happen on pages where RP writers are responding. So basically mostly on Nicks articles. And basically his fault.


It’s really frustrating and devalues the user experience. Makes world rugby look like they can’t run websites or world rugby.


Discuss.


Nick, can you be a star 🤩🔫 and log a ticket there with your IT?


Ta.

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GrandDisse 5 hours ago
Will the withdrawal of the ‘top 20’ devalue France’s tour of New Zealand?

Most of these countries also have franchises (Black Lions or Lusitanos for instance) to help with that.

Regarding Argentina, did they really improve when Jaguares played Super Rugby though ? In 2007, most players were based in France and they had a pretty good WC. They also had a great generation of players at that time. Sadly we won't know what Jaguares experience could have brought if they stayed in the competition.

For Georgia I would argue the experience gained in top14 served them well. A good third of their players also play against other european franchises (competition that they usually dominates) and now in the ERC where they will face thougher competition. I agree they need more test matchs against tier 1 nations and top14 doesn't prevent them to do so. When was the last time they could play the ABs for instance ?

Romania is a team who used to have a lot of players in french leagues, until they got hit hard by JIFF regulation as well as the concurrence of Georgian players. Now most of them play in their national championship. One can see how it impacted their national team.

Globally it doesn't look like having players in european leagues hurt these teams. What they definitely miss is more international test competitions against tougher opposition though, and top14 is not the problem for that.

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Bull Shark 5 hours ago
Will the withdrawal of the ‘top 20’ devalue France’s tour of New Zealand?

And xenophobic.

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Bull Shark 5 hours ago
Will the withdrawal of the ‘top 20’ devalue France’s tour of New Zealand?

Rude and offensive. I don’t care about agreeing.

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Bull Shark 5 hours ago
Will the withdrawal of the ‘top 20’ devalue France’s tour of New Zealand?

Exactly. Everyone wants to pull down the number one. Cut down the tall mielies.

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Bull Shark 5 hours ago
Will the withdrawal of the ‘top 20’ devalue France’s tour of New Zealand?

Another player touted as a potential coach is Kwagga Smith.


Which I think makes a lot of sense.

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AM 5 hours ago
The five players Joe Schmidt should bring into the Wallabies’ squad

Agree with those apart from half back. Hard to play well at 9 if you don’t have forward dominance, which they haven’t.


You miss several others that are needed as well:


- Sio and Ainsley at props. The scrum is poor with Thor and Bell off and both are playing well in Europe. These are the two most important ones as we have seen scrum penalties destroy a team’s chances of winning.

- Latu is Australia’s best jackler together with Tizanno. McReight has struggled in that area at test level and we need more competition at breakdown time.

- Skelton is Australias best player

- Philip or Arnold, both are dominant lineout jumpers.

- Hodge. The kicking game in general play from 10 and 15 has been poor and his giant boot is needed to settle things down. Play him at 12 or 15.


I’d also bring in Izaia Perese for his defence in place of Paisami who has been woeful for the wallabies.

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Ed the Duck 6 hours ago
Will the withdrawal of the ‘top 20’ devalue France’s tour of New Zealand?

Time to cut your losses methinks, he reckons it’s ok to run the top14 in tandem with a European rugby league and a full international test calendar on top!


Truth is he knows very well that the crucial ingredient missing from SH rugby that means they will never be able to replicate that success is scale. The next best thing for nz/aus is 🇯🇵…

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Ed the Duck 6 hours ago
Will the withdrawal of the ‘top 20’ devalue France’s tour of New Zealand?

Not quite the ‘most’ stable, after all the Irish boys earnings are topped up with government backed tax refunds at retirement…!

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Ed the Duck 6 hours ago
Will the withdrawal of the ‘top 20’ devalue France’s tour of New Zealand?

Do you really think that would solve the myriad problems in welsh rugby? They’d be the whipping boys for everyone, except maybe Newcastle!

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Ed the Duck 6 hours ago
Will the withdrawal of the ‘top 20’ devalue France’s tour of New Zealand?

He’s a complete rocket, resplendent in his wacky conspiracy theories. Among other amusing traits…

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