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Elliot Dixon earns himself two red cards and kicks a penalty in first competitive match since coronavirus struck

Known as a powerful enforcer on the field, Ricoh Black Rams and former Highlanders loose forward Elliot Dixon has taken his aggression to the next level off the pitch in the Rugby Pass Fifa Pros Southern Series.

Given the hard task of facing off against one of the competition’s early favourites, Chiefs midfielder Alex Nankivell, Dixon promptly found his Chelsea side a goal down and retaliated the only way a rugby player playing Fifa knows how – immediately earning himself a red card.

Nankivell, who has been described as a “Fifa guru”, “unreal at Fifa” and “a bit of a gun at Fifa” by his Chiefs teammates wasted no time in building an early lead against the 2015 Super Rugby champion but was also let down by his discipline, conceding a penalty early in the second quarter.

Dixon talked down his chances at converting but made no mistakes and levelled the scores, although Nankiell’s PSG took the lead back soon after through a powerful strike from Neymar Jr.

Seconds later, disaster struck once more for Dixon when Mateo Kovacic was marched from the field thanks to a lazy challenge.

The score remained 2-1 at halftime and although Dixon parked the bus to try to keep the goals down, he couldn’t keep Nankivell from nailing the finishing blow late in the game to take out the match.

In the second of tonight’s matches, Dixon’s former teammate Aaron Smith faced off with the Blues’ Tony Lamborn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuMRB4W10bU

Smith’s bullet passing was equally as prevalent when in control of Barcelona as it was when the nippy halfback took the field for the Highlanders earlier this year and it proved simply too much for Lamborn’s Real Madrid.

Lamborn, who travelled to Japan last year to represent the United States at the Rugby World Cup, conceded a goal in the 14th minute of the match to Lionel Messi – a man who’s prowess across the park caused nightmares for the Eagle.

Messi finished the game with two goals while his partner in crime, Luis Suarez, also nabbed a double. French forward Antoine Griezmann and Dutchman Frenkie de Jong both earned themselves goals to close out the match.

Alex Nankivell and Aaron Smith will continue on to the quarter-finals of the competition while Elliot Dixon and Tony Lamborn’s journeys are over for now.

The winner of the Fifa Pros Southern Series Charity Championship will receive a USD2,000 prize to donate to the charity of their choice.

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JW 1 hour ago
'Passionate reunion of France and New Zealand shows Fabien Galthie is wrong to rest his stars'

Where? I remember saying "unders"? The LNR was formed by the FFR, if I said that in a way that meant the 'pro' side of the game didn't have an equal representation/say as the 'amateur' side (FFR remit) that was not my intent.


But also, as it is the governing body, it also has more responsibility. As long as WR looks at FFR as the running body for rugby in France, that 'power' will remain. If the LNR refuses to govern their clubs use of players to enable a request by FFR (from WR) to ensure it's players are able to compete in International rugby takes place they will simply remove their participation. If the players complain to the France's body, either of their health and safety concerns (through playing too many 'minutes' etc) or that they are not allowed to be part in matches of national interest, my understanding is action can be taken against the LNR like it could be any other body/business. I see where you're coming from now re EPCR and the shake up they gave it, yes, that wasn't meant to be a separate statement to say that FFR can threaten them with EPCR expulsion by itself, simply that it would be a strong repercussion for those teams to be removed (no one would want them after the above).


You keep bringing up these other things I cannot understand why. Again, do you think if the LNR were not acting responsibly they would be able to get away with whatever they want (the attitude of these posters saying "they pay the players")? You may deem what theyre doing currently as being irresponsible but most do not. Countries like New Zealand have not even complained about it because they've never had it different, never got things like windfall TV contracts from France, so they can't complain because theyre not missing out on anything. Sure, if the French kept doing things like withholding million dollar game payments, or causing millions of dollars of devaluation in rights, they these things I'm outlining would be taking place. That's not the case currently however, no one here really cares what the French do. It's upto them to sort themselves out if they're not happy. Now, that said, if they did make it obvious to World Rugby that they were never going to send the French side away (like they possibly did stating their intent to exclude 20 targeted players) in July, well then they would simply be given XV fixtures against tier 2 sides during that window and the FFR would need to do things like the 50/50 revenue split to get big teams visiting in Nov.

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