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Leinster thrash the Dragons in Rodney Parade, Glasgow survive red card

Alex Allan

Pro14 Conference A leaders Glasgow Warriors overcame Alex Allan’s early red card to beat the Scarlets 29-20 on Saturday, while Conference B table-toppers Leinster were convincing 59-10 winners over the Dragons.

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Glasgow had to play for over an hour with 14 men after Allan was dismissed for making direct contact with the head of Jake Ball when the score was 3-3.

However, the hosts built up a big second-half lead thanks largely to Brandon Thomson, who scored 24 of their 29 points.

The Scarlets rallied with three tries through Jonathan Davies, Steff Evans and Clayton Blommetjies but Glasgow held on to extend their lead in Conference A to seven points.

Scarlets’ loss was also a boost to Leinster, who ran in nine tries in a 59-10 away thrashing of the Dragons.

Dave Kearney and Jimmy O’Brien each crossed twice while Scott Penny, Scott Fardy, Caelan Doris, Hugo Keenan and Bryan Byrne also scored tries.

Epalahame Faiva dotted down three times before half-time as Benetton Treviso secured a 22-19 away win over Conference B’s bottom side Southern Kings.

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Two second-half penalties from John Cooney ensured Ulster claimed a narrow 16-12 home success over Cardiff Blues while Connacht edged to a 21-17 win at the Cheetahs.

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That's Cron's job though. Australia has had one of the most penalised scrums in international rugby for a long time. Just look at the scrum win loss percentage and scrum penalties. That is your evidence. AA has been the starter during that period. Pretty simple analysis. That Australia has had a poor scrum for a long time is hardly news. If bell and thor are not on the field they are woeful. So you are just plain wrong. They have very little time for the lions so doing the same old things that dont work is not going to get them there.


Ainsley is better than our next best tighthead options and has been playing well at scrum time for Lyon in the most competitive comp in the world. Superstar player? No. But better than the next best options. So that is a good enough guide. The scrummaging in the Prem is pretty good too so there is Sio's proof. Same analysis for him. Certainly better in both cases than Super, where the brumbies had the worst win loss and scrum pen in Super. Who plays there? Ohh yes... And the level of scrummaging in Super is well below the URC, prem and France with the SA teams out.


Nongorr is truly woeful. He's 130kg and gets shoved about. That just should not be happening at that weight for a specialist prop who has always played rugby cf pone with leauge. He has had enough time to develop at 23. You'd be better off with Pone who is at least good around the field for the moment and sending Nongorr on exchange to France or England to see if they can improve him with better coaching as happened with Skelton and Meafou. He isn't going to develop in time in super if he has it at all.


Latu is a better scrummaging hooker than BPA and Nasser. and he's the best aussie player over the ball at ruck time. McReight's super jackling percentage hasnt converted to international level but latu consistently does it at heniken level, which is similar to test level in the big games. With good coaching at La Rochelle he's much improved though still has the odd shocker. He should start the November games.

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