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Montpellier hammer Racing to go second

Montpellier's Nemani Nadolo believes now is the time to introduce a Super Rugby franchise representing th Islands

Montpellier surged up to second in the Top 14 as they dished out a 54-3 hammering to Racing 92 on Saturday.

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The fixture had initially been scheduled for March 18 but was postponed following the announcement of the now-aborted plan for Racing and Stade Francais to merge.

And any frustration Montpellier had over the rescheduling was taken out on the Parisian club as the hosts ran in eight tries to leapfrog Clermont Auvergne in the standings.

Racing had won three consecutive league games going into the encounter, but they could only muster a Dan Carter penalty in the first half.

By contrast, Nemani Nadolo, Kelian Galletier and Bismarck du Plessis went over for Montpellier, Racing unable to take advantage of Nadolo’s yellow card in the 32nd minute.

Sean Robinson was sin-binned for Racing six minutes after the restart, Montpellier awarded a penalty try after the full-back had prevented Vincent Martin from receiving the ball cleanly.

Willie du Plessis converted that score and then added the extras to his own double as Montpellier ran riot in the second half.

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Pierre Spies and Timoci Nagusa finished off the rout as Montpellier chalked up a fourth win in five matches.

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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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