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Ospreys hammer Stade Francais in Challenge Cup

Allen Clarke

The Ospreys romped to a thumping 51-20 victory over Stade Francais in Swansea to top European Challenge Cup Pool Two on Saturday.

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Worcester Warriors’ defeat to Pau on Friday opened the door for the Welsh region to reach the summit and they ran in six tries to do so in style, with Cory Allen and Luke Morgan among the scorers.

The bonus-point victory sends the Ospreys two points clear of Worcester at the summit, while Stade remain rooted to the bottom with one point from three matches.

Sale Sharks’ perfect record is intact following a third consecutive bonus-point win in this season’s competition, thrashing Bordeaux Begles 50-24.

The English club have a maximum 15 points to show from their pool matches and sit seven points clear of Connacht, who were 22-10 victors over Perpignan earlier in the day.

Two-time Challenge Cup winners Clermont Auvergne picked up a routine 47-14 win at Timisoara Saracens to stay top of Pool One, although Northampton Saints are still in hot pursuit.

The Premiership side were 48-14 winners against the Dragons and stay five points adrift of the current table toppers after back-to-back victories.

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Benetton’s 26-21 win against Harlequins sees them reach the midway point in Pool Five with a two-point advantage over closest challengers Grenoble who beat Agen on Friday.

La Rochelle have a six-point lead at the top of Pool Four after their 35-22 victory at Bristol Bears, with second-placed Zebre winning 31-14 at Enisei on Saturday.

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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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