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Three red cards and two yellows in Top 14 clash

Racing 92 hooker Camille Chat

Racing 92 overcame a first-half red card for Virimi Vakatawa to beat Bordeaux 29-13 on Saturday in an action-packed Top 14 game, which they finished with only 12 men.

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Vakatawa was sent off for a dangerous tackle after half an hour, with Bordeaux leading by eight points to seven.

It remains to be seen whether the France wing will receive a ban that could affect his participation in the upcoming November internationals, but Racing made light of his absence as hooker Camille Chat went over twice to secure an impressive victory.

Chat’s second try came with Bordeaux reduced to 14 men after Jean-Baptiste Dubie was sin-binned.

With the match over as a contest, Racing’s Manuel Carizza and Sebastien Taofifenua of Bordeaux were sent off in the 75th minute after coming to blows, and the hosts’ numbers were reduced still further following a late yellow card for Teddy Iribaren.

 

Racing coach Laurent Labit was quoted by L’Equipe as expressing “pride in the behaviour of the players and the reaction in the second half.”

Chat added: “I hope this will be a springboard for the future. We need to keep this mentality.”

Leaders Lyon maintained their excellent start to the season by thumping Oyonnax 52-18 – Baptiste Couilloud responsible for two of their seven tries.

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Montpellier held off a fightback from Pau to triumph 22-16 at Stade du Hameau, while Chris Ashton scored two tries in Toulon’s 41-24 win over Brive and Clermont Auvergne were comfortable winners over Stade Francais, prevailing 33-10.

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Easy_Duzz-it 20 minutes ago
Are the All Blacks doomed to a 70% flatline?

The world never caught up the All Blacks just went backwards . After 2015 they had a plan to build the team around 2 players . Sam Cane and Beauden Barrett , Cane was hailed as the next Mccaw and Barrett the next carter . Unfortunately Cane sustained too many injures and Barrett despite being a great ball runner didn't have a high enough conversion rate or the game management skills to control the team and the game . Then to make matters worst , the selections were so bad year after year the forward pack became shockingly weak .

New Zealand had so much talent wasted betwen 2016 - 2023 . Laumape , elliot dixon , ben tamefuna , pita gus , ben lam , vaea fifita and so many other in form players that never got a look or the time to develop into great All Blacks .


Then you have the dual playmaker system that never worked , but they kept using it . why ? cause some men cant admit when they're wrong . thats the All Blacks between 2016-2023 . wrong coaches with the wrong vision , going in the wrong direction . now it appears the world caught up . but like I said the world never caught up . then you add the obvious flawed referee calls that happen to go against us more often then for us now . the worst of which that never gets called is when the opposition use rush defence but have players offside . this has been going for years , but who cares ? .


anyway its almost 10 and i need to get some shut eye .

Go the might All Blacks !!!!

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