Ruan Pienaar breaks the spirit of the game

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Ruan Pienaar breaks the spirit of the game

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Ruan is a naughty boy apparently for kicking the winning conversion for Montpellier versus Clermont

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Smart move by intelligent player, Clermont-Ferrand would have done the same, Ulster would have dropped a goal got restarted and give away a penalty at the restart
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Should he have got another 90 seconds after the Clermont player encroached?
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The man still pishes ice cubes
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big mervyn wrote:Should he have got another 90 seconds after the Clermont player encroached?
If he missed he would have been entitled to a retake

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It looks worse in slow motion....
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Bloody smart play. If that was us we would take the kick without waiting, miss it, knock on the resulting 22 drop out, they would go up and score a try denying us a losing BP.
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Very smart play. People are precious about very little these days. If it happens against you - outrage, if your side does it - great play :D

Ulster would not have the brains to do that right now. He has got a large set of cojones on him to do it still.

World Rugby probably drawing up new rules right now that kickers can't stall/delay etc - similar to the time Italy managed to fool England last year with their non-rucking tactic, only to have it banned by WR.
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If they stopped the clock for pens and conversions it wouldn't be an issue. It's invariably stopped for a prolonged TMO consultation in any case. 90 secs is, quite frankly, ridiculous. I thought it was a minute.
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Thoughts are:

- Glad Ruan knew what he was doing, great pro.
- 90 seconds?????? FFFS is that a law or some French deviation
- Clermont fans will have been apoplectic, mainly because their 9 & kicker didn't know the laws and failed to take a simple 3 points that would have got them an SDC QF last year.
- Ruan Pienaar's Montpellier is top of the league, would love the great man to win a gong before he finishes.
- I may well have my bricks sold, when driving to Spain I may go via Montpellier if it's possible to catch a game, anyone got Ruan's number, I'm sure he'd want to meet up. :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Was just going to say that Montpellier are top of their league Baggy, I hope Ruan wins something with them and fair play to him for playing the game within the rules
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BaggyTrousers wrote:Thoughts are:

- Glad Ruan knew what he was doing, great pro.
- 90 seconds?????? FFFS is that a law or some French deviation
- Clermont fans will have been apoplectic, mainly because their 9 & kicker didn't know the laws and failed to take a simple 3 points that would have got them an SDC QF last year.
- Ruan Pienaar's Montpellier is top of the league, would love the great man to win a gong before he finishes.
- I may well have my bricks sold, when driving to Spain I may go via Montpellier if it's possible to catch a game, anyone got Ruan's number, I'm sure he'd want to meet up. :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Btw Baggy, in case you didn't know, there's a new ferry route direct from Cork to Santander (Brittany ferries).
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Conversions are 90 seconds from moment try is awarded
Penalties are 60 seconds from moment penalty is awarded

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