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Paul10 ![]() World Cup Winner ![]() Joined: 24 Mar 2023 Location: Milton Keynes Status: Offline Points: 613 |
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Walesonline.co.uk are reporting that Dan Jones is joining Ealing.
Played over 150 times for Scarlets but now surplus to requirements. V good kicking game but not the biggest or fastest.
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BigChief ![]() World Cup Winner ![]() London Scottish Joined: 12 May 2009 Location: Surrey Status: Offline Points: 702 |
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Mark Bright comes back to London Scottish!
Brighty' joins London Scottish Lions as Forwards Player Coach. (The Lions are promoted to Regional 2 Thames this coming season). Brighty' has been a great servant to London Scottish, Richmond and Ealing over the past decade or so. A real Gent too - Welcome back Mark and good luck in your new role
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KnightsBoy ![]() World Cup Winner ![]() ![]() Joined: 31 Oct 2010 Location: Doncaster Status: Offline Points: 2772 |
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Another championship player to the prem
Donny knight Harry Wilson signs for Saracens
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*Stalwart ![]() World Cup Winner ![]() Joined: 15 Oct 2022 Location: Penzance Status: Offline Points: 323 |
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This one is proper!
The latest new signing announcement from the Cornish Pirates confirms that 23-year-old Welshman, Iwan Price-Thomas, has signed a contract for the forthcoming season.
Cardiff-born Iwan is a gifted full-back/fly-half who has represented both Wales under 19s and England Students. He was educated at Y Pant Comprehensive School in Pontyclun before going to Coleg Y Cymoedd, and he has just recently finished his degree at the University of Bath. |
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FHLH ![]() World Cup Winner ![]() Cambridge Joined: 19 Apr 2009 Location: Cambridge Status: Online Points: 5291 |
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For goodness sake, haven't you realised that the RFU investment in The Championship hasn't yielded any results. Doh!!
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"My father told me big men fall just as quick as little ones, if you put a sword through their hearts."
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Kimbo ![]() World Cup Winner ![]() Joined: 31 May 2007 Location: 'incleh Status: Offline Points: 6314 |
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Investment? Doh!
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TAS63 ![]() British and Irish Lion ![]() Joined: 13 Apr 2009 Location: Bourne Status: Offline Points: 177 |
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Good signing. I did wonder if we might have seen Bedford go for him, with Grimoldby moving over to Cambridge.
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TAS63 ![]() British and Irish Lion ![]() Joined: 13 Apr 2009 Location: Bourne Status: Offline Points: 177 |
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Sorry - that last post was meant to relate to the Tommy Mathews signing for Coventry.
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Kimbo ![]() World Cup Winner ![]() Joined: 31 May 2007 Location: 'incleh Status: Offline Points: 6314 |
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Yes, quite happy with this - but very big boots to fill with Pellegrini moving on.
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Camquin ![]() World Cup Winner ![]() ![]() Joined: 01 Jun 2007 Location: Cambridge Status: Offline Points: 11208 |
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The RFU only looks at the England team, and a lot of those player go straight from playing in the National Leagues as an 18-year-old, direct to Premiership missing out loans to the Championship. Of the starting 15 - and discounting Saracens season on the naughty step, Only Stuart and Furbank played Championship - 7 Nottingham caps between them. On the bench: Dan has 5 Ampthill caps, Baxter 2 London Scottish, Fin smith 3 Ampthill, and Dan Cole 3 for Nottingham and 26 for Bedford. So in that sense - and ignoring all the other advantages - you could argue England gains very little. But we know it is very important developing the wider pool of players.
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Sweeney Delenda Est
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Bluesman11 ![]() World Cup Winner ![]() Joined: 13 May 2008 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 1088 |
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I thought Pellegrini had re-signed?
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Kimbo ![]() World Cup Winner ![]() Joined: 31 May 2007 Location: 'incleh Status: Offline Points: 6314 |
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He did - so hopefully there's some compensation coming.
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KnightsBoy ![]() World Cup Winner ![]() ![]() Joined: 31 Oct 2010 Location: Doncaster Status: Offline Points: 2772 |
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Missed this, where's he gone Kimbo
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Kimbo ![]() World Cup Winner ![]() Joined: 31 May 2007 Location: 'incleh Status: Offline Points: 6314 |
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Not officially confirmed yet, but said to be Moana Pasifika, Auckland.
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fatbear ![]() World Cup Winner ![]() ![]() Joined: 13 Sep 2013 Location: Thame Status: Offline Points: 2778 |
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So how many games did Marlar play for Worthing, or Feyi-Waboso for Taunton, or Furbank for Cambridge ?
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Camquin ![]() World Cup Winner ![]() ![]() Joined: 01 Jun 2007 Location: Cambridge Status: Offline Points: 11208 |
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Many - I think that everyone in the squad needed to play at that level for a year to transition to the adult game. But the ones that are going to pull on an England shirt then leapfrog straight into the Premiership. It is the players who will be decent journeymen in the Premiership that spend seasons in the Championship before stepping up. I am saying that the RFU are technically correct when they say "the Championship" does not develop England players. As that starts in the M&Y sections of clubs up and down the country and the National Leagues act as the finishing school. But I am also saying that it is a very bad measure of the good that having a strong second tiers does for the game. And utterly ignores the downsides of having a fully ring-fenced Premiership with a dwindling number of sides. To answer the specific question: 18 for Joe, 4 plus 2 at Stourbridge for Immanuel, and 26 for George. Statbunker does not have data for the Welsh leagues, and Feyi-Waboso was at RumneyRFC. |
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tigerburnie ![]() World Cup Winner ![]() Joined: 10 Jun 2012 Location: Scotland Status: Offline Points: 3691 |
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Don't forget the National leagues in this, many Premiership players got their first taste of adult rugby there too, George Martin being one of them.
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Paul10 ![]() World Cup Winner ![]() Joined: 24 Mar 2023 Location: Milton Keynes Status: Offline Points: 613 |
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I think that's being shown here.
Most of these elite players need a game or a few to get used to adult rugby however they don't need to play in the championship to get sharp or strong enough for Premiership and England rugby. However lots of prem players needed more time to get up to the level needed.
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*Stalwart ![]() World Cup Winner ![]() Joined: 15 Oct 2022 Location: Penzance Status: Offline Points: 323 |
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And don't forget the grass roots clubs where they started as kids getting their first experience of rugby.
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Kimbo ![]() World Cup Winner ![]() Joined: 31 May 2007 Location: 'incleh Status: Offline Points: 6314 |
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Getting back (slightly) more on track, Steve Boden joins Cov as Asst First team and Academy Pathway Coach.
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