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Nat1
First XV squad Joined: 31 Dec 2023 Location: Not given Status: Offline Points: 52 |
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With no Nat 1 rugby his week I thought I'd follow the Champ games and I see Cambridge are currently 42-5 down at Hartpury, conceding at a rate of a point a minute
I don't know much about the Champ, but is the step up from Nat 1 that big for most clubs?
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The Blues
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Att 3017
Not bad considering it’s non stop rain.
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castleparknight
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Pretty much, but there are opportunities to develop and maybe get the odd W
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Onward and Upwards C'mon Donny!
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The Blues
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FT blues 33-54 Bristol
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Abbotsman
First XV squad Joined: 02 Mar 2019 Location: Gloucester Status: Offline Points: 59 |
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FT Hartpury 61 - 10 Cambridge
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Nat1
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Thanks, and yes it seems that way as Cambridge look to have had a proper hiding this evening conceding 9 tries, and against a fellow semi-pro rather than full-time team (Hartpury certainly use to be semi-pro anyway).
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Bluesman11
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Unrelated question, but will Cambridge be showing the England Ireland game somewhere after the Bedford game next Saturday?
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Championship Prediction League Winner 11/12
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Paul10
World Cup Winner Joined: 24 Mar 2023 Location: Milton Keynes Status: Offline Points: 551 |
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This is a really good summary. 2nd half was more even but Bristol's attack was always sharper
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islander
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barring the Pope's conversion to Islam between now and then, yes...
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Camquin
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Squad size and injuries have been problems for Cambridge, along with budget. We get Jamie Benson back from the Blues next week, and hopefully
Joe Tarrant will have recovered from his shoulder injury soon. Both of
whom will shore up the back line. However, Mat Hema is out for the season, and we are missing his running and tackling. Our big problems seem to be turning possession into points, and then stopping the opposition scoring. We struggle to break down defences, so we go through phases getting nowhere, then turn over possession and are suddenly thirty metres downfield defending like crazy. I know Ritchie has eyes on some new recruits for next season, if we can afford them. As to showing the International after the Blues match - I assume we will. We usually have it on the screens in all the bars. After all, we want you to stay and drink the beer. It is our secret plan for affording new centres for next year. And don't forget, it is a double header, with the ladies playing first. The Exiles are also at home on the other pitch. Buy your tickets - and especially parking online. Parking is limited. Nearly half have gone already. We are expecting the biggest crowd of the year, |
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Clive Norling
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[/QUOTE] Our big problems seem to be turning possession into points, and then stopping the opposition scoring. We struggle to break down defences, so we go through phases getting nowhere, then turn over possession and are suddenly thirty metres downfield defending like crazy. [/QUOTE]
And in that one sentence you pose the problem that faces the (whenever it next happens) promoted team from The Championship into The Premiership ... as you go up the leagues one at a time, the step up just gets greater and greater ... The more experienced team has a better defence and tend to be more clinical in attack (and when you throw in part time players against full time players, it just increases the task massively) .... Edited by Clive Norling - 02 Mar 2024 at 11:10 |
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Nat1
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Our big problems seem to be turning possession into points, and then stopping the opposition scoring. We struggle to break down defences, so we go through phases getting nowhere, then turn over possession and are suddenly thirty metres downfield defending like crazy. [/QUOTE] And in that one sentence you pose the problem that faces the (whenever it next happens) promoted team from The Championship into The Premiership ... as you go up the leagues one at a time, the step up just gets greater and greater ... The more experienced team has a better defence and tend to be more clinical in attack (and when you throw in part time players against full time players, it just increases the task massively) ....[/QUOTE] I think you are right, and it's incredible that any of the semi pro Champ teams manage to turn over the fully pro teams from time to time, fair play to them. On that note, I know you are a Rams supporter and wondered if Rams plan to go fully pro if they beat Chinnor to promotion this year, or if/when they take part in Prem 2 when it starts the season after?
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Clive Norling
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And in that one sentence you pose the problem that faces the (whenever it next happens) promoted team from The Championship into The Premiership ... as you go up the leagues one at a time, the step up just gets greater and greater ... The more experienced team has a better defence and tend to be more clinical in attack (and when you throw in part time players against full time players, it just increases the task massively) ....[/QUOTE] I think you are right, and it's incredible that any of the semi pro Champ teams manage to turn over the fully pro teams from time to time, fair play to them. On that note, I know you are a Rams supporter and wondered if Rams plan to go fully pro if they beat Chinnor to promotion this year, or if/when they take part in Prem 2 when it starts the season after? [/QUOTE] National 1 promotion is Chinnor's to lose (with respect to Cambridge, as it was ours to lose last season and we did ) ... all we can do is keep the pressure on them but if they win their last 6 games with 5 point wins, it doesn't matter what we do, they'll go up and deservedly so (as was the case with Cambridge last year) ... Prem 2? Well it's totally up in the air at the moment BUT what we have done is put in place off the field many things but the 2 biggest are, broadcast quality floodlights and a 400 seat stand, which if necessary, we could easily replicate another stand on the opposite side of the pitch ... we could NOT go fully professional with players unless there was subsistence from the RFU but our CEO Gary Reynolds along with his son Seb Reynolds (DoR) and the rest of the board are very ambitious but at the same time being able to balance the finances between income and expenditure (contrary to what some people say) we do NOT pay huge money to our players (and as a previously high income sponsor, I should know) ... We have a squad of 40-50 players who play 1st & 2nd team rugby and with the demise of LI, this season we've had NO LOAN players what so ever, unlike a number of our rivals .... |
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Kimbo
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Back to Champ Round 14?
HT Donny 0-10 Cov
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FHLH
World Cup Winner Cambridge Joined: 19 Apr 2009 Location: Cambridge Status: Offline Points: 5264 |
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One might say that this is the way to play rugby, however the concept of a rugby club is lost at Levels 1 & 2 - with a couple of notable Championship exceptions. Foreign players kick the ladder away from aspiring club players, loan players kick it further down the road. Or is it that I am a dinosaur seeking to watch rugby in it's pureist form?
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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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maire23
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HT at Vallis Way- Ealing 17 Notts 19!
Absolutely stunned (but as a Notts fan I’m happy)
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Kimbo
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Donny 0-13 Cov
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gerg_861
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Ealing 24 (BP) - Nottingham 19 - 44' - Ealing pt, Nottingham yc. Nottingham restarts great today.
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maire23
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Ealing 24 Notts 26
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Geoff DC
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Caldy 0 Pirates 19 - HT
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