Comments on: Best of the weekend: European rugby gets underway

By: Staggy

Staggy — Mon, 16 Nov 2015 23:06:46 +0000

But Leon didn’t those hated English once try to make Canada a colony, just like Wales……………………….!! Enoch could make anything into an anti English rant. Which is sad really as when he wasn’t commenting on Welsh or English games in the RWC he actually made some really good points. His problem not ours.

By: Leon

Leon — Mon, 16 Nov 2015 13:10:20 +0000

Enoch could make a comment about anything into a dig at England rugby. You just made it easy by starting on a linked subject like the performance of a Welsh rugby player.
Next time try making harder by starting on something random like Canadian ice hockey

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 16 Nov 2015 12:48:42 +0000

Whilst I understand your point, I have in fact seen your kicking and not sure that your first statement is strictly true. Otherwise I do agree he is overhyped.

By: Jacob

Jacob — Mon, 16 Nov 2015 11:30:00 +0000

Wouldn’t recommend dropping Biggar Enoch; he’s the best 10 you have. An extremely good 10 (as I did note in my post). However yesterday I thought he was incredibly poor.

Fortunately for him, his kicking performances in the WC (both from tee and out of hand) have led to him being heralded as a world class fly half. He is not.

As for a prediction for an Exeter win; did I make that? Not sure I did. And whoever did make it was perfectly entitled to do so. Exeter are a good side in form, and Ospreys were reintegrating a bunch of players returning from the WC, and therefore the performance levels were a bit of a guess. Fortunately for the Ospreys, their returning Welshman largely played very well (AWJ and Lydiate as I note above), however Biggar was not among them in my opinion.

Congrats on managing to bring a subjective opinion on the performance of a Welsh player back to digs about the state of England rugby – congrats, very impressive.

By: Jacob

Jacob — Mon, 16 Nov 2015 11:24:56 +0000

Damien Welch – brilliant at lock for Exeter. I agree, Dan Lydiate has a great game I thought, as did AWJ. Completely lost on me why Biggar was being lauded during that game.

By: Doc

Doc — Mon, 16 Nov 2015 11:19:52 +0000

I had to turn the sound off so I didn’t realise he was man of the match. I don’t think he deserved it – distinctly average in the first half, but did improve after half time. In fact, I’d have ranked several Ospreys above him and whichever Exeter lock was making himself an almighty nuisance.

By: Prophet Enoch

Prophet Enoch — Mon, 16 Nov 2015 10:32:33 +0000

Wales should clearly drop Biggar and bring back James Hook or plead with Rhys Priestland not to take 18 months off international duty.

We all saw Biggar’s so so indifferent RWC 2015 and now a poor return to his region in the last fortnight.

Yeah so right there Jacob. Could not agree more.

Pehaps you failed to notice that even when Biggar made mistakes, his team still won and he gots MOM award and even player of the round on this page.

The prediction on this website b 4 the game was a 12 pts Exeter victory. What total nonsense.

This is yet again the usual pro-English view (before the event) that the Premiership Clubs are so very superior to all other sides from all of other nations.

It was taken as a given it seems, that with Exeter at 2nd in their league and the Ospreys way off the pace in theirs, then Exeter would just have to turn up at the Liberty to beat the home side by over 10 points and even deny the Ospreys a losing bonus point in the process.

After RWC 2015 you’d think a bit of humble pie would be served by those who follow English rugby but no…as usual its the view that

‘we are English and therefore automatically better than everyone else so there’.

Clearly the events of late Sept and early Oct 2015 passed you by.

By: Jacob

Jacob — Mon, 16 Nov 2015 09:40:26 +0000

Hate to sound like a broken record, and I am a fan of his, but this Dan Biggar hype is getting crazy. He was pretty dreadful yesterday in all facets of fly half play. His awful kick lead to the Exeter try. He missed three kicks at goal that I’d have made and the Ospreys back line didn’t ever look like firing off of him; only off loose Exeter kicks.

His up and unders to himself are brilliant, undoubtedly. But his basics as a fly half are far more important and he was poor in all fronts yesterday so I’m lost as to how he got MOTM (then again Stuart Barnes picked it and I’ve never placed much faith in anything he says), but now he was the best player in the Champions Cup all weekend? Absolute madness.

As a Wasps fan it was great to see them firing yesterday. I’m hoping we find a way to get Puitau to stay past this season, Ulster won’t mind surely!? Him, Daly and Halai were fantastic yesterday, as was Launchbury. Can see him growing into a leader within the Wasps squad as well which will code well for when he is given the England captaincy…