Tigers Toulouse

[Guest]

that crowd roaring

yes!!!!!!!!!

[pSinatra]

I've had more relaxing Sunday afternoons

Well done Tigers!!

[MPH]

great end to the game! gwon lads!!!

[Guest]

Toulon are playing great this season. They are the money team this year

[Fox in the North]

Get in tigers!

[Guest]

That was a tough group. to win it is fantastic

Treviso beat the Ospreys. they were very good at home this season.

[leicsmac]

Excellent win!

But who is the team we play in the quarters? We're the 6th best team which means we play 3rd...but 3rd,4th and 5th all have 23 points.

Would like it to be Saracens.

[MPH]

Excellent win!

But who is the team we play in the quarters? We're the 6th best team which means we play 3rd...but 3rd,4th and 5th all have 23 points.

Would like it to be Saracens.

Think we are away to Toulon....

[Guest]

It's Toulon.

Top of the French League

had massive money put in during the last few years.

I think Parling was the motm in my opinion

[Fox in the North]

Ohhh well if we're going to win it, might as well beat the best. Thought ospreys were home and dry, apparently not

[Guest]

Ohhh well if we're going to win it, might as well beat the best. Thought ospreys were home and dry, apparently not

Treviso scared us and Toulouse at home this year. And the Italian team is strong at home in the 6 nations.

It was an incredibly tough group.

[kingfox]

As long as we got to the Quarters I am happy with that, that was drama at it's finest today and was always going to be hard. Toulon may well thrash us, but we needed to get out the group stage again this year after missing out last year.

Excellent win today though, good weekend for Leicester all we need now is a Selby win.

[MPH]

I do think to some extent the English clubs are at a disadvantage to the french when it comes to the European cup... In England there is a wage cap of 4 million pounds a year.. In France its 7.1 million a year...

[Guest]

I do think to some extent the English clubs are at a disadvantage to the french when it comes to the European cup... In England there is a wage cap of 4 million pounds a year.. In France its 7.1 million a year...

Agreed and at Toulon - money isn't a question.

They just signed Habana for next season

[Finnegan]

There's a higher salary cap there because there's more money there.

Rugby in England just isn't very big, sadly.

[Guest MattP]

Never liked Basketball.

American Football is an absolutely brilliant sport mind, like a giant human game of chess with some of the best athletes on the planet, you never get a boring game of it either. I terms of excitment I'd probably say pound for pound it's the best sport in the World now.

Baseball is good but the season lasts a long time, game seven of the World Series is a sight to behold mind.

[Guest Bilo]

There's a higher salary cap there because there's more money there.

Rugby in England just isn't very big, sadly.

It is an extremely distant second to football at best, maybe even third at the tail end and beginnings of seasons when it's competing with Test cricket.

In France, the gap between club rugby and football is much smaller.

[Guest MattP]

I did watch the game yesterday and can anyone defend how the game ended?

Scrum down, time up, Tigers knock on and thats game over. How unfair is that? Shouldn't be allowed to end on your own mistake.

Why do they even bother trying to kick it out? Surely its easier to just poke it forward with your hand?

[leicsmac]

It is an extremely distant second to football at best, maybe even third at the tail end and beginnings of seasons when it's competing with Test cricket.

In France, the gap between club rugby and football is much smaller.

Given that GB now has a representative right at the top of the game and the games biggest tournament is held here, I would suggest tennis is pretty popular as a watched sport here too. The only difference is there are far fewer events to watch in the UK in a season, so interest only peaks at those events rather than being maintained as a regular UK season the way football/rugby/cricket is.

For example, I would suggest that if they were all on terrestrial TV: a Wimbledon mens final featuring a GB player, a Rugby World Cup final featuring a home nation, or a final Test of an Ashes series (or maybe a CWC final involving England) - basically the pinnacle of each sport - would attract about the same number of viewers.

Football, of course, would be way out in front.

[Finnegan]

I did watch the game yesterday and can anyone defend how the game ended?

Scrum down, time up, Tigers knock on and thats game over. How unfair is that? Shouldn't be allowed to end on your own mistake.

Why do they even bother trying to kick it out? Surely its easier to just poke it forward with your hand?

If you deliberately knock the ball on it's a penalty, not a scrum. In that case, Toulouse would have been given the ball with time to play until the ball went dead.

They could have opted to kick, tap and run or scrum but not take the line out.

After eighty minutes, as soon as the ball goes dead play stops. Toulouse know that, they had plenty of chances to retain the ball in the last ten they just lacked composure in difficult conditions.

They know the rules and they're not complaining.

[Finnegan]

It is an extremely distant second to football at best, maybe even third at the tail end and beginnings of seasons when it's competing with Test cricket.

In France, the gap between club rugby and football is much smaller.

Clearly what you need is to regionize your domestic sides, streamline and compile resources like the Celtic sides have.

We could have a West Country side, I'm sure Bath, Worcester and Bristol would love teaming up!

Definitely have a Midlands side, Saints and Tigers - I mean you both wear green, both play in hoops, meant to be!

[Guest MattP]

If you deliberately knock the ball on it's a penalty, not a scrum. In that case, Toulouse would have been given the ball with time to play until the ball went dead.

They could have opted to kick, tap and run or scrum but not take the line out.

After eighty minutes, as soon as the ball goes dead play stops. Toulouse know that, they had plenty of chances to retain the ball in the last ten they just lacked composure in difficult conditions.

They know the rules and they're not complaining.

I realise that but it's a bit daft isn't it?

I mean just make it look like it's a mistake when knocking it on. Game over, victory. Perfect.

Certainly think a knock on after 80 should be punished with a scrum to the other team over the final whistle.

[Finnegan]

I realise that but it's a bit daft isn't it?

I mean just make it look like it's a mistake when knocking it on. Game over, victory. Perfect.

Certainly think a knock on after 80 should be punished with a scrum to the other team over the final whistle.

It's so rare it's not really worth an amendment to the rules. Yesterday was a freak, the side with the vested interest in the game stopping are nearly alwaysgoing to smack it straight out.

Toulouse had to take a chance sacking the scrum half, him dropping it was their risk to take.

Referees are very on the ball in rugby, if Clancy felt there was any cynicism there he'd have punished Tigers.

You'd have games going on forever if you started changing rules like that, you want to win a game you've the eighty odd minutes beforehand to get it done.

Rugby is an unforgiving game in its rules really, less pampering than football.

[Guest]

There's a higher salary cap there because there's more money there.

Rugby in England just isn't very big, sadly.

You realise that doesn't make sense don't you?

There was far more money in certain teams in England before the CAP.

[Finnegan]

You realise that doesn't make sense don't you?

There was far more money in certain teams in England before the CAP.

It makes sense if you aren't either thick or being deliberately obtuse.

Saints and Tigers have historically always had financial clout and, obviously, so now do Sarries.

But the English league on the whole is a fairly poor one and the smaller clubs need the cap for parity. The like of Quins, Irish and Wasps have come to achieve better things in the sport since financial restrictions enforced a more level playing field.

Might not seem "fair" to Tigers fans but it's better for your national league on the whole.

The Welsh regions, for example, aren't losing their best players because we have a wage cap, we're losing our best players because we can't afford them because we're smaller clubs.

The wage cap is merely an aside.