by The best assisted games
1) Leinster 34-37 Northampton, May 3. One of the great ram-raids.
2) England 26-25 France, February 8. A crazy contest with a late dramatic touch.
3) Bath 26-36 Bristol, October 5. Bristol’s attack game was sublime.
Best match experience
1) Bath against Bristol, semi-finals of Première, June 6. Beautiful setting, beautiful evening and a cracking Nata pastel In Widcombe before the match.
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2) Bordeaux against Northampton, final of the Champions Cup, May 24. A great opportunity under the roof in Cardiff.
3) Richmond V Bishop’s Stortford, March 1. If you want a friendly afternoon in London, head to the sports field.
Champagne moments
1) Elliot Daly perfectly designed a late test for England in the above -mentioned France match.
2) Tomos Williams basketball style unloading in Seb Atkinson during Gloucester’s victory against Bristol at Kingsholm.
3 =) Adam Radwan flight score for Leicester in the first semi-final against sales sharks.
3 =) Reverse discharge from Kalaveti Ravouvou to configure Gabriel Ibitoye for a trial of Bristol against Leicester in April.
Male player of the season
Louis Bielle-Biarrey (France). Simply magnifice For the club and the country.
Player of the season
Ilona Maher (Bristol Bears). In terms of popularization of rugby women, she does fabulous work. “The impact she had on the game as a whole is quite phenomenal,” said her club captain, Amber Reed.
Best return
Leicester conceded 80 points in Toulouse in January and bouncing to make the Première -Hip final in June.
Most influential premiere players
1 =) Finn Russell (Bath), Thomas du Roof (bath), Ben Spencer (bath).
Season coaches
1) Johann Van Graan (bath).
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2) Michael Cheika (Leicester).
3) Yannick Bru (Bordeaux).
Best person interviewed
An audience with Ellis Genge is never boring.
Success
1) The Renaissance of the Premiership as a sporting entertainment at the rapid rhythm. Part of the rugby was really spectacular.
2) The elevation of Maro Itoje to the post of captain of England.
3) The first English Bath League title for 29 years.
Worse initiative
1) The challenge “run it right”.
2) The Rugby 360 circus proposed.
3) The outside ends in national club matches.
Administrative work
1) Reduce the number of TMO interventions.
2) Wallow on the front before before.
3) Revision of the disciplinary system. The flaw “Tackle School” is nonsense.
Potential lion kings
1 =) Dan Sheehan, Sione Tuipulotu, Tommy Freeman.
The most inspiring inspiring rugby
1) Ed Slater. One of the good guys whose bravery and honesty since his diagnosis MND continues to be an example for all of us.
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2) Taylor Gough. The former Leicester Academy player overcome an injury to the spine to qualify as a personal coach and was selected for the Para-Canoe team at the European Championships.
3) Ma’a nonu. Score tests in the top 14 at the age of 43.
Gimmick Marketing of the year
Shorten the names of the tournament – the first, the champion – in order to appear the hip and the trend. Let’s all look at the footy this arvo …
Double blow
Owen Farrell cutting off his fate at Racing 92 to return to the Saracens and Stuart Lancaster taking over as a new Knight coach.
Heard
“If he would have played for England, I would have been sad, but he was not so we agitated him in the bac.” A fan of bathing discussing the yellow card of Dan Cole on the return train of the Première final.
Retired but not forgotten
Ben Youngs, Dan Cole, Danny Care, Mike Brown, Dan Biggar, Peter O’mahony, Conor Murray, Cian Healy et al.
Future stars
Guy Pepper (Bath), Emeka Ilione (Leicester), Marko Gazzotti (Bordeaux).
Most impatiently
1) The second test of the British and Irish Lions at the MCG on July 26. A massive game in one of the large sports cathedrals.
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2) The final of the Women’s World Cup in Twickenham on September 27. The potentially of England with Destiny.
3) A second financed level and series of complete promotion playoffs and properly marketed in rugby in English in English next season.
Quotes of the season
The day you stop dreaming is the day you die in life ”- Johann Van Graan.
If you have just won a European Cup, I am surprised if the first thing you want to do is start a fight with a 20-year-old child “-Northampton’s late Smith on the post-match spray involving his teammate Henry Pollock after the victory of Bordeaux-Begles in Cardiff.
You look at the caliber of the coaching team in England and you have to ask yourself if it is the best we can put there ”- Will Carling on the now radio program of Radio 4 during the Six Nations.
We have won the match and people are always upset. It boasted me, to be honest. Ex-players, recently retired and retired for a long time, and people from years and years ago, I cannot believe how they are out of contact “- Ellis Genge after the victory of the Calcutta Cup of England.
I hope they fill the southwest pubs of London, having a good time and jumping from top to bottom on sofas throughout England ”- Maro Itoje after the dramatic victory of England against France in Twickenham.
We stop at a roundabout and a car stops next to us. Mom and grandmother are on the front seat and there is a child who cannot be over five years old. His grandmother flows into the rear window and the child just gives us the middle finger. These are things like that – and rivalry – that make this match so special. It makes you a little more ”- Ollie Chessum on traditionally warm reception, England still receives in Cardiff.
I want Louis Bielle-Biarrey calendars, duvet covers and a red cap each time it rains or, moreover, each time it does not. I want to move next to LBB in UBB; I want Louis Bielle-Biarrey to marry my daughter ”- The winger of France cannot hurt the eyes of the rugbypass columnist, Graham Simmons.
Better than sex. Don’t tell my wife. – Henry Slade clearly appreciated the victory of Exeter against Gloucester in December, the first victory of the Chiefs in the League for 232 days.
The boys taking place in the ground are not good. Is there a miracle solution that will settle everything? Probably not. I have always said that we were an era of guinea pig ”- Ellis Genge on the reality of modern professional rugby.
I just said to them, “I am absolutely embarrassed, guys. And I hope you are all when you get your salary next week. Many people have broken in the past four years to keep this club alive, so be embarrassed. And then I came out. I did not give them a bollocking ”- The chair of Exeter, Tony Rowe.
The importance of these new free and innovative partnerships for the Six Nations cannot be overestimated “- Tom Harrison, the CEO of the Six Nations, after having concluded a new agreement which will keep the championship games of England on free television until 2029.
The lack of innovation and the ability to change the risks of loss of its appeal to new audiences and its youngest market “- Mike Tindall thinks that the new R360 global franchise league is the way for sport.
It is not a proposal for the good of rugby – it is a simple seizure in cash ” – the former English international Brian Moore asks to postpone.
For the moment, it’s dysfunctional, it does not work. The more you develop players, the less you see ”- the director of Northampton rugby, Phil Dowson, on the tug between the club and the country.
That’s all I knew about Club Rugby, green, red and white, and all I wanted to know. The idea of playing against this club has never been an option for me. Being able to finish a player at a club will be one of my greatest achievements ”- the retired half-kened by Leicester, Ben Youngs.
I always say: “Good players play the game, the big players know the game” – the director of Bristol Pat Lam rugby.
I am the mother of Peter O’Mahony and I retire to mow the lawn! – The mother of O’Mahony, Caroline, holds her last sign during the URC match between Munster and Benetton Treviso.
Jesus cried “- O’Mahony’s response to live television.
Congratulations, guy. Great victory “- The first-rate interviewer by post-match Sports Ryan Wilson in Charlie Ewels after the defeat of the Bath Champions Pool against La Rochelle.
Nationality is not an Scottish or Irish scout, waving a check in front of the face of a southern player and promising an El Dorado to reach it from countries of change “- the former Wallaby Anthony Abrahams advances in the admissibility debate of international rugby.
It was embarrassing to enter the shop for a newspaper on a Sunday morning, but you have to be man enough to do it and continue ”- Steve Diamond on the Battle of Newcastle to escape the basement of the Premierhip.
No one will learn to drive a car without blocking it, isn’t it? So why in our rugby trip are we expecting that everything is perfectly executed? – Northampton’s attack coach Sam Vest, on the importance of encouraging young people to play without fear.
There is great energy to come back [the top tier] When we can allow ourselves to do so ”- The owner of Worcester, Christopher Holland, as the club’s new DAWN approaches in the second level of England next season.
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