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Transfers 2015/16

Hugh Blake (Otago) and Jade Te Rure (Manawatu) both join Edinburgh on a 4 month trial.
 
Tigs Man said:
Hayman ----> Retiring.
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will play as a (medical) Joker though, if need be. That aching back and that old neck need to call it a day, alas.

Fabien Barcella to Grenoble. Played just 3 games for Toulon (just one start). He probably feels he's got more to contribute now having finally left Biarritz and is a free man.
 
Big Ewis said:
will play as a (medical) Joker though, if need be. That aching back and that old neck need to call it a day, alas.

Fabien Barcella to Grenoble. Played just 3 games for Toulon (just one start). He probably feels he's got more to contribute now having finally left Biarritz and is a free man.
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So why Toulon released him!!!
 
Tommy Taylor has added an extra year onto his contract, which takes him upto the 16/17 season.

Very happy with that, but I'd be trying to tie him down longer term already :lol:
 
Ashley Cooper officially to Bordeaux! He signed a 2 year contract starting after the RWC! Wow, really good catch!
 
Andre8 said:
Ashley Cooper officially to Bordeaux! He signed a 2 year contract starting after the RWC! Wow, really good catch!
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can you link to the confirmation, otherwise it's just a rumour:

http://www.ubbrugby.com/actualites/4666-adam-ashley-cooper-lubb.html

L'Union Bordeaux Bègles est très honorée de pouvoir annoncer la signature d'Adam Ashley Cooper pour 2 saisons. Adam nous rejoindra après la Coupe du Monde 2015.
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L'Union Bordeaux Bègles is honoured to announce the signing of AAC for 2 seasons. Adam will join after the 2015 world cup.

http://thescore.thejournal.ie/adam-ashley-cooper-bordeuax-1840281-Dec2014/
 
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Bordeaux continuing in their current footsteps of acquiring attack-minded backs...they did put 51 points and 6 tries past Clermont this year. They're starting to really look scary with their acquisitions: Talebula, Blair Conor, this year French int'l Sofiane Guitoune for the wings. Now AAC...
 
carter to Racing confirmed:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>UPDATE cont: Carter has announced he has signed a three-year deal with French Top 14 club Racing Metro...</p>&mdash; All Blacks (@AllBlacks) <a href="https://twitter.com/AllBlacks/status/545371469971070977">December 18, 2014</a></blockquote>
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Three years is....ambitious.
36 when it runs out, and considering how he's becoming increasingly injury prone...
 
I think that should be taken as "up to three years"... he's basically just a marketing tool anyway.
 
3 years is way ambitious when he will be playing more games a season over there than he does in New Zealand at the moment. I think he is still a good signing if you have the money to throw around.

It makes sense though given that they are likely to move to a new ground.
 
I think a lot of game time may not actually hurt him. I think some of the 'cotton wool' he's been wrapped in probably haven't helped in the long run. I think it's great. Felipe Contepomi and Wilkinson both played to a similar age in the Top 14. I actually think going to France could get him right. And heck - if he remains in good health and keeps his world class form - his contract finishes in time for the next RWC :lol:. Few payers have earned the kind of retirement pay-day that Carter has, so I'm happy he is getting paid alot when he moves after the RWC.
 
TRF_nickdnz said:
I think a lot of game time may not actually hurt him. I think some of the 'cotton wool' he's been wrapped in probably haven't helped in the long run. I think it's great. Felipe Contepomi and Wilkinson both played to a similar age in the Top 14. I actually think going to France could get him right. And heck - if he remains in good health and keeps his world class form - his contract finishes in time for the next RWC :lol:. Few payers have earned the kind of retirement pay-day that Carter has, so I'm happy he is getting paid alot when he moves after the RWC.
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Wilkinson finished at 34, but Contempomi played to 36 - Contempomi was out injured a lot as well and started his pro career later iirc.

I think carter will be fine, he'll probably play similar amount of games, they won't flog him and he'll probbaly have a ouple of good season after the prolonged abscence he's had the last few years - stopping international rugby prep will also help.
 
this move (which I'm against) raises a sinister question:
you look at how much they're paying DC over at Racing, and you think it's bizarre Rugby-wise because 1) he obviously isn't worth that much and 2) he'll clog up all the capital and they could've put together way way wayyyy more efficient for the team, it's not like he's DC of 2005.
But then you think of all the money he's going to generate by himself, the attendance stats moving way up, the prestige of the club, gaining more fans, just the global attraction in all sorts of ways he will mandate by his only presence.
He says himself he's very excited, and that, I believe him. It's a big change, a new opportunity, he seems a nice boy who won't just take the money like a thief and leave (like others in Racing...), he knows there are good coaches and great players with him and against him, plus he'll be living in Paris, and Paris with money ??...that's uhm. Well that's quite alright.
So I'm saying he won't be a flop, unless the injury troll bites him in the left buttcheek again, which he has a very nice one :rolleyes:

Now the somber notion is this:
has it become that for a president and club, generating revenue *from the mere attraction of a superstar* justifies the spending ? Has that become enough, as opposed to actually sculpting an efficient collective structure for good *results* ? Maybe...it's the only thing I see from this.
Racing WILL NOT beat Toulon or Clermont with just 33yo Dan Carter in; chances are he'll be just about like Sexton there, i.e. pretty good but not league-leading for his position with a prime Trinh-Duc around and even a well established magician Giteau, and then you've got the Wisniewski, Lopez of the world who are way up there. As it stands, Racing just have great potential but few true tangibles in hand yet, and little reason to believe they will be at other clubs' level of play, although probably at the top, like now (third, fourth).

If Racing really wanted results, they'd have used all that salary space to acquire more than just one aging flyhalf. For any Rugby watcher, clearly he is not the solution all by himself. But they're the guys with the capital and the figures on paper each month and the market-speculating specialists; I just use my fingers on TRF; so they must have at least an idea of what to expect. Maybe the most important thing for a club has become something else than results and competing the hardest ?
 

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