Transfers rumours

[psychic duck]

http://frr.ro/2012/10/15/dumitru-arhip-la-ospreys/

Ospreys have signed a Moldovan international prop, apparently.

This guy is actually a hooker who can play tighthead prop.

I guess he'll be cover for Adam Jones during November, and it could also possibly suggest Jarvis could be called up as a reserve as Mitchell is injured and Rhodri Jones isn't a tighthead and Scott Andrews is awful.

 

[Tony Manx]

This guy is actually a hooker who can play tighthead prop.

What is a hooker these days....certainly not someone who hooks the ball as it disappears into the second row before the front row can see it! I guess anyone who can throw a ball in to order would do?

 

[big ginger 8]

Expecially Ulster.
Leinster too.
He'd even start at loosehead there.

Do you live just to cause me pain?

 

[Draggs]

Do you live just to cause me pain?

No, but it does make my life even better.

Love you dearie!

 

[cyRil]

Expecially Ulster.
Leinster too.
He'd even start at loosehead there.

My vote for Post of the Millennium

 

[j'nuh]

Phil Burgess, a Championship openside flanker with the Cornish Pirates, played for the Exeter Braves against London Irish. Looks like he might be being trialed. Gloucester have also reported interest, but a move may have to wait for next season.

 

[j'nuh]

Apparently, according to the TRP (I don't read it), rumours are up about Tigers and Quins interested in Jonny May. Which isn't a surprise. Only got a season left on his contract, and may start wondering how he fits into a XV. Glos is perhaps the only club in the country where his place isn't certain in the starting XV!

 

[racingmetro92]

Agen
Tamato Leupolu (prop, La Rochelle)

Bayonne
Rémi Talès (fly-half, Castres)

Biarritz

Bordeaux-Bègles
CJ van der Linde (prop, Lions)

Castres
Gavin Hume (centre, Perpignan), Geoffrey Palis (fullback, Albi)

Clermont
Thierry Lacrampe (scrum-half, Castres), Jonathan Pélissié (scrum-half, Grenoble), Camille Lopez (fly-half, Bordeaux-Bègles)

Grenoble

Mont-de-Marsan

Montpellier
Mickael Ivaldi (hooker, Toulon), Thierry Lacrampe (scrum-half, Castres), Saimoni Vaka (centre, Agen), Anthony Floch (fullback, Clermont)

Perpignan
Giorgi Jgenti (prop, Montpellier), James Johnson (prop, Harlequins), Brock Harris (prop, Stormers), Tamato Leupolu (prop, La Rochelle), Saimoni Vaka (centre, Agen)

Racing-Metro
Martin Castrogiovanni (prop, Leicester), Soane Tonga'uiha (prop, Northampton), Jason Eaton (lock, Hurricanes), Dan Lydiate (flanker, Newport), Yannick Caballero (flanker, Castres) Jamie Roberts (centre, Cardiff), Marc Andreu (winger, Castres), Adrien Planté (winger, Perpignan)

Stade Francais
Jean-Marc Doussain (srum-half, Stade Toulousain), Morné Steyn (fly-half, Bulls)

Toulon
Benjamin Noirot (hooker, Racing-Metro), Yoann Maestri (lock, Stade Toulousain), Saimoni Vaka (centre, Agen), Sonny Bill Williams (centre)

Stade Toulousain
Iosefa Tekori (lock, Castres), Jonathan Pélissié (scrum-half, Grenoble), Jamie Roberts (centre, Cardiff)

 

[Tony Manx]

Jonathan Pélissié - he is linked to evey club is he not?

Interesting that you have heard nothing on the Biarritz front.............they always seem to take what is left and/or see who they lose and have to replace!!

 

[Draggs]

Dan Lydiate to Racing Metro (3 years).

 

[SelimNiai]

Dan Lydiate to Racing Metro (3 years).

Again?

How many times have we been told that he will sign for them this season, been at least 3

 

[Draggs]

Again?

How many times have we been told that he will sign for them this season, been at least 3

Pre-contract or summat.

 

[Taranus]

Not just Lydiate linked with Racing Metro, Jamie Roberts as well: http://www.walesonline.co.uk/rugbyn...es-star-dan-lydiate-to-france-91466-32005177/

 

[Draggs]

Not just Lydiate linked with Racing Metro, Jamie Roberts as well: http://www.walesonline.co.uk/rugbyn...es-star-dan-lydiate-to-france-91466-32005177/

Yes, and they were after Biggar last year.

 

[racingmetro92]

Dan Lydiate to Racing Metro (3 years).

It's not official, i'm a big Racing Metro fan

The table isn't finished

 

[Draggs]

It's not official, i'm a big Racing Metro fan

The table isn't finished

Hence the rumours.
If he does go, please treat our Daniel well.

 

[Feicarsinn]

Fair dues, Metro are signing possibly the second best 6 in Europe. None too shabby.

 

[dullonien]

Fair dues, Metro are signing possibly the second best 6 in Europe. None too shabby.

Yeh, yeh, Ferris, blah, blah, blah......

 

[psychic duck]

Yeh, yeh, Ferris, blah, blah, blah......

Dusautoir is the best 6 in Europe, he is the IRB player of the year after all. Curiously though, all the best four sixes in Europe are all currently injured. Dusautoir, Ferris, Lydiate, O'Brien are all out of the November tests. You could add Croft to that list if he's still good enough to be alongside that calibre of player.

 

[Feicarsinn]

Nah, France isn't in Europe.