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Colin Slade double helps Pau close gap on Worcester in Challenge Cup
By Jack Davies
Pau closed the gap on Pool Two leaders Worcester Warriors to one point with a 21-6 European Challenge Cup victory over the Premiership club at Stade du Hameau on Friday.
The Top 14 outfit entered matchday three sitting third in the group but climbed above the Ospreys ahead of the Welsh region's clash with Stade Francais at the Liberty Stadium on Saturday.
Colin Slade scored two of Pau's three tries, including one touchdown in the first minute, with Julien Blanc adding the third in the closing stages.
Two first-half penalties from the boot of Jamie Shillcock to make it 7-6 at half-time was all the visitors could muster, before the home side built a cushion.
In the day's other fixture between the bottom two sides in Pool Three, Grenoble got the better of Agen 22-15 to temporarily go top.
Benetton and Harlequins meet in Treviso on Saturday to determine who will sit at the summit by the end of the weekend.
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Nah, that just needs some more variation. Chip kicks, grubber stabs, all those. Will Jordan showed a pretty good reason why the rush was bad for his link up with BB.
If you have an overlap on a rush defense, they naturally cover out and out and leave a huge gap near the ruck.
It also helps if both teams play the same rules. ARs set the offside line 1m past where the last mans feet were😅
Go to commentsYeah nar, should work for sure. I was just asking why would you do it that way?
It could be achieved by outsourcing all your IP and players to New Zealand, Japan, and America, with a big Super competition between those countries raking it in with all of Australia's best talent to help them at a club level. When there is enough of a following and players coming through internally, and from other international countries (starting out like Australia/without a pro scene), for these high profile clubs to compete without a heavy australian base, then RA could use all the money they'd saved over the decades to turn things around at home and fund 4 super sides of their own that would be good enough to compete.
That sounds like a great model to reset the game in Aus. Take a couple of decades to invest in youth and community networks before trying to become professional again. I just suggest most aussies would be a bit more optimistic they can make it work without the two decades without any pro club rugby bit.
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