Parra and Lamerat among Clermont walking wounded
Morgan Parra and Remi Lamerat are among a quartet of Clermont Auvergne players who are injury concerns following their European Champions Cup semi-final win over Leinster on Sunday.
Scrum-half Parra suffered a thigh problem during the Top 14 side's 27-22 success at Matmut Stadium de Gerland.
Parra, capped 66 times by France, will miss the trip to Lyon this weekend and Clermont are waiting to discover how long he will be out for, with a Champions Cup showdown with defending champions Saracens to come two weeks on Saturday.
Les Bleus centre Lamerat will also play no part in the Top 14 encounter at Lyon after taking a blow to the knee and it remains to be seen how long he will be sidelined.
Fellow centre Aurelien Rougerie is another player who will not feature this weekend due to a foot injury sustained in a triumph over the Pro12 side, which came at a cost.
The same goes for Georgian prop Davit Zirakashvili, who is nursing an ankle complaint, but his compatriot Viktor Kolelishvili is available after coming through the concussion protocol.
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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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