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Report: Beauden Barrett has received $3.4m offer from French club
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Sydney's Daily Telegraph have reported that All Blacks five eighth Beauden Barrett has been offered a deal that would make him rugby's highest paid player.
The report stated that a French Top 14 club are willing to pay $3.4 million a year for Barrett's services.
The sum would see Barrett leapfrog Dan Carter as rugby biggest earner. Carter currently pulls in $2.83m a year with French club Racing 92.
Barrett's agent Warren Alcock refused to make comment when contacted by Daily Telegraph.
26-year-old Barrett is off contract after next year's World Cup, and the new proposed deal would see him make upwards of $10m over three years.
Barrett is set to play his 100th Super Rugby match against the Crusaders on Saturday night.
During his side's week two matchup against the Bulls, the 62-test All Black became just the fourth player in Super Rugby history to notch 1000 points.
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There is nothing particularly significant about Ireland in this regard compared to other Tier 1 nations. To look at 'strategy' for illegal play its best to see what teams push boundaries with new laws. SA have milked two tries at ruck block downs. The strategy is to charge the first few before the ball is out at about 4 seconds but pull out and put up hands in reigned apology. The referees usually allow the scum half to clear without awarding a penalty in this scenario. The problem with that being that the scrumhalf is now taking over 5 seconds through no fault of his own. Having achieved a few slow balls > 5s , the SA forward can now pick a scrum to charge dead on 5s. Now if the scrum half waits, he will concede a penalty, as we saw against Scotland. With the new rule in place, any early charge should result in an immediate penalty.
SA also got an offside block against England which was pivotal again after a couple of 'apologetic' offside aborted charges forcing England to clear slowly.
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