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Samu Manoa to exit Toulon and make shock move to PRO14 - reports
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Samu Manoa is set to exit Toulon and has been heavily linked with a move to PRO14 - according to reports.
Although the giant US Eagle's Toulon contract runs until 2019, Wales Online are reporting that he is set to sign with the Cardiff Blues in what is a massive coup for the Welsh Region.
The 6'6, 122kg lock cum Number 8 was spotted in Wales this weekend, adding fuel to rumours that he will sign with the PRO14 side.
In recent weeks Toulon president Mourad Boudjellal have said he is prepared to allow the hulking forward to exit his contract a year early.
Nicknamed the 'Bloc Monsta', Manoa made 20 appearances for the US and is widely regarded as one of the best forwards the nation has ever produced.
Undoubtedly Manoa made his name at the Northampton Saints in the Premiership but he has struggled to reach those same heights for Toulon.
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Well the other idea I had been toying with which I think is still used in football, is something like each pool winners of the Challenge Cup gets entry into the round of 16 etc (or whateveer equivalnt entry point we can come up with) in the Champions Cup.
Those T2 sides could play a pool or some simple comp with the bottom dwellers (that was actually something else I liked in Jones structure, he left out 2 English sides alltogehter, 4+4-2), and then come into the Challenge Cup when those top4 sides go up?
That idea just helps keep a nice balance for me. I like both comps having exactly the same structure, and raising 4 or so T2 sides requires that to break in some manner.
Neither. You have a situation where like the Stormers lose to la Rochelle in Ro16 but lose out to a lower performing league team in Benneton (5th place v 7th) just because they made it to the semis of Challenge Cup.
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