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Toulouse ease to victory against Montpellier
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Toulouse extended their lead at the top of their Heineken Champions Cup pool by beating Montpellier 23-9.
France centre Romain Ntamack scored tries either side of half-time, with Thomas Ramos successful with both conversions and also landing three penalties.
Montpellier scrum-half Benoit Paillaugue landed two penalties and South African World Cup winner Francois Steyn kicked a long-range effort for the visitors.
Four-time Champions Cup winners Toulouse are six points clear at the top of Pool Five ahead of second-placed Gloucester.
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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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