Can someone give me a fix on the performances of Constant Villegas?

He was being trumpeted as a great new find for the halves about a year ago.

Have his performances this year warranted these past predictions?

Looking at the youtube footage, he was definitely the one whose initial bad missed tackle on Ropati led to Sheffield's winning try on Saturday.

They really need to sort out the defence on the left wing which is where most of the points are coming.

He played full back for the two games in England, with Delgal at 6. I thought he was the only one of the french players to come out of the Widnes game with much credit.

Can you give me a precise adress for the footage?

Quote: Alice's Phallus "Can you give me a precise adress for the footage?'" Well, typing "Toulouse Sheffield" into the youtube search bar gives www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAtQ9p3p6nc (about 1:40 in)

Quote: Alice's Phallus "Can you give me a precise adress for the footage?'" Well, typing "Toulouse Sheffield" into the youtube search bar gives www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAtQ9p3p6nc (about 1:40 in)

Absolutely - the left side of defence has looked poor in every game, I've seen; individual players tackle OK , but no sense of any defensive organisation between them.
Can't see them being able to contain Whitehaven's pack this w/end, another heavy defeat in prospect, I think.

You can't argue with a score of 40-26, but the team weren't that bad. Once again, they were on the end of a very heavy penalty count, (12--4) Even at the end the Toulouse lads said, "we can't even buy a penalty!) And what gets to me is that the Olympique are not a dirty team. (Mind you, when my friend who went with me was privy to a conversation between a groundsman and the referee, which stated that the ref should have got a camp bed beacuse he spent so much time at Whitehaven, it makes you think a bit?)

That is a shocking revelation.

Was that in ' allo allo ' french or ' home and away ' aussie ?

Just hoiw he told me when we were getting ready after the ref and his touch judges got out of their car as they were parked near the team coach and my vehicle.

Definitely in Aussie by the way, his French is non existent at the moment.

Your friend needs to report this to the RLF.

Haven't seen any footage of the haven game, so maybe I shouldn't comment, but Rob Hicks is a good and fair referee - and one who was the subject of complaints by the Haven fans after their game at Leigh the other week. It's a reasonable length journey from Oldham up to West Cumbria and I don't think he's refereed there previously this year? We have the same six or seven referees every week in the Championship - it's inevitable that the referees get to know the players, coaches & ground staff well.

TO definitely need to work on discipline. I'd be interested to see the breakdown of what the penalties were awarded for - seems to me there was an awful lot of unneccessary niggle in the tackle in previous games (and more of the penalties conceded by the home and away brigade than the Frenchmen). And you'd have to be pretty disappointed if one of them picks up a ban for the alleged spitting incident that was put on report during the Widnes game.

Another near miss - and disappointing to lose out on the bonus point as well. A week off and then a trip to Batley on Easter Monday. Batley will have played Halifax on Good Friday, which may work to Toulouse's advantage. The slope at Mount Pleasant always makes it a game of two halves and Batley have a strong pack this season - Toulouse may have the edge in terms of speed, though.

Thanks Jon M. I think they have to undrstand the vagaries of the English game, although they try very hard. Many of the tackles from where I was seem to have been for head high, although I couldn't see anything high or malicious in a couple of them. And it's something that they work on in training. Also the lads seemed to be a bit tired towards the end, so probably need to up the fitness levels just a bit.
having been an ex ref, I would not criticise, as I had good games and shocking games, even I accepted that. Just thought it was strange at what the groundsman said. Mind you, Mark Aston, the Eagles coach, said that the ref for their game at the weekend penalised them out of the game. I was at the Wakefield game the week before, against the Dragons, and it was the same guy. Even the Widlcats supporters complained about him and they won!