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Nakarawa among 8 players registered for final round of European action

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Former Racing 92 lock Leone Nakarawa. (Photo by David Rogers/Getty Images)

Leone Nakarawa is among eight players that have been registered for the next round of European action.

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Nakarawa replaces Kiran McDonald in Glasgow Warriors’ side, who play Sale this Saturday.

A statement from the EPCR reads: The following players have been nominated by their clubs as Additional Players for Round 6 of the 2019/20 Heineken Champions Cup and Challenge Cup tournaments.

The players replaced in the squads (maximum of 41 players for Heineken Champions Cup clubs) have been deregistered.

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HEINEKEN CHAMPIONS CUP

Exeter Chiefs
Additional player: Sam Skinner
Deregistered: Stan South

Glasgow Warriors
Additional player: Leone Nakarawa
Deregistered: Kiran McDonald

Harlequins
Additional player: Renaldo Bothma
Deregistered: Tom Lawday

La Rochelle
Additional player: Léo Aouf
Deregistered: Réda Wardi

Sale Sharks
Additional player: Ben Carlile
Deregistered: Valery Morozov

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Ulster Rugby
Additional player: Stewart Moore
Deregistered: Angus Curtis

CHALLENGE CUP

Bayonne
Additional player: Maxime Lafage
Deregistered: Bastien Bergounioux

Bristol Bears
Additional player: Henry Purdy
Deregistered: Joe Batley

Elsewhere Rhys Carre, Zack Holmes, Valery Morozov are all facing disciplinary action following red cards at the weekend.

Carre was issued with a red card during his club’s Heineken Champions Cup, Round 5 match against the Ospreys at the Liberty Stadium on Saturday.

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Zack Holmes, the Toulouse outside half, was issued with a red card during his club’s Heineken Champions Cup, Round 5 match against Connacht Rugby at The Sportsground on Saturday.

Sale Sharks replacement prop Valery Morozov was issued with a red card during his club’s Heineken Champions Cup, Round 5 match against La Rochelle at the AJ Bell Stadium.

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Jake White: Are modern rugby players actually better?

This is the problem with conservative mindsets and phycology, and homogenous sports, everybody wants to be the same, use the i-win template. Athlete wise everyone has to have muscles and work at the gym to make themselves more likely to hold on that one tackle. Do those players even wonder if they are now more likely to be tackled by that player as a result of there “work”? Really though, too many questions, Jake. Is it better Jake? Yes, because you still have that rugby of ole that you talk about. Is it at the highest International level anymore? No, but you go to your club or checkout your representative side and still engage with that ‘beautiful game’. Could you also have a bit of that at the top if coaches encouraged there team to play and incentivized players like Damian McKenzie and Ange Capuozzo? Of course we could. Sadly Rugby doesn’t, or didn’t, really know what direction to go when professionalism came. Things like the state of northern pitches didn’t help. Over the last two or three decades I feel like I’ve been fortunate to have all that Jake wants. There was International quality Super Rugby to adore, then the next level below I could watch club mates, pulling 9 to 5s, take on the countries best in representative rugby. Rugby played with flair and not too much riding on the consequences. It was beautiful. That largely still exists today, but with the world of rugby not quite getting things right, the picture is now being painted in NZ that that level of rugby is not required in the “pathway” to Super Rugby or All Black rugby. You might wonder if NZR is right and the pathway shouldn’t include the ‘amateur’, but let me tell you, even though the NPC might be made up of people still having to pull 9-5s, we know these people still have dreams to get out of that, and aren’t likely to give them. They will be lost. That will put a real strain on the concept of whether “visceral thrill, derring-do and joyful abandon” type rugby will remain under the professional level here in NZ. I think at some point that can be eroded as well. If only wanting the best athlete’s at the top level wasn’t enough to lose that, shutting off the next group, or level, or rugby players from easy access to express and showcase themselves certainly will. That all comes back around to the same question of professionalism in rugby and whether it got things right, and rugby is better now. Maybe the answer is turning into a “no”?

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