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Smith to Lyon or Bath (rumour)
DIR By: West Stand Quin
Date: November 9, 2020, 9:57 am
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HTML https://www.rugbyrama.fr/rugby/transferts/2018-2019/transferts-lyon-lorgne-sur-la-pepite-smith_sto7988546/story.shtml
Hopefully less substance than Ibitoye to Agen
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Re: Smith to Lyon (rumour)
DIR By: T-Bone
Date: November 9, 2020, 10:03 am
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Really better not be true
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Re: Smith to Lyon (rumour)
DIR By: honkytonk
Date: November 9, 2020, 10:08 am
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Why would he go abroad??
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Re: Smith to Lyon (rumour)
DIR By: Donuts
Date: November 9, 2020, 10:11 am
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Agree why would he?
cant be for gametime unless he is after less
Obviously wont help his international career
so could only be for euros but have to say I doubt it (he says
hopefully)
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Re: Smith to Lyon (rumour)
DIR By: honkytonk
Date: November 9, 2020, 10:15 am
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Not working out too well for Ibitoye at the moment. Only last
13 mins yesterday (injury I guess) Agen not won a game yet and
have 2 points from 8 games. Adrift already down the bottom
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Re: Smith to Lyon (rumour)
DIR By: Quinten Poulsen
Date: November 9, 2020, 10:59 am
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They're likely one of many teams who will be trying to sign
Smith over the next 10 years or so regardless of which club he
plays for.
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Re: Smith to Lyon (rumour)
DIR By: Nico Wilson
Date: November 9, 2020, 11:42 am
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Current contract runs until 2022, and is at least EUR 250,000
per annum (if the article is to be believed)
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Re: Smith to Lyon (rumour)
DIR By: J Scott
Date: November 9, 2020, 12:07 pm
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Lets just hope this a load of rubbish, we really don’t need him
to leave.
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Re: Smith to Lyon (rumour)
DIR By: Bolly-Quin
Date: November 9, 2020, 12:22 pm
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--- Quote ---
> TRANSFERS - Looking for a fly-half to compensate for the
departure of Jonathan Wisniewski at the end of his contract at
the end of this season, the LOU seems to have found his target
according to Midi Olympique: Marcus Smith. The young Englishman
of 20 years, playing at Harlequins could hold the rope, he who
very quickly imposed himself in his club and being even at the
gates of the XV de la Rose.
>
> A first Premiership match at just 18 years old and just over
six months old, one of the youngest players to have played in
the English top flight. Three years later, Marcus Smith, the
Harlequins' fly half, is no longer being introduced. Since his
debut and when he was only 21 years old, the native of Manila in
the Philippines has played 66 matches in the English league for
533 points scored. Not to mention his 61 points in the Champions
Cup and 59 more in the Challenge Cup. A formidable weapon and an
ultra precise foot which seems to please in the Rhône. Indeed,
the LOU would follow English very closely. The goal is above all
to find the successor to Jonathan Wisniewski who, at 35, will be
out of contract at the end of this 2020-2021 season. Marcus
Smith could therefore be a perfect element at the opening of
Lyon, especially with another very young player at his side, the
French Léo Berdeu, 22 years old and just back from his loan at
Agen.
>
> After having surveyed the big names of the post in the past
like Jonathan Sexton, Beauden Barret or Danny Cipriani, the LOU
seems to have changed his tune to recruit an even younger
opener, but certainly no less talented. Indeed, Marcus Smith is
the future of English rugby. He had played in the Six Nations
Under-20 Tournament with the Rose in 2017 and 2019 and had also
played in the World Cup in 2018. It was during this competition
that the opener shone with 46 points on the clock including four
tries.
>
> At the gates of the Rose
>
> "The last step seems difficult for Marcus Smith. Called up
only once to the national team in 2017 to prepare for the
England autumn tour, Smith has yet to have his chance with the
Rose-struck jersey. It must be said that the competition for the
post is raging with captors like Owen Farrell and George Ford.
But recently another very young opener stepped past Smith, Jacob
Umaga, 22, and author of a blazing 2019-20 season with the
Wasps. Marcus Smith therefore remains in the startings blocks
but asks only to reveal himself even more, a happiness that he
could find in France.
>
> But the task will still be difficult for the LOU. Indeed,
Marcus Smith was locked out by the Quins. In 2018, he signed a
contract with the London formation extending until 2022 but with
an attractive salary: more than 250,000 euros per season. Lyon
will therefore have to put the package if he wants to recruit
the English prodigy, a prodigy who already seems to be mature."
--- End Quote ---
Fishing - they base this on the fact that he hasn't yet been
fully embedded with the England squad. He's a target and that
its about it, along with, as suggested above, many others and
other teams...
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Re: Smith to Lyon (rumour)
DIR By: quinalan
Date: November 9, 2020, 1:15 pm
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Dont be Daft!
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