It’s just as well West and Ntamack aren’t slow kickers | Peter Jackson

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LONDON, ENGLAND - MAY 22: Romain Ntamack and Rory Arnold of Toulouse look on during the Heineken Champions Cup Final between La Rochelle and Toulouse at Twickenham Stadium on May 22, 2021 in London, England. A limited number of fans will be allowed into the stadium as Coronavirus restrictions begin to ease in the UK. (Photo by Dan Mullan/Getty Images)

THE Champions Cup analysis of Toulouse-La Rochelle did not appear to chronicle how long it took to complete.
According to my watch, it stretched to 110 minutes 31 seconds and would have been longer still had La Rochelle been given an obvious penalty just before the clock turned red.
Neither goalkicker took excessively long over his place kicks which begs the question how much longer the game would have been had Romain Ntamack and Ihaia West been as slow as Johnny Sexton and Owen Farrell.kj
It points to too much time being wasted too often at set-piece plays.
PETER JACKSON

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