Re: Heineken Cup round up

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Uncle Dave <davidcovey@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Nov 19, 2:30 pm, Ben L <bjlong...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Some thoughts, then:

1) Dallaglio has shot his bolt. With Hart and Haskell to call on and
the enough experience elsewhere in the squad this is a season too far
for him.
2) Marshall has shot his bolt in a big way. He was OK last season but
now has the air of a man playing purely for his pension. In other
scrum half news, has Kelleher eaten all the tartes aux pommes in
France?
3) Cipriani simply has to play some part in the 6N. I don't care if he
comes on a sub, at centre or fullback, he is such a confident, cool
player. Reminds me of Larkham.
4) Unless Wales find some decent tight five forwards they will really
struggle. And some back row forwards. When a perennial lightweight
like Michael Owen looks good, it is time to worry.
5) WTF is going on in France? Biarritz are stunningly dull, Toulouse
look slightly half cooked and Stade Francais failing to score.
Occasional followers of the French league may wonder if accusations of
boring rugby are being pointed at the wrong side of the channel.
6) Dallaglio is right: Wilkinson is wasted at Newcastle, where he
doesn't play HC rugby. Tait and Flood too for that matter.

7) As long as they wear those awful uniforms, the French teams don't
deserve to win. Are Stade doing it for a bet? Can you imagine the
comments they must get from other teams... The most worrying thing is
that the French are supposed to be stylish - those Stade outfits look
they were designed by the lovechild of Jackson Pollock and Karl
Lagerfeld after a particularly large lunch.

UD

Amen. No team that takes the field in chocolate brown with pink and
powder blue leaves on deserves to win. In fact, the hardest thing for
the opposition to do must be to stop laughing and take them seriously.
The only thing more ridiculous was the pre-game, when Rougerie and co.
ponced about on the field in their gray, form-fitting, undershirts,
trying to look butch. Only the French could do that.

Actually, I think that SF should be docked a point or two for showing up
dressed like that and bringing the game into disrepute. Takes me back to
those early S12 jerseys. Ugh.

I'll be Matua loved it, though.

William Clark
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