Well played UBB...................my favourite top 14 team (this week anyway)!! I am sure that Gaston had them down as relegation fodder or am I mistaken?
my, my, soooo many mistakes from gastwyn le Gallois this week...shameful...just absolutely shameful...but that's okay, we'll support our dearest colleague as best we can, naturally...
Tony, maybe a click for you, a revelation: UBB your new Top 14 team officially ?
Another good game from both flyhalves, despite a couple of mistakes each. Pretty good game. It seems teams are more competitive on the road this year compared to previous recent years. You see full teams traveling a lot more than last year, I think they've understood just how important it is to go and snatch even a point away, with literally every single team a terror at home. In fact, especially the smaller Oyo, Grenoble, LAR, Lyon, Bayonne..
You obviously are of a certain age as a couple of weeks back and several posts i had them down to maybe replace Castres in the TOP 6!!! LOOK BACK AND FIND !!!
my, my, soooo many mistakes from gastwyn le Gallois this week...shameful...just absolutely shameful...but that's okay, we'll support our dearest colleague as best we can, naturally...
Tony, maybe a click for you, a revelation: UBB your new Top 14 team officially ?
Another good game from both flyhalves, despite a couple of mistakes each. Pretty good game. It seems teams are more competitive on the road this year compared to previous recent years. You see full teams traveling a lot more than last year, I think they've understood just how important it is to go and snatch even a point away, with literally every single team a terror at home. In fact, especially the smaller Oyo, Grenoble, LAR, Lyon, Bayonne..
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Who said Clermont would struggle this year ?? Oh yeah, never mind, that's who. By far the best defense, only 69pts conceded and no try at all, still. 4-1 record, just like Paris. Big props to Paris, although can you believe they're actually in deficit in the pts diff. column ?! They're below 11th Lyon..
and holy shiit, dead last for Castres...
Toulon only 4th with 2 defeats already, but with the mark of a great team anyways: highest points scored and pts diff.
Interesting to compare that table to the eventual final one.
I do not see many changes in constituent members of the top six and that only where there is a significant improvement in Toulouse.
As for the bottom, replace Castres (surely too good to stay down there much longer) with Bayonne and there are the four from which the two for relegation will come....
Almost as predictable as the great Raining Championship down under!!!
yep, especially with that French international scrumhalf of theirs.
Ah, I see we are leading at half time. Good, already had losses for the Springbokke and Western Province today. And I see Clermont won out over Toulouse. It took a lot for me to go against Gastonidus' call on that one. What I don't see is Johan Goosen for Racing. Is he injured or are the Racing selectors retarded?
EDIT. We're up 12 points. Why go for poles when another try could give us a try bonus point?! (3-0, right?)
EDIT. Not looking too good 2nd half. Man, Racing should be doing much better. Just no flow or rythm.
EDIT. Wow, 2 quick tries at the end there. Glad for the BP.
Giteau and Pilous PilousBordes out. Enter demigod Michalak and Claassens.
Hey I was just thinking about something. The offensive bonus point is won by the winning team that scores three more tries than the losing team. But what if the losing team scores three more tries than the winning team ? Nothing, right ?...wouldn't it be fun if a losing team could win both the defensive AND offensive bonus points at the same time ?
Like, Winning Team 18-17 Losing Team.
(6 penalties) (3 tries, 1 conv.)
Losing team gets three more tries AND loses by less than 5.
Nah, just read about it, only the winning team can acquire an offensive bonus point...