Best and Worst of Round 2 of the Heineken Cup and Amlin Challenge
Worst defeat – Ta-dah! Cetransa El Salvador 3 - 116 Brive. Another defeat for the South American team ( probably time to retire that joke) in what is a half decent cricket score. Gloucester 90 - 7 Rovigo is not far behind. The point of any of these matches? Answers on a postcard please.
Try of the weekend Shane Williams, Ospreys v London Irish – this is a stonker! http://rugbydump.blogspot.com/2010/10/shane-williams-great-solo-try-against.html
The Brendan Venter diplomacy award goes to (drum roll) Brendan Venter himself. This was his after match comment: Venter : "We were definitely the better team today, by far". After getting pretty comprehensively beaten by Leinster. More sour grapes from him here where he ’worries for the future of the game’ http://www.planetrugby.com/story/0,25883,3822_6449006,00.html
Best win Exeter against Bourgoin . Go the Chiefs (and probably the most Irish English team if you know what I mean)
Biggest fright Stade by a country mile as Leeds nearly staged the upset of the tournament. Would have been sweet. honorable mention for Northampton by Edinburg The Saints are winning – but only just scraping through each time.
This is the best of last weekends trys : http://rugbydump.blogspot.com/2010/10/best-tries-of-heineken-cup-round-1.html only a week late!
Irish Round Up
Munster 45 - 18 Toulon What a result for Munster! This was top entertainment, loads of trys, superlatives all round from the men in red. Mick O’Driscoll was immense, Mafi and Tuitupou weren’t missed in the slightest, Howlett scored a stunner – what more could you wish for? I2 out 15 Irish players is good news for Ireland too. Tony Buckley is growing with each match, and I’m not talking about bigger jerseys here.
Saracens 23 - 25 Leinster While the Munster match was more fun to watch – this was about as satisfying as a result as you could wish for. All the points for Leinster were scored by Sexton, giving an enviable fly half dilemma for Ireland now. Leinster ground this one out, including holding out Sarries for 30 phases after full time was up, to cement their good start to the HCup. That Leinster engine is beginning to hum again, the only worry being Fitzgerald’s injury. Sarries have plenty of bash, but not much more to show after having imported half of the Souhtern Hemishpere.
Biarritz 35 Ulster 15 The only blot on the Irish copy book was Ulster who were done by last year’s losing finalist’s, Biarritz. The first half was fairly evenly matched, maybe the result of some French industrial action? They made up for it in the second half looking utterly rampant and stamping their authority on the game. Ulster just couldn’t handle their power and go home empty handed for the first time this season.
Connacht 16 - 13 Bayonne The men from the West made up for last week with a good win over Bayonne. So three from four, pretty good result for Ireland Inc.
Shark Bite
The Sharks prospered at home, beating the Bulls to earn a home final. Pretty sweet win, the Super 14 may be the big focus but the Currie Cup is nothing to sniff at, and The Sharks must be odds on to win it now.
Province will provide their opposition after accounting for Free State
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