Champion's Cup: Covid bowl edition

[sockwithaticket]

That's more how I was expecting this game to go.

[ASMO]

Bullshit decision, he never saw that grounded, it was a guess, replay shows clearly held up

[sockwithaticket]

Goes with the horseshit pen against Harris for not rolling when he was to the side and the ball was playable.

[ASMO]

That was pretty to watch, Lopez is a real turnstyle for Clermont

[sockwithaticket]

We have some good lineout strike plays and very good wingers.

[ASMO]

This Clermont side are very vulnerable.

[fishfoodie]

We have some good lineout strike plays and very good wingers.

It helps having a SH like Robson who can execute an accurate, swift pass to the runner

[ASMO]

We have some good lineout strike plays and very good wingers.

It helps having a SH like Robson who can execute an accurate, swift pass to the runner

Basically the exact antithesis of Ben Youngs

[sockwithaticket]

We have some good lineout strike plays and very good wingers.

It helps having a SH like Robson who can execute an accurate, swift pass to the runner

True, he's a class above any of his replacements and it's not coincidence that we've started playing better now that he's back from England duty.

[sockwithaticket]

Don't agree with that at all. He came through the middle.

[Raggs]

Don't agree with that at all. He came through the middle.

Shields call? Yeah. Through the middle and scrum half had lifted.

[sockwithaticket]

That looks good from Odogwu?

Edit - looks like a toe might have betrayed him and touched the line.

Don't agree with that at all. He came through the middle.

Shields call? Yeah. Through the middle and scrum half had lifted.

Yep, that's the one.

[ASMO]

Odogwu having a stormer, Eddie take note

[Torquemada 1420]

More dumb Fre lineout play: why risk going long in that position?

{EDIT} Yup. Which is what you should have done 2 mins ago.

[sockwithaticket]

I predict that shelling three tries is going to cost us once Clermont get roasted at half time by their coaches and wake up a bit...

[Torquemada 1420]

I predict that shelling three tries is going to cost us once Clermont get roasted at half time by their coaches and wake up a bit...

Dunno. They have been looking stale this season. Complacency with players and coaches been there for too long.

[sockwithaticket]

I predict that shelling three tries is going to cost us once Clermont get roasted at half time by their coaches and wake up a bit...

Dunno. They have been looking stale this season. Complacency with players and coaches been there for too long.

Fair, but we've been awful for most of 2021 so far.

[Torquemada 1420]

Total lack of discipline.

[ASMO]

Wasps undoubtedly playing the sexier rugby, Clermont mirroring the national team, flattering to deceive

[sockwithaticket]

A 6 point half time lead is not what I expected at all, but I will damn sure take it.

[Torquemada 1420]

Wasps undoubtedly playing the sexier rugby, Clermont mirroring the national team, flattering to deceive

It's a mark how far Clermont has fallen that only Penaud is now a ntl regular and even then some would argue that Thomas and Villier are ahead of him at present (Penaud been injured).

[ASMO]

Clermont 10 12 and 13 are all over the place defensively, seems to be no organisation or structure there.

[Torquemada 1420]

Clermont 10 12 and 13 are all over the place defensively, seems to be no organisation or structure there.

They've gotten like Bath (or the Blues for many seasons): lots of talent but too little lack of will to do the hard yards and basics first which then leads to poor discipline.

Should have said: this raises my 10 year argument that Fofana neither had the hands or distribution to be a 12. He was always a wing.

[ASMO]

Dumb decision not to take the points there

[Torquemada 1420]

Ludicrous by Penaud. See what I mean about basics and hard yards.

And if you are going to kick to the corner, you need to secure your f**king lineout. Again.

[sockwithaticket]

Wasps coping well enough with Clermont at the moment, but in need of some territory.

[Torquemada 1420]

Now they go for posts. No joined up thinking at all.

[Torquemada 1420]

Wasps coping well enough with Clermont at the moment, but in need of some territory.

Yup. They can't go more than 4 phases without an unforced error.

{EDIT} And the cardinal sin of scoring and immediately coughing up a pen or points. Dim Central.

{EDIT2} And that will be game over.

[ASMO]

How easy was that for Clermont

[sockwithaticket]

Edit - smiley was for the Wasps try, think I'm a couple of minutes behind everyone else.

[Torquemada 1420]

And Wasps reply in kind by coughing up from the restart.

{EDIT} But another unforced error by ASM. Abject stuff really.

[ASMO]

Clermont cant buy a break at the moment

[sockwithaticket]

That was NFL levels of forward.

[fishfoodie]

Clermont cant buy a break at the moment

they're authors of their own destruction though; squint lineouts & over runing passes is all on them

[Torquemada 1420]

Lineout master class of "how not to".

[Torquemada 1420]

Clermont cant buy a break at the moment

they're authors of their own destruction though; squint lineouts & over runing passes is all on them

100%. You earn the right to a break. They've looked as bad as the disinterested sides of the past except this is not a switch off: they've never switched on.

[Torquemada 1420]

Another lineout f**k up but they get lucky.

[Torquemada 1420]

Penaud beats 100 players and then does his dad, and with a shrug passes to a Wasps player.

[Torquemada 1420]

Wasps pushing yellow here.

[sockwithaticket]

Only because half Murphy's calls are wrong...