Champion's Cup: Covid bowl edition

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That's more how I was expecting this game to go.
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Bullshit decision, he never saw that grounded, it was a guess, replay shows clearly held up
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Goes with the horseshit pen against Harris for not rolling when he was to the side and the ball was playable.
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That was pretty to watch, Lopez is a real turnstyle for Clermont
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We have some good lineout strike plays and very good wingers.
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This Clermont side are very vulnerable.
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sockwithaticket wrote: Sat Apr 03, 2021 12:01 pm 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
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fishfoodie wrote: Sat Apr 03, 2021 12:05 pm
sockwithaticket wrote: Sat Apr 03, 2021 12:01 pm 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
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fishfoodie wrote: Sat Apr 03, 2021 12:05 pm
sockwithaticket wrote: Sat Apr 03, 2021 12:01 pm 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.
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Don't agree with that at all. He came through the middle.
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sockwithaticket wrote: Sat Apr 03, 2021 12:12 pm Don't agree with that at all. He came through the middle.
Shields call? Yeah. Through the middle and scrum half had lifted.
Give a man a fire and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
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That looks good from Odogwu?

Edit - looks like a toe might have betrayed him and touched the line.
Raggs wrote: Sat Apr 03, 2021 12:14 pm
sockwithaticket wrote: Sat Apr 03, 2021 12:12 pm 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.
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Odogwu having a stormer, Eddie take note
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More dumb Fre lineout play: why risk going long in that position? :crazy:

{EDIT} Yup. Which is what you should have done 2 mins ago.
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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...
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sockwithaticket wrote: Sat Apr 03, 2021 12:17 pm 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.
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Torquemada 1420 wrote: Sat Apr 03, 2021 12:18 pm
sockwithaticket wrote: Sat Apr 03, 2021 12:17 pm 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.
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Total lack of discipline.
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Wasps undoubtedly playing the sexier rugby, Clermont mirroring the national team, flattering to deceive
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A 6 point half time lead is not what I expected at all, but I will damn sure take it.
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ASMO wrote: Sat Apr 03, 2021 12:24 pm 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).
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Clermont 10 12 and 13 are all over the place defensively, seems to be no organisation or structure there.
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ASMO wrote: Sat Apr 03, 2021 12:30 pm 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.
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Dumb decision not to take the points there
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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.
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Wasps coping well enough with Clermont at the moment, but in need of some territory.
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:lol: Now they go for posts. No joined up thinking at all.
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sockwithaticket wrote: Sat Apr 03, 2021 12:47 pm 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.
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How easy was that for Clermont
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:grin:

Edit - smiley was for the Wasps try, think I'm a couple of minutes behind everyone else.
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And Wasps reply in kind by coughing up from the restart. :wtf:

{EDIT} But another unforced error by ASM. Abject stuff really.
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Clermont cant buy a break at the moment
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That was NFL levels of forward.
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ASMO wrote: Sat Apr 03, 2021 12:55 pm 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
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Lineout master class of "how not to". :thumbdown:
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fishfoodie wrote: Sat Apr 03, 2021 12:57 pm
ASMO wrote: Sat Apr 03, 2021 12:55 pm 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.
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Another lineout f**k up but they get lucky.
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Penaud beats 100 players and then does his dad, and with a shrug passes to a Wasps player. :evil:
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Wasps pushing yellow here.
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Only because half Murphy's calls are wrong...
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