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Posted: **Sat Apr 03, 2021 11:46 am**

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

Posted: **Sat Apr 03, 2021 11:52 am**

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

Posted: **Sat Apr 03, 2021 11:54 am**

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

Posted: **Sat Apr 03, 2021 11:59 am**

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

Posted: **Sat Apr 03, 2021 12:01 pm**

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

Posted: **Sat Apr 03, 2021 12:04 pm**

This Clermont side are very vulnerable.

Posted: **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

Posted: **Sat Apr 03, 2021 12:07 pm**

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

Posted: **Sat Apr 03, 2021 12:09 pm**

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.

Posted: **Sat Apr 03, 2021 12:12 pm**

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

Posted: **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.

Posted: **Sat Apr 03, 2021 12:15 pm**

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.

Posted: **Sat Apr 03, 2021 12:15 pm**

Odogwu having a stormer, Eddie take note

Posted: **Sat Apr 03, 2021 12:16 pm**

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

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

Posted: **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...

Posted: **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.

Posted: **Sat Apr 03, 2021 12:20 pm**

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.

Posted: **Sat Apr 03, 2021 12:21 pm**

Total lack of discipline.

Posted: **Sat Apr 03, 2021 12:24 pm**

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

Posted: **Sat Apr 03, 2021 12:25 pm**

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

Posted: **Sat Apr 03, 2021 12:27 pm**

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).

Posted: **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.

Posted: **Sat Apr 03, 2021 12:32 pm**

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.

Posted: **Sat Apr 03, 2021 12:40 pm**

Dumb decision not to take the points there

Posted: **Sat Apr 03, 2021 12:42 pm**

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.

Posted: **Sat Apr 03, 2021 12:47 pm**

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

Posted: **Sat Apr 03, 2021 12:49 pm**

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

Posted: **Sat Apr 03, 2021 12:50 pm**

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.

Posted: **Sat Apr 03, 2021 12:52 pm**

How easy was that for Clermont

Posted: **Sat Apr 03, 2021 12:52 pm**

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

Posted: **Sat Apr 03, 2021 12:54 pm**

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

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

Posted: **Sat Apr 03, 2021 12:55 pm**

Clermont cant buy a break at the moment

Posted: **Sat Apr 03, 2021 12:56 pm**

That was NFL levels of forward.

Posted: **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

Posted: **Sat Apr 03, 2021 12:59 pm**

Lineout master class of "how not to".

Posted: **Sat Apr 03, 2021 1:00 pm**

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.

Posted: **Sat Apr 03, 2021 1:02 pm**

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

Posted: **Sat Apr 03, 2021 1:03 pm**

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

Posted: **Sat Apr 03, 2021 1:06 pm**

Wasps pushing yellow here.

Posted: **Sat Apr 03, 2021 1:08 pm**

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

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