Champion's Cup: Covid bowl edition

[Torquemada 1420]

If Stains can win this, the comp is theirs for the taking.

Nah, Bath and Leicester both very capable of doing them over.

Bath flakier than a Head & Shoulders advert and Tigers a very limited side. MH worst team left in the comp...... assuming they manage to put Benneton to bed.

[Torquemada 1420]

FM. Too many easy yards for Ulster

[sockwithaticket]

If Stains can win this, the comp is theirs for the taking.

Nah, Bath and Leicester both very capable of doing them over.

Bath flakier than a Head & Shoulders advert and Tigers a very limited side. MH worst team left in the comp...... assuming they manage to put Benneton to bed.

Northampton are incredibly brittle, as we've just seen. Bath are generally flaky, but they have started putting a run of results together both domestically and in Europe. So too have Tigers and while they might be limited, Borthwick is making them horrible to play up front in a way Saints aren't always capable of dealing with.

[Saint]

For all the penalties we conceded in the first half, Ulster are catching us up rapidly

[Saint]

That's the game. But that offload was forward

[ASMO]

English sides utterly retarded, reflecting the indiscipline of the national side.

[Torquemada 1420]

Jesus. Stains play some nice rugby but unless they learn how to slow oppo breakdown ball down, they are going to have a hard time.

[fishfoodie]

The commentators lauding the jackal, but the tackle on the wing that stopped the move dead; was what made it possible

[Torquemada 1420]

Herring never released there but WTF, game is over anyway.

[Saint]

Game turned when we lost Freeman -- loads of attacking threat disappeared and we became far more suspect under the high ball. It let Ulster boss the game after that

[Torquemada 1420]

Side note: all 5 of the top 5 teams in the T14 are still in the Champions Cup tonight: bet that's never happened before from any of the leagues and won't happen again.

[Torquemada 1420]

Dominant physically and especially at the breakdown, which was a free-for-all under referee Mathieu Raynal

Yup. Until rugby sorts out this inconsistency, sides need to try and adapt to this. Too much for Exeter since Irish sides benefit most since for, well.... forever, they've been almost as illegal at the breakdown as the ABs. French sides get screwed when it's an English speaking ref because the split seconds in understanding the ref's yabbering always count against them.

[ASMO]

Chat injured in less than a minute, Racing underdogs here with so many missing

[sockwithaticket]

This is a bit shit.

[Paddington Bear]

Turgid stuff. Is this what the Top 14 is like?

[ASMO]

Shadowboxing would be a kind description

[sockwithaticket]

Some semblance of rugby before the latest penalty.

[ASMO]

Has to go down as the worst half of rugby in a champions cup QF ever

[SaintK]

Has to go down as the worst half of rugby in a champions cup QF ever

Absolute gash!!!
Why on earth didn't ERC appoint a French ref for this match? Carley has about as much French as I have Swahili!!!

[Paddington Bear]

Going to go and have a net. This isn’t worth watching

[sockwithaticket]

The next game has a lot to do to make up for this one.

I don't think Carley not speakinf French is the problem, it's just a completely different way of reffing. As we've seen in some of the games yesterday, they allow such a free for all at the breakdown it brings more players in or turnovers catch players completely on the hop and so there're more opportunities.

[ASMO]

Leinster will be watching this praying they get the winner, could probably put out a second string and win with something to spare

[SaintK]

Austin Healey "This is utter dross"

[fishfoodie]

It's just as well there's no crowd .....the cost of the counseling for all of them would be astronomical

[sockwithaticket]

Be interesting to see if anything happens to Healy after this game, his BT pay masters can't appreciate quite how bitingly he's laying into the product at the moment.

It is shit and we don't like it when the presentation team try and put lipstick on a pig, but we don't really expect them to denigrate it to this extent either.

[fishfoodie]

FFS there's nothing in that; just fucking play on

[Marylandolorian]

Bordeaux is my #1 team, 20 minutes left I’m out. Glad that Toulouse is my #1 bis.

[sockwithaticket]

Has to be red.

Edit - that mitigation is bullshit. Racing 7 is incredibly fortunate to walk away with a yellow.

[ASMO]

Both teams shit beyond belief

[JM2K6]

Has to be red.

Edit - that mitigation is bullshit. Racing 7 is incredibly fortunate to walk away with a yellow.

Dreadful all round. Awful tackle, always hitting up and into the head. Awful commentary. Awful TMO effort. Awful decision.

[Marylandolorian]

Both teams shit beyond belief

Racing brings a lot these type of games, If you compare with the Bordeaux- Bristol game , it’s black and white.

[ASMO]

Has to be red.

Edit - that mitigation is bullshit. Racing 7 is incredibly fortunate to walk away with a yellow.

Dreadful all round. Awful tackle, always hitting up and into the head. Awful commentary. Awful TMO effort. Awful decision.

To be fair the commentary is the best part about this game.

[Marylandolorian]

Has to be red.

Edit - that mitigation is bullshit. Racing 7 is incredibly fortunate to walk away with a yellow.

Dreadful all round. Awful tackle, always hitting up and into the head. Awful commentary. Awful TMO effort. Awful decision.

I played with his dad for a couple of years.

[JM2K6]

Has to be red.

Edit - that mitigation is bullshit. Racing 7 is incredibly fortunate to walk away with a yellow.

Dreadful all round. Awful tackle, always hitting up and into the head. Awful commentary. Awful TMO effort. Awful decision.

To be fair the commentary is the best part about this game.

Sure, but Austin had a knee jerk reaction to that tackle and refused to change his opinion when the replay proved he was talking cock

[fishfoodie]

Extra-Time; fuck me; will this pain never end

[ASMO]

How the hell did the TMO not refer that Tamifuna attempted tackle?

[JM2K6]

Maybe the worst lineout I've ever seen, and I've watched Dave Ward.

[salanya]

My eyes are hurting, and I've only watched 20 minutes of this 'rugby'

[SaintK]

Maybe the worst lineout I've ever seen, and I've watched Dave Ward.

About sums it all up really

[ASMO]

Whoever plays the winner of this pretty much has a bye to the final