Bath Rugby
Bath are previous Heineken Cup winners and perennialy competitors but the only trophy they have picked up in the last decade is a European Challenge Cup 3 years ago. Continue reading
Heineken Cup Pool 3
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Author Archives: dementedmole
Le Jonny Tells It Like It Is
... and the ball goes over the bar. That's how it works with this chap.
With any other kicker, you’d put it down to escaping blame; with le Jonny, the Mole accepts it as an absolute fact. Continue reading
Heineken Cup Pool 2
Xavier Rush - enormous value for Cardiff over the years
Group 2 Preview
Cardiff are a team with something of an amorphous personality. It’s not that they’re schizophrenic – nothing as severe or interesting as that. It’s just that, having been under the gruff management of Dai Young for almost a decade [2002-2011], they’re an outfit that has been moulded in his image. Continue reading
Heineken Cup Pool 1
Repeat to Fade
Pool 1 – Castres, Munster, Northampton, Scarlets
For over a decade, this line up produced one outcome and how that inevitability was arrived at decided the drama. Continue reading
Make No Mistake About It
Make no mistake about it
Tony Ward is the latest to run the “Brian O’Driscoll To 12” flag up to see if anybody salutes. Continue reading
Head Of St Boshington’s School Board Retires
Don't you make those big cow eyes at me ...
So Martin Thomas has stepped down from his role as acting chief executive at the RFU, ostensibly to spend more time with his Pedigree Welsh Black Cattle. Continue reading
Felon Appears In Kangaroo Court: Not A Shocker
Delon ‘Felon’ Armitage is back in front of the beaks again. Continue reading
Leinster v Munster
Recent years have seen at least three episodes of this game a season. The home leg for either team and the playoff game in the Magners/Rabo. The games provide a snapshot of Irish rugby and a way of connecting the seasons together. Continue reading
Report Card: The Inner Peace Gang [New Zealand]
The report card, and indeed the history books will show one thing: New Zealand won their second World Cup in 2011 and there won’t be an asterisk beside that fact. The rest of us will remember that New Zealand basically didn’t lose the World Cup, a World Cup that was theirs to win, played at home with a final where the referee lacked the bottle to spoil the party. Continue reading
Report Card: The Pink Panther Departs [France]
A question of what might have been for the French, but over what period of time? To lose a final against the host nation and outplay them over the course of the 80 minutes suggests that France almost got things right. As Greavsie used say, “It’s a funny old game”. Continue reading
Digging Like a Demented Mole 