🏉 The kicking game
🏉 Blunt attack
🏉 Rotating 15s
🏉 Lineouts
🏉 Playing catchup
THIS WEEK’S GUEST
FULL TIME TAKES
Kevin Kelehan
Bayonne are decent ballers, that stadium is as tough to go to as La Rochelle. Eked it out and like the Ulster game they were always going to.
David Ryle
Well done. Great resilience against a team who lose rarely at home. Great vision from Sam to follow the ball for his try.
Gavin Little
Basic skills have dropped way off. The defence isn’t working. Is there a plan of attack?
Coaches have a lot to answer for. Players too.
Ken Tancred
I think Bayonne deserve more credit than most people are giving them credit for
Peter Tracey
Worst European performance I’ve seen in a long long time. They don’t know how to attack anymore sadly. They’ve forgotten how to defend as well. Boyle was brilliant as was VDF. Don’t know what Ioane offers at the minute. Stopping the progress of Tector and Cooney. Not his fault that Leinster signed him though.
Chris McDonnell
This style is seriously attritional. Another 4 players injured again today. We need to start going around teams not through them.
Christy O’Connor
Another hard watch, another limp to victory. It’s not going to last much longer playing like this and getting wins.
Sandra Seery
A win is a win. Thrilled for Sam P. Great insights for passing and his try was super.
Craig Grehan
First thing, can we stop the over hype of Sam P’s inclusion 2 lucky bounces. One led to him falling to a try. The other to a bit of a run that nearly led to a try.
Overall, smelly performance. We won, but was smelly. Where has our attacking prowess gone ?
Why is Ioane even here ? Or is it us using him wrong?
Our defense looked a bit sloppy too. A win is a win, but we’re in need of actually playing rugby. Not playing a game plan..
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CHAMPIONS CUP WRAP
Round 4
Pau 24–26 Bulls
Bath 63–10 Edinburgh
Sharks 50–12 Clermont
Bayonne 13–22 Leinster
Stormers 39–26 Leicester
Toulouse 77–7 Sale
Munster 29–31 Castres
Gloucester 14–31 Toulon
Bristol 15–27 Bordeaux
Northampton 43-28 Scarlets
La Rochelle 17–27 Harlequins
Glasgow 28–3 Saracens
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