My Saturday pretty much consisted of driving back from Blackpool and frantically refreshing the BBC Live commentary page for the Treviso – Irish game on my mobile, hoping against all hope that we’d pick up a bonus point so as to get ourselves a QF place. And we did manage it! Might have been in the eighth minute of injury time, but we managed it nonetheless.
Alas, since Perpignan didn’t manage to pick one up themselves, if we hadn’t scored that fourth try then we’d be looking at a home game against Munster instead of playing USAP again. Oh well, beggars can’t be choosers, at least we’re through and it’ll be nice to stuff the Catalans after the sheer amount of whining they engaged in after the last game at the MadStad.
With the Six Nations beginning very soon and Irish on their way to the knock out stages of the Heineken Cup, it’s going to be an excellent period for rugby I think. My money’s on France or England to take the 6N – Ireland are too unfocused, Scotland are fairly useless and Italy…well. There were only 3500 in attendance in Treviso on Saturday, at least 1000 of which were our fans. Says something about the level of enthusiasm for the game there. I say make it the Seven Nations and bring Argentina in – wouldn’t mind a bit of a tussle with the Pumas, their performance in the WC was fairly inspiring.
Oh well, back to work I suppose.
Currently reading: Robert A. Heinlein – Starship Troopers.
Currently watching: Stargate Atlantis Season Two
Want to watch: No Country For Old Men
