Monthly Archives: April 2012

LOOK NO PENALTIES!

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Championship Play-off Featured Game London Scottish 26, Esher 31 The irony of Charlie Hayter’s interception to cement London Scottish’s place in the Championship for another year wasn’t lost on most of the sizable crowd at Richmond last Saturday. A year … Continue reading

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CHAMPIONSHIP PLAY-OFF ROUND-UP, WEEK 5

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Champagne rugby – plenty of fizz but no pop. This pretty much sums up London Welsh’s efforts in the first half of the clash with promotion favourites Bristol, at the Old Deer Park yesterday. Having enjoyed 79 per cent of … Continue reading

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CHAMPIONSHIP PLAY-OFFS — WEEK FOUR

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The Championship play-offs exist to decide two issues — who goes up and who goes down  — and one of these issues was decided, at Molesey Road on Saturday. Unless Esher can win with a try bonus point from their … Continue reading

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CHAMPIONSHIP PLAY-OFFS, STAGE TWO, WEEK THREE

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Three down and three to go! For the first time this season I can say with some certainty that two of the three play-off pools are virtually decided. Bristol and London Welsh should progress from Pool A to the semis, … Continue reading

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CHAMPIONSHIP ROUND-UP PLAY-OFFS WEEK TWO

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With two games down and four to play, this division remains as hard to predict as the Stuart Lancaster saga. In Pool A Bristol, the clear post Stage One favourites, dropped two points against a well organized and highly charged … Continue reading

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CHAMPIONSHIP PLAY-OFF ROUND-UP – WEEK ONE

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My predictions last week may not have come back to haunt me on the scale that Dave Ellis’ did. While the former French defence coach’s claims that the French would target the ‘weakness of Tuilagi’ transpired to be somewhat wishful, … Continue reading

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