Comments on: European Rugby Week 4: 5 things we learned

By: Staggy

Staggy — Wed, 17 Dec 2014 14:30:15 +0000

Better pack this year, thank goodness, but Bath start as favourites sadly!

By: Dazza

Dazza — Wed, 17 Dec 2014 11:03:10 +0000

12T’s against Burgess could be interesting. Burgess will want to smash 12T early, and let him know he’s there. But 12T’s union knowledge and experience could see him make Burgess look a bit too eager. That’s if Glos get much ball.

By: Jonny

Jonny — Tue, 16 Dec 2014 15:07:00 +0000

I remember seeing somewhere that burgess will be on the bench against Gloucester. Should be a great game, plenty of England players looking to put a marker down!

By: Staggy

Staggy — Tue, 16 Dec 2014 14:52:34 +0000

Pablito, so do I. Should help Glos tremendously!

By: Pablito

Pablito — Tue, 16 Dec 2014 12:28:28 +0000

That Brighty, is the 24 hour, digital non-stop news for you I am afraid. They’ve gotta write about something!

The weekend papers weren’t too bad on the Burgess thing, the websites though were awful – but then they live or die on how many clicks they get

By: Pablito

Pablito — Tue, 16 Dec 2014 12:19:52 +0000

Seems to me Burgess did pretty well for his first ever start at this level – given he’s hardly played the game. 17 tackles is rather good – with that kind of tackle rate, if nothing else we could play him instead of Barritt for England…

I do hope we get to see him play opposite 12Trees this weekend

By: brighty

brighty — Tue, 16 Dec 2014 12:09:59 +0000

I’d really, really, really like the Burgess thing to just be done now i.e. he had already proven himself to be a great player.

This is the European cup, the supposed pinnacle of club rugby. I read more “Sam Burgess starts for Bath…” headlines over the weekend than anything to do with Bath killing Montpellier, Saints nearly downing Leinster, Scarlets overturning Ulster, etc. It doesn’t look good that the entire media is obsessed with just one man, it belittles the sport to pain the picture that the most important thing that happened last weekend was Burgess getting a debut start.

A thing I learned on the weekend – Blues still have major, major issues and Anscombe would appear to be a great fullback, pity we keep playing him at 10. Also learned that it should be a Toulon Clermont final.

Treviso got hammered – not bothered. Don’t understand the confusion here. It’s not “the best of the best” playing each other, it’s the best from each of the pro rugby Euro countries playing each other. Some of those countries have poor teams – for which they’ve already paid by only having 1/3rd or 1/7th of the representation that England and France have. If you want the best of the best then don’t look at the European cup for such. Even the much longer lived footy Euro cups have teams in that get walloped by the likes of Real Madrid.