European
Professional Club Rugby
Challenge Cup
On the Weekend, By
the Numbers
20+ table points from the six games of round robin will more than likely make extra time come April, possibly high-teens
Toulon tops the Pool of Death
after the thriller at the Mayol, while Dragons and Bears have taken all table
points from their brace of matches thus far and lead their groups... Tigers
uptop G-5 while Edinburgh and Bordeaux-Bègles share their group ordering seat,
uncomfortably one suspects... with the two outliers, Cammi Calvisano and Enisei
STM yielding bonus-points to their opponents, the Russians at home, the
Italians on the trot;
Home Happy: Castres, London Irish, Section Paloise (Pau), Toulon,
Wasps
Road Warriors: Bristol, Dragons, Leicester, Stade Français
Buss: Edinburgh-Bordeaux-Bègles
7 points advantage for the home team, 14-7, in the 24th minute after a touch
down by South African-born 8man, Jeremy Jordaan, converted by Enisei 10, Rami Gaisin, and STM looked
the business before yellow shown their hooker enabled 3 touch downs during the
interval of the number 2’s seat through the early stages of the second stanza
and Dragons returned to pound
out the 7-try, 49 - 22,
5-pointer on the eastern shore of the Black Sea; 19 for the Dragons 22-years
old pivot, Arwel Robson, on all trys converted including his own;
24 and 0 the tallies after the first forty as Bristol stymied Brive and blanked their hosts in the
second stanza as well for 36 - 0 victory
at the Amédée Domenech;
9 try
Pau knocked Calvisano around Stade du Hameau for
80 minutes to the tune of 61 - 10;
21 for 23 years old 9, Clovis Le Bail, on 8-from-9 converted and a try;
16 for every manjack on the east coast of Scotland as Bordeaux-Bègles drew level Edinburgh on a grounding by the
visitors 13, Semi Radradra, its conversion by just-turned-21 years old 10, Matti
Jalibert, and the standoff’s 78th minute sticksplitter which earned
the house 2 points;
88 minutes run time after referee Tom Foley’s instigating
blast, Toulon 35 years young
8man, Liam Messam, covered ball mauled to goal for a 5-pointer that 12, Anthony
Belleau, knocked through for the determinant, the deuce caroming off an upright and launched 10 meters-in from touch for the 17 - 16 win over Scarlets;
8 the
measure of separation after 40 with home side in front at the Pierre Fabre,
14-6, and that margin maintained as each counted only 1 sticksplitter a piece
in the second stanza for 17 - 9
final for Castres over Worcester;
15 for London Irish
10, Paddy Jackson, on the conversion of 5-from-7 trys, 1 of those his own and
home side tipped their guests, Bayonne,
45 - 31, at Madejski Stadium;
12 for Wasps
10, Jacob Umaga, on 3-and-2, while hefty blindside Ash Johnson got a double in
the 32 - 14 victory over Agen at the Ricoh;
13 first forty points all that was necessary for Stade Francais, but only just, as a
try by Zebre and its conversion
drew the Italians within damn-all at 13
- 12 for the Paris XV for the record;
2 second
stanza sticksplitters by Leicester
10, 20 years old Tom Hardwick, enabled Tigers to draw level with Cardiff nearing the hour mark, then
claim victory on the trot at the Arms Park, 14 - 11;
Friday, 12.6
Enisei
STM (0) v (4) Castres Olympique at
Kuban Stadium, Krasnodar: nickel for travelers?
Agen (0) v (7) Bordeaux-Bègles
at Stade Armandie: see above, but visitor joy could lead to topspot in the pool;
Edinburgh (7) v (5) Wasps at
Murrayfield: gonna find out if Hornets are freal here;
Saturday, 12.7
Toulon
(9) v (6) London Irish at
Felix Mayol: homeys sporting Best in Show credits just now... have they
returned to form? Paddy Jackson and his visiting horde would beg to differ;
Zebre (1) v (4)
Brive at Stadio Sergio
Lanfranchi: stern test for guests as hosts just fumbly-stumbled away victory in
their last out;
Worcester Warriors (5) v (10)
Dragons at Sixways: how good the
fire-Breathers? This result will tell;
Leicester
Tigers (9) v (0) Cammi Calvisano at
Welford Road: Big Cat five?
Cardiff
Blues (6) v (5) Section Paloise
at Cardiff Arms Park: Blues came undone last outing as their opponents today
were romping; different adversary today for both;
Bayonne
(2) v (5) Scarlets at
Jean-Dauger: trotters may well see a split to their French mini-tour here;
Bristol Bears (10) v (4) Stade Français at Ashton Gate:
travelers will have thought they may have started a trend with their victory
last, but Bears big and bad this year, esp. in their den at The Robins;
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