2013-4 Heineken Cup Discussion Thread

irishbucsfan · 13-10-2013 3:59pm

awec wrote: »

Ye wa?

I'll be quite happy if Ulster come nowhere near that Toulon team this year! Someone else can knock them out for us! :pac:

I want to see us in the biggest game possible. Like Bordeaux 2012. Might as well do it properly!

Buer · 13-10-2013 3:59pm

Too slow.

irishbucsfan · 13-10-2013 4:00pm

Cardiff won 6/6 once. As hard as that is to believe watching them now.

Judgement Day · 13-10-2013 4:00pm

Best performance by Toulon that I've seen in ages, they look completely unstoppable and as for Jonny Wilkinson.......but I thought he could have done with a shave before the game as he looked like he had been sleeping rough.

awec · 13-10-2013 4:01pm

irishbucsfan wrote: »

I want to see us in the biggest game possible. Like Bordeaux 2012. Might as well do it properly!

Fair point. It would be some game!

irishbucsfan · 13-10-2013 4:05pm

awec wrote: »

Fair point. It would be some game!

In 2011 we had Clermont/Racing/Sarries in the groups (French/English champions) then European masters in Tigers and Toulouse in the knockouts before the greatest final ever. Ever since then I want the big games!

And at the beginning of the next season I asked for Clermont away and got my wish...

errlloyd · 13-10-2013 4:07pm

Well, lobbe was a bit ambitious.

thomond2006 · 13-10-2013 4:07pm

That was very un-Lobbe like!

irishbucsfan · 13-10-2013 4:07pm

That Lobbe dude is terrible

awec · 13-10-2013 4:07pm

Toulon go from great to awful. That was terrible defence.

errlloyd · 13-10-2013 4:08pm

thomond2006 wrote: »

That was very un-Lobbe like!

Could say it was a bit of a lob(be) pass.

thomond2006 · 13-10-2013 4:11pm

Why did they start Matawalu on the wing? He's wasted there. They'll be much better with him at 9, if RCT slack off he can make hay.

awec · 13-10-2013 4:12pm

Oul Matawalu is prone to tackling himself quite a bit.

13-10-2013 4:13pm

Why IS Matawalu on the wing anyway?? I thought he wasnt playing at all for the first half

13-10-2013 4:15pm

thomond2006 wrote: »

Why did they start Matawalu on the wing? He's wasted there. They'll be much better with him at 9, if RCT slack off he can make hay.

Wasnt he their top points scorer last season? Or close to it, anyway

Burgo · 13-10-2013 4:16pm

Giteau with a lovely line.

toomevara · 13-10-2013 4:20pm

Matawalu, lovely..no more than the warriors deserve....

LeeroyJones · 13-10-2013 4:22pm

it's like a 15 a-side 7s game

(I know)

13-10-2013 4:24pm

Holy ****, this game

BoarHunter · 13-10-2013 4:24pm

Glasgow going for a TBP ! one more to go

ScrubsfanChris · 13-10-2013 4:25pm

Toulon heading off back to the changing rooms early

its_phil · 13-10-2013 4:26pm

Go on Glasgow!

errlloyd · 13-10-2013 4:27pm

Potentially Gonna be four times as many try bonus points in this group, than in all of the rest out together.

toomevara · 13-10-2013 4:27pm

19543261 wrote: »

Holy ****, this game

What a bizarre first round....all round if you know what I mean

Burgo · 13-10-2013 4:29pm

Theres the bp for glasgow!

LeeroyJones · 13-10-2013 4:29pm

What were the Rugby Gods smoking last night!?!

toomevara · 13-10-2013 4:29pm

Brilliant..BP for Glasgow....

awec · 13-10-2013 4:29pm

This is nuts.

A-Train · 13-10-2013 4:30pm

Great 2nd half performance by Glasgow, happy with a try bonus point

13-10-2013 4:30pm

YESSSS!!!! matawalu is the fulcrum of all this, he's creating all the space. His short passes are absolutely superb, he just floats them for an eternity.

its_phil · 13-10-2013 4:30pm

The Heineken Cup is off it's head on pills.

toomevara · 13-10-2013 4:31pm

awec wrote: »

This is nuts.

Well its just like the Exeter game...game essentially over by Half time, team in the ascendancy loses all concentration and motivation, underdogs scrap their way back....

ScrubsfanChris · 13-10-2013 4:31pm

Glasgow winning 2nd half 28 - 10

errlloyd · 13-10-2013 4:32pm

Obviously pro 12 teams are better in the second half because we all rested last week....

shuffol · 13-10-2013 4:33pm

Racing and Clermont have a lot to live up to later. Two games today and every teams got a try bonus point.

13-10-2013 4:51pm

This weekend has just been mental.

awec · 13-10-2013 4:52pm

Cardiff and Glasgow scoring 4 tries each and still losing! :pac:

Davei141 · 13-10-2013 5:02pm

3 hours till the next game has killed my buzz

Phoeey · 13-10-2013 5:16pm

Davei141 wrote: »

3 hours till the next game has killed my buzz

Fireball07 · 13-10-2013 5:22pm

Phoeey wrote: »

*waits for awec to unleash the banhammer for posting a non-Harp drink :pac:

awec · 13-10-2013 5:25pm

I'm actually drinking that exact thing right now. :P

You are safe, Phoeey.

Davei141 · 13-10-2013 5:41pm

Bit of GTA will probably fill the void, i just hope it's not a really cagey match later on

Gerry91 · 13-10-2013 7:11pm

Some cracking matches all weekend, love the Heineken Cup, give it to me over international every day of the week!

CatFromHue · 13-10-2013 7:15pm

More good games next week

Fri:
Saracens v Toulouse
Leicester v Treviso

Sat:
Cardiff v Toulon
Zebre v Connacht
Leinster v Castres
Montpellier v Ulster
Munster v Gloucester
Lanelli v Racing

Sun:
Northampton v Ospreys
Perpignan v Edinburgh
Glasgow v Exeter
Clermont v Quins

bilston · 13-10-2013 7:18pm

Was this weekend the first time Sky broadcast every single match live? Hopefully they do that for the remainder of the pool matches.

awec · 13-10-2013 7:20pm

bilston wrote: »

Was this weekend the first time Sky broadcast every single match live? Hopefully they do that for the remainder of the pool matches.

I'm pretty sure they did it last year too?

bilston · 13-10-2013 7:20pm

Good result for Glasgow in the end. They got what they needed!

shuffol · 13-10-2013 7:22pm

Leinster and Ulsters games clash next weekend which is a pity.

CatFromHue · 13-10-2013 7:30pm

awec wrote: »

I'm pretty sure they did it last year too?

They usually do but last year i think some of the Zebre games weren't broadcast.

Hagz · 13-10-2013 7:44pm

I would have liked to see a rear angle of the Paul Sackey disallowed try. Call me crazy but I think he got it.

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