Gazing at life through a haze of opiates, I’m intensely relaxed about not getting a proper blog post up, and just giving you the matches.
But I will add an emphatic TSK!* that the Cardiff and Ulster matches have yet again been scheduled at the same time.
*This is more vehement than a PFFT!
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The Heidelberg Tourist Information Bureau has posted this:
Falcon tries to decide whether to deliver a TSK! or a PFFT!
And this.
And as a reminder, here’s the info.
On the telly this week
Friday 3rd January
| Cardiff 14 – 16 Scarlets | 19:35 | Premier Sports 2 |
| Ulster 38 – 17 Munster | 19:35 | Premier Sports 1 |
| Sales 48 – 10 Harlequins | 19:45 | BT Sport 1 |
Saturday 4th January
| Treviso 19 – 38 Glasgow | 13:00 | Premier Sports 1 |
| Gloucester 29 – 15 Bath | 15:00 | BT Sport 2 |
| Dragons 25 – 18 Ospreys | 15:00 | Premier Sports 1 |
| Zebre 41 – 13 Cheetahs | 15:00 | Freesports |
| Leinster 54 – 7 Connacht | 17:30 | Premier Sports 2 |
| Edinburgh 61 – 13 Southern Kings | 19:45 | Premier Sports 1 |
Sunday 5th January
| Wasps 31 – 35 Northampton | 15:00 | BT Sport 2 |
Ovally Balls 
Good start!
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Another try for Glasgow! This is good (so far) because Benetton have been notoriously stuffy opponents in the past.
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Bugger. Try Benetton from a maul. Looks like I perhaps spoke too soon.
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Another try Glasgow! Horne the Younger this time.
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Try Benetton from a scrum, Glasgow with a player in the bin. 12-19 at HT.
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Seiuli got mullered in every scrum in that half, Benetton were obviously targeting him and he should have been hooked after the second penalty. Now Glasgow are a man down for ten minutes in the second half and they’ve conceded the score.
Very poor from Rennie.
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Leicester are 3 goals to 2 penalty goals up (21-6 in new money) against Bristol.
No Ioan Lloyd in the Bristol XXIII so difficult to see how they can get back.
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Thank dog for that! Bonus point try!
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24-18 now in Leicester. Come on, Bristol.
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This is too close for comfort here. 19-26 with about 10 minutes left.
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Thank dog for Niko!
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Whit?! Another one? Two tries in two minutes? I suspect this final score might flatter us a bit, but I’ll take the win before we get ground down by Exeter next week.
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REally good win for Glasgow, they stuck to their guns and fronted up at the breakdown and even though they were up against it in the scrum for the first half, Kebble and de Plessis made a huge difference.
Hope Grigg is ok, to Nige, that (Grigg’s horrible injury) was clearly a result of the tackle being high, how on earth is that a “rugby collision” only when Steyn competing in the air is a penalty?
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du Plessis, not “de”
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Think Sarries might JUST beat Wuss – they lead 31-0 at HT. Zebre beating Cheetahs as weel, which is good news for us I think, ‘cos Cheetahs are just above us in the table. And the O’s are showing how truly awful they really are by losing to the Drags!
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Why is Cippers considered so good? He’s just missed a dead easy conversion, and his kicking in general has been a bit off. Must admit, I just don’t see it.
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The Bath-Gloucester match seems to have a lot of errors.
Advantage? Pass the ball into touch.
Opening for a kick-pass? Kick it to the opposition.
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Third try for Gloucester.
36 takes over the kicking duties.
19-15
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Its not been a classic, Mr DogBone. When Gloucester have held on to the ball, they seem to score, its just holding on to it that’s been the problem.
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They held on to it there! Great break from Polledri to start it off.
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Gloucester have another.
Replacement lock, in a two-man maul, gained a good 15 m. A couple of phases later, and the open side winger had some space, only to be brought down just short of the line. The whole thing was capped off by a short pass and drive over for the bonus.
36 makes it 26-15
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“Why is Cippers considered so good?”
A question for the ages………………………….
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Bath seem to be out of ideas. A lot of one pass and contact in the red zone.
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How many’s LRZ scored?
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Whenever I hear the commentators call ‘Underhill’, I think of Bilbo Baggins.
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There is now a Homer on the pitch as well as a Simpson.
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Racing vs ASM in a few minutes in Paris in the closed arena. Should be a cracker.
Subplots: Finn vs Laidlaw, Penaud and Raka. vs Vakatawa and Thomas, Vahaa vs Leroux etc etc…
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Fabulous Dragons!
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Second time in the last two decent chances for Gloucester leads to a knock-on with the try line beckoning.
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DRA
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29-15 fulltime. Gloucester’s biggest win in Bath in 9 years.
Polledri was the PotM.
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GONS
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Well done Iks! On our heels (and I think you move above Cheetahs).
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Zero, TomP.
Ruan Ackerman, Gerbrandt Grobler, Freddie Clark, and Jason Woodward were the try-scorers.
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Drags still struggling terribly at the breakdown, but some top gumption to stay in the game then win it.
I like Screech, he may be a journeyman but he put in a good shift again, including some basketball quality restart takes.
Not good to see Tips limp off, nor North looking twanged at the end there.
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The wOes 10 was a bit of a disaster, he just seems out of place with so much individual quality playing around him.
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Heh. Thought Glasgow would lose. Shows how much I know
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Go the grags!
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Well that didn’t take long for evil to assert itself
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Connacht v Leinster at the RDS. It’d be an astonishing result if they could get even a bonus point.
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Disaster 2 minutes in. Leinster monster their way over from a fucked up line out. 7-0.
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I think the USA will drop a nuclear bomb on Iran in my lifetime.
Just needed to get that off my chest.
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Drags going well though. Swings and roundabouts…
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12 minutes – Dave Kearney – 12-0 – goal to come.
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This is a massacre
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14 minutes gone – another one – Frawley under the sticks – 19-0.
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BP after 20 minutes. E.V.I.L.
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I don’t think Connacht have had the ball yet.
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70 minutes gone and Connacht get some shoulders on to arses and blast over from a driving maul. 47-5.
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