Leicester Tigers

Thought Cipriani looked fine for 15 minutes and his pace has returned but clearly he is not good playing in a losing team unlike most of the Tigers who are prepared to play hard for 80 minutes whatever the match situation.

As you can see he's from Swansea!!

There's a link to Mr Jones here; http://clubs.rfu.com/Clubs/portals/sout ... match.aspx.

He's a member of the 2009 IRB Development Panel but he ref'ed Munster and there were comments he was out of his depth

On Sat Crane looked as if he'd regained the confidence to run hard at the opposition. In too many games he has hesitated and 'taken the tackle'. Hopefully he'll now realise he can break tackles with his power and we'll see more of this in 2010.

Will the industrial estate still be snowed in on 9 Jan preventing the W's from travelling north?

Let's hope the RFU has sense enough to select someone who knows the game, can run a business and simplify the organisation at HQ. How about Hopley?

35. Being the most successful team attracts approbium - how many people do you know who hate Man Utd/Chelsea. It goes with the territory & TV commentators are not immune!

The selection is one thing another critical one is leadership on the field - we don't have it.

Unfortunately I was at the other end so couldn't see it close up but Davey had several poor patches in the game in addition to the episodes I described earlier so it wouldn't surprise me. Overall Leeds were bigger and more experienced than us though, so the result wasn't a surprise just the margin -...

'Leeds scored a third on the stroke of half-time when scrum-half Scott Mathie took a quick penaltyon the edge of the 22 and scooted through by the posts'. This is quote from our website's description of the 3rd Leeds try. Appreciate we don't want to be seen as whinging in our match reports but it do...

Weak side?? Richard C must be scratching his head to find any two complete selections with the need to put up some kind of showing against SA on Fri night and less than 48 hours later a re-motivated Leeds viewing the Cup as their only chance of 'glory' this season, followed six days later by an impr...

Let's see how he gets on on Sat if selected. They're playing Clermont.

Isn't it time we stopped our version of the Investors Chronicle and got back to the game. Have seen Ospreys a couple of times on BBC2 Fri evgs and they don't look as strong as last season.

We were discussing this at Cardiff when extra time was about to start. Expect Bath to play at a furious pace & put in particularly big hits in an attempt to take advantage of our tiredness in the 4th quarter. Don't expect to much of the lads; with so many big games in so short a time it's asking...

Re pubs: A handful of us - including a couple of Bath fans up for the weekend & saying they'll support us - will be at the Lonsdale by West Jesmond Metro station from 1700 - food's avail there too. Good beers and Evening Day Saver ticket out to K Park & back into N'castle £2.30. By the way d...