Forum Rugby Club - 2010-11 Season
Posted by: JWM on 08 July 2010
Leicester Tigers' Harry Ellis is to retire at 28 because of persistent left knee problems.
On the bright side, Leicester does of course have Ben Youngs (and perhaps Harry could remain involved in a mentoring role).
But it's always unfortunate when a player (wherever) has to retire (early) because of unresolvable injury problems.
Not in Wasps case 
Well a victory for the midlands at least with Northamptons 23-13 win over Ulster
Yes Cinders, you shall go to the ball... Been permitted to buy a ticket for Saturday 
and sitting in Clubhouse stand again ... but the right end of the row this time
Don't know if I'll have time to meet up as the girls will be shopping whilst I'm watching, and I might be required for a quick getaway afterwards.
If it weren't for the uncertainty of ko times and days, I'd be going for a ST too. Gets me out of the house apparently... OMO - Old Man Out!
Well Mr Deadlifter I would think that todays result will shut you up for a few months.
Well let me see now this season, Gloucester beat Tigers at Kingsholm, and now get a 41-41 draw and scored 5 tries at Welford Road this afternoon.
Gingle bells gingle bells.......
Doubtfull on that, but a great game which Tigers threw away or should that be Staunton 
i sincerely hope he is on the receiving end of a lot of grief. Thirty seconds were left on the clock and all they had to do was run it down 
. The Tigers defence at times was appalling gifting Glaws trys and Ben Youngs needs a word in his ear, if they want to win the premiership final again they will have to seriously knuckle down and take a long look at themselves because as it stands we may win the season but the final will be a different story altogether 
No panic 13-17 down at half time, though DL, Mrs DL and I all agreed that Youngs needs his ears boxing. Then up to 34-20...., and it began to look 'more like it'. Tigers let in two identical soft tries through an almost totally unmarked Tigers' right wing. But going up to 41-34, with a minute to go I thought we'd got away with it, very narrowly. 30 seconds to go, 7 pts up, what would Tigers (or another sane side) normally do? Close the game down and wait out the 30 seconds with a gently rolling maul. What did Tigers do? Couldn't see whether Ben Youngs started it, but certainly I saw flyhalf Flood trying some riskily inventive play, during which the ball was lost and the Glaws back hurtled straight down the unmarked Tigers' right wing, Manu looking on helplessly, straight down my throat ... AGAIN, which plus conversion brought it level, whistle, game over. 
However, looking more objectively (as I am capable of doing) beautiful day, capacity 24,000 appreciative crowd, lots of clapping both sides, no pantomime boos, 10 tries and 82 points. A nice pint or two of handpumped Tiger with m'chums. Altogether an entertaining afternoon, and still 3pts out of the game. If that had been my first ever First Class rugby match, I would consider myself to have been very fortunate.