Tag: Champions Cup

  • Rowntree’s shock departure leaves a sour taste

    Rowntree’s shock departure leaves a sour taste

    A deceased Irish rugby legend once said to yours truly in a tent at the Punchestown Festival “Rugby, my friend, is a game for thugs played by gentlemen, whereas soccer is a game for gentlemen played by roughens”. Whether you agree with the actual nuts and bolts of his views or not is immaterial. At…

  • What was once a fortress now has swinging saloon doors

    What was once a fortress now has swinging saloon doors

    MUNSTER… 17 BEYONNE… 17 If there were any positives, let’s get them out of the way first. Which, you suspect, is exactly what Graham Rowntree will be doing when the debrief begins. If he hasn’t got the paint stripper out already. So here goes. Even though it was the French side who put the first…