I call them ‘meringue games’: a big win, looks good, but somewhat unsatisfying. When the opposition isn’t up for it, or has essentially surrendered before the start, it takes the gloss off of what should be a celebration.
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One year, two months and twenty-two days. Sixty-four weeks. Four hundred and forty-eight days. It’s been a long time, but I’m finally watching a game of rugby from the south stand of the AJ Bell.
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It did occur to me to just copy/paste last week’s report and then I’d have time to fix a coffee and kick back for a while. But then I thought I ought to at least change a couple of words to reflect some important differences.
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Well, that was less comfortable than maybe it should have been but less bum-clenchingly tense than it could have been.
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They’re going to send me to an early grave, I swear. How many more times this season are we going to end up watching from behind the sofa, heart racing, buttocks clenched fit to crack a walnut?
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Call it The Axe Factor: there has been a noticeable change in the team over the last three months. It’s not something that’s easy to describe, either; it’s about demeanour, attitude – intangibles that you can’t quite point to and say “that”, but it’s there nonetheless.
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In the end, it was not to be. The bubble burst, the dream gone, a rude awakening.
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Wow. Just… Wow. Don’t pinch me; if I’m dreaming, it’s a wonderful dream, so leave me be.
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There’s a definite sense of change in the air, and I don’t just mean that spring is on the way. There was something about the way that Sale reacted to the events of the second half that was different to what we’ve seen before.
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It’s often been said (usually more in hope than reality) that, one day, Sale will click and someone’s going to get mullered.
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