It’s a bit much when your reaction to a gritty, hard-fought win is, “the try bonus would have really helped” – it would have kept the “Boys’ Own” fantasy of sneaking a top-four finish alive, at least for another 22 hours.
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I will admit that, before the game started, there was a bit of me that was thinking, “please don’t let it be a slaughter”.
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And this, folks, is where the story really starts to get interesting.
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Blimey. That took me right back to last season: tight, brutal, nerve-wracking and playing most of the game a man (or two) down.
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You know, I can’t be arsed. Take random sentences from previous reports and construct your own. Except…
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To be honest, that’s about what I expected. I mean, I hoped for a Leicester-esque performance, but I expected a tight defeat. (I feared a tonking, but let’s skip over that.)
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Four relatively easy kicks missed, any one of which would have been enough to give us all five points. That was the difference between maintaining the lead in the table and losing a little bit more ground to the teams behind us.
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Even when you’re expecting to lose badly, it’s still quite disappointing when the expected happens. This is especially the case when the half-time score gave some hope that things wouldn’t be quite as bad as feared.
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Must win? Absolutely. Just win? Of course; this is Sale we’re talking about…
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Well, that could have been worse. A lot worse. Come half-time, I was expecting a humiliation worthy of an Ashes tour.
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