What a week-end of sport.
I'm afraid that Leeds losing to Hull means that we look stuck in the play-offs rather than the hope of a second place and guaranteed promotion. Watford also lost - but Crystal Palace are on a great run and a draw by Sheffield means that they are now 7 points clear of Leeds with 5 games to go.
But moving swiftly on ....
.... Rugby was a different story. Athough I have lived in Leinster for most of my life, I am a Munster rugby supporter. It's very simple - I was born there and that's my excuse!
It was the Leinster performance, away to Toulouse, which was the performance of the week-end - they didn't just win they swept them away. While Toulouse got close near the end (35-41) - there was never any real danger. The backs were (finally) at their best. There were world class tries from O'Driscoll and Hickey. But it was Contepomi who was the real star - his aggresion in running from inside the Leinster 22 to set up Hickey was awesome and he handled the ball twice in the sequence leading up to the O'Driscoll try.
For Munster - it was as I had feared - as clear favourites against Perpingnan, they struggled. Leinster with nothing to lose played out of their skins. Munster won without too much danger, (19-10) but it was nervy and not very good rugby to watch.
However you know what we say - "A win is a win".
Now, we have the hottest ticket in town in just under 3 weeks, when Leinster play Munster in Lansdowne Road. Who knows what will happen - the only certainty is that their will be an Irish team facing either Bath or Biaritz in the Heiniken Cup final in May.
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