Overall I thought it a fantastic game, best I have seen this season. Yes we could, maybe should have won, but a draw a fair result. I thought both defences were great at times, the Toulouse tackle to put Williams into touch before half time and the tap tackle on Walker when he seemed certain to score in particularly good. A couple of points
player of the day -
Eddie BattyeI declare an interest, I sponsor him with my son. He deserves a medal and player of the season for today! He was on the pitch for 55+ minutes, was First receiver 9x out of 10, played stand-off at sctums, tackled his heart out and ( northern bloke will probably correct me, didn’t give away a penalty!
DisciplineI thought we were very disciplined, played the referee well and for the first time in my memory gave away less penalties than we received.
RefereeI am biased, the French crowd hated him, but I thought he was excellent! Two sin-binning, both deserved. Kept game flowing, didn’t get much wrong!
Finally, when we went 20-12 down, I thought there was no way back, we were disciplined, organised and outstanding in those last 10/15 mins apart from Api’ brain fade for the second drop goal attempt after the first was charged down and we had 6 tackles from 20 metres.............. but I will forgive all the mistakes, great game so pleased I went though I feared the worst!