Ok now I'm back in the hotel with it's free wi-fi it's time for my synopsis.
In the first 5 minutes of the game we were dreadful, we made 4 or 5 errors. To be honest the rest of the first half was not much better, we struggled to complete our sets of six we missed touch from penalties twice which is unforgivable and were inviting pressure from Toulouse. In the last 5 minutes of the half we finally managed to create some pressure of our own. Toulouse were deservedly in the lead at the break, to be honest the scoreline could easily have been wider than the 12-6 margin it was.
In the second half we started like we ended the first, creating lots of pressure on the Toulouse line. From winning a penalty and forcing 2 goal-line drop outs we got the equalising try. Then we took complete control with JD being his usual impressive self. We created what was a solid 10 point lead.
Then instead of going for the jugular and finishing them off we sat back and invited more pressure on to us and paid the penalty. First we concede a try, reducing the deficit to just 4 points. The after a Danny Lawton penalty, which I might add fell nicely in to my arms, gave us a 6 point cushion. It all led to the proverbial grandstand finish. With 90 seconds remaining we conceded another Toulouse try out wide on our left hand edge, the two extra points were superbly taken under big pressure. That wasn't the end of the story, from the resulting kick off, we gave away a penalty early in the tackle count. The resulting kick to touch left them in drop goal range with 40 seconds on the clock. However they some how contrived to knock the ball on with 10 seconds remaining whilst their stand off was waiting in the pocket to slot the winning drop goal.
The question has to be asked. Was it a great comeback or did we dodge a bullet? I'm not sure to ne honest, I've mixed feelings about the game. Had we not committed so many errors in the first half we would have easily won the game. Yet we avoided disaster because Toulouse failed when it mattered
What happened after the game was as equally incredible. Although I'll save that for a new thread tomorrow.