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Flood kicks Ospreys to touch Well the day began pretty early being picked up at 10.30. We joined the queue outside the ground and by 11.05 we were stood next to the Ospreys dug out. Conditions were great, nice sunshine and not much wind and a great game to look forward to. Toby Flood took the kick off and Tom Croft almost caught it but knocked on. Harlequins A 26-13 Wasps A An efficient and effective performance saw the Harlequins A team win their return Guinness A League fixture against London Wasps A at Imber Court last night by 26 points to 13. Harlequins were on the attack from the start and a good kick and chase by Stegmann took play deep into the Wasps twenty-two. Scarlets 22-29 Harlequins In a performance of commitment, character and belief, Harlequins turned a 19 - 3 half-time deficit into a 22 - 29 victory over Llanelli Scarlets in the last Heineken Cup match to be played at Stradey Park. In the eyes of the red-shirted, massed body of local supporters, the game was over and won when the half-time whistle went. Cornish Pirates 28 Rotherham 32 YOG'S View This was without doubt the best the Pirates have played as a team this season, and apart from ten seconds of madness late in the second half, the work rate was consistently high throughout the game from all the players. This game came VERY close to rejuvenating player and supporter confidence and giving all a massive boost for coming matches. England 7s Fixtures Dubai 2008 England Sevens Fixtures and Schedule for Dubai 2008. Tickets are now on sale at Emirates Group Headquarters and the Dnata Travel Centre on Sheikh Zayed Road as well as all MMI shops in Dubai and selected Costa outlets in Dubai and Abu Dhabi. It is expected that more than 12,000 overseas visitors will attend Emirates Airlines Dubai 7s this year. England 7s Training Squad & IRB 7s 2008/9 Schedule England Sevens 26 man training squad and IRB World Sevens Series 2008/9 Schedule. Tickets have gone on sale for this year's Emirates Airline Dubai Sevens, to be played on 27-29 November at Dubai's new rugby venue 'the Sevens'. Organisers have urged fans planning to attend the event to purchase their tickets early to avoid disappointment. Kev's Caribbean Capers Part One As a pre Stanford taster, Barmy Kev recalls his last visit to Antigua ten years ago, sandwiched between two visits to the Oval [No, not the gasworks, the Kensington, Barbados version - ed.]. Typically, he recounts tales full of amusing incidents, drunken exploits and some international cricket. Here is the first part of a three-parter. A Corporate County? It's the winter of our first year without the Stragglers. My own thoughts have started to move to the activites of the 2008 season and what it might mean in the new world of money and marginalisation. Are we losing bits of the old County ground at the same time that we are losing sight of what cricket is supposed to be? Is Somerset going corporate? Has it already happened? |
