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Sedge Tiger
World Cup Winner Sedgley Park Joined: 19 Jun 2007 Location: Prestwich Status: Offline Points: 8103 |
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Congratulations Eailing nice end to the season. Very unlucky Jersey great effort this season. Try and enjoy your evening Islander.
All the best ST
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No 7
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I love this competition. It is a few more weeks of rugby and todays game was very entertaining.
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Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
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Trailfinder
World Cup Winner Joined: 05 Feb 2017 Location: London Status: Offline Points: 412 |
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A truly exceptional game today, the best vs the best. Jersey were outstanding for 60 mins and the game hinged on the try/no-try given by the linesman. From my vantage point in front of the bar it was 50/50. The game seemed to open up for Ealing after that point and Jersery scored a couple of late tries to make it a tense finish but what a finale to the season. Shame it wasn’t streamed for those who couldn’t be here. I’m hopeful that the new Prem/Champ cup will ignite interest, especially for the neutral. Well played all, enjoy the well deserved break. #UpTheChamp
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corporalcarrot
World Cup Winner Joined: 22 Sep 2013 Location: St Brelade Status: Offline Points: 4724 |
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Fully agree mate a cracking match with genuine quality and a real contest. The Championship has moved up a gear this season and with several other clubs upping their game the signs are very positive going forward. Today's match would have made a great Championship playoff final first leg between the top two teams. Imagine the supporters interest in seeing a second leg at St Peter if promotion hung on it. The RFU would probably stream that one. A few postscripts:
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Dont kick it. Pick it up and GO FORWARD.
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islander
World Cup Winner Joined: 17 Mar 2010 Location: jersey Status: Online Points: 7551 |
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A great game & have to echo the regret from many that it was unavailable to watch. I realise there was an overlap with 1st 15 mins of Prem SF, but with little other rugby being played except the County Champs I’m sure there’d have been an audience…
You could look at the scoreboard & say ET won it by 5 conversions (inc some very well-struck efforts) to 3 (with 1 of the misses a 79th-min rushed drop-kick)… but that would deny the nature of a game in which Ealing dominated territory & possession. But for some errors & the quality of the Reds’ defence they would have won by more, in the same way that the Reds could/should have achieved a bigger score line than 19-13 in the Champ decider 3 weeks earlier. But in both cases it was all about the win & most seemed to feel both winning teams deserved it on the day…
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gerg_861
World Cup Winner Joined: 11 Jun 2017 Location: Ealing Status: Offline Points: 2679 |
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It was excellent to share some of the banter with you and meet in person finally CC. A few final thoughts from me as well as the season comes to an end: * Vallis Way is one of the easiest grounds to access in Rugby in terms of public transport thanks to its location adjacent to a rail station, walking distance from the Elizabeth line, and frequent bus links from several transport hubs. I hope that the RFU keeps this in mind when reviewing the ground before denying us promotion opportunities again next year. * It was an entertaining contest yesterday, with great visiting fans, and I was extremely happy to have another weekend of rugby to watch. Although the final received no promotion or support from the RFU, was not televised, required a flight for the visitors, and there was only one week's notice, the crowd was still 1200+. Not an amazing crowd, but there was a high proportion of 'new' fans yesterday who hadn't been to a first team game before, many of which have their kids in the mini's, so the cup did at least some good. * Keeping in mind what I just said, I don't think that anyone will miss this competition when it is gone. This season it happened to serve a bit of a purpose by providing the rubber between Ealing and Jersey, but we really do need to see some variety. * Less than 4 months to go until the Premiership Cup kicks off on 8th September!
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corporalcarrot
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Dont kick it. Pick it up and GO FORWARD.
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islander
World Cup Winner Joined: 17 Mar 2010 Location: jersey Status: Online Points: 7551 |
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It's worth staying tuned in the above package - or scrolling through if you are really short of time - until 30ish secs from the end - the final try is a corker!
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Kimbo
World Cup Winner Joined: 31 May 2007 Location: 'incleh Status: Online Points: 6416 |
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It was - and nice to see a Cov player finishing it off What a shame a few more didn't pay to see it on the day. I wonder what Ealing have to do?
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