The result was far better than I expected, Toulouse were only supposing to use the Championship like they did in C1 as a stepping stone to SL according to the knowledgeable pundits. First half we played some great rugby, and when things started to go wrong in the second half we stuck to it. Our goal line defence has improved, but I do feel we need strengthening down our right side, nearly all their tries came down there. We just have to keep chipping away at those -12 COYB

Presumably if we had held onto the 28-6 lead for a bit longer he could have played the final 20 mins and then been in better shape to play a bigger part next week. It seemed to me like the sort of calculated risk that coaches have to take which this time didnt work out.

I'd bet similar, I didn't see Smith so don't know what sort of shape he looks to be in, but I assume when it got to squeaky bum time maybe he didn't think that was the time to let Smith stretch his legs

I must have missed this conversation last week when Halafihi was the unused sub...!

I notice that foreign bloke/blokess is still writing the match reports.

Largely because people were just relieved we didn't have to see the useless bugger on the pitch so kept quiet about it in the hope he didn't get game time next week.