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Guys

Apologies for the lack of Blogging. There will be much, much more to come on a stunning finale to the season and - yes! - the rightful crowning of Club as Division One champs and Drags' victory in the Division Two. Also another Meet the Old Boys coming up, if anyone is interested.

For the meantime, does this remind you of anyone we know?

From The Guardian

For here was a remake of a favourite old movie, a film noir, to be sure, starring Mark Regan as the English agent provocateur, a role made famous by Brian Moore. While the flower of French youth attempted to run the ball from inside their own 22 and to make the definitive announcement of the arrival of a new era, the 36-year-old Bristol hooker was getting up to all the tricks the home side hate and fear when England come to town.
In particular he was ensuring that every time England were about to take a lineout in the first half, their hosts were made to wait. The dark blue shirts would be standing in line, growing increasingly fretful as Regan engaged his fellow forwards in a lengthy conference about 20 metres away. Then, having completed their agenda, they would march slowly towards their opponents. As a contribution to the spectacle, it was an example of wanton destruction, not to say rotten etiquette. As a means of teasing out the hidden anxieties of the inexperienced and highly-strung French, it was devilishly effective.
The fact England fared so poorly in the ensuing lineouts mattered not at all. Regan could overthrow and underthrow and generally hand possession to the home side with astonishing abandon but the necessary damage to the French composure had already been done. Their continuity had been disrupted to such effect that they were never able to achieve the momentum to match their noble ambitions.
Although Marc Lièvremont, their young coach, attempted to suppress his true feelings, eventually sheer exasperation got the better of him. "The English scrum was certainly very strong," he said, "although I didn't have the feeling that they were dominant. But I didn't appreciate the attitude of the English hooker. He really wasn't playing within the spirit of the game. At times it was ludicrous and grotesque. I know that sometimes you have to be pragmatic but this ..."
Invited to expand, Lièvremont poured all the evening's frustrations into a handful of terse, sardonic sentences. "He was playing a kind of anti-rugby. It was like a show, using up a minute before taking each throw. He was provocative. A clown. But that doesn't undermine the respect I have for the England team or for the fact that they thoroughly deserved their victory."
Brian Ashton initially refused to rise to the bait. "I can't comment on what other coaches say," he said. Asked if he would ever call an opposing player a clown, he remained deadpan. "I think I'm on record as saying I've got the utmost respect for every single player in the world who pulls on an international rugby jersey, because it's an incredibly difficult thing to achieve."
Eventually, however, he was persuaded to give his assessment of Regan. "He's an outstanding international hooker, he's an outstanding scrummager, he's a good scrapper in the nicest sense if the word, and a great bloke who the other guys like playing with."
Regan lapped it up, including the storm of jeers as he was prudently withdrawn in the 48th minute, having been whistled for raining blows on Lionel Faure, who was tugging his jersey in a maul. The resulting penalty brought France within three points. A minute or two earlier Regan had gone unpunished for a sneaky obstruction as the 19-year-old Morgan Parra retrieved the dead ball for a French lineout.
"To get booed off like that is a massive compliment," Regan said. "The whole of France hated me. You come here and you've got to get under their skin somehow or they'll get under yours. I'm selected to do a job. It irritates them and it puts them off their game. Brian Moore always did it and I'm following in his footsteps. We had to get back to the World Cup, getting horrible and arrogant, because we've been lacking that edge."