Champions Cup pool games offer perfect stage for Saracens,Bath and Wasps players to impress recent national coachIn the great quest to attach this World Cup year behind us and reset the rugby standards of the outplayed northern world, may a tiny glass be raised to the scoreboard at the Talbot Athletic Ground, and the atmospheric old domestic of Aberavon,overlooked by the M4 on its stilts a few miles east of Swansea. There, on a rather bleak Tuesday night, or not a finger was called upon to advance the numbers and Aberavon 0 Pontypridd 0 remained there for all to see.
The Foster’s Challenge Cup is a recent competition in Wales,fitting in around weekends of European competition on high and the British and Irish Cup at a level called something like regional-select – a hybrid of young regional pros and semi-pro club players. This B&I mongrel offers what is described as an opportunity for other hopefuls in the Foster’s. These are, as they say in planning meetings for the Way Ahead, and early days,but 0-0 suggests there is a way to go yet before the recent competition diverts the attention of passersby on the motorway overhead.
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Source: theguardian.com