RUGBY

Well, the blog has rather neglected its rugby recently but this is because there was an interlude while the Top 14 had a little break. However, the Autumn Internationals have begun and last week France beat Australia. It could be said that Australia did not play so well but this would be to detract from France’s good work. Unfortunately, Wales were trounced by the All Blacks, let’s hope they bounce back in time for the VI Nations. At least they won by a whisker against Fiji yesterday, phew. The good news is that England had a GREAT game against Australia (26-16), not much fumbling at the line-out with much more dynamism and team work and Italy won against Tonga (48-0), the BEST bit being that Mirco scored TWO tries! Yaaaay! And as for Stade Français, well let’s just say you win some, you lose some …