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The agony continues

Sunday 22nd January 2017: European Challenge Cup, Pool stage, round 6; Stade Francais v Harlequins in Paris. Result – Stade Francais 27 Harlequins 17. Effect: Stade Francais qualify for the ‘last Eight’ knock-out stage, Harlequins bow out. Harlequins’ 2016/2017 season woes continued [...]

January 23, 2017 // 0 Comments

I was glad to get home, have a meal and watch The Voice on ITV

Saturday 14th January 2017: European Challenge Cup pool stage: Harlequins v Edinburgh Rugby at the Stoop, kick off 1500 hours: Harlequins 18 Edinburgh Rugby 23: (Edinburgh Rugby 4 points for a victory, now certain of reaching the quarter-finals; Harlequins 1 losing bonus point, now needing to win [...]

January 15, 2017 // 0 Comments

One way of passing an afternoon I suppose

Saturday 7th January 2017: Aviva Premiership Round 13: Harlequins v Sale Sharks at the Stoop, kick-off 1500 hours: Result – Harlequins 29 Sale Sharks 26. Harlequins now 7th in the league table on 32 points, level with Leicester Tigers who have a game in hand, and 6 points behind Bath Rugby in 4th [...]

January 8, 2017 // 0 Comments

You could have knocked me down with a feather

Today I shall be venturing a little beyond my remit for my first post of the New Year. Perhaps due to the blizzard of family activities, the McDonnell household has been full of chaos in recent times and – with not least my own catering duties to the fore – I have necessarily been distracted [...]

January 3, 2017 // 0 Comments

Nothing to write home about

1st January 2017: Aviva Premiership: Worcester Warriors v Harlequins at Sixways: Result – Worcester Warriors 24 Harlequins 17. This season I made a commitment (on a personal level not as regards my editors on the Rust) to report on every Harlequins game. The truth is that I did not follow this [...]

January 2, 2017 // 0 Comments

Same old, same old (with sleigh bells on)

Tuesday 27th December: Aviva Premiership: Harlequins v Gloucester Rugby (Big Game 9) at Twickenham Stadium, kick-off 4.00pm (attendance 77,000); Result – Harlequins 28 Gloucester Rugby 24. Regular Rust readers will be aware that I gave up attending matches at Twickenham Stadium some eight years [...]

December 28, 2016 // 0 Comments

Pub talk

After the Mickey Mouse mismatch-farces of the Timisoara Saracens European Challenge Cup matches over the past fortnight, we Harlequins fans are now preparing for the festive season and what in 2016 will be the supposed extravaganza of Big Game 9 at Twickenham Stadium next Tuesday, the day after [...]

December 22, 2016 // 0 Comments

One last trip to the Stoop before the New Year

Saturday 17th December: European Challenge Cup pool stage: Harlequins v Timisoara Saracens at the Stoop: Result – Harlequins 75 Timisoara Saracens 3. Quins tries: Wallace, Visser, Roberts 3, Brown 2, Yarde 2, Clifford, Swiel. Quins conversions: Jackson 5, Swiel 5. Having won the away leg 42-3 [...]

December 18, 2016 // 0 Comments

Hardly worth the bother

European Challenge Cup Pool 5 (group stage): Timisoara Saracens v Harlequins at the Dan Paltinisanu Stadium, kick-off 1300 hours UK time: Result – Timisoara Saracens 3 Harlequins 42. Half-time score 3-21. Bonus point secured for Harlequins one minute into the second half. Tries for Quins by Ward, [...]

December 11, 2016 // 0 Comments

A worrying place to be?

These days – with the internet being a law unto itself and social media spreading truths, half-truths and wild speculation like wildfire – it is easy to become (or seem to become) a Jeremiah crying ‘Wolf!’ at the slightest issue or problem. Nevertheless, taken as a whole, developments [...]

December 7, 2016 // 0 Comments

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