Moment of the week – yep, you picked a contentious one. To add some Cardiff biased-balance I think a pivotal moment earlier in the match was the Blues rolling maul to the Llan line. Try nailed on, Llan pull it down, instant yellow card. Reset again for a rolling maul off the next lineout. Llan do the same – so this must be another card and a pen try, right? Wrong, it’s neither. Whitehouse showed no bottle or sense – he painted himself into corners he then danced inconsistently out of. 1st maul offence = yellow card, 2nd maul offence doesn’t. 1st delib knock on = yellow card, 2nd one doesn’t. He was pretty clueless in that match, for both sides, so for any Llan fan to even think the Cuthbert incident was the cause of their loss would be a pretty large delusion. I was more annoyed with the Blues for a) gifting Llan their 1st two tries b) not being down the other end when Llan were down to 14 men and c) kicking the ball at Llan with 2 mins to play and only a 2 pt margin in the game. Thank the lord Llan seem to have forgotten what a drop goal is.
I’m still buzzing from the xmas period – a big shot in the arm for Welsh pro rugby. I had a friend who couldn’t even get a ticket for the Car v Llan game, it’s been an age since people were unable to get tickets. I agree that what happens next will be interesting but we must not let the inevitable drop in attendances (we will have less away fans, less exciting fixtures, a disjointed season and some people will be saving for their 6Ns trips) lead to a load of gloomy summaries and predictions. I believe the core support will keep improving, some of those who attended these will come again due to the excellent rugby and great atmosphere, but it will still be a long process to get CAP regularly hitting 10K+ again. One thing to mention here are the extremely exciting plans for CAP development which would give us a world class stadium and some added spending power.
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