QUINS WARY OF EMOTIONALLY-CHARGED STADE
Andy Gomarsall has warned his Harlequins team-mates to expect a backlash from French giants Stade Francais in the Heineken Cup on Saturday following the London’s club’s 15-10 victory in Paris last weekend.
The 34-year-old scrum-half, capped 35 times for England, said: “Of course we fancy our chances of doing the double but it will be an emotional game for Stade.
“They were gutted to lose in front of 80,000 of their fans in Paris. And they will be looking for a big one. We just have to concentrate on ourselves and if we do that we should be OK.”
On Sunday London Wasps host Edinburgh and flanker Tom Rees knows that if they don’t gain a win their hopes of European success will be over.
Following their 25-16 victory at Murrayfield last Friday, the England star who scored the winning try said: “It was good to pick up the result and keep our Heineken Cup hopes alive and we will be looking to do the same this week. It is still a case of knowing that if we lose then we are out of the tournament.
“I’d imagine they would be quite happy to rain on our parade so we’ll have to be pretty sharp to win.”
Andy Gomarsall has warned his Harlequins team-mates to expect a backlash from French giants Stade Francais in the Heineken Cup on Saturday following the London’s club’s 15-10 victory in Paris last weekend.
The 34-year-old scrum-half, capped 35 times for England, said: “Of course we fancy our chances of doing the double but it will be an emotional game for Stade.
“They were gutted to lose in front of 80,000 of their fans in Paris. And they will be looking for a big one. We just have to concentrate on ourselves and if we do that we should be OK.”
On Sunday London Wasps host Edinburgh and flanker Tom Rees knows that if they don’t gain a win their hopes of European success will be over.
Following their 25-16 victory at Murrayfield last Friday, the England star who scored the winning try said: “It was good to pick up the result and keep our Heineken Cup hopes alive and we will be looking to do the same this week. It is still a case of knowing that if we lose then we are out of the tournament.
“I’d imagine they would be quite happy to rain on our parade so we’ll have to be pretty sharp to win.”
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