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Chris Hewett: Without jeopardy, the game is nothing

The journey time between the sublime and the ridiculous can be speed-of-sound short: Clement Poitrenaud, the quintessence of French rugby cool who even on a rough day measured 9.5 on the Serge Blanco scale of elegant running full-backs, covered the distance in three seconds flat during the 2004 Heineken Cup final between Toulouse and Wasps at Twickenham.
Watch the footage of Rob Howley’s winning try and then try to think of a bigger pratfall at the top end of the sport.
Of course, the self-same trip can also take an age, as the good men of Brive discovered just recently in condemning themsel...

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