Cardiff Blues beat Wilkinson's Toulon in Amlin Cup Final!

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Cardiff Blues beat Wilkinson's Toulon in Amlin Cup Final!

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:D :D :D :D :D :D :D

After Cardiff RFC lost in the first Heineken Cup final (and I was there!) some 14 years ago, Cardiff Blues finally won European silverware, becoming the first Welsh team to do so, by beating a star studded Toulon in their own back yard in front of 50,000 baying French fans!

Simply awesome performance by Cardiff who dug deep to stun the 18.5 million Euro Toulon side (an unprecedented sum in rugby) to win rugby's equivalent of the Europa League.

Am I happy? Oh yes I am!

C'MOOOOOOONNNNNN CARDIFF!!!!!

Reports here (even the Bangkok Post has reported it!):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_u ... 685409.stm

http://www.skysports.com/rugbyunion/mat ... _1,00.html

http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/sports/ ... ugby-first

:cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers:

The only down side is that Cardiff's victory gives Llanelli a place in the Heineken Cup via the back door next season. Never mind - can't have everything I s'pose! :wink:
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Re: Cardiff Blues beat Wilkinson's Toulon in Amlin Cup Final

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Yep, absolutely Jamie - great match and a GREAT RESULT :D :cheers: :D Just a pity about the cr@ppy stream I had to endure :(

Panicking for the first quarter where the garlic munchers really were unlucky not to be a couple of tries up - that said, some great defence by the Blues. Hard times for the first half in all.

Dai must have done wonders with the HT team talk :cuss: :guns: :cuss: ..... great 2nd half by Caerdydd - although Johnny "one kick" going off couldn't have helped the garlic munchers' cause.

Mixed bag for the Blues this season, but a great result in the land of the coissant - thouroughly deserved with a superb team performance!! :dance: :dance:
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Re: Cardiff Blues beat Wilkinson's Toulon in Amlin Cup Final

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Indeed .... now let's indulge ourselves:

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