Given the post-RWC season is typically spent not watching ERC rugby, I was amused to see that there's a lack of English clubs (Saracens) that made it to the final QF round of the Heineken Cup, but that they featured prominently in the Amlin Challenge Cup (the younger, uglier unglamourous sister of the H-Cup) along with a lot of French teams.
Was this just a bad year due to the attrition of players post-RWC, or are teams so focused on staying above relegation that teams that compete in the RaboBankCreditSuisseGreekBackedSecurities-14 can stack the deck in the H-Cup and send on a team of no-names for the regular league stuff when they need to rest players?
Was this just a bad year due to the attrition of players post-RWC, or are teams so focused on staying above relegation that teams that compete in the RaboBankCreditSuisseGreekBackedSecurities-14 can stack the deck in the H-Cup and send on a team of no-names for the regular league stuff when they need to rest players?