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Have we blown it?
Yorkshire Carnegie beat Richmond 39-31 at the RAG under floodlights last Friday evening The lads scored seven tries in the bonus point win to maintain a twelve point gap over third placed Ealing in the Championship table. So everything is going to plan right?
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Black Frightday
Friday night lights? Friday night frights more like and I can’t help thinking that the power cut that hit the West End should’ve spread down to TW9 and made Richmond's floodlights fail.
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Richmond - matchday thread.
Tonight second in the table Yorkshire Carnegie travels to bottom club Richmond for a Friday night under lights fixture that could be a lot closer than the league table might suggest.....
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A first time for everything.
On Friday night Yorkshire Carnegie travels to West London for a first meeting with Richmond rugby club. As things stand the Richmond lads are adrift at the foot of the table so this is unlikely to become a regular fixture. However Richmond won the game against its kilted tenants at the weekend and will want to consolidate that with a win against our squad.
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The Biggest Test so far?
After losing their 100% record to London Irish, Carnegie look to get back to winning ways when they host near neighbours Doncaster Knights. It is fair to say the Knights will not pose the same threat as the Irish did, but in some ways it is more important to win this week than it was at the Madstad.
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A premier-class experience
My first experience of the Ricoh Stadium, Coventry, was our pre-season match against Wasps. Despite playing a Championship side, the home-coming debut of lost Wasps’ son Cipriani helped swell the crowd over 7000, meaning that, come what may, Carnegie had probably performed before the biggest crowd and in the best stadium of the season.
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Wake up and smell the coffee!
Our Yorkshire Carnegie team was comprehensively beaten at the Madjeski Stadium on Saturday afternoon. The Exiles ran in five tries. Jonah Holmes scored twice but the traffic was mostly one way as our unbeaten league run came to an abrupt end.
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In every dream home a heartache.
After seven rounds of the Championship two teams remain unbeaten, having won all seven games. On Saturday , at the Madjeski Stadium, that record will go for at least one of those teams as London Irish hosts Yorkshire Carnegie in the tie of the round.
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Friday night’s alright – if you don’t mind a fright
Under Headingley Carnegie’s lights, Yorkshire Carnegie carved out a win against a determined Jersey Reds side but not without a few howlers and spooky moments along the way.
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Follow the yellow brick road - to Selby!.
Yorkshire Carnegie snatched defeat from the jaws of victory last weekend when the squad let a first half lead slip to plunge to a 51-35 loss at Ealing Trailfinders in the first cup game of this campaign.