{"id":36,"date":"2025-05-23T01:59:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T17:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/84news.top\/index.php\/2025\/05\/23\/new-boys-bordeaux\/"},"modified":"2025-05-23T01:59:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T17:59:13","slug":"new-boys-bordeaux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/23\/new-boys-bordeaux\/","title":{"rendered":"New boys Bordeaux"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The French side and their star backline stormed past six-time winners and holders Toulouse in the semi-finals while 2000 champions Northampton stunned Irish powerhouses Leinster in the previous round. <\/p>\n<p>Four of Phil Dowson&#8217;s Northampton squad &#8212; rising star flanker Henry Pollock, fly-half Fin Smith, scrum-half Alex Mitchell and winger Tommy Freeman &#8212; have been named in the Lions&#8217; squad for this summer&#8217;s tour of Australia. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are going to go flying into it with loads of energy, loads of heart, we&#8217;re going to work incredibly hard and when it goes well, we&#8217;re going to celebrate and when it goes wrong, we&#8217;re going to pick each other up,&#8221; Dowson told the BBC this week. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re going to keep doing that for 80 minutes and then look up at the scoreboard and see where we&#8217;re at,&#8221; the former Saints back-rower added. <\/p>\n<p>Bordeaux-Begles have reached their maiden Champions Cup final having been founded following a merger between Bordeaux and suburban town Begles in 2006. <\/p>\n<p>They tasted defeat in their only other previous major final, losing 59-3 to Toulouse in the Top 14 last season despite the involvement of supersonic wingers Louis Bielle-Biarrey and Damian Penaud as well as influential fly-half Matthieu Jalibert. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are things we can control better compared to what we did last year,&#8221; head coach Yannick Bru told reporters on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re happy to be at another match that is decisive for the club, with all our capabilities,&#8221; the former France and Toulouse hooker added. <\/p>\n<p>Dowson has an injury-hit squad with doubts over four regulars including Fijian lock Temo Mayanavanua and full-back James Ramm.<\/p>\n<p>South African No 8 Juarno Augustus has already been ruled out with an issue picked up in training. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You look at the quality of their squad, and we&#8217;re suffering with some long-term injuries,&#8221; Dowson said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Just on those factors alone we&#8217;re probably underdogs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Fast and brave&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cardiff (United Kingdom) (AFP) \u2013 <\/span>                    First-time finalists Bordeaux-Begles play Northampton for the Champions Cup on Saturday at Cardiff&#8217;s Millenium Stadium with the English club brimming with future British and Irish Lions players.                 <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"t-content__with-sidebar\">\n<div class=\"t-content__beside-sidebar\" data-article-content>\n<div class=\"t-content__metadata\">\n<div class=\"t-content__dates\">\n<p class=\"m-pub-dates\"><span class=\"m-pub-dates__date\">Issued on: 23\/05\/2025 &#8211; 03:59<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"a-reading-time\">\n    <span class=\"a-svg a-svg--picto-clock\" title=\"Reading time\"><\/span> 2 min    <span class=\"u-sr-only\">Reading time<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"a-share-button\" data-root-share>\n<p>                                <i class=\"a-svg a-svg--icon-share\"><\/i><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"t-content__main-media\">\n<figure class=\"m-figure m-figure--16x9\">\n<p>        <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"b09f91d04808ad6ea84fd533baf00b98680413ff.jpg\" alt=\"Henry Pollock (C) has been included in the British and Irish Lions squad having made his Test debut in March\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" loading=\"eager\" class=\"m-figure__img lazy\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}