Le Bourgeois gets chance at No 10

Friday 30th September 2011, 2:59PM BST.

Michael Le Bourgeois

THERE are no ‘gimmes’ in this league. That is the message JRFC head coach Ben Harvey has impressed on his squad before he takes sixth-placed Jersey away to bottom-placed Cinderford.

‘It will be a tough game and we will treat them exactly the same as we would Fylde or Ealing,’ he said. ‘They’re a dogged side and they’ll aim to make life tough for us.’

Not for the first time this season Harvey is forced to make changes to his squad. Both Ross Broadfoot and ‘Barrel’ (Nick) Trower are out injured, while Nathan Hannay will be at his sister’s wedding in the UK.

‘But that gives me a chance to reform the second-row partnership between Jim Brownrigg and Paul (Rodgers), who played so well together two seasons ago,’ Harvey said, ‘while I feel that Mikey (Le Bourgeois) is ready to step up to No 10. It’s time for him to move up to the plate.’

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Bob Fleming

September 30, 2011 at 4:35 pm

“It’s time for him to move up to plate”

If he has to use a baseball analogy, surely it should be “step up to the plate”?

Other classic sporting analogy mistake :

“They’re just changing the goalposts”

Surely that’s fine, as long as the new goalposts are in the same place as the old ones?

And one used by countless sportsmen/women :

“It was a really big learning curve”

Well as long as the BIG CURVE was relatively shallow, surely it wasn’t that taxing?

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Dan St Peter

October 6, 2011 at 4:19 pm

Le Bourgeois has lovely highlighted hair. Yes Ben Harvey’s metaphors are as hackneyed as his rugby was when he played at Richmond.

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