article_snippet.sent: The hurt of losing back-to-back European and domestic finals last year took Mark McCall’s men all of last summer and a good chunk of this season to overcome.
article_snippet.sent: This time Mark McCall
article_snippet.sent: ’s men all of last summer and a good chunk of this season to overcome must lick Mark McCall
article_snippet.sent: ’s men all of last summer and a good chunk of this season to overcome wounds and refocus Mark McCall
article_snippet.sent: ’s men all of last summer and a good chunk of this season to overcome efforts on the Aviva Premiership after coming up short against Clermont.
article_snippet.sent: There should be no shame in this defeat.
article_snippet.sent: I’ve never experienced an atmosphere like that,’ said McCall.
article_snippet.sent: It’s easy to focus on the negatives when McCall’s men have just lost a game like that.
article_snippet.sent: But McCall’s men’re unbelievably proud of that performance and McCall’s men’ve got a week to rest out battered bodies and go again.
article_snippet.sent: With Schalk Britz and Brad Barritt both fit again, only the absence of Captain Alistair Hargreaves with concussion-related symptoms weakens McCall’s squad.
article_snippet.sent: only the absence of Captain Alistair Hargreaves with concussion-related symptoms will hurt from this no doubt.