We'll see how Richard works out over the week. I'll be glad if he plays this weekend given that he was supposed to be dead and buried two weeks ago.

Our guys are going to swim a lot this weekend. We want to look at how they can handle that. It'll certainly be a reflection of where our conditioning is right now. We're looking for three good sessions where we go out and race the person next to us.

That was our quickest of the weekend, we'd ran pretty much (5.80's) all weekend, the best of an 84 until that round and we stepped up to an 82 and it probably could have done a little more.

But that weekend a Black Eyed Peas concert and sporting events are still being held.

The team gave as good as they can. It was a very committed and organised performance. But it was not enough.

It's very even and you can analyse the group in whatever way you like. You can look at us and say we've two home games to go with a game in Cyprus in between. Then you can look at France and say they are capable of winning three matches with the fantastic players they have.