Bordeaux ‘out of order’ in fracas with Pollock

After Henry Pollock appeared to be snuffed around the neck on the final whistle of the Saints’ Champions Cup final defeat on Saturday, Northampton director of rugby Phil Dowson accused the Bordeaux-Begles’ players of being “out of order.”

According to Dowson, “There was foul play involved in the end.”

“I think it was inappropriate and out of order,” Henry Pollock said in a special way. The officials have assured me that they will handle it after he reacted.

After the French defeated them 28-20 in Cardiff, Pollock, 20, had an argument with fly-half Mathieu Jalibert and was confronted by Bordeaux prop Jefferson Poirot.

Jalibert responded, “I told him that he didn’t know our club.” They “made some statements in the press that we didn’t really appreciate.”

They claimed that we were a mercenary club for money. I just told him that he must respect all clubs and doesn’t know our history or where we came from.

A behind-the-scenes video of Northampton’s semi-final victory over Leinster revealed how Saints used their own innate togetherness to inspire them to defeat their more popular foes.

Fin Smith, the Saints’ fly-half, argued that his England team-mate was the innocent party after a string of admirable displays in a remarkable breakthrough season.

They pursued him, they claimed. They didn’t seem to like him, Smith said.

They were all attempting to elude him, they all kind of charged at him.

When you first meet with a 20-year-old, you will be surprised if you have just won a European Cup. That piqued my interest, I thought. He’ll be fine.