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Back in the day teams like Wasps & Harlequins had really offish supporters, whereas Saracens were more of a 'Rugby' club rather than a social club.
For that reason - Exeter for me

Shortbread - Portsmouth
 
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Southport - Gosforth **

** a fine, proper old Rugby club, one of the top clubs in the country, split in two in the 80"s...one half become Newcastle Falcons, t'other remained amateur Gosforth
 
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Cortisone - Cortez*

* - other Spanish Conquistadors are available but it was Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro Altamirano, Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire.
 
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Cortez ** - Cortage

** Like stout Cortez -
When with eagle eyes, star'd at the Pacific/
And all his men look'd at each other with a wild surmise/
Silent, upon a peak in Darien

Keats from 'Looking into Chapman's Homer'
 
Cortège - Borthwick*

* - the Lions' forwards coach for this Summer's series against the All Blacks ..... New Zealand, that is, not Neath <laugh>
 
Borthwick - Gorgonzola **
** an ugly Mrs Zola


Good game so far Taff, are you dragging/wllling yourself to watch the Pro12 final later?.
 
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