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Article: Toulouse away? That's where we want to be, roars Lipman ; Michael Lipman says Toulouse have created the template for what Bath want to achieve over the coming years.
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- Western Daily Press (Bristol UK)
- Article date:
- October 11, 2008
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Michael Lipman says Toulouse have created the template for what
Bath want to achieve over the coming years.
Guy Noves' side have won the Heineken Cup three times - in 1996,
2003 and 2005 - and are mainstays of the French domestic title race,
winning the championship seven times since 1994.
Bath head to the 38,000-capacity Stadium Municipal - known
locally simply as Le Stadium - tomorrow, aiming to shock European
rugby by getting off to a winning start in Pool Five of the Heineken
Cup. It will be the European Challenge Cup holders' first appearance
in the top-tier competition since their 18-9 semi-final defeat to
Biarritz in San Sebastian in April 2006.
And Bath captain Lipman and his players ...