We may have lost on stage, but we won a few fans, shared a few laughs, and started a few pants-fires.
Since you're asking me, remember once to go through the group stage we had to win to clinch the group.
"Every time we think of something, some bit we might do if we ever got to the stage, we don't win," said Jim Rash, a co-writer of "The Descendants".
Ulster director of rugby David Humphreys: "At some stage we have to win a game against them and I believe we have closed the gap on them.
"It looked like at one stage we were going to win 3-1 in the morning and ended up losing 1½ to 2½. "The way the Americans played the last few holes was very strong and they certainly had their tails up going into the afternoon sessions.
"It reached a stage where each time we won a game we joked that we had saved a couple of the coaches' jobs again," said one squad member in response to the Rugby Players Associationn survey of the players.
Lennon would make sarcastic remarks from the stage, saying "You Krauts, we won the war," knowing that very few Germans in the audience spoke English, but any English sailors present would roar with laughter.
Maybe there would've been more opportunities for sprints, but we won six stages.
"OK, last year went badly, more for him than the team, because if your best rider falls in the first week you can panic or you can go for plan B, which is what we did - we won three stages without Mark, unfortunately," the Belgian explained.
"We won the two stages that we came to win," said Cavendish, who leads Sagan by eight seconds in the standings.
