By ComeOnYouSaints.com
May 20 2011

It's Friday morning, 24 hours or so to go until the Heineken Cup Final. These words are taken from Page Six of "Pomes What I Wrote", the compilation of poems and songs written by, and inspired by, WestMidsSaint...

The only words I (Phil) have changed from Marks's original post are to bring WMS's work up-to-date, Smudger for Jim, a word or two here or there...

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I'd forgotten just how stirring these words are. Apologies to the "Greatest" Englishman for the liberties but, with minor alterations, I felt they were apt...

JIM'S TEAM TALK

"I have, myself, full confidence that if all do their duty, if nothing I neglected, and if the best arrangements are made, as they are being made, we shall prove ourselves once again able to defend our Green, Black and Gold honour, to ride out the storm of war, and to outlive the menace of the men of Leinster.

That is the resolve of the Saints. Every man of them. That is the will of the Lord Jim and the Gardens' Hordes. The team and supporters, linked together intheir cause, and in their need, will defend to the death their own 22, aiding each other like good comrades to the utmost of their strength.

We shall go on to the end.. We shall fight at The Millennium, we shall fight in the rucks and mauls, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the line-out, we shall defend our try-line, whatever the cost maybe, we shall fight in our our 22, we shall fight on the half, we shall fight in the tight and in the loose, we shall fight in the scrums; we shall never surrender and even if, which I do not for one moment believe, these Saints or a large part of them are subjugated and worn, then our replacements from the bench, armed and guarded with a plan for impact, will carry on the struggle. Until, in God's time, the Jimmies, with all their power and might, step forth to their rightful victory."