Goode going great
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Wasps and England flyhalf Andy Goode has been around the block a few times but his numbers in the European Cup are mighty impressive.
He played against his current club in their last European Cup final outing in 2007, ending on the losing side with Leicester Tigers after two successes in 2001 and 2002.
The 34-year-old points machine recently announced he will be hanging up his boots at the end of the season and taking up a position on the Wasps coaching team.
But before he kicks his last ball in anger there are two main targets for him to aim for in Europe – to become the first Englishman to win three top-tier titles and to become only the eighth player in history to score 500 points in the Champions Cup.
Goode launched his career at Leicester Tigers, where he picked up European Cup winners medals as a starting flyhalf in Paris in 2001 and as an unused replacement in Cardiff in 2002.
He was also in the Tigers side that lost to Wasps in the all-England final at Twickenham in 2007.
He scored 406 European Cup points for the Tigers, 37 for Saracens in the Challenge Cup, a further 63 for Worcester Warriors in the Challenge Cup, 51 for Brive in both tournaments and has this season reached 92 points for Wasps in the Challenge Cup and Champions Cup.
That has given him a grand total of 461 points in 63 games in the European Cup / Champions Cup and 188 in 25 Challenge Cup outings – 649 points in 78 European games.
He needs to find 38 more in the Champions Cup to follow in the footsteps of Ronan O'Gara (1,365), Stephen Jones (869), Dimitri Yachvili (661), Diego Dominguez (645), David Humphreys (564), Neil Jenkins (502) and David Skrela (500) and join the '500 Club'.
He then needs 51 more to reach 700 points and move into eighth place overall on the European scoring charts for both tournaments.
Wasps travel to arch-rivals Harlequins for their Round Five match in Pool Two on Saturday before they meet Leinster in Round Six at the Ricoh Arena.
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