It looks as though I missed out on quite a trip last weekend. I know I did - I've seen the video. I was all geared up to travel to Clermont Auvergne with the boys at Sale for our Heineken Cup opener, when I pulled up in training with a hamstring strain. So I was forced to drop out of the trip.
Imagine my mixed emotions, then, when I heard the result - 32-15 at the home of the runners-up in the French championship for the past two years. Not only a victory, but with a bonus point to boot. The guys were targeting a win, definitely, but I don't think anyone mentioned the idea of a bonus-point win. What a result. But, also, what a game to have missed.
Four tries to nil - on the one hand, it was a return to our form of the early season, where we won our first four games without conceding a try, a record in the Premiership. Then, having bagged the record, we go to London Irish and suddenly decide to ship four of them. Don't ask...
That was the match in which I picked up my hamstring injury. We thought it would be OK for the Clermont game, but it proved just a little too soon.
On the other hand, though, that Clermont game had us discover the try-scoring touch that has been eluding us for a lot of the season so far. The potential to score has been there, I feel, but for whatever reason things weren't quite clicking. Last weekend was what we needed. We dug in deep when Clermont flung everything they had at us, and then we hit them on the counter. To earn the bonus point in a group as hard as this at a place as imposing as Clermont is massive.
But the talk in the past week has been about not throwing that achievement away. It'll count for nothing if we then go and lose at home to Munster today. You're unlikely to get out of this group if you don't win your home games.
Munster will be coming at us like madmen after the scare they suffered at home to Montauban last weekend. I'm sure the performance will have disappointed them, but it won't have caused any panic. No one ever played so brilliantly in the first week of a competition that they were awarded the title there and then.
The main thing for Munster is that they got the win. They know they're a much better side than that.
I'm definitely fit for this one, and I can't wait, even if any contribution I make today will have to be from the bench. Coming to Sale has been a great move for me. I definitely prefer being involved at the top end of the Premiership, and then to have European games of this magnitude - well, it's what we play for.
There are so many players here of international calibre. For a back to play outside guys like Luke McAlister, Dwayne Peel and Charlie Hodgson is a dream. It makes me feel excited. And then a quick look across at the forwards makes me feel safe. Andrew Sheridan, Jason White and company are one thing, but then Sébastien Chabal walks in and you know you're in the right changing room.
It has quickly become obvious since I arrived here that Seabass is a club legend. The fans just love him. Even my mum's got a crush on him. Must be something to do with the beard, because my dad has one as well. I dare say I'm a disappointment to her, because it would take me about three years to grow anything like that. And having experimented with the shaggy hair look myself, I've decided to cut my losses. I've had a short back and sides since coming to Sale.
• Mathew Tait joined Sale from Newcastle this summer. The back has 24 England caps
