IN a league with a genuine competitive edge teams do not throw away points in the way that Harlequins did against Bristol in the Premiership on Tuesday night at a rain-swept Stoop.
A ring-fenced league showed its semi-competitive colours again when, with four and a half minutes left on the clock in a game in which there was a glut of handling errors, Harlequins were awarded a penalty on the Bristol 22 about 15 metres in from the touchline.