This week, in his exclusive internet column, Steve Hanley deals with Calvisano, Champagne Charlie and clock watching.

This week's game against Calvisano is a big chance for us to get our Heineken Cup game back on track after the game against the Ospreys.

It's been a disappointing week after that defeat, you just never are sure of victory in this competition, no matter how secure you think you are.

I know it's not an excuse but there was one small thing that we felt did us no favours.

In the Guinness Premiership we would have known exactly how long was left on the clock when the Ospreys launched that last play.

The boys on the pitch had no idea it was the last play because if they did, we would have stepped up our defence, closed them down or given away a penalty to stop them from scoring.

But since nobody knew what stage we were at they didn't want to take a risk like that. If someone had given away a penalty and then been yellow carded with time still left, they might have cost us the game.

It's something that needs addressing. I have played rugby without a clock for most of my life but when you get used to it it makes it hard when you have to do without it.

I remember the game against Leeds at Edgeley Park last year when the press said we had scored three times in injury time. The thing was, we knew there was still nine minutes left on the clock and we always knew there was still time to win it.

That's not taking anything away from the Ospreys though, their last play went through something incredible like 12 phases and they did well to get that try.

But we were massively disappointed because we had controlled the game throughout the second half in particular and made five or six breaks that we didn't take advantage of.

I'm really looking forward to this week's game though because I'm back in the starting line-up and, fingers crossed, we are looking for a bonus-point win.

As Philippe has been saying all week, we still have to win the game first, we can't take Calvisano for granted.

For 50 to 60 minutes it could be pretty tough but if we take our chances when they come, we are confident of getting the result we need.

Stade Francais ran in six tries against them last week so ideally we need to look at matching that because the group is that tight it could end up being decided by tries scored.We are all confident we can still qualify, we have learnt a lot in the last year or so and we will go over to France with no fear, as long as we beat Calvisano first!

We got a boost in the run up to the game with the news about Charlie, Philippe and Kingsley re-signing.

They made a big deal out of it so we gave Charlie a bit of stick for it but he'll be down Wall Street with all that money in his pocket now.

He's one player we definitely could not afford to lose so it's great news.

Charlie had plenty of interest in his services from around the Premiership I'm sure, of the 11 other clubs I reckon 10 would be in the market for him.

It was never a foregone conclusion that he would sign but I know he was always at least 90 per cent sure that his future lay at Sale.

They can build the team around him now and that can only be good for Sale, Charlie is an outstanding player and a real draw now.

It's good that Philippe has agreed to stay on as well, he's always said that the only job he would leave Sale for now is the French one.

He's focussed on building something great here and he wouldn't want to walk away with the job half done.

There was an offer that supposedly came in from Perpignan he turned down to stay here, so that says a lot about his attitude now.

He could have gone back to his home country to coach one of the big five teams for significant money in a very attractive part of the world but he chose to stay here.

All I can say is that it must be sunnier over in Bramhall than it is here in Sale!