No wonder he was wearing such a huge smile. For not only did Dimitri Yachvili score all his side's points in Biarritz Olympique's 12-11 win over Bath at the weekend, but he picked up the Heineken Man of the Match award and his ERC Elite 50 cap for making a half-century of appearances in the tournament.
The cap came on top of the ERC 500 Award he claimed at the end of last season when he became only the sixth player to amass 500 Heineken Cup points.
Yachvili became the 82nd player to reach the 50 game milestone and in Round 2 there will be two more stalwarts of the tournament who will join him - Ospreys wing Shane Williams and Cardiff Blues lock Deiniol Jones.
ERC Elite 50 Club
94 - John Hayes (Munster)
92 - Ronan O'Gara (Munster)
86 - Anthony Foley (Munster), Peter Stringer (Munster)
81 - Fabien Pelous (Dax 5, Toulouse 76)
80 - David Wallace (Munster)
79 - Shane Horgan (Leinster)
76 - Martyn Williams (Cardiff Blues 58, Pontypridd 17), Marcus Horan (Munster)
75 - Alan Quinlan (Munster)
74 - Malcolm O'Kelly (Leinster), Stephen Jones (Scarlets 71, Clermont 3)
71 - Donncha O'Callaghan (Munster)
70 - Gordon D'Arcy (Leinster)
69 - Martin Corry (Leicester), Jean Bouilhou (Toulouse), Brian O'Driscoll (Leinster)
68 - Girvan Dempsey (Leinster)
67 - John Kelly (Munster)
66 - Chris Wyatt (Llanelli Scarlets 60, Bourgoin 6), Vernon Cooper (Scarlets)
65 - Ben Kay (Leicester), Sylvain Marconnet (Stade Français 64, Biarritz 1)
64 - Yannick Bru (Toulouse), Nicolas Brusque (Biarritz 50, Pau 14), Leo Cullen (Leinster 51, Leicester 13), Geordan Murphy (Leicester), Cedric Heymans (Toulouse 60, Brive 3), Yannick Jauzion (Toulouse 58, Colomiers 5)
63 - Clement Poitrenaud (Toulouse)
62 - Ian Gough (Ospreys 21, Pontypridd 11, Newport 14, NG Dragons 16)
61 - Shane Byrne (Leinster 55, Saracens 6), Reggie Corrigan (Leinster), William Servat (Toulouse)
60 - Christian Labit (Toulouse 58, Northampton Saints 2), Dafydd James (Scarlets 30, Pontypridd 14, Bridgend 4, C Warriors 6, Quins 6), Gareth Thomas (Cardiff Blues 30, Toulouse 18, Celtic Warriors 6, Bridgend 6),
59 - Graham Rowntree (Leicester), Simon Shaw (Wasps), Chris Paterson (Edinburgh 53, Gloucester 6), Julien Peyrelongue (Biarritz)
58 - Allan Jacobsen (Edinburgh), Jerome Thion (Biarritz)
57 - Victor Costello (Leinster), Trevor Brennan (Toulouse 35, Leinster 22), David Humphreys (Ulster), Justin Fitzpatrick (Ulster), Jean-Baptiste Poux (Toulouse)
56 - Anthony Horgan (Munster), Simon Easterby (Scarlets), Philippe Bidabe (Biarritz), Nicolas Mas (Perpignan), Mick O'Driscoll (Munster)'
55 - Robin McBryde (Scarlets), Shaun Payne (Munster 33, Swansea 22), Frankie Sheahan (Munster), David Auradou (Stade Français), Lewis Moody (Leicester), Vincent Clerc (Toulouse)
54 - Denis Hickie (Leinster), Garan Evans (Scarlets), Paul O'Connell (Munster), Benoit Lecouls (Toulouse), George Chuter (Leicester)
53 - Austin Healey (Leicester), Alex King (Wasps 50, Clermont 3), Leon Lloyd (Leicester 50, Gloucester 3), Lawrence Dallaglio (Wasps), Nathan Hines (Leinster 9, Perpignan 19, Edinburgh 25)
52 - Eric Miller (Leinster 34, Leicester 12, Ulster 6), Pieter de Villiers (Stade Français), Tom Voyce (Gloucester 6, Bath 8, Wasps 38), Joe Worsley (Wasps), Iestyn Thomas (Ebbw Vale 6, Scarlets 46)
51 - Martin Johnson (Leicester), John Davies (Scarlets), Ben Cohen (Sale 5, Northampton 46), Gavin Thomas (NG Dragons 4, Scarlets 26, Ospreys 4, Bath 16), Perry Freshwater (Perpignan 31, Leicester 20), Benoit August (Biarritz)
50 - Gary Longwell (Ulster), Serge Betsen (Biarritz 44, Wasps 6), Dimitri Yachvili (Biarritz)
