Premiership 24/25 - Round 11

[West Country Wail]

Low quality Rugby from Exe and Sarries. Went and watched my local national 2 side earlier and the standard was comparable

 

[Which Tyler]

It's madness the incompetence in the league with the reduced number of teams. There ought to be zero international/training conflict whatsoever with the domestic competition.

As always, the question is what you sacrifice instead.
It's not beyond the wit of man, but this is the compromise PRL chose. They'd rather have clashes with England training weekends, then a shorter pre-season, or sacrifice the play-offs.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Hammersley has had a bit of a mare under the high ball

 

[Don't Skip Leg Day]

As always, the question is what you sacrifice instead.
It's not beyond the wit of man, but this is the compromise PRL chose. They'd rather have clashes with England training weekends, then a shorter pre-season, or sacrifice the play-offs.

Surely we should sacrifice a goat to the gods of old?

Always the best option

 

[West Country Wail]

Bench made a difference for a change. Obvious caveats applied but very with the win.

 

[Scotty]

Low quality Rugby from Exe and Sarries. Went and watched my local national 2 side earlier and the standard was comparable

Yeah not great, watched on and off on my phone so did see the full thing of how it was going.

How did Paul Brown-Bampoe get on, he seemed decent at chasing/disrupting but weak under the high ball. But he's fast and powerful with a good hand off and good defence it seems, did he do well

I really think coaching is the issue here with this Chiefs team, the parts are there to make a good team but we just don't see to do anything. It takes a weak second string for us to get a win.

 

[IT157]

Yeah not great, watched on and off on my phone so did see the full thing of how it was going.

How did Paul Brown-Bampoe get on, he seemed decent at chasing/disrupting but weak under the high ball. But he's fast and powerful with a good hand off and good defence it seems, did he do well

I really think coaching is the issue here with this Chiefs team, the parts are there to make a good team but we just don't see to do anything. It takes a weak second string for us to get a win.

Baxter has been there for so long. Time for a change by the sounds of it.

 

[Which Tyler]

Just spotted - Sale v Bath is on ITV this week

 

[Which Tyler]

Dammit, LBND is up there!

ETA, Kepu pulls out Dunn to bench

 

[Which Tyler]

Milked it worse than Lawrence, but brain-dead by Schreuder

 

[Which Tyler]

Ojomoh lazy tracking back after Reed kicks it on

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Milked it worse than Lawrence, but brain-dead by Schreuder

Milked it by...not reacting to it at all and still getting to the ball to compete? He didn't go down and didn't appeal to the ref



Russell must be so frustrating to coach, often magic but then when he's not arsed he just doesn't try - basically walking on that track back

 

[Which Tyler]

Bristol 14-0 Newcastle

 

[Which Tyler]

And another example of the new SH law being terrible - no control at the back = no price to pay.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

If you wanna talk about doing a Lawrence look at Barbeary there haha, holding his face after getting hit in the chest, then walking off completely fine when he realises the refs aren't looking

 

[TRF_Olyy]

That feels a generous penalty, definitely looks like Bath are on top at the scrum

 

[Which Tyler]

And another example of the new SH law being terrible - no control at the back = no price to pay.

Austin loving the new SH law because SHs can do... exactly what they were always could do

 

[TRF_Olyy]

FFS,
Usually if RdP gets the first he's golden all day, if he misses the first then we're looking at sub 50%

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Lovely finish

 

[Jimbo]

I hate some of the off the ball interpretations some times, I get a need to punish them at times but if an attacking players runs the line and pretty much initiates the contact it can be a little grey, mostly clear cut though.