PREM 25/26 - Round 6

[Which Tyler]

NB: ITV4 showing the Sunday game this weekend

 

[The Seeker]

I'd like to pick Gloucester to beat Harlequins, but it's not logical. I'm hoping for an upset though.

 

[Which Tyler]

ITV4:
Ref: Christophe Ridley
TJs: Sara Cox and Simon Harding
TMO: Stuart Terheege

Bath Rugby:
1 Beno Obano
2 Tom Dunn
3 Thomas du Toit
4 Quinn Roux
5 Charlie Ewels
6 Josh Bayliss
7 Miles Reid
8 Arthur Green

09 Ben Spencer (c)
10 Finn Russell
11 Henry Arundell
12 Will Butt
13 Chris Harris
14 Joe Cokanasiga
15 Tom de Glanville

16 Dan Frost, 17 Francois van Wyk, 18 Will Stuart, 19 Ross Molony, 20 Ted Hill
21 Tom Carr-Smith, 22 Max Ojomoh, 23 Cameron Redpath


Saracens:
1 Rhys Carre
2 Theo Dan
3 Marco Riccioni
4 Theo McFarland
5 Hugh Tizard
6 Juan Martin Gonzalez
7 Ben Earl
8 Tom Willis

09 Ivan van Zyl (c)
10 Owen Farrell
11 Max Malins
12 Nick Tompkins
13 Lucio Cinti
14 Noah Caluori
15 Elliot Daly


16 James Hadfield, 17 Eroni Mawi, 18 Marcus Street, 19 Harry Wilson, 20 Nick Isiekwe
21 Charlie Bracken, 22 Fergus Burke, 23 Angus Hall

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Could be a red here, looked bad on first view

Edit: maybe not - head whiplashed forward from contact to the body, no actual head contact. Definite shoulder though, so yellow is fair

 

[Crash Hamster]

I'm with Austin here, no actual head contact there.

 

[LeinsterMan (NotTigsMan)]

I’m not going to speak

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Looks like a torn bicep for AOF

 

[LeinsterMan (NotTigsMan)]

What is it with Sale and closing out games?

 

[TRF_Olyy]

God we're **** at rugby

 

[TRF_Olyy]

What is it with Sale and closing out games?

And stupid team selections

Two locks and no backrower on the bench, bring Jibulu on at 7 and Burrow on at 6, don't bring Andrews on at all and leave the starting 1, 2, 4 and 5 playing the full 80
Sub Ford early, sub DDP early

Just mental

 

[PremRugbyScorigami]

Leicester 39-17 Newcastle

NO Scorigami

This is the 6th instance of this score.

First Game: 26/3/11 London Irish 39-17 Exeter
Last Game: 26/9/25 Saracens 39-17 Newcastle

 

[PremRugbyScorigami]

Exeter 27-26 Sale

NO Scorigami

This is the 7th instance of this score

First Game: 7/11/99 Saracens 27-26 Wasps
Last Game: 5/2/22 Wasps 27-26 Exeter

 

[Scotty]

God we're **** at rugby

How did Chiefs play? I couldn't watch it and havnt got round to the highlights yet.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

How did Chiefs play? I couldn't watch it and havnt got round to the highlights yet.

Equally as crap for about 50 then comfortably better the final third

Woodburn was your best player,
Jenkins was poor the first 50 but good the final 30 - I wouldn't have given him MOTM because he almost lost you the game by taking contact on a 3 on 1 break

 

[Rinkadink]

Well, last night was a disaster for my fantasy team. Thought the likes of Radwan would tear it up v the weakest team in the league, even traded out my usual 10 for Searle. He was the only one I'd call acceptable from a points perspective but it wasn't great. Even IFW struggled to bring the goods.

I spoke to someone who saw the televised fixture and said it was a terrible spectacle. Perhaps it's highlights job for these two although the Sale v Exeter score looks far more competitive.

 

[LeinsterMan (NotTigsMan)]

Highlights for tigers game will be good some very good try’s

Number 8 Moro looks a handy signing

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Not many highlights in the sale game outside of the tries (and most of them nothing to write home about), it looked more like a pre-season game (which I guess makes sense as half the players out there will have only had 2 or 3 training sessions together in the last two months)

 

[Scotty]

Equally as crap for about 50 then comfortably better the final third

Woodburn was your best player,
Jenkins was poor the first 50 but good the final 30 - I wouldn't have given him MOTM because he almost lost you the game by taking contact on a 3 on 1 break

We are still building i guess, but top of the table so if we could please end the season early.

But honestly I never thought we'd be in a position to be in the top 4 never mind 1st(even if only for a day.)

 

[Scotty]

Equally as crap for about 50 then comfortably better the final third

Woodburn was your best player,
Jenkins was poor the first 50 but good the final 30 - I wouldn't have given him MOTM because he almost lost you the game by taking contact on a 3 on 1 break

That 3 on 1 was, just watched it but 21 unanswered points in 20 min is not bad going but we can't let games get away from us being 26 - 6 down at 50 min is bad.

 

[Crash Hamster]

Well, last night was a disaster for my fantasy team.

Yep, me too.

Disappointed in Leicester, they really did lack ambition against what is still currently a very poor Newcastle side. I know they got the full 5 points, but really didn't give the backs a run at all, leastways for the first 60 minutes. It was very much reminiscent of England, still playing as if there's no talent outside the FH. It's just disappointing that coaches don't back the smaller, more tricky men more often.