Aviva Premiership 15/16 - Round 4

[j'nuh]

Glos won the territory and possession battle, spent like 20 minutes in Wasps' 22, and still got beaten handsomely and weren't able to score a try. Yeah, that was the most frustrating match in a while.

Glos need players in the backline who will straighten the line. Too many players who like attacking outside shoulders, no one who wants to go direct. Would kill for a Tuilagi-like player.

Kvesic was head and shoulders above the other Glos players today.

 

[Patchey]

Kvesic was head and shoulders above the other Glos players today.

How any times has that been the case for the last couple of seasons?

 

[stus768]

Glos won the territory and possession battle, spent like 20 minutes in Wasps' 22, and still got beaten handsomely and weren't able to score a try. Yeah, that was the most frustrating match in a while.

Glos need players in the backline who will straighten the line. Too many players who like attacking outside shoulders, no one who wants to go direct. Would kill for a Tuilagi-like player.

Kvesic was head and shoulders above the other Glos players today.

12t pretty direct and made some good yards. But his decision making is poor.

 

[LeinsterMan (NotTigsMan)]

Thats the trouble with 12T he isn't really a direct runner, he hasn't got that raw power.

But for Glous he is considered a bigger back.

 

[stus768]

Thats the trouble with 12T he isn't really a direct runner, he hasn't got that raw power.

But for Glous he is considered a bigger back.

Agree with that. Would rather he was winging passes to the back three than trucking it up into traffic.

 

[Tim Owen]

I watched most the game but resorted to channel hopping due to boredom. One decent bit of rugby for Wasps 1st try and some ref/video ref comedy for the Gloucester sending off was about it on the highlight front.
Is the Aviva Prem suffering a post RWC hangover or were things this dull last season?

 

[Patchey]

There have been some great games tbh, but mostly involving the 'smaller' teams / not this weekend.

Looking forward to the start of the ERC now.

 

[Don't Skip Leg Day]

I'd Echo the sentiments on here that the quality in the premiership so far this year has been terrible.

No idea what to do about it though long term. Stopping relegation isn't going to change anything. How would that change the way saints, sarries, bath, Tigers , Exeter play??

It is the basics, the 2 on 1s, support okay etc just not good enough.

 

[McTallshort]

Yeah well it was always going to be an anti climax after the WC

 

[ratsapprentice]

I thought the decision to give Smith the MOM was odd, Kev outplayed him IMO.
I guess he's just the beneficiary of being on the winning side.

God damn I'd love to see Kvesic playing for a dominant side.

 

[Tony Manx]

I thought the decision to give Smith the MOM was odd, Kev outplayed him IMO.
I guess he's just the beneficiary of being on the winning side.

God damn I'd love to see Kvesic playing for a dominant side.

Can never understand why it can only be a player on the winning side can be MoM!!

 

[McTallshort]

Can never understand why it can only be a player on the winning side can be MoM!!

Well launchbury won it once on the losing side....

 

[Tony Manx]

Well launchbury won it once on the losing side....

Haha! Once!!!!!

 

[Patchey]

Well from the highlights reel online Daly is clearly MOTM...

Dire game but good performances fro Kev, Hask and Daly. Thought Cittadini was a bit unlucky to get red rather than yellow maybe, but daft.

 

[Tony Manx]

Well from the highlights reel online Daly is clearly MOTM...

Dire game but good performances fro Kev, Hask and Daly. Thought Cittadini was a bit unlucky to get red rather than yellow maybe, but daft.

Just seen it and as ref says "clear punch to the face that is a red card offence"!

 

[Patchey]

Yeah, I just thought he'd missed and hit the shoulder, but then my eyesight is crap and the stream I watched the highlights on just now was poor (hard turned the game off by the time it happened in real time) so I am probably wrong.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Can never understand why it can only be a player on the winning side can be MoM!!

TJ Ioane won MOTM on Friday.

 

[Ragey Erasmus]

Was it just me or was Cittadini giving a bit of lip as he walked off?

 

[TRF_Olyy]

I think he was having a go at 36, thinking that 36 was telling the ref to card him, when he was really doing the opposite.

 

[Vieux Talonneur]

I thought the decision to give Smith the MOM was odd, Kev outplayed him IMO.
I guess he's just the beneficiary of being on the winning side.

God damn I'd love to see Kvesic playing for a dominant side.

Funny how poor the Gloucs pack often is when it has two thirds of many people's preferred Eng back row playing. Plus Afoa, plus Hibbard. Less than the sum of its parts.

But yes Kvesic did look good again today.