Premiership 24/25 - Round 10

[TRF_Olyy]

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[West Country Wail]

Looks like all home wins this week. I'm going to Welford Road so just hoping for a decent game with a 10 at 10 and a 13 at 13. Hammersley is injured so either Will Rigg comes off the naughty bench or Slade plays his actual position. Come on!

 

[Don't Skip Leg Day]

Sarries vs Bristol will be a good taster to see if Bristol can overcome that hard press defence.

Really interested to see if Bristol fall apart with their current style when things get tighter or of the sale drubbing was a one off.

 

[mikebrownsauce1512]

Pains me to say but quins need to be careful with that Friday night game.

 

[Which Tyler]

Looks like all home wins this week.

Could easily see Leicester being the only home win this weekend.
Those last 2 matches should be real crackers

 

[Which Tyler]

This weekend's match official appointments:

Newcastle v Harlequins
Ref: Sara Cox
TJs: Ian Tempest & Jonathan Healy
TMO: Dean Richards

Gloucester v Sale
Ref: Jack Makepeace
TJs: George Selwood & Gareth Holsgrove
TMO: Peter Allan

Leicester v Exeter
Ref: Christophe Ridley
TJs: Craig Maxwell-Keys & John Meredith
TMO: Andrew Jackson

Saracens v Bristol
Ref: Matthew Carley
TJs: Hamish Smales & Wayne Falla
TMO: David Rose

Northampton v Bath
Ref: Anthony Woodthorpe
TJs: Daniel Jones & Calum Howard
TMO: Stuart Terheege

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Prem site has us 3rd, think points difference comes before BPs

 

[Which Tyler]

Prem site has us 3rd, think points difference comes before BPs

Yeah, all.rugby is fan-run - it should be wins > PD > PF > Aggregate.
TBH, I've not idea how All.rugby split their "equal on league points", but I have a feeling it's "reverse alphabetical" - they had Bristol ahead of Bath a couple of weeks ago, when Bath had more wins, but Bris had the better PD; but Sale are ahead of Sarries on all splits except aggregate.

What I like about their table though, is that they include other useful metrics, likes points and tries for and against.
They also do separate tables for home matches and away matches for those who like such things.

 

[BPM]

Pains me to say but quins need to be careful with that Friday night game.

I agree. On a weekend where the weather is going to be freezing, playing Newcastle away at night is the last fixture anyone would pick.

Diamond will be scenting blood and without being pessimistic, I feel like we're very capable of losing a game like this.

Hopefully the coaching staff have our players in the right frame of mind.

 

[Scotty]

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Actually seeing a full table like this shows Chiefs problems, 5 LBP showing we arnt being destroyed, yet 1TBP and 9 tries behind the next lowest.

Whilst or defence has been an issue now that Omar has gone it has seemed abit better and hope we can build it, but our attack is wheats holding us back, we really need to step that up because we look lost at times leading to only 1 TBP

 

[West Country Wail]

Actually seeing a full table like this shows Chiefs problems, 5 LBP showing we arnt being destroyed, yet 1TBP and 9 tries behind the next lowest.

Whilst or defence has been an issue now that Omar has gone it has seemed abit better and hope we can build it, but our attack is wheats holding us back, we really need to step that up because we look lost at times leading to only 1 TBP

Problem is, Hepher is our attack coach and head coach and it feels like that. Time for a change or at least new ideas beyond smash smash out the back.

 

[Scotty]

Problem is, Hepher is our attack coach and head coach and it feels like that. Time for a change or at least new ideas beyond smash smash out the back.

I thought for a while he wasn't up for it, we really need a change, a strong attack coach to put a real system in place. But who is available I don't know

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Sale Sharks Starting XV:
15. Joe Carpenter, 14. Tom Roebuck, 13. Rob du Preez, 12. Luke James, 11. Tom O'Flaherty, 10. Tom Curtis, 9. Raffi Quirke, 1. Bevan Rodd, 2. Luke Cowan-Dickie, 3. Asher Opoku-Fordjour, 4. Ernst van Rhyn, 5. Jonny Hill, 6. Tom Curry, 7. Ben Curry ©, 8. JL du Preez.

Replacements:
16. Ethan Caine, 17. Si McIntyre, 18. WillGriff John, 19. Josh Beaumont, 20. Dan du Preez, 21. Gus Warr, 22. Sam Bedlow, 23. Sam Dugdale.


Disappointed at no Reed, but other than that happy - still don't like the 6:2 but guessing that's our A plan moving forwards
A rare Curtis appearance and it's a start!

Think that pretty much confirms Waisea is done (i.e. with Ford out they should've easily shifted RdP to 10 and brought Waisea into the centres or on the bench) - and I'm happy with that, he's been terrible and has backed up his on field slop by posting anti-vaxx conspiracy theories and Russian propaganda on social media. Just a shame that we're still paying his salary, and can't jetison him.

 

[BMatt]

Blimey. 7-1 bench split.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Blimey. 7-1 bench split.

Guessing it's injury related?
Targeting Saints pack in what is gonna be dismal weather (heavy snow predicted late afternoon) is the way to do it though

 

[BMatt]

I almost want there to be some minor backs injuries just to see how Bath deal with it.

 

[Which Tyler]

Ref: Anthony Woodthorpe
TJs: Daniel Jones & Calum Howard
TMO: Stuart Terheege

Northampton:
1 Tom West
2 Curtis Langdon
3 Trevor Davison
4 Temo Mayanavanua
5 Alex Coles
6 Josh Kemeny
7 Tom Pearson
8 Juarno Augustus

09 Alex Mitchell
10 Fin Smith
11 James Ramm
12 Rory Hutchinson
13 Fraser Dingwall
14 Tommy Freeman
15 George Hendy

16 Henry Walker, 17 Tarek Haffar, 18 Luke Green, 19 Tom Lockett, 20 Henry Pollock, 21 Angus Scott-Young
22 Archie McParland, 23 Ollie Sleightholme


Bath:
1 Beno Obano
2 Tom Dunn
3 Will Stuart
4 Quinn Roux
5 Ross Molony
6 Guy Pepper
7 Miles Reid
8 Alfie Barbeary

09 Ben Spencer
10 Finn Russell
11 Will Muir
12 Max Ojomoh
13 Ollie Lawrence
14 Joe Cokanasiga
15 Orlando Bailey

16 Kepu Tuipulotu, 17 Francois van Wyk, 18 Thomas du Toit, 19 Charlie Ewels, 20 Sam Underhill, 22 Josh Bayliss, 23 Jaco Coetzee
21 Louis Schreuder

 

[Don't Skip Leg Day]

Every time I seem to look at the Bath squad, underhill is on the bench. Is that in my head or is his game time just being managed.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Guessing they're managing his time since his injury for England - he's not started a game since then (this is only his third since the injury)

 

[Which Tyler]

I'd say that we're managing his time - he's had a fair few injuries, and a lot of concussions. May be one of those players who needs to be protected from himself.

Having Pepper around helps