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Premiership 24/25 - Round 4

Yay.
Derby day!

Just seems a little odd to have it this weekend - wouldn't New Year be the better option?
 
It's not getting easier...Bristol are on form and a strong attacking team, we can win this but it will be tough.
 
Curry twins and Du Preez twins back this weekend, that's a big boost - not that the pack didn't front up well last week
Can't remember the last time we had all four available, wouldn't be surprised if it was the 22/23 season
 
Aw well...another humping on the cards....might watch a movie instead.
 
Saintjay said:
I do feel for Falcons the one time Sale have some decent players fit this decade and it's against them.
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Ah it is what it is. You cant be in this league hoping that the opposition has all their best players injured. I want to see the best players on the pitch..we all do.

We just dont have the money to compete its that simple...and poor Steve Diamond has a serious job on his hands that i dont think is actually achievable without some investment.
 
Sale Sharks Starting XV:
15. Joe Carpenter, 14. Tom Roebuck, 13. Will Addison, 12. Sam Bedlow, 11. Arron Reed, 10. Rob du Preez, 9. Gus Warr; 1. Si McIntyre, 2. Luke Cowan-Dickie, 3. James Harper, 4. Ben Bamber, 5. Hyron Andrews, 6. Ernst van Rhyn, 7. Ben Curry ©, 8. Tom Curry.

Replacements:
16. Ethan Caine, 17. Tumy Onasanya, 18. Asher Opoku-Fordjour, 19. Josh Beaumont, 20. Dan du Preez, 21. Nye Thomas, 22. Tom Curtis, 23. Sam Dugdale.


Only three twins, in the end - I'm guessing JLdP failed a late fitness test (he's been out with concussion) as the team sheet on the Sale site has Bamber on it twice (so I think JL was due to start and got swapped for Bamber last minute, and they didn't update the bench)

Backline has a ton of potential for exciting rugby

Not massively sold on TC at 8, but he's a very different player from his previous forays there, now, so have to wait and see
 
Geordie said:
Ah it is what it is. You cant be in this league hoping that the opposition has all their best players injured. I want to see the best players on the pitch..we all do.

We just dont have the money to compete its that simple...and poor Steve Diamond has a serious job on his hands that i dont think is actually achievable without some investment.
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I'd happily have Tigers put out a team of slow moving injured donkeys at the weekend. Simply for the win and bragging rights. "You can only beat what's in front of you" and all that.

I think Tigers will win at the weekend in all seriousness. I'm now off for a shower because I feel dirty for saying that.
 
Falcons
1 Brocklebank
2 Blamire
3 Palframan
4 Rubiolo
5 Hawkins
6 Van der Walt
7 Gordon
8 Chick (C)

9 Stuart
10 Grayson
11 Stevenson
12 Hutchison
13 Spencer
14 Radwan
15 Obatoyinbo

16 Fletcher
17 De Bruin
18 McCallum
19 Lockwood
20 Scott
21 Davis
22 Metcalf
23 Brown
 
Crash Hamster said:
Scheduled in the football 'international break' apparently, hoping to increase interest.
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That could work, but having an England training session take up half the week was a tad foolish. I think Northampton and Saracens each lost 8 players. Everything just feels amateurish and disjointed.

I'd like to hope Sarries carry on their 100% record, but I wonder whether Quins might overturn their losing streak. Then again Sarries seem to do better when living rent free in opponents heads, so who knows.

 
IT157 said:
This would make more sense if it was heavily advertised.
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Indeed. This is a site full of rugby people and no-one was particularly aware of it. If you're going to attempt to steal some football fans, you have to park your tanks on their lawn far more effectively than this.

I still believe that there is little point in trying to make rugby artificially 'bigger'; what is needed is a joined-up system from schools to international level, properly and sustainably funded, which will allow the game to grow organically.

As an aside, what seems to happen is a disjointed attempt to alienate the traditional fanbase in an attempt to attract more people who currently aren't interested. (see also, cricket, politics etc. Seems to be a plague at the moment.)
 
I get why they're trying to push the derby angle, but realistically most of these are fluff - Saints and Tigers is the only proper derby in there
Bristol and Bath is a bigger matchup than Gloucester/Bath, don't know why they didn't have that

Newcastle/Sale there's zero animosity, with most Sale fans wanting Falcons to do well - plus the distance is crazy, Leicester is closer to Sale than Newcastle is
 
TRF_Olyy said:
I get why they're trying to push the derby angle, but realistically most of these are fluff - Saints and Tigers is the only proper derby in there
Bristol and Bath is a bigger matchup than Gloucester/Bath, don't know why they didn't have that

Newcastle/Sale there's zero animosity, with most Sale fans wanting Falcons to do well - plus the distance is crazy, Leicester is closer to Sale than Newcastle is
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I think even Saints-Tigers is pushing it, the distance between Franklin Gardens and Welford Rd is twice that of the Stoop and StoneX, and arguably the Sarries-Quins rivalry is something that only emerged in the past decade.

The pool of teams simply doesn't have the depth of football.

Reasonably strong team to go up against Quins.

 

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