Premiership 24/25 - Round 7

[Geordie]

How sad...I've gone for 20 years, give up this season and sat at home not even bothered they were playing tonight..and they beat sarries... And I don't actually care....

 

[Not Mike Brown's Sock]

How sad...I've gone for 20 years, give up this season and sat at home not even bothered they were playing tonight..and they beat sarries... And I don't actually care....

How! Even I care (though that is probably an anti-Sarries thing in part)

 

[IT157]

Newcastle away on Friday night, Saracens wont be up for -5 degrees Newcastle 30 Saracens 21.

Nice prediction!

 

[Booboobang]

Steve diamond feels like a perfect fit for newcastle tbh. Like him or loathe him, he has an eye for cheaper talent and has always been good at working with an academy and bringing players through.

 

[Rinkadink]

Any injury updates on Sammy Arnold? Didn't look good. Hope it's not as bad as it first appears.

 

[jordiev]

Sale Sharks Starting XV:
15. Joe Carpenter, 14. Tom Roebuck, 13. Rob du Preez, 12. Luke James, 11. Arron Reed, 10. George Ford, 9. Gus Warr, 1. Bevan Rodd, 2. Luke Cowan-Dickie, 3. Asher Opoku-Fordjour, 4. Ernst van Rhyn, 5. Hyron Andrews, 6. Tom Curry, 7. Ben Curry ©, 8. Dan du Preez.

Replacements:
16. Tadgh McElroy, 17. Si McIntyre, 18. James Harper, 19. JL du Preez, 20. Tom Burrow, 21. Sam Dugdale, 22. Raffi Quirke, 23. Will Addison.


Really hate 6:2s, but other than that I'm OK with the side - Luke James at 12 is interesting, always thought that was his best position before he moved to 15 (which he did really well at, tbf) because of Manu
Raffi back in the mix and Tom Burrow on the bench - must be tearing up trees in training for them to go 6:2 with a 19yr old lock on the bench while leaving out the likes of O'Flaherty, Nayacalevu, Curtis etc.

Hope that a number of returning leaders in the side can shake the stink of the last few rounds off, but I'm not overly optimistic

Might be wrong but I think enfland might have actually done you a massive favour, time with tom hardison for asher, cowan dickie and tom curry getting big game time in their legs wich they needed, lcd looked decent in his game time as well.

Maybe ford has a chip on shoulder after a couple of stinkers and people calling him washed

 

[jordiev]

Quins without Smith is such a crazy downgrade

Agree, evans isnt even a bad player, but their attack is obviously very relient on smith being a maverick and the sh, 12 and 8 being very much on his wave length to predict what he is going to do