Premiership Rugby 19/20 - Round 6

[TRF_Olyy]

 

[Scotty]

My predictions

Gloucester 4 0 Wuss
Tigers 0 5 Chiefs
Sharks 2 5 Saints
Sarries 5 1 Bristol
Wasps 4 0 Quins
Lirish 4 1 Bath

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Tigers vs Chiefs is gonna be....interesting Christmas TV.
Depending on which side you're supporting...

 

[duncanb]

Looking like a fair few close games difficult to call my acca this week.
Glou
Chiefs
Sale
Sarries
Quins
Irish.

 

[FLOBALOB]

I think there might be a lot of changes for Chiefs this weekend .If so could make tigers a good bet at ~2/1. They cant play so bad forever.

 

[Ragey Erasmus]

Glos
Chiefs
Saints
Sarries
Quins
Irish

 

[Reiser99]

Tigers vs Chiefs is gonna be....interesting Christmas TV.
Depending on which side you're supporting...

I have complete faith that the Tigers will generously gift 5 points to those in need.

 

[Scotty]

I have complete faith that the Tigers will generously gift 5 points to those in need.

We are slumming it in 3rd atm we need all the help we can get!

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Tis the season....for incredibly strenuous festive puns

 

[Scotty]

CHIEFS SIDE TO FACE LEICESTER TIGERS

15 Stuart Hogg
14 Olly Woodburn
13 Henry Slade (capt)
12 Ollie Devoto
11 Ian Whitten
10 Gareth Steenson
9 Jack Maunder
1 Ben Moon
2 Elvis Taione
3 Harry Williams
4 Jannes Kirsten
5 Jonny Hill
6 Don Armand
7 Jacques Vermeulen
8 Matt Kvesic

16 Kyle Cooper
17 Billy Keast
18 Enrique Pieretto
19 Dave Dennis
20 Sean Lonsdale
21 Stuart Townsend
22 Sam Hill
23 Tom Hendrickson

That is a weak bench, dont rate Hendrickson at all, i know the Tigers arnt on the best form but resting Hepburn, LCD, Ewers, Simmonds, SSimmonds, White, JSimmonds, Nowell is a pretty big risk. And no Yendle and O Flaherty doesnt help. Good to see Devoto back though.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

That's still a very strong starting XV considering the amount of players rested.

 

[FLOBALOB]

I think there might be a lot of changes for Chiefs this weekend .If so could make tigers a good bet at ~2/1. They cant play so bad forever.

Tigers now dropped to 13/10 on Betfair sportsbook since teams announced. I should have bet the 2s and laid off.

Scotty- Agree about Hendrickson, Physically strong but his ball handling is awful.
Can understand resting quite a few with Saracens next week and remaining European games not far off.
Close game i expect.

 

[Scotty]

That's still a very strong starting XV considering the amount of players rested.

True but 21 of 35 points came in the last 20 mi. Vs sale last week. So that bench could have their work cut out of we dont dominate or build a score early.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

I like this referee

Edit:
Upgrading that to I really like this referee/TMO

 

[Ragey Erasmus]

I like this referee

Edit:
Upgrading that to I really like this referee/TMO

Missed the game, what stood out?

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Missed the game, what stood out?

Just worked together really well - plenty of midflow checking and only stopping the game when it needed to be, clear communication with the players
Good communication on disallowed tries (ref thought it was a try, TMO thought otherwise, so they had a dialogue to walk it through step by step to get to the right decision), used common sense on a potential leading-with-the-forearm call

 

[TheSaffycen]

Tis the season....for incredibly strenuous festive puns

Surely this is worse than what we've done. 36 point penalty for this horrible crime.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Surely this is worse than what we've done. 36 point penalty for this horrible crime.

We deserve it for not going with "Cracker Van Der Merwe"

 

[TheSaffycen]

We deserve it for not going with "Cracker Van Der Merwe"

Congratulations for finding one that's even worse than theirs. Think about what you've done

 

[die_mole]

ARs shouldn't be allowed to call offside.