Premiership Rugby 20/21 - Rd 17

[LeinsterMan (NotTigsMan)]

Commentators really playing the simmonds and Lions angle aren't they

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Commentators really playing the simmonds and Lions angle aren't they

Just quietly ignoring how completely ineffective he was vs Leinster

 

[LeinsterMan (NotTigsMan)]

Just quietly ignoring how completely ineffective he was vs Leinster

Never happened.
All that happened was Sale and their Saffa's getting pumped by La Rochelle

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Leicester fans talking about South Africans

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Prem is the league of the jackler
Thomas in insane form tonight

 

[LeinsterMan (NotTigsMan)]

Leicester fans talking about South Africans

What you mean players like Henry Liebenberg and number 8 Jasper Williams?
About as English as Apple pie.

 

[LeinsterMan (NotTigsMan)]

Does Simmonds shave his own hair?

 

[Crash Hamster]

Piers O'Connor has been quietly impressive again. I'm also surprised that no-one has picked up on young Sam Simmonds...

 

[Rinkadink]

Piers O'Connor has been quietly impressive again.

Funnily enough this is probably the worst game he's had for us in a while. You can see his quality though even on an off day.

 

[Ragey Erasmus]

Johnny "Wilkinson" Hill

 

[LeinsterMan (NotTigsMan)]

Piers O'Connor is arguably the second best 12 in the league on form.

Being Dan "Godking" Kelly

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Hepburn looks so small for a top level prop - most backrowers look bigger than him, and more than a few centres

 

[Pieter Steph du Teague]

Hepburn looks so small for a top level prop - most backrowers look bigger than him, and more than a few centres

It is odd. There have been quite a few times in the past where he's been the smallest man in the pack as long as Simmonds isn't starting.

 

[Rinkadink]

Well played Exe, totally deserved it from that second half performance.

Would have liked a LBP but thems the breaks.

 

[Bristol_Shoguns fan]

Have to say that was a great match. Shows that Bristol have got some way to go, as a lot of us fans already knew. Its such a shame that the 2 best teams in England play fast, free flowing, high scoring rugby but England continue to play the same dross match after match. The point will hit home one day. Well played Exeter, and here's hoping for a repeat fixture on the 26th of June!

 

[Bristol_Shoguns fan]

I'll also add that if Sam Simmonds doesn't go on the lions tour then I will be staggered. The man is a freak. 4mph slower than Rees-Zammit in full flight as a back row forward... are you kidding me???

 

[LeinsterMan (NotTigsMan)]

Almost like being a winger isn't the main focus of a back row...

 

[higgik]

Almost like being a winger isn't the main focus of a back row...

I am sure I heard Flatman say he would be 'one of the best centres in the Prem' then added 'well top 12 anyway'. May have misheard but possibly a Freudian slip.

 

[Which Tyler]

Almost like being a winger isn't the main focus of a back row...

Did someone say "luxury giraffe"?
Except, of course, that SS is a shortarse.

If only he played with 7 written on his back, he'd be approaching 50 caps by now - well, maybe not, Curry and Underhill would still have provided stiff competition, but SS had first dibs at international level*.
It's weird; Eddie's got no problem playing flankers at 8, or locks at flank; but refuses to consider an 8 on the flank (or centres on the wing), despite SS being a flanker who happens to wear 8.


*ETA: No he didn't; Curry got capped first; by 1 international window. SS then went on to get all 7 of his caps before TC got his 2nd.
SU also got capped earlier than I'd thought, making his debut a week after TC, and earning his 2nd cap alongside SS's debut.

All 3 debuted against Argentina (TC and SU whilst the Lions were away; SS properly in the Autumn), confusion of the Lions probably explains why I don't really remember it - that's my excuse and I'm sticking with it!

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Simmonds always looked like a flanker, and Ewers and Armand always looked more like 8s
Weird how they ended up in this configuration - guess they valued Simmonds burst of speed from the base of the ruck or something

Think is Ewers had played 8 and Simmonds 7 they'd have both had a bunch more caps by now