PREM 25/26 - Round 4

[BMatt]

Does the law about lifting a player above the horizontal apply to rucks? If so there could have been a penalty to Bath a few phases before the end. Oh well, these things get missed and Bath had a few things honour way.

 

[Crash Hamster]

Yeah, saw that, but honestly, the refereeing was absolute tripe all day, so one more either way was no surprise. Not biased, just random decisions.

How he could give a scrum penalty when there were obviously offences both ways at the same time is a complete mystery. TJ giving it one way and you see it the other? Reset, surely?

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Bracken trying to twist Rodd's head off there when trying to stop the pick and drive

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Caluori's vertical leap is insane

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Sarries complete inability to deal with the high ball does give me some hope for this weekend,

Well they've definitely got a handle on this
TOF is not a 15, missing Carpenter badly

 

[TRF_Olyy]

That's such a BS penalty try

I hate that being a penalty regardless, cause TOF only has eyes for the ball and as he jumps for it someone else jumps over his back and eats **** in the collision - but I can accept that that's the laws as they stand, biggest jumper gets the rights to the airways

But he wasn't collecting that ball even if TOF is watching from the stands, he's missed collecting it cleanly before the contact

 

[Crash Hamster]

Yeah, I think you've been on the receiving end of some dubious calls, but Sarries are looking very good now against 13.

I know it's not particularly insightful, but Caluori is having a blinder again.

 

[Crash Hamster]

And there's another one; definitely head on head, rugby incident apparently.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Just played absolutely shite

Cant believe we bought TOF back on after his card, he's actually been worse since then than before

We've also lost both of our senior looseheads this game so not sure who we put out next week - guess AOF moves to start at 1 (ironic after him not being registered as a loosehead), but then with WGJ banned we'd be left with only one tighthead, so screwed either way

 

[TRF_Olyy]

This Caluori kid is alright

 

[PremRugbyScorigami]

Saracens 65-14 Sale

SCORIGAMI!!

This is the first instance of this score in @premrugby history

 

[Ddanno]

Jeez that got ugly.

 

[Scotty]

This Caluori kid is alright

Great in the air, as in unreal but I thought he should have been stopped for a few of those tries.

But great for a kicking game...Borthwick will announce him tomorrow for England

 

[Arcturus]

Considering I thought that was going to be a very close game, that was a fantastic result. First 20mins we were a bit shaky, but then found our footing and never looked back. Sale really struggled with those high balls and Noah racing in. What a quality addition he is, the vertical lift, the side step, acceleration, and got under the skin of a few Sale players but didn't react, remained composed. Even when it didn't come off, you could see him drawing in an extra player to create that gap to punch through.

Slightly soured by the news that Willis is heading back to France to join his brother. Big loss for Sarries and England.

 

[Arcturus]

 

[Scotty]

Really enjoying these when Sarries won but please say Quins did something similar last week.

 

[higgik]

Considering I thought that was going to be a very close game, that was a fantastic result. First 20mins we were a bit shaky, but then found our footing and never looked back. Sale really struggled with those high balls and Noah racing in. What a quality addition he is, the vertical lift, the side step, acceleration, and got under the skin of a few Sale players but didn't react, remained composed. Even when it didn't come off, you could see him drawing in an extra player to create that gap to punch through.

Slightly soured by the news that Willis is heading back to France to join his brother. Big loss for Sarries and England.

The worry for me about Willis, is that he thinks he does not have a future with Engkand up to RWC.

 

[Arcturus]

Really enjoying these when Sarries won but please say Quins did something similar last week.

Quins had a balloon popping

Even in defeat, Sarries social media had this as a backup though...



Ultimately the game needs to be pushing out and the main route to market and younger audiences is going to be through social media. And it works, the conversation and engagement these videos generate demonstrates it.

 

[BPM]

The worry for me about Willis, is that he thinks he does not have a future with Engkand up to RWC.

Well that either makes him stupid or gutless … he was in a great position to cement himself as the first choice 8 and instead he’s chasing cash and sunshine.

 

[Saintjay]

I'm starting to get why Willis wants out.