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Some of his biggest rivals aren’t there but Pog making the Giro look like child’s play. Just has to remain upright and sit in the pack for a fortnight - which he won’t as he’s insatiable for stages. Conserving energy for the Tour has to be his main priority now.

Sarries firing some shots. Quins looking exhausted. Gloucester a complete embarrassment to themselves and the league.

Not 100% sure but I thought it was a bit more hard wired than that? Apparently the RFU had to apply for special dispensation for Steward last year. Not sure exactly what that means but it feels like tail wagging dog.

Shoulder problem apparently.

Just read that it’s possible that Itoje could reach the maximum games limit making him unavailable to tour.

Big fan of CCS (and Flament's try the other day was definitely more down to Care…..). He's young and raw, deserves game time and investing in but starting against the ABs is a big ask with the potential to be career influencing - either way. I might be inclined to leave him on the bench and...

Bad news for Chessum, Tigers and England - out of the summer tour. He had a bad ankle injury that had his RWC in doubt for a while. Hope this isn’t a recurrence - as far as I can see this latest issue is unspecified.

...other things - complicated rules, TV overage, interminable politics etc - and a really big one is the lack of novelty, players get flogged playing* the same old time and again - Leicester v Leinster 💤 anyone? Are we as excited to see the Boks as we once were? Not really as we’ve seen most of...

Suspect this might get a passing mention on tomorrow’s HIGNFY. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/02/minister-sorry-as-veterans-find-id-card-not-valid-for-english-elections

I don’t think Cockers has said anything contentious there. The lack of jeopardy in the sense of no relegation and the ease of getting into the Champions Cup is just fact. The league is competitive which is great, but the ante’s definitely ramped up when there’s something tangible at stake...

That depends on how accurately it’s been reported against official process. Can’t claim to be an expert, so if anyone knows any better please chip in. The original citing was pretty much universally reported as the Citing Officer “deemed it to have been worthy of a red card”. That would be...

Not criticising the yellow or particularly wanting to focus on that specific incident, although it obviously prompted my question. More a general question about responsibilities of the carrier…..the current narrative’s that it’s 100% tackler’s fault.

Bizarre citing then. Had another look at Care’s yellow - the one he actually got. He’s passive, being steamed into by Lawes who’s not running fully upright and if he wasn’t leading with his head it wasn’t far off. Care was never not going to be carded, but how much responsibility lies or should...

Itoje cited after his yellow was deemed worthy of a red. Could miss rest of the season if the hearing today doesn’t go his way.

Good call. Would that be a real time 5 seconds or a “use it” 5 seconds 😀 Score from a scrum and you can almost see TMOs counting the frames to determine whether a team’s had it too long.

Amaretto with orange juice and freshly squeezed lime?? Game’s gone soft.

Well having come out and said there was no fight or violence he’s going to look a 24 carat plank if there was. The Sarries hierarchy isn’t daft. They’ll want to be pretty sure of the facts before allowing that statement to go on club social media channels.

Not good. For a guy who never used to drink he’s had a few problems since.

Enjoyed that - bit too much kicking in the first half, but properly competitive. Ewels mostly very good, T Willis less obvious than Barbeary but very effective. Coka’s aerial game is a real weakness when it ought to be a strength.

And in the 6N it was noticeable that George’s game time reduced over what we’d seen previously. Is that because they had increased faith in Dan or because George no longer has the legs / form? Possibly a bit of both but I’d say more the latter. He did 71 v Wal, 67 v Sco, but just 54 v Ire, 52...