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2016/17 Aviva Premiership Prediction and Preview thread
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<blockquote data-quote="BPM" data-source="post: 813163" data-attributes="member: 59968"><p>The relegation fight will be interesting this year. </p><p></p><p>I'm not so sure about Worcester? They have some decent players and on paper, I'd argue their squad is stronger than Newcastle and Bristol's.</p><p></p><p>i agree that the lack of an experienced coach will hurt them, but I'm not sure that makes them favourites for the drop.</p><p></p><p>Like him or not, Dean Richards generally does a good job wherever he is and I think he's making Newcastle increasingly competitive. They still have an odd, mongrel squad but they have Sinoti Sinoti back from injury, they have some decent youngsters coming through and have also made some interesting signings so I think they'll be OK.</p><p></p><p>Bristol's squad looks reasonably weak to me. They've got a couple of stand out players like Lam and Cliff, but the big signings they were talking about haven't materialised and I think they'll take a while to get used to the AP too. Arguably their strength is that they'll be uninterrupted by international call-ups and can build momentum as a squad, but whether that's enough is a separate question for me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BPM, post: 813163, member: 59968"] The relegation fight will be interesting this year. I'm not so sure about Worcester? They have some decent players and on paper, I'd argue their squad is stronger than Newcastle and Bristol's. i agree that the lack of an experienced coach will hurt them, but I'm not sure that makes them favourites for the drop. Like him or not, Dean Richards generally does a good job wherever he is and I think he's making Newcastle increasingly competitive. They still have an odd, mongrel squad but they have Sinoti Sinoti back from injury, they have some decent youngsters coming through and have also made some interesting signings so I think they'll be OK. Bristol's squad looks reasonably weak to me. They've got a couple of stand out players like Lam and Cliff, but the big signings they were talking about haven't materialised and I think they'll take a while to get used to the AP too. Arguably their strength is that they'll be uninterrupted by international call-ups and can build momentum as a squad, but whether that's enough is a separate question for me. [/QUOTE]
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