Premiership 24/25 - Round 7

[Geordie]

How sad...I've gone for 20 years, give up this season and sat at home not even bothered they were playing tonight..and they beat sarries... And I don't actually care....

 

[Not Mike Brown's Sock]

How sad...I've gone for 20 years, give up this season and sat at home not even bothered they were playing tonight..and they beat sarries... And I don't actually care....

How! Even I care (though that is probably an anti-Sarries thing in part)

 

[IT157]

Newcastle away on Friday night, Saracens wont be up for -5 degrees Newcastle 30 Saracens 21.

Nice prediction!

 

[Booboobang]

Steve diamond feels like a perfect fit for newcastle tbh. Like him or loathe him, he has an eye for cheaper talent and has always been good at working with an academy and bringing players through.

 

[Rinkadink]

Any injury updates on Sammy Arnold? Didn't look good. Hope it's not as bad as it first appears.

 

[jordiev]

Sale Sharks Starting XV:
15. Joe Carpenter, 14. Tom Roebuck, 13. Rob du Preez, 12. Luke James, 11. Arron Reed, 10. George Ford, 9. Gus Warr, 1. Bevan Rodd, 2. Luke Cowan-Dickie, 3. Asher Opoku-Fordjour, 4. Ernst van Rhyn, 5. Hyron Andrews, 6. Tom Curry, 7. Ben Curry ©, 8. Dan du Preez.

Replacements:
16. Tadgh McElroy, 17. Si McIntyre, 18. James Harper, 19. JL du Preez, 20. Tom Burrow, 21. Sam Dugdale, 22. Raffi Quirke, 23. Will Addison.


Really hate 6:2s, but other than that I'm OK with the side - Luke James at 12 is interesting, always thought that was his best position before he moved to 15 (which he did really well at, tbf) because of Manu
Raffi back in the mix and Tom Burrow on the bench - must be tearing up trees in training for them to go 6:2 with a 19yr old lock on the bench while leaving out the likes of O'Flaherty, Nayacalevu, Curtis etc.

Hope that a number of returning leaders in the side can shake the stink of the last few rounds off, but I'm not overly optimistic

Might be wrong but I think enfland might have actually done you a massive favour, time with tom hardison for asher, cowan dickie and tom curry getting big game time in their legs wich they needed, lcd looked decent in his game time as well.

Maybe ford has a chip on shoulder after a couple of stinkers and people calling him washed

 

[jordiev]

Quins without Smith is such a crazy downgrade

Agree, evans isnt even a bad player, but their attack is obviously very relient on smith being a maverick and the sh, 12 and 8 being very much on his wave length to predict what he is going to do

 

[LeinsterMan (NotTigsMan)]

What's up with saints

 

[The Seeker]

Gloucester 25 Northampton 17

Alright Cherry & White!

 

[Scotty]

What's up with saints

Saints we're the better team in that last half hour and Sleighthome got 2 tries disallowed not having control of the ball over the line among other chances lost. Gloucester though fair play they held strong

 

[Scotty]

Falcons beat Sarries
Gloucester beat Saints
Does that mean Chiefs can beat Bath?

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Slade at 10 is wild, especially vs a very very strong Bath side

Be interesting to see when sides do their mandatory England stand downs, surprised not many seem to have done so this round

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Good reffing to let it go and check in the background - you could argue that could be a yellow, considering field position and blatancy of the foul play

 

[Scotty]

I'll take leading at half time as we've been pretty bad.

IFW is having a good game though

 

[LeinsterMan (NotTigsMan)]

Easy pen try imo

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Yeah, PT

Edit: Actually on those replays I get why it's not, i don't think those cover players are getting there but the pass was poor

 

[LeinsterMan (NotTigsMan)]

I feel the ref is bottling this call
Shocking really, pass maybe off a little bit Spencer still stopped the actually trajectory of it. No way cover should have been counted

 

[Which Tyler]

I'll take it

 

[LeinsterMan (NotTigsMan)]

Yeah, PT

Edit: Actually on those replays I get why it's not, i don't think those cover players are getting there but the pass was poor

Personally when it's that close to the line it should be very obvious cover and very obvious the pass is off target
Poor by Rigg

 

[stus768]

I feel the ref is bottling this call
Shocking really, pass maybe off a little bit Spencer still stopped the actually trajectory of it. No way cover should have been counted

From that far out definitely cover should not be counted. Both teams should really be taking 3 points more tho.