The Final Round of THE PREMIER NH competition (+ Semi finals)

[LeinsterMan (NotTigsMan)]

As we all know it is the final round of the Premiership, the tournament which has been described by some as THE best competition in the world.

Previous notable winners of this prestigious trophy are Leicester Tigers and Leicester Tigers.

Now I know these threads can be as empty as the AJ Bell Stadium (Or Baths' trophy cabinet) and the banter can be as low as David Wilsons' sports bra, but this one shall be different why because it is the final round damn it and with multiple teams needing all sorts of results to finish where they want, here's hoping for a good weekend of rugby so we can finish of the regular season in style.


As is tradition all the games will be played at the same time Saturday 6th May 16:00.

The games are as follows

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Live on BT Sport

The Table as things stands.

[table="width: 1000, class: outer_border"]
[tr]
[td]Pos[/td]
[td]Team[/td]
[td]PL[/td]
[td]W[/td]
[td]D[/td]
[td]L[/td]
[td]PF[/td]
[td]PA[/td]
[td]DIFF[/td]
[td]TF[/td]
[td]TA[/td]
[td]TB[/td]
[td]LB[/td]
[td]PTS[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]1[/td]
[td]Wasps[/td]
[td]21[/td]
[td]16[/td]
[td]1[/td]
[td]4[/td]
[td]658[/td]
[td]487[/td]
[td]171[/td]
[td]84[/td]
[td]59[/td]
[td]12[/td]
[td]1[/td]
[td]79[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]2[/td]
[td]Exeter Chiefs[/td]
[td]21[/td]
[td]14[/td]
[td]3[/td]
[td]4[/td]
[td]633[/td]
[td]432[/td]
[td]201[/td]
[td]82[/td]
[td]52[/td]
[td]14[/td]
[td]3[/td]
[td]79[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]3[/td]
[td]Saracens[/td]
[td]21[/td]
[td]16[/td]
[td]1[/td]
[td]4[/td]
[td]564[/td]
[td]310[/td]
[td]254[/td]
[td]64[/td]
[td]23[/td]
[td]8[/td]
[td]3[/td]
[td]77[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]4[/td]
[td]Leicester Tigers[/td]
[td]21[/td]
[td]13[/td]
[td]0[/td]
[td]8[/td]
[td]539[/td]
[td]422[/td]
[td]117[/td]
[td]57[/td]
[td]45[/td]
[td]6[/td]
[td]4[/td]
[td]62[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]5[/td]
[td]Bath[/td]
[td]21[/td]
[td]12[/td]
[td]0[/td]
[td]9[/td]
[td]462[/td]
[td]413[/td]
[td]49[/td]
[td]49[/td]
[td]46[/td]
[td]5[/td]
[td]5[/td]
[td]58[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]6[/td]
[td]Harlequins[/td]
[td]21[/td]
[td]11[/td]
[td]0[/td]
[td]10[/td]
[td]512[/td]
[td]504[/td]
[td]8[/td]
[td]55[/td]
[td]56[/td]
[td]5[/td]
[td]2[/td]
[td]51[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]7[/td]
[td]Northampton Saints[/td]
[td]21[/td]
[td]9[/td]
[td]0[/td]
[td]12[/td]
[td]454[/td]
[td]470[/td]
[td]-16[/td]
[td]49[/td]
[td]48[/td]
[td]5[/td]
[td]7[/td]
[td]48[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]8[/td]
[td]Gloucester Rugby[/td]
[td]21[/td]
[td]7[/td]
[td]2[/td]
[td]12[/td]
[td]513[/td]
[td]503[/td]
[td]10[/td]
[td]58[/td]
[td]60[/td]
[td]6[/td]
[td]8[/td]
[td]46[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]9[/td]
[td]Newcastle Falcons[/td]
[td]21[/td]
[td]9[/td]
[td]0[/td]
[td]12[/td]
[td]391[/td]
[td]554[/td]
[td]-163[/td]
[td]46[/td]
[td]69 (Giggity)[/td]
[td]4[/td]
[td]4[/td]
[td]44[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]10[/td]
[td]Sale Sharks[/td]
[td]21[/td]
[td]6[/td]
[td]1[/td]
[td]14[/td]
[td]444[/td]
[td]571[/td]
[td]-127[/td]
[td]52[/td]
[td]67[/td]
[td]5[/td]
[td]3[/td]
[td]32[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]11[/td]
[td]Worcester Warriors[/td]
[td]21[/td]
[td]5[/td]
[td]2[/td]
[td]14[/td]
[td]443[/td]
[td]634[/td]
[td]-191[/td]
[td]53[/td]
[td]73[/td]
[td]5[/td]
[td]3[/td]
[td]32[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]12[/td]
[td]Bristol[/td]
[td]21[/td]
[td]3[/td]
[td]0[/td]
[td]18[/td]
[td]355[/td]
[td]668[/td]
[td]-313[/td]
[td]38[/td]
[td]89[/td]
[td]1[/td]
[td]6[/td]
[td]19[/td]
[/tr]
[/table]
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So what is needed you say:
Wasps - To get a home semi need to beat Saracens, to finish top need to beat Saracens.
Exeter - To get a home semi need to beat Gloucester. To finish top need to beat Glous and Wasps to lose.
Saracens - To get a home semi need to Wasps. To finish top need to beat Wasps and Exeter to lose V Glous.
Leicester Tigers - To finish in the Top 4 need at least 2 points against Worcester or Bath to lose or Bath to win without a TBP.
Bath - To realistically finish in the top 4 need to Beat Sale by a TBP and Tigers to get nothing.
Gloucester - To finish 7th need to (1) Beat Exeter, and Saints to lose or (2) Get a TBP and a LBP and Saints to get nothing.
Harlequins - To finish in the Top 6 need to beat Saints.
Northampton Saints - To finish in the Top 6 need to beat Harlequins.
Newcastle Falcons - To finish in the Top 7 need to beat Bristol with a TBP, and for Saints to get nothing and Glous to lose.
Bristol - ****ed harder than Riley Reid. RELEGATED already.
The rest who cares might as well be in the Pro12 really since it doesn't matter what happens.

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[Scotty]

Chiefs get 5 against Gloucester
Wasps lose to sarries
And chiefs smash tigers at sandy park getting a second chiefs v sarries final in a row my prediction

 

[Scotty]

As for the final sarries do luck good but cpuld go either way.

 

[Leonormous Boozer]

Tries so hard, spends so much but just ain't that good. - Definition of this thread and all Premiership teams not directed by an Irishman.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Tries so hard, spends so much but just ain't that good. - Definition of this thread and all Premiership teams not directed by an Irishman.

Isn't your Irish team directed by an Englishman

 

[LeinsterMan (NotTigsMan)]

Tries so hard, spends so much but just ain't that good. - Definition of this thread and all Premiership teams not directed by an Irishman.

Why do you have to be so rude?

 

[Mumbles119]

Wasps team to play Saracens, Saturday 6 May - kick off 4pm

15. Kurtley Beale
14. Christian Wade
13. Elliot Daly
12. Jimmy Gopperth
11. Willie Le Roux
10. Danny Cipriani
9. Joe Simpson

1. Matt Mullan
2. Tommy Taylor
3. Jake Cooper-Woolley
4. Joe Launchbury (c)
5. Matt Symons
6. James Haskell
7. Thomas Young
8. Nathan Hughes

16. Ashley Johnson
17. Simon McIntyre
18. Phil Swainston
19. Kearnan Myall
20. Guy Thompson
21. Dan Robson
22. Alapati Leiua
23. Josh Bassett

Saracens Team to face Wasps

15 Chris Wyles
14 Mike Ellery
13 Marcelo Bosch
12 Nick Tompkins
11 Sean Maitland
10 Alex Lozowski

9 Ben Spencer
1 Titi Lamositle
2 Schalk Brits (c)
3 Vincent Koch
4 Jim Hamilton
5 George Kruis
6 Michael Rhodes
7 Jackson Wray
8 Schalk Burger

16 Jamie George
17 Richard Barrington
18 Petrus Du Plessis
19 Nick Isiekwe
20 Kelly Brown
21 Henry Taylor
22 Alex Goode
23 Nathan Earle

Rumours were correct about Sarries resting some players then. But I still think Tompkins has more to offer in the centres than Barritt, plus the engines of Kruis, Rhodes and Burger will still make this very hard work for Wasps forwards.

As a Wasps fan it has been frustrating to see the drop in in performance over the last few games, and I was especially disappointed with the performance against Quins last week when players like Beale and Daly just seemed to coast through the game and sit back.

Wasps better take this opportunity well, but with zero complacency about a Sarries team missing key players, because Sarries will still have the excellent and effective playing system at work regardless of which player is filling the position.

I think this game is more important to Wasps than Sarries, because Wasps tend to be poor away from home, so a home semi would be very much desired. Whereas Sarries seem confident both home and away, and obviously want to manage their Champions Cup chances as much as possible too.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

15. Mike Haley
14. Denny Solomona
13. Sam James
12. Johnny Leota
11. Byron McGuigan
10. AJ MacGinty
9. Mike Phillips

1. James Flynn
2. Rob Webber
3. Ross Harrison
4. Bryn Evans
5. Andrei Ostrikov
6. Ben Curry
7. Tom Curry
8. Josh Beaumont (c)

Replacements:
16. Cameron Neild
17. Jake Pope
18. Diogo Ferreira
19. George Nott
20. Magnus Lund
21. Peter Stringer
22. Mark Jennings
23. Josh Charnley

That's a shithouse front row, but good everywhere else
Thoughts on the tighthead, @Tigs Man ?
We deserve a fine for that, proper cheated

 

[Which Tyler]

Bath, away to Sale:
15. Tom Homer
14. Matt Banahan
13. Max Clark
12. Ben Tapuai
11. Aled Brew
10. Rhys Priestland (co-capt)
9. Kahn Fotuali’i
1. Beno Obano
2. Chris Brooker
3. Shaun Knight
4. Elliott Stooke
5. Dave Attwood
6. Tom Ellis
7. Francois Louw (co-capt)
8. Taulupe Faletau

Replacements
16. Ross Batty
17. Darryl Marfo
18. Kane Palma-Newport
19. Matt Garvey
20. Paul Grant
21. Chris Cook
22. George Ford
23. Robbie Fruean

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Adolf Brew gets the start against leota, There's gonna be some fireworks

 

[Which Tyler]

Adolf Brew gets the start against leota, There's gonna be some fireworks

???
Do you mean Aled Brew? who's up against Solomona?

 

[HenryChinaski]

Huge game for Wasps. We currently are playing like a lower-mid table side and don't look like we have the beating of Saracens or Exeter. An away semi to either of those two would spell the end of the road for us, so we really have to turn things around this weekend.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

???
Do you mean Aled Brew? who's up against Solomona?

Last time Sale and bath played Brew used racial slurs against Leota causing him to try and take Brew's head off his shoulders
Only time I've seen him lose his cool in the...6? years he's been with us

 

[Which Tyler]

Forgot about that - wasn't the allegation accepted as mitigation, but never actually investigated / confirmed; just that Leota said it happened, and Brew said it didn't and the RFU couldn't be arsed?

I remember at the time thinking it was an odd allegation (from someone who'd very publicly filed complaints when the victim of racial abuse on the rugby pitch), and one that deserved investigating, whether to castigate or exonerate Brew. Ended up as a useful plea bargain that meant diddly squat; and not really earning comparisons to mass-murdering, war criminal psychopaths.

 

[brokenoses]

CHIEFS SIDE TO FACE GLOUCESTER
15 Jack Nowell
14 Olly Woodburn
13 Ian Whitten
12 Ollie Devoto
11 James Short
10 Gareth Steenson (capt)
9 Stuart Townsend
1 Ben Moon
2 Luke Cowan-Dickie
3 Harry Williams
4 Ollie Atkins
5 Geoff Parling
6 Dave Dennis
7 Julian Salvi
8 Kai Horstmann
16 Jack Yeandle
17 Carl Rimmer
18 Tomas Francis
19 Sam Skinner
20 Sam Simmonds
21 Will Chudley
22 Joe Simmonds
23 Sam Hill

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Brew/the Bath representatives never denied it and didn't appeal it's use in the hearing.

 

[BRSTLDRGN]

 

[Unol Daleithiau]

We need more Englishness in this thread. More helium.

 

[Which Tyler]

Brew/the Bath representatives never denied it and didn't appeal it's use in the hearing.

Going by memory but wasn't that because they weren't AT the hearing? which was both the first and last time that the accusation was aired.

 

[Ragey Erasmus]

Bath look so slow and clueless in attack whilst Sale looking much sharper. Unless Bath do what we did against Glos and massively up it in the 2nd half, we can forget the win, never mind 4 tries.