Aviva Premiership - Round 10

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Round 10
Fri 29th 19:45 Northampton Saints  v   Wasps BT Sport

Sat 30th 14:30 Sale Sharks  v   London Irish
Sat 30th 15:00 Gloucester Rugby  v   Leicester Tigers
Sat 30th 15:15 Saracens  v   Bath Rugby BT Sport
Sun 31st 15:00 Newcastle Falcons v   Harlequins

Sun 31st 15:00 Worcester Warriors  v   Exeter Chiefs BT Sport

Please let us play well against Falcons tomorrow

Seconded. Hopefully Tibaldi will help with putting pace on the game and Horwill will make our pack grow a pair.

ChequeredJersey wrote:Please let us play well against Falcons tomorrow

Yes please do - LI need all the help they can get to stay off the bottom.  Losing Ben Franks to a long term injury as well as a host of other forwards already out was the last thing we needed on top of the issues we have at Fly Half.

Heaf wrote:

ChequeredJersey wrote:Please let us play well against Falcons tomorrow

Yes please do - LI need all the help they can get to stay off the bottom.  Losing Ben Franks to a long term injury as well as a host of other forwards already out was the last thing we needed on top of the issues we have at Fly Half.

Hopefully we'll give Newcastle nothing, just for you.

ChequeredJersey wrote:

Heaf wrote:

ChequeredJersey wrote:Please let us play well against Falcons tomorrow

Yes please do - LI need all the help they can get to stay off the bottom.  Losing Ben Franks to a long term injury as well as a host of other forwards already out was the last thing we needed on top of the issues we have at Fly Half.

Hopefully we'll give Newcastle nothing, just for you.

Bugger of you two

How's the wind Pooly?

In Newcastle that is...

No idea mate, I live in the Middle East. Probably force 10 and 2 degrees, t-shirt it is.

Jaysus - what is happening in this Bath side? Cannot buy a win.

To be fair, Sarries are hardly the easiest side to start winning against! In fact, I think only one, fairly exceptional , team has beaten them this season...

George Carlin wrote:Jaysus - what is happening in this Bath side? Cannot buy a win.

With Burgess and the world cup both Ford snr & jnr appeared to spit the dummy at the start of this season.

That said, and given Ford's obvious bias for the ball in hand 'league' approach, I do think that the forward's and specifically the forward coaches have let the side down.

To be strait forward there's a number of flaky individuals within the Bath coaching set up and I'm sure they're all enjoying the owner's hansom wages.

I can't see the current state of affairs continuing beyond this season.

Burgess leaving clearly split the camp and they haven't managed to replace him. He wasn't quite international quality but he was getting there as a 6. His work rate, particularly in defence, allowed others to shine in other ways. We saw vs Sarries in the final last season there were cracks in the Bath game plan. I think those cracks are now bigger and being exposed more. Certainly injuries in the tight five and the lack of quality signings up front have also hurt them, Denton is awful.

According to some Scottish bloke on Five Live, Newcastle "should beat" Harlequins. And we are starting loads of academy players.


I don't actually think we are starting ANY academy players?

There's 2 on the bench, but that's about it

Easy for Exeter there

Short in great form

C'mon Falcons!! Early try to settle the nerves. 7-0

Newcastle maul over for a try off the lineout. Not sure I can stand to listen to these commentators though, they are morons

Watch it on bet365 CJ

10-0 Falcons, great break from Tait

Quins making stacks of handling errors. We've messed up 3/3 restarts which seems to our thing

Going well so far.

How did we blow that!?!

Nevermind, it was a knock on anyway. But still...

Awful from quins so far. Hopefully we can sort this shambles out at half time

What the ;ell was that on our own line? Really showing our experienced players are missing.

Hate to say this but we're kind of comfortable at the minute. Any momentum Quins get is getting stopped by poor handling. I'd like to see Goode get on early in the 2nd half to keep us playing in the right areas.

We are playing Poopie

Spoke too soon, try for Quins

That is flipping criminal by Falcons! Seconds from half time, we miss touch and about a thousand tackles. So frustrating!

What's the score guys?

10-7 to Falcons at HT.

Bets on us having a strong 3rd quarter then making the game close and possibly losing it in the 4th quarter?

Great play from Ward for the try. Don't think he'll ever play for England but what a huge asset to Quins.

Dont think we're going to lose. Would like to put in a better performance second half though, all too forced. Same problem we've had a few times this season, stupid decisions, making things too complicated.

ChequeredJersey wrote:Bets on us having a strong 3rd quarter then making the game close and possibly losing it in the 4th quarter?

How much?

I'm certain O'Shea will put things right at half time and they'll play with a lot more bite and accuracy. Quins with a bonus point for me.

We will have a good 3rd quarter, it's then whether we keep it up at the end

10-12 Quins

Newcastle need to wake up now, because we aren't Brive and we love momentum

I do rate Luke Pearce, best ref in the AP for me

10-19 Quins

And that's number 3

Awful defence from us. We need to get into this asap, no idea what's gone wrong

Well that's us done, be lucky to get a LBP now.

Sgt_Pooly wrote:Awful defence from us. We need to get into this asap, no idea what's gone wrong

Switched off

Has Mcguigan come on yet?

Take the points!

Chisholms decision making is absolutely horrendous.

Sloan has been catching the eye this half after a quiet first though.

Chisholm is more used to winger these days I think