Aviva Premiership - Round 13

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Fixtures

Fri 19th Feb 16
19:45 Harlequins  v   Leicester Tigers BT Sport

Sat 20th Feb 16
15:00 Saracens  v   Gloucester Rugby
15:00 Worcester Warriors  v   Sale Sharks
15:15 Bath Rugby  v   Wasps BT Sport

Sun 21st Feb 16
15:00 London Irish  v   Exeter Chiefs BT Sport
15:00 Newcastle Falcons Falcons  v   Northampton Saints

Secret footage of Andy Goode at his medical @ Falcons



But my god he is a excellent controller of the game.

Ah right - didn't know you could do that. Cheers!

FFS Myler why is he kicking there with time out...

Just need £5 in your account. It has all the AP games streamed.

HT

Falcons 20-11 Saints

Sgt_Pooly wrote:Just need £5 in your account. It has all the AP games streamed.

HT

Falcons 20-11 Saints

Wow - fantastic!

Welly wrote:Secret footage of Andy Goode at his medical @ Falcons



But my god he is a excellent controller of the game.

Can't be, he's got a permanent rug now.

Leave Geordie Goody alone Tigers scum!

Sorry Sgt but another scrum pen goes the wrong way to give Chiefs 3 points just before half time - Chiefs prop clearly to ground first as noted by the commentary team.  Maybe Tom Coventry should have done a Ryan ...

Saints getting outplayed here...

Sgt_Pooly wrote:Leave Geordie Goody alone Tigers scum!

If it wasn't for Us you wouldn't have Goody.

Why's that?

Falcons 26-11 Saints

Well because that is were Him and Deano first met.

If Goode didn't come to tigers he wouldn't have had that connection with Deano and therefore Deano wouldn't have been able to talk him out of retirement.

Erm ok....thanks.

Frak, Saints and Chiefs both score tries within a few minutes. 10-16 at the Madejski and 26-18 at Kingston.

[quote="Fuzzy Dunlop"]Frak, Saints and Chiefs both score tries within a few minutes. 10-16 at the Madejski and 26-18 at Kingston.[/quote

Who Is your team Fuzzy? Or are you just anti-Wuss?!!

Chiefs helped a bit however by the ref ignoring a massive push in the back which ended up causing a LI player to get in the way of a clearing kick and then further on in the resulting play a block just before the Chiefs' try - similar to the one that got Ojo's try scrubbed off against Wuss.

Tigers, but it could be anyone because Saints or Chiefs winning is only good for them and Worcester.

Don't worry, I'll be cheering for your lot like crazy next week

Fuzzy Dunlop wrote:Tigers, but it could be anyone because Saints or Chiefs winning is only good for them and Worcester.

Don't worry, I'll be cheering for your lot like crazy next week  

Ha ha! Great!

OK I give up now - another scrum pen goes the wrong way as the Chiefs prop flops on his belly

Good comeback from Saints.

26-25

Yes!! Great fight by the Saints.

FFS Falcons

Still winning Welly...only just mind

We are helping you run down the clock with some awful kicking.

Totally Scott, why engage in this???

can't wait to see Wilson and Hammersley in a Tigers shirt.

Don't Worry Irish will take Lewington and Williams for you.

Waldrom for MotM?????? I have only been half watching but he didn't seem to do much.

Well done Falcons. Outplayed us for large parts of that game.

So disappointing though. But more accuracy and intelligence in game management and we'd have turned that around.

Another bloody win for Falcons!!!!!!!!!!!

Is this whats it's like to support a good team???? I love it!!!!!

YESSSSS Well Done Falcons.

Fortress Kingston Park!

We're only three points behind Bath, in fact we've got a better record than them! (Both on four wins, but we've also had a draw).

So I make us seven points clear of the drop, is it enough yet? Considering out next game is a home one against Worcester and Irish's is away at Leicester, I reckon we can almost seal Premiership survival on Friday. Not counting my chickens but we would be eleven points clear with 5 games to go, one of which is Irish at KP.

To (sort of) quote Geordie Falcon "Feckin Newcastle!"

Another frustrating game for LI.  Still can't help wondering how a we can have a try ruled out for a supposed block one week and then have the same thing done against us another week without it even being looked at.  That and the penalty just before HT when the Chiefs prop flopped on his belly but they got the pen did for us.

Yes I know I'm whinging about the ref again but at least I'm consistent unlike the refffing ...

Cumbrian wrote:Fortress Kingston Park!

We're only three points behind Bath, in fact we've got a better record than them! (Both on four wins, but we've also had a draw).

So I make us seven points clear of the drop, is it enough yet? Considering out next game is a home one against Worcester and Irish's is away at Leicester, I reckon we can almost seal Premiership survival on Friday.  Not counting my chickens but we would be eleven points clear with 5 games to go, one of which is Irish at KP.

I think you're away to Gloucester next aren't you?

Heaf wrote:Another frustrating game for LI.  Still can't help wondering how a we can have a try ruled out for a supposed block one week and then have the same thing done against us another week without it even being looked at.  That and the penalty just before HT when the Chiefs prop flopped on his belly but they got the pen did for us.

Yes I know I'm whinging about the ref again but at least I'm consistent unlike the refffing ...

Absolutely Heaf!!

stub wrote:

Cumbrian wrote:Fortress Kingston Park!

We're only three points behind Bath, in fact we've got a better record than them! (Both on four wins, but we've also had a draw).

So I make us seven points clear of the drop, is it enough yet? Considering out next game is a home one against Worcester and Irish's is away at Leicester, I reckon we can almost seal Premiership survival on Friday.  Not counting my chickens but we would be eleven points clear with 5 games to go, one of which is Irish at KP.

I think you're away to Gloucester next aren't you?

Oops, you're absolutely right. The Wuss game is the following week. I'm getting ahead of myself.

Still a LBP doesn't look beyond the realms of possibility at Kingsholm.

stub wrote:

Heaf wrote:Another frustrating game for LI.  Still can't help wondering how a we can have a try ruled out for a supposed block one week and then have the same thing done against us another week without it even being looked at.  That and the penalty just before HT when the Chiefs prop flopped on his belly but they got the pen did for us.

Yes I know I'm whinging about the ref again but at least I'm consistent unlike the refffing ...

Absolutely Heaf!!

I love the game, but hate that so much can be decided by the officials 

I suppose to a point you have to make your own luck with the officials.

Since we've started playing well, the officiating has seemed to swayed and we're getting 50/50's that we didn't earlier in the season.

Cumbrian wrote:

stub wrote:

Cumbrian wrote:Fortress Kingston Park!

We're only three points behind Bath, in fact we've got a better record than them! (Both on four wins, but we've also had a draw).

So I make us seven points clear of the drop, is it enough yet? Considering out next game is a home one against Worcester and Irish's is away at Leicester, I reckon we can almost seal Premiership survival on Friday.  Not counting my chickens but we would be eleven points clear with 5 games to go, one of which is Irish at KP.

I think you're away to Gloucester next aren't you?

Oops, you're absolutely right. The Wuss game is the following week.  I'm getting ahead of myself.

Still a LBP doesn't look beyond the realms of possibility at Kingsholm.

Neither does a win

Cumbrian wrote:

stub wrote:

Cumbrian wrote:Fortress Kingston Park!

We're only three points behind Bath, in fact we've got a better record than them! (Both on four wins, but we've also had a draw).

So I make us seven points clear of the drop, is it enough yet? Considering out next game is a home one against Worcester and Irish's is away at Leicester, I reckon we can almost seal Premiership survival on Friday.  Not counting my chickens but we would be eleven points clear with 5 games to go, one of which is Irish at KP.

I think you're away to Gloucester next aren't you?

Oops, you're absolutely right. The Wuss game is the following week.  I'm getting ahead of myself.

Still a LBP doesn't look beyond the realms of possibility at Kingsholm.

Nope you are good for at least that.

Heaf wrote:

stub wrote:

Heaf wrote:Another frustrating game for LI.  Still can't help wondering how a we can have a try ruled out for a supposed block one week and then have the same thing done against us another week without it even being looked at.  That and the penalty just before HT when the Chiefs prop flopped on his belly but they got the pen did for us.

Yes I know I'm whinging about the ref again but at least I'm consistent unlike the refffing ...

Absolutely Heaf!!

I love the game, but hate that so much can be decided by the officials 

I know what you mean - when your team is busting a gut to do well and then you see another team does not get pinged for something your team have been penalised for - well what can I politely say? We've all been there but it does seem worse for the smaller teams when they're fighting for scraps anyway.

Unfortunately couldn't make the game...nor,watch it.

Great stuff from the boys.

Quins - w
Wasps- L
Leicester - w
Northampton - W

Now hands up who would have predicted that.

Well me obviously!

ps

Andy Goode signing of the season!

Haven't the Falcons scored 26 points in there last three home games?

Still a lot of games left ozzy

Oh I know mate, and we're only 5 points off Worcester and still have to go there, so it's not all over, but that was a tough defeat to take today. There have been games his season where we have been well beaten, but today wasn't one of them. I don't think anyone watching that would have said one team was second and going for the title and the other was bottom of the league.

You play us this weekend, so a guaranteed 4pts to help the relegation fight.

BT mentioned that JDV got a broken nose in his debut for Tigers, after two broken jaws you'd think he'd be careful about where he puts his face!

Leicester could be in some trouble after that documentary...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/rugbyunion/article-3456463/Leicester-Tigers-face-fine-TV-documentary-shows-Richard-Cockerill-hiding-Manu-Tuilagi-s-return-injury.html

Very silly from Cockerill