2017/18 Aviva Premiership Round One

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Not on a par with LT but, hopefully, we can keep the discussions separate week by week.

Friday, 1st September

Gloucester vs Exeter Chiefs (19:45) BT Sport
Newcastle Falcons vs Worcester Warriors (19:45)

Saturday, 2nd September

Saracens vs Northampton Saints (14:00) BT Sport
Wasps vs Sale Sharks (15:00)
London Irish vs Harlequins (16:45) BT Sport

Sunday. 3rd September

Leicester Tigers vs Bath (15:00) BT Sport

Chat already started on this general thread: https://www.606v2.com/t65292-jeff-chat
Details lifted from: http://www.premiershiprugby.com/aviva-premiership-rugby-fixtures/

Welly wrote:Remember when Mallinder was being touted for England...

If that is aimed at Mallinder jnr. remember he is playing out of position with backs that are just so static.

Collins excepted that is, he is looking very good

Wasps scored in the first five minutes. Think all four matches in the Premiership so far have seen early tries.

WELL-PAST-IT wrote:

Welly wrote:Remember when Mallinder was being touted for England...

If that is aimed at Mallinder jnr. remember he is playing out of position with backs that are just so static.

Snr.

also think your only out and out senior 10 is Myler. Francis will IMO produce a similar game to Mallinder at 10.

WELL-PAST-IT wrote:

Welly wrote:Remember when Mallinder was being touted for England...

If that is aimed at Mallinder jnr. remember he is playing out of position with backs that are just so static.

I took that as being aimed at his Dad but his son will struggle to compete for an England spot if Saints play like this.

N.B. Saints got a try back and it's 41-10

Robson has two tries for Wasps now. Not sure why he didn't get more of a look-in for England but it will be hard to ignore him if he carries on on this form.

This is a bit embarrassing for Saints.

Mallinder jnr having a poor game too

48-10 at Twickenham, as Saints scored again.

Rugby Fan wrote:Robson has two tries for Wasps now. Not sure why he didn't get more of a look-in for England but it will be hard to ignore him if he carries on on this form.

Eddie seems like the kind of person that can and will ignore that kind of form if he doesn't like the player.

Christian Wade gets his first try and Wasps are 21-0 up against Sale. Maybe Saints won't look so bad after all.

whats going on there, straight over the top of the ruck and takes out the scrum half.

Penalty and YC every time

Saints better or sarries easing off?

Saints have three tries, so they have a realistic bonus point target for the last fifteen minutes.

48-24

nathan wrote:Saints better or sarries easing off?

no question its Sarries easing off.

And they score a try.

Mallinder needs to improve on his basics if he wants a chance to play for england

nathan wrote:Saints better or sarries easing off?

55-24 suggests they were just having a bit of a breather

Dan Robson has a hat-trick. Maitland beat him to the season's first but I like Robson's collection better.

Why when things are starting to go better do we change the team about.

Ha! Sale restarted, Ashley Hughes caught it, and passed to Dan Robson who was promptly charged down by Ben Curry for a score.

Even though it was the 80th minute of a dead game it is Frak ridiculous that Itoje wasn't binned for pulling that maul down.

How on earth is that not a penalty try. Wade was clean through playing football and was tackled...!!

Second bad decision this weekend after the ridiculous Worcester one last night!

Well it matters not...Robson gets another

Robson has made up for his mistake by scoring a fourth try.

Dan Robson is having a blinder!

Wasps better team for most of the game in all areas.

I am happy with our attack but Wasps have all too easily carved up our defence. If we are to have a decent season the defence needs to improve and a lower error count. We will have to live with a light weight pack for the moment.

De Klerk looks a very very good signing.

Wow Irish taking it to Quins!

It has been a decent game, couple of really good tries in there.

Worcester might be a bit concerned....

I'm not going overboard, but we won't be the pushovers some were expecting us to be.

GeordieFalcon wrote:Worcester might be a bit concerned....

They should be! Irish are looking good and Sale look like they are going to score tries. I'd be concerned if I was a Northampton fan too, they aren't too good to be involved in a relegation fight either.

Yeah very true about Saints! They've been on the downward spiral for a while.

So bloody nervòus for this second half. Losing Mulchrone is a huge blow for us, he is our defensive leader.

Your playing well Ozzy....

GeordieFalcon wrote:Wow Irish taking it to Quins!

Yes despite the ref desperately trying to find a reason to disallow their first try .... notice he didn't bother checking the short offload for Quins' try though even though it looked like it may have been a touch forwards to me ...

PS no idea what's going on with this site - had to make a new username as it said there was suspicious activity on my account and locked it then made me try to do one of those stupid word match things which no matter how many times I did it and matched exactly what was on the screen it wouldn't let me back in ... maybe trying to tell me something

Quite a lot of blocking going on by Quins which he doesn't seem too worried about either ..

Obvious forward pass ignored there too

Hadn't actually heard of this Smith lad before the media got their pre-premiership buzz going.

Pretty good game so far for a 17? year old debut. Bit of nerves and trying too hard but to be expected. Glad we have some more 10s coming through as just Swiel was a but worrying.

Walker has looked good as usual. Hopefully he can start most weeks.

Typical quins season opener of a game. Making very hard work of things....

Irish's defence looks very well drilled, but Quins look very average. A lot of people seem to have predicted Glos will be the big name team that struggle this year. I think it'll be Quins and the Saints. I can't see either improving much with their current coaching set ups. Still early days I suppose.

Yarde just found out that door was completely shut....

Woo hoo !!!!

One of my pals is a season ticket holder at Saints...and after ribbing him about his relegation battle with Worcester this season has challenged me to a bet that the Saints will be above the Falcons this season. I've accepted but still waiting for the stake

For the first time I have a slight bit of confidence in this one...

Not sure he'll be want to stake too much

Good performance from LI, great try.

Do have to wonder how long the big names will stay with us at quins if the performances continue to be so poor.

Bummer

Another clear forward pass ...

And hands in the ruck

GeordieFalcon wrote:One of my pals is a season ticket holder at Saints...and after ribbing him about his relegation battle with Worcester this season has challenged me to a bet that the Saints will be above the Falcons this season. I've accepted but still waiting for the stake

For the first time I have a slight bit of confidence in this one...

Would love to finish above them. Big ask as their squad still looks pretty large. I honestly think Mallinder has them firmly in reverse. Their pack now, minus Lawes, looks absolutely rank average.

I thought you actually had to make contact with the ball for it to be a knock on!