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

What game where you watching he was
1) Quciker getting there
2) Quicker passing it out
3) Wasn't getting caught with the ball every 3/4 rucks.

Tresidder has been over taken by White it seems.

It was the ten seconds he spent at the breakdown with both hands on the ball looking around. He takes too long to make his decisions.

The difference between Youngs and our other nines is massive.

Just watching the tigers program on BT sport, it showed you a close up of some of the players knees after playing at sarries. They were red raw from the pitch

Just got home and seen the score.

Very surprised and pleased with that, we needed a win any which way and managed to get it.

Yappy you're boys made less mistakes and defended hard. Wallace was superb. The highlights are probably worth skipping as other than the Quins try and a great cover tackle from Chrisholm there's not a lot in it for you. Not a lot in it for us either I think we only managed three attacks worth re watching and the only one of those with any flow was the try, a real set of shocking errors from Sloan.

Yea Sloan has been brilliant this season but was very poor yesterday. I guess his opposite numbers didn't exactly make life easy! But I think also with Nev at 10 he's used to all the thinking being done for him, especially if Lowes at 13. With the guys in those positions yesterday there was more on him and he didn't cope well.

I'm confused as to who i want to win between Bath/Wasps. If Wasps win it means they pull further ahead of us but on the other hand if Bath win... well it's Bath

Have the laws changed on picking the ball up out of the scrum?

In my day, the ball had to be at the feet of the No. 8. When he released his bind the ball was effectively in play. these days the seem to pick it out of the second rows feet. As there is no special dispensation for an 8, surely that is the same as the opposing scrum half picking out from the 8s feet.

WELL-PAST-IT wrote:Have the laws changed on picking the ball up out of the scrum?

In my day, the ball had to be at the feet of the No. 8. When he released his bind the ball was effectively in play. these days the seem to pick it out of the second rows feet. As there is no special dispensation for an 8, surely that is the same as the opposing scrum half picking out from the 8s feet.

it's effectively another Frak up on the laws, in order to improve the game i think they let it go so the ball gets played quicker.

Webber is a bit crap really, should of binned him there.

Wasps looking awesome so far, Bath, well.......................Bah

schalk brits sent off for Sarries

looks like it was for a punch

That amazing win against Sarries seems to have given Wasps the confidence to take their game up a level. Very impressed so far!

Talking of Sarries, BT Sport just said Schalk Brits has been red carded...

Worcester leading Sale is a big surprise. 21-8!

Interesting that people say Wallace was superb, and good too. From watching him for seasons, however, I do not believe he will ever be international standard. Which is fine, he's a very good club player but replacing Robshaw would be insane

Rugby Fan wrote:Worcester leading Sale is a big surprise. 21-8!

Chuckle. Leading is not a surprise. Can they sustain the lead????

Cowshot wrote:

Rugby Fan wrote:Worcester leading Sale is a big surprise. 21-8!

Chuckle. Leading is not a surprise. Can they sustain the lead????

I predict they will lose the lead in the second half and cue Dean Ryan having another pop at the refs

And having said I'm very impressed by Wasps - that's a very small lead for so much dominance...and now perhaps no lead at all...

nathan wrote:

Cowshot wrote:

Rugby Fan wrote:Worcester leading Sale is a big surprise. 21-8!

Chuckle. Leading is not a surprise. Can they sustain the lead????

I predict they will lose the lead in the second half and cue Dean Ryan having another pop at the refs

That's the form prediction, no doubt.

31-13 to Worcester now. Not even they can blow this lead.

What's happened to Sale?  Wonder if Mr D will have something to say about the ref ...

Wonder if Ryan will heap praise on the ref?

I can see a comment something like "see what we can do when we get a fair shake ..."

I didn't realise there was wind advantage in the Bath Wasps game. Now they have the wind Wasps seem to be pulling clear.

Thinking about Sale etc - I think Cipriani should have shown a loyalty to repay the faith shown in him by Mr D. Not impressed by the move to Wasps. Now hope we don't see him in an England shirt again.

who's reffing the sarries/glous game. He looks about 15

glous still struggling even against 14 men

Anyone watching the Wuss/Sale match?  Sounds like Sale are getting pinged off the pitch - coincidence?

You see the reactions of some tigers fans to a loss imagine if they supported Irish.

To be fair we've had more practice in the last few years ...

Heaf wrote:Anyone watching the Wuss/Sale match?  Sounds like Sale are getting pinged off the pitch - coincidence?

Just started to watch it

Diamond looks to be in an arse

???

So if Irsh and Falcons both win there games tomorrow Bath will be 6 points from the drop with a game in hand.

Sale get one back, 31 - 23 to wuss.

Cips missed all his attempts at the sticks

Welly wrote: So if Irsh and Falcons both win there games tomorrow Bath will be 6 points from the drop with a game in hand.

Irish beating Chiefs is a big ask even without most of the 1st XV missing ...

Josh Beaumont looks to be badly injured

nathan wrote:Sale get one back, 31 - 23 to wuss.

Cips missed all his attempts at the sticks

Sounds like missed kicks may have cost Sale - bad news for LI too

Heaf wrote:

nathan wrote:Sale get one back, 31 - 23 to wuss.

Cips missed all his attempts at the sticks

Sounds like missed kicks may have cost Sale - bad news for LI too

yeah he left 8 points out there which would of put them level on points

Brits punch after a clear out from Wood

http://sport.bt.com/video-01363814401986?videoid=4765286430001

A few penalties too by the sounds of it on the Sale MB ...

why are refs now pinging tackles that are around the shoulder? i always thought it was above the shoulder that was illegal?

Ref says 'maul defence needs to be better'.

Yeah, but how? Mauls are almost impossible to defend without giving away penalties these days.

Wuss finally won a match they had to win. Maybe they are improving?
This is bad juju for LI. We still need to crack the code so Bath gets relegated. LI being relegated punishes a lot of good folk. Bath being relegated punishes Satan.

Mmmm would have taken that before the game against Bath but can't help feel that we left a few points behind & missed out on the BP today.

doctor_grey wrote:Wuss finally won a match they had to win.  Maybe they are improving?
This is bad juju for LI.  We still need to crack the code so Bath gets relegated.  LI being relegated punishes a lot of good folk.  Bath being relegated punishes Satan.

As I said before it's a shame the deserved points deductions for salary cap breaches weren't applied as that would make things very interesting ...

Or indeed the supposed ring-fencing which was believed to be one of the carrots waived to make the salary cap thing go away ...

Huge win for Wuss, big big games for Falcons & Irish coming up.

Wuss - 18
Falcons - 16
Irish - 12

HongKongCherry wrote:

yappysnap wrote:What's the betting that after having to watch Quins get humped by Leicester tonight Glos will then go out and be utterly Poopie against Saracens just to make last weeks result feel even worse

Thats almost guaranteed. The one thing we're consistent with is our inconsistency!

See Yappy, we were more than poopie today

Sgt_Pooly wrote:Huge win for Wuss, big big games for Falcons & Irish coming up.

Wuss - 18
Falcons - 16
Irish - 12

LI clearly now have the biggest challenge - apart from already being behind on points we have to play both Wuss and Falcons away and I suspect our injury situation is probably the worst of all three at the moment as well.