The Official English Rugby Thread

[Oxbow]

Looks like Biggar might be leaving Saints to join Toulon with immediate effect. Not sure how long he was expected to be out injured but with Furbank away with England it leaves us a bit thin at 10 unless Fin Smith has recovered from his jaw injury.

[JM2K6]

Fuming at the Celts for invading our thread to shittalk Mike Brown

[sockwithaticket]

Brown being behind Halfpenny and Maitland as an international fullback is such obvious bait that I can't be mad about it.

[Oxbow]

Looks like Biggar might be leaving Saints to join Toulon with immediate effect. Not sure how long he was expected to be out injured but with Furbank away with England it leaves us a bit thin at 10 unless Fin Smith has recovered from his jaw injury.

Quoting myself is not a good look, but Fin Smith starts for Saints this weekend against Bristol, that's a pretty big ask.

[JM2K6]

Looks like Biggar might be leaving Saints to join Toulon with immediate effect. Not sure how long he was expected to be out injured but with Furbank away with England it leaves us a bit thin at 10 unless Fin Smith has recovered from his jaw injury.

Quoting myself is not a good look, but Fin Smith starts for Saints this weekend against Bristol, that's a pretty big ask.

Yeah.

On the plus side, Bristol are shit.

[inactionman]

It was coming - Wasps suspended and relegated.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/ ... relegation

[ASMO]

Austin Healey doing everything but fellate Rees Zammit.

[JM2K6]

Tbf he was brilliant and looks to have really kicked on.

Kay practically pulling the end off it when Harris made a couple of regulation tackles was worse

[ASMO]

Quins rubbish in the first half, woken up in the second half. 2 red cards (both clear cut, quins 15 was an utter cretin for his). Good game though, 21 all, 14 players all

[fishfoodie]

officials making to total farce of the end of this game

[Margin__Walker]

That is such bullshit

Clown show from the ref/TMO

[ASMO]

Maxwell Keys has had a shocker there, even by his standards.

[Kawazaki]

The TMO in the Quins game is utterly shite. Worse than useless.

[Margin__Walker]

He should spend the next month in the Championship for that.

[ASMO]

He should spend the next month in the Championship for that.

Hodnett is normally very good, CMK however is at Adamson level of shite.

[Deveron Boy]

Terrible between ref and TMO - Irish robbed

[Kawazaki]

He should spend the next month in the Championship for that.

Hodnett is normally very good, CMK however is at Adamson level of shite.

I don't think the onfield ref was too bad. That fuckup was completely on the TMO.

[sockwithaticket]

Terrible between ref and TMO - Irish robbed

That's a bit much.

Loader wasn't penalised for a similar incident in the first half, Irish survived without a yellow for multiple pens on their own line, Parton rolled on the floor multiple times directly before the second try, etc. etc. There's moments throughout a game, we shouldn't allow recency bias to dictate too much.

For balance Care's perhaps a bit lucky that his actions weren't looked at a bit more closely around the Nick David red. Would need to see again, but it looked like he could've received a yellow himself.

[sockwithaticket]

BT team should wind their necks in.

[Margin__Walker]

Terrible between ref and TMO - Irish robbed

That's a bit much.

Loader wasn't penalised for a similar incident in the first half, Irish survived without a yellow for multiple pens on their own line, Parton rolled on the floor multiple times directly before the second try, etc. etc. There's moments throughout a game, we shouldn't allow recency bias to dictate too much.

For balance Care's perhaps a bit lucky that his actions weren't looked at a bit more closely around the Nick David red. Would need to see again, but it looked like he could've received a yellow himself.

That's a pretty weak comparison. van Rensburg was in complete possession of the ball. The Quins player in the first half wasn't

[JM2K6]

They're both penalties, but Matthews' is a card.

Anyway we clearly got away with that. Irish defence was brilliant but how pumped up they were probably led to all those high tackles. Pissed off with David, no fullbacks available now.

Still can't work out why Irish are bottom of the league

[Niegs]

Video for reference:

[Margin__Walker]

Okay, just about calmed down after that.

Could do with one of these close games going our way at some point if it's not going to be a very disappointing season. Three games have been right in the balance at the death (two against Bristol/Gloucester with us pressing on the opposition line and the one today), and we've not managed to engineer a win in any of them.

Not really a season you want to finish 11th with all the talk of ten team leagues, commissioners and financial peril.

[JM2K6]

Decent chance he gets cited for that.

"It's not a tackle in the air" "Matthews is just challening for the ball" - The Quins board is as hilarious as ever

I was genuinely shocked when I saw that Irish were bottom with 1 win this season. They are a far better side than that.

[Margin__Walker]

Decent chance he gets cited for that.

"It's not a tackle in the air" "Matthews is just challening for the ball" - The Quins board is as hilarious as ever

I was genuinely shocked when I saw that Irish were bottom with 1 win this season. They are a far better side than that.

I don't think it's a citing. One of those things really. He's going for the ball, so would be harsh.

Yeah, one win, with the Worcester win obviously wiped off. The little things just aren't going right to get our nose over the line at the moment. We're not a million miles off, but it starts to look ugly if you lose a few more. All good fun.

Edit - On the game today, we had chances to put ourselves in a better position to win it, so any post mortem needs to start there really. Donnell is such a frustrating player. He could be really good, but he's just a bit of a space cadet. You can count on him to do something silly at a key moment in every game he plays.

[Raggs]

Decent chance he gets cited for that.

"It's not a tackle in the air" "Matthews is just challening for the ball" - The Quins board is as hilarious as ever

I was genuinely shocked when I saw that Irish were bottom with 1 win this season. They are a far better side than that.

Got to say, as a cynical depressed neutral, I don't see much wrong with what Matthews did to be honest. Neither of them had eyes on their surroundings, but they both got up off the ground, were about equal heights, both going for the ball. Matthews was slightly later, but not by such a margin that I'd say he was attempting to tackle.

[JM2K6]

He ends up tackling him though





and van Rensburg lands dangerously and whacks his head pretty hard. Appreciate it wasn't directly head to ground, but it's still a fuckup by Matthews where instead of getting the ball he tackled the guy in the air and caused a head injury.

[ASMO]

Mcfarland is an absolute freak of nature, he had no right to score that, left the Sale winger for dead. How i wish he was English qualified.

[sockwithaticket]

Mcfarland is an absolute freak of nature, he had no right to score that, left the Sale winger for dead. How i wish he was English qualified.

I'm just glad he's given the commentators another topic of conversation than verbally masturbating over Goode. Ekyn claiming that it's scandalous for him to only have 21 caps is one of the silliest things to have escaped a BT commentator's mouth in some time.

[ASMO]

Mcfarland is an absolute freak of nature, he had no right to score that, left the Sale winger for dead. How i wish he was English qualified.

I'm just glad he's given the commentators another topic of conversation than verbally masturbating over Goode. Ekyn claiming that it's scandalous for him to only have 21 caps is one of the silliest things to have escaped a BT commentator's mouth in some time.

What you mean apart from Healey saying they should play Mcfarland on the wing?

[sockwithaticket]

Mcfarland is an absolute freak of nature, he had no right to score that, left the Sale winger for dead. How i wish he was English qualified.

I'm just glad he's given the commentators another topic of conversation than verbally masturbating over Goode. Ekyn claiming that it's scandalous for him to only have 21 caps is one of the silliest things to have escaped a BT commentator's mouth in some time.

What you mean apart from Healey saying they should play Mcfarland on the wing?

By comparison, that remark is downright sensible.

[ASMO]

Just how bloody good is Ben Earl, Tompkins too.

[sockwithaticket]

Oof, that feels harsh.

[ASMO]

Sale 2 men up, decide to keep it tight close to the Sarries line, uttetly brainless play, i suspect Brazil is kicking kittens and puppies.

[Torquemada 1420]

Sale 2 men up, decide to keep it tight close to the Sarries line, uttetly brainless play, i suspect Brazil is kicking kittens and puppies.

So much dim. Taking lessons from Sco. Didn't PR predict a win for Sale in this one

[Brazil]

Well played sarries, better team won. Surprising number of internationals in it of course, they must just love Barnet.

[Kawazaki]

Well played sarries, better team won. Surprising number of internationals in it of course, they must just love Barnet.

That's a bit rich coming from a Sale fan.

[Kawazaki]

Mcfarland is an absolute freak of nature, he had no right to score that, left the Sale winger for dead. How i wish he was English qualified.

I'm just glad he's given the commentators another topic of conversation than verbally masturbating over Goode. Ekyn claiming that it's scandalous for him to only have 21 caps is one of the silliest things to have escaped a BT commentator's mouth in some time.

Alex Goode is one of the most talented English backs to play rugby in the last 30 years you tool.

[Kawazaki]

Just how bloody good is Ben Earl, Tompkins too.

I reckon ignoring Tompkins is the second biggest fuck up by Eddiot during his tenure.

[sockwithaticket]

Mcfarland is an absolute freak of nature, he had no right to score that, left the Sale winger for dead. How i wish he was English qualified.

I'm just glad he's given the commentators another topic of conversation than verbally masturbating over Goode. Ekyn claiming that it's scandalous for him to only have 21 caps is one of the silliest things to have escaped a BT commentator's mouth in some time.

Alex Goode is one of the most talented English backs to play rugby in the last 30 years you tool.

I'm having a dig at BT's penchant for manic hyperboly, not one of your precious Saracens. Goode has been a very good servant to his club and an extremely valuable Prem player, but it is by no means a scandal that he didn't receive more international caps.