The Official English Rugby Thread

[Saint]

Isiekwe

The best players you said. Isiekwe is just one. There's actually 2 other ex Sarries academyat Saints AFAik and they're not ripping up trees

Yes, I wrote "The best players at Bath, Bristol and Northampton are all ex-Saracens academy".

HTH

Is Isiekwe the best player at Saints? Really? He's had a couple of decent performances, but really?

[Kawazaki]

The best players you said. Isiekwe is just one. There's actually 2 other ex Sarries academyat Saints AFAik and they're not ripping up trees

Yes, I wrote "The best players at Bath, Bristol and Northampton are all ex-Saracens academy".

HTH

Is Isiekwe the best player at Saints? Really? He's had a couple of decent performances, but really?

Yep. He's the best player. Very low bar mind.

[Saint]

Yes, I wrote "The best players at Bath, Bristol and Northampton are all ex-Saracens academy".

HTH

Is Isiekwe the best player at Saints? Really? He's had a couple of decent performances, but really?

Yep. He's the best player. Very low bar mind.

He's been the best player over the last few matches. And that's it. If you think he's better than Lawes, or Biggar, you definitely need a new pair of spectacles

[JM2K6]

Can't look past glaws for tonight's game. Somehow Quins have managed to rack up a hefty injury list to go with their missing spine.

[JM2K6]

That Glaws backline is tasty. If we don't get gutted like a fish tonight I'll be happy.

[JM2K6]

Well fuck me. Quins 21-3 up at halftime. Just on it from the start, really aggressive in defence, making great decisions and putting Gloucester's backs under huge pressure. Glaws have largely crumbled in the face of it and although the ball is slippery (they watered the pitch for hours?!) they've butchered two tries, thrown multiple intercepts, thrown wild passes, and generally looked incredibly spooked the entire time. Quins survived a yellow card on the tryline without conceding a point thanks to Cips butchering a 4-on-1. Lewies intercepting near halfway and running it in with Thorley chasing was a great sight.

Non-surprise of the night: Will Evans is murdering them at the breakdown, just picking them clean.
Big surprise of the night: Danny Care's kicking game has been incredible.

We've expended a lot of energy in that half, I think we might need an early score otherwise the last 15 could be very testing.

[ASMO]

Quims good value for the lead, Cipriani has really been off colour, honestly i think Quims just want it more

[JM2K6]

Quims good value for the lead, Cipriani has really been off colour, honestly i think Quims just want it more

I cannot stress enough just how bizarre that is

[SaintK]

That Glaws backline is tasty. If we don't get gutted like a fish tonight I'll be happy.

Butchered 3 tries

[Kawazaki]

This ref is ex-Quins isn't he?

[JM2K6]

Yes, the ref who has penalised us 8 times to their 5 and binned one of our players was our reserve scrum half for some time.

[Raggs]

Why did Glaws use Polledri to bash it up from a scrum 60m out, when they had an advantage in the backs. Then try a backs move when they were 5 out and thus had very little room to manoeuvre from the defence?

[JM2K6]

Glaws score after repeat Quins infringements, thus saving Quins a yellow. Dickson isn't missing much.

[Hal Jordan]

Saw Lewies leading the halftime "metres made" stats and guessed it was a solo crazy giraffe run that pumped them up. Pleased to see I was right.

[JM2K6]

All Gloucester now. Care off, too.

[Kawazaki]

Yes, the ref who has penalised us 8 times to their 5 and binned one of our players was our reserve scrum half for some time.

And he still let Quins get away with murder.

[Hal Jordan]

Sounds like a proper Quins Second Half.

[JM2K6]

Yes, the ref who has penalised us 8 times to their 5 and binned one of our players was our reserve scrum half for some time.

And he still let Quins get away with murder.

Of course he did, toga. Nothing gets past you.

[JM2K6]

You can't let players dive over the ruck like that

[JM2K6]

Polledri is Gorgodze with some pace. Such a good player.

Brilliant defensive read from Marchant though. Rees Zammit is so so fast. Marchant too good with the offload.

Quins needed that, but Glaws had clearly gotten frustrated with Quins tactical discipline.

[ASMO]

Jesus this game, Gloucester just throwing this away

[Hal Jordan]

Steele is Johnny on the spot with his try scoring at the moment

[JM2K6]

Steele is Johnny on the spot with his try scoring at the moment

Shame about his kicking and defensive play, but yeah he's a big spiky guy

[ASMO]

Polledri is Gorgodze with some pace. Such a good player.

Brilliant defensive read from Marchant though. Rees Zammit is so so fast. Marchant too good with the offload.

Quins needed that, but Glaws had clearly gotten frustrated with Quins tactical discipline.

An absolute beast of a player, Gloucesters best player tonight by a country mile

[Hal Jordan]

Bugger, but that was coming.

[Raggs]

Quins once again keep their players by virtue of Glaws actually scoring :D.

[RodneyRegis]

Steele is Johnny on the spot with his try scoring at the moment

Shame about his kicking and defensive play, but yeah he's a big spiky guy

I like him, but by god his kicking is gash.

[Hal Jordan]

Commentators pissing and moaning about a tackle maul turnover.

[RodneyRegis]

Give them the ball ffs. We need an intercept for the bonus.

[JM2K6]

Commentators pissing and moaning about a tackle maul turnover.

Ben Kay doing that thing where he winds up for a massive whinge, gets undermined by the replay, then sort of carries on with a general moan anyway

[RodneyRegis]

Lineout hasn't functioned for quins... Pure conlincidence that Baldwin is on.

[JM2K6]

Yes Ben when the ball is dislodged and you knock it forward it's a knock on

Epic butchery again

[ASMO]

When its not your night.....

[Hal Jordan]

Great tackle by someone, though.

[JM2K6]

Hooray. A victory of superior attitude, that one. Nice to see.

Impressed with Louw at scrum time. A better ref wouldn't have let Gloucester get away with so many collapses under pressure. Looking forward to seeing more of him.

[Margin__Walker]

Burrell back to union for a swansong with Newcastle.

[Tichtheid]

The Hask speaks

Stuart called me in for a meeting with him and he asked me how, in my opinion, I was doing within the squad. I said really well. He asked if he had shown me the credibility graph. I said no, but sensing this was some horrific management jargon, I told him he didn’t have to. He insisted. He drew a graph with the x-axis denoting time and the y-axis credibility. There was a line across the top, which was where you were credible. His example of someone who was really credible was Brad Barritt. There was also a line below showing where you weren’t credible, and in this case his example was Chris Ashton after some discipline problems and bans.
He said he would show me where I was. I thought, please don’t. He drew this super-excruciatingly slow line that made progress towards the credible line but stopped an inch off. He said that I was nearly credible. I looked around for a hidden camera, expecting him to point to himself with double-finger guns and say, ‘If you want to be in the hot seat like me, all you have to be is credible.’

[Kawazaki]

The Hask speaks

Stuart called me in for a meeting with him and he asked me how, in my opinion, I was doing within the squad. I said really well. He asked if he had shown me the credibility graph. I said no, but sensing this was some horrific management jargon, I told him he didn’t have to. He insisted. He drew a graph with the x-axis denoting time and the y-axis credibility. There was a line across the top, which was where you were credible. His example of someone who was really credible was Brad Barritt. There was also a line below showing where you weren’t credible, and in this case his example was Chris Ashton after some discipline problems and bans.
He said he would show me where I was. I thought, please don’t. He drew this super-excruciatingly slow line that made progress towards the credible line but stopped an inch off. He said that I was nearly credible. I looked around for a hidden camera, expecting him to point to himself with double-finger guns and say, ‘If you want to be in the hot seat like me, all you have to be is credible.’

Bomber really was a shit #1

[SaintK]

Burrell back to union for a swansong with Newcastle.

Hmmm. The return to League didn't turn out too well then?

[Niegs]

The Hask speaks

Stuart called me in for a meeting with him and he asked me how, in my opinion, I was doing within the squad. I said really well. He asked if he had shown me the credibility graph. I said no, but sensing this was some horrific management jargon, I told him he didn’t have to. He insisted. He drew a graph with the x-axis denoting time and the y-axis credibility. There was a line across the top, which was where you were credible. His example of someone who was really credible was Brad Barritt. There was also a line below showing where you weren’t credible, and in this case his example was Chris Ashton after some discipline problems and bans.
He said he would show me where I was. I thought, please don’t. He drew this super-excruciatingly slow line that made progress towards the credible line but stopped an inch off. He said that I was nearly credible. I looked around for a hidden camera, expecting him to point to himself with double-finger guns and say, ‘If you want to be in the hot seat like me, all you have to be is credible.’

What's this from?

I was a big fan of Lanny from several interviews I'd seen/heard and how he seemed to get England to the 'likeable' stage with many who were in the 'anyone but England' camp before.

But that's definitely some cringey management speak BS (and from those interviews, he did seem to like reading oodles of coaching books and the like).