2024/2025 Not Heineken Cup
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FFS, just scrum straight and make Northampton play out the hard way.
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And has to be yellow after the warning.
It's a shame they couldn't produce more of their semi final form. UBB were there for the taking.Lady P wrote: Sat May 24, 2025 3:33 pm Don’t think Saints can get back from here but they’ve done bloody well with a young team and those early injuries.
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You could substitute that the other way round. It's a final. Both teams lacking experience and not surprisingly making errors.
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I fear they're falling into "the semi-final was their final" territory.
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This has haunted UBB for 2 seasons now. Discipline is terrible.
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No disrespect to the lad because he's done his best in trying circumstances, but Litchfield does not have top end winger pace and it's hurt Northampton's attack. If they'd been able to have one of Furbank, Ramm or Hendy out there, I think they'd have been just incisive enough to make a difference.
Really? There’s some big established names in that UBB squad.Torquemada 1420 wrote: Sat May 24, 2025 3:37 pmYou could substitute that the other way round. It's a final. Both teams lacking experience and not surprisingly making errors.
True. Lots of bang average to poor performances.Torquemada 1420 wrote: Sat May 24, 2025 3:37 pmYou could substitute that the other way round. It's a final. Both teams lacking experience and not surprisingly making errors.
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Bordeaux replacement hooker has had an all-time horrendously bad outing.
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And the only final some of them have played in at club level, they were utterly humiliated by Toulouse.Lady P wrote: Sat May 24, 2025 3:39 pm Really? There’s some big established names in that UBB squad.
Plus.......... they are French

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UBB giving a textbook example of how not to close out a game when you're two scores up.
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Just be grateful it wasn't a final between 2 Fre teams

Torquemada 1420 wrote: Sat May 24, 2025 3:41 pmJust be grateful it wasn't a final between 2 Fre teams![]()

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The combo of that, really weak discipline and a lineout-maul that a blind team of dwarves would have been embarrassed by.Hal Jordan wrote: Sat May 24, 2025 3:41 pm UBB giving a textbook example of how not to close out a game when you're two scores up.
Not in this game.
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Lucu MOTM for me. Sa needs to go back to school. Horror show at hooker. More pies thrown than in a week at Melton.
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Defo that.ASMO wrote: Sat May 24, 2025 3:44 pm Congratulations UBB, deserved winners, best team in the competition this year.
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Anyway, Borthwick will be pleased that Sleightholme has some game time.
Can’t disagree with thatOxbow wrote: Sat May 24, 2025 3:48 pm Too many Saints players were ordinary slash poor, I can only think of Coles who played well. Freeman tried hard but couldn't do it all in his own. Ref rode us hard but no way did we deserve to win, congratulations BB.