Good maul and another Bristol Try
Maybe not - looks like it was dropped
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sockwithaticket
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What a finish for a big lump of a second row! Travesty that it won't count.
Lovely play all round from Bristol.
Lovely play all round from Bristol.
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sockwithaticket
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Toulon undoing them on the floor. That was also an area they suffered against Wasps. The desire to go wide is laudable, but, as the old cliche goes, they need to earn the right.
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sockwithaticket
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Should be enough of a lead and well deserved. Bristol have played a great deal more of the rugby.
Yep - they've played superbly - very positive.sockwithaticket wrote: ↑Fri Oct 16, 2020 8:42 pm Should be enough of a lead and well deserved. Bristol have played a great deal more of the rugby.
13 points up now and I don't think that flatters them at all - great to watch.
Very good win against that Toulon side, in France. And they could have won by quite a few more. I enjoy the way they play - always likely to come a cropper but they are very enterprising - that disallowed try would have been a masterpiece. I think that big defensive effort, in the last 20 , when Toulon were inches from the line, really sapped Toulon's energy and spirit - thereafter Brizzle played it very efficiently and never gave them another lookin.
Hope Exeter can do the double for us tomorrow.
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mos_eisely_
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4 more Wasps players testing positive https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/54598315
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sockwithaticket
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Fuck.
I wonder if it's more academy lads or some senior squad members. Last time it was initially reported as players and then revised to academy players.
I wonder if it's more academy lads or some senior squad members. Last time it was initially reported as players and then revised to academy players.
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Margin__Walker
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Yep, a lot riding on the final round of testing.
Possibly more likely to be academy, given the first lot were and they tend to cohabit in shared houses etc. You can bet they'll have had no academy kids holding tackle bags this week
Possibly more likely to be academy, given the first lot were and they tend to cohabit in shared houses etc. You can bet they'll have had no academy kids holding tackle bags this week
Academy has been training with senior so there will have been crossover. There hasn't been any training this week, so we'll see if there's more cases to come.
Bugger.
Bugger.
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One can only imagine what's happening in the photos that Ben Youngs obviously has ...... 
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sockwithaticket
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The most egregious selection here is Heinz over Spencer. Unless the latter's injured there is no good reason for it.
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sockwithaticket
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Good question, he's certainly been playing better than Furbank.
I don't know enough about Crossdale to really say much, but I doubt he's played better than McConnochie. If plumping for a young, promising talent, Eddie would have done better to pick someone like Hassel-Collins from Irish who's joint third try scorer (with McConnochie and Jack Willis) in the league this season. I know tries scored aren't everything, but that's pretty bloody impressive in one of the poorer league performers.
I don't know enough about Crossdale to really say much, but I doubt he's played better than McConnochie. If plumping for a young, promising talent, Eddie would have done better to pick someone like Hassel-Collins from Irish who's joint third try scorer (with McConnochie and Jack Willis) in the league this season. I know tries scored aren't everything, but that's pretty bloody impressive in one of the poorer league performers.
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sockwithaticket
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Alas, no. Callum Sheedy and Johnny Williams wouldn't be about to turn out for Wales if we capped these Baabaas games. Think we might regret letting go of the latter.
Oh well!!sockwithaticket wrote: ↑Tue Oct 20, 2020 3:58 pmAlas, no. Callum Sheedy and Johnny Williams wouldn't be about to turn out for Wales if we capped these Baabaas games. Think we might regret letting go of the latter.
Shame, I like both the players you mentioned
I'd like to see completely different scrum halves but from that squad
Genge
George
Stuart
Itoje
Ewels
Curry
Underhill
Dombrandt
Youngs
Ford
May
Farrell
Marchant
Thorley
Watson
Obano, Dunn, Heyes, Ribbans, Hill, Mitchell, Lawrence, Furbank/Crossdale
Better to see how Dombrandt, Marchant and Thorley do as part of a good team structure rather than a scratch side.
Genge
George
Stuart
Itoje
Ewels
Curry
Underhill
Dombrandt
Youngs
Ford
May
Farrell
Marchant
Thorley
Watson
Obano, Dunn, Heyes, Ribbans, Hill, Mitchell, Lawrence, Furbank/Crossdale
Better to see how Dombrandt, Marchant and Thorley do as part of a good team structure rather than a scratch side.
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sockwithaticket
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Not much to disagree with there. I'd find a place for Wilson, though. Maybe insteadof Underhill. The former hasn't played since the restart iirc and so could probably use the run out whereas Underhill was the only back rower involved with the playoffs and is possibly the most injury prone of the young guns, so there's no real gain to using him up on a Baabaas game.Madness wrote: ↑Tue Oct 20, 2020 8:46 pm I'd like to see completely different scrum halves but from that squad
Genge
George
Stuart
Itoje
Ewels
Curry
Underhill
Dombrandt
Youngs
Ford
May
Farrell
Marchant
Thorley
Watson
Obano, Dunn, Heyes, Ribbans, Hill, Mitchell, Lawrence, Furbank/Crossdale
Better to see how Dombrandt, Marchant and Thorley do as part of a good team structure rather than a scratch side.
Possibly swap Dunn and George around too. Means Dunn starts with his club tighthead and George can come on to steady the ship if the setpiece isn't going as planned. Maybe even Obano for Genge so we start with a whole club unit in the front row.