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sockwithaticket
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Oof. Yarde fucked that completely. Quins with a second in quick succession.
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Quins playing with a bit of fizz, helped by Yarde having a mare
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Sale looking very ordinary in decent weather...

Smith carves them open to put Dombrandt away.
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Head to head - we’ll see a sending off here
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I’m sorry that’s just fucking stupid, give him a red just for the lack of brain
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Just Saffa things...

They do disproportionately seem to do dumb shit that gets them carded.
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Mike Brown showing Daly what a tackling fullback looks like
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Why go for 3 there? Psychological? Think I'd rather push for the BP when 21 points clear.
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Big defensive play from Dombrandt there.
ASMO wrote: ↑Sat Feb 20, 2021 2:11 pm Mike Brown showing Daly what a tackling fullback looks like
Also having the positional sense to ensure the tackle is viable rather than a despairing flail at a man who's already through.
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sockwithaticket wrote: ↑Sat Feb 20, 2021 2:26 pm Big defensive play from Dombrandt there.
ASMO wrote: ↑Sat Feb 20, 2021 2:11 pm Mike Brown showing Daly what a tackling fullback looks like
Also having the positional sense to ensure the tackle is viable rather than a despairing flail at a man who's already through.
We'd still be better off with Brown at FB rather than Daly.
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Ovals wrote: ↑Sat Feb 20, 2021 2:33 pm
sockwithaticket wrote: ↑Sat Feb 20, 2021 2:26 pm Big defensive play from Dombrandt there.
ASMO wrote: ↑Sat Feb 20, 2021 2:11 pm Mike Brown showing Daly what a tackling fullback looks like
Also having the positional sense to ensure the tackle is viable rather than a despairing flail at a man who's already through.
We'd still be better off with Brown at FB rather than Daly.
100%.

As he's just demonstrated again with holding a player up, he still has a lot to offer and is a more complete fullback than Daly will likely ever be.
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How was that not taking the 9? Tempest just let some Sale player come in more or less at the side and continue advancing such that they basically dry humped Landajo's head. Weird.
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sockwithaticket wrote: ↑Sat Feb 20, 2021 2:45 pm How was that not taking the 9? Tempest just let some Sale player come in more or less at the side and continue advancing such that they basically dry humped Landajo's head. Weird.
Nah, he was coming over the tackled player, which is the gate. And being a nuisance, but he never tackled the 9, just continued to legally attempt to ruck over the ball.
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Fair enough. Didn't look right at all to me.

Quins should be hapy with the win given how much of their season under Gustard went, but they definitely squandered a BP.
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The pitch at Exeter does not look like it's made for running rugby.
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Leicester winning all the collison with Wasps and on top in the scrums. Wasps really missing the likes of Willis, Launch, Robson and Barbeary. Finding it hard to get into the game atm. 8-0 to Leicester - could have been more.
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Ovals wrote: ↑Sat Feb 20, 2021 3:19 pm Leicester winning all the collison with Wasps and on top in the scrums. Wasps really missing the likes of Willis, Launch, Robson and Barbeary. Finding it hard to get into the game atm. 8-0 to Leicester - could have been more.
And Porter, Wolstenholme, Oghre, Young... we're being really hard hit at lock, scrum half and backrow. Lock eased off this week purely due to getting Rowlands back, but it's tough.
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Fuming at that pen. No worse than many counter rucks.
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sockwithaticket wrote: ↑Sat Feb 20, 2021 3:27 pm Fuming at that pen. No worse than many counter rucks.
It's CMK, we need to be whiter than white, and even more than that.
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Raggs wrote: ↑Sat Feb 20, 2021 3:28 pm
sockwithaticket wrote: ↑Sat Feb 20, 2021 3:27 pm Fuming at that pen. No worse than many counter rucks.
It's CMK, we need to be whiter than white, and even more than that.
Mmm. I'm trying not to start bleating about how much he dislikes us, but he rarely does much to disabuse the notion.
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Raggs wrote: ↑Sat Feb 20, 2021 3:21 pm
Ovals wrote: ↑Sat Feb 20, 2021 3:19 pm Leicester winning all the collison with Wasps and on top in the scrums. Wasps really missing the likes of Willis, Launch, Robson and Barbeary. Finding it hard to get into the game atm. 8-0 to Leicester - could have been more.
And Porter, Wolstenholme, Oghre, Young... we're being really hard hit at lock, scrum half and backrow. Lock eased off this week purely due to getting Rowlands back, but it's tough.
And Odogwu, of course.

11-3

What a pathetic attempt at a tackle by Rowlands - let them escape from their 22 to our 22.

Another penalty conceded in the danger zone.

THis game is only going one way.
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That's a red.

That might even things up a bit.
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I appreciate the appetite, but 9s doing goal line defence always really bugs me. Of course a back row is going through Vellacott.

Thank you TMO for dragging CMK kicking and screaming into a foul play decision.

Edit - Another game another Saffa doing something stupid and card-worthy.
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How far did he have to be led to get that result, from constantly claiming it's just chest on chest.
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This weekend is surely when the penny drops across English rugby - stop shoulder charging people’s faces. Clueless
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Oxbow wrote: ↑Sat Feb 20, 2021 3:02 pm The pitch at Exeter does not look like it's made for running rugby.
Yeah, it's a bit of a mess. Impressed with our defense so fr, but really hope we can use the wind to our advantage in the second half or ultimately this is only going to end with on result
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Even when getting some pens of our own we simply cannot hold onto possession atm.
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Sleightholme has some serious pace. The conditions are turning this into a bit of a lottery.
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Think if Tigers get another 3 reds, we might be able to win this.
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That's ridiculously harsh, he loses his feet but has no impact on the ball. All he does is kill Wasps counter ruck.
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I can't see us winning this, even with 15 v 14.
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Ovals wrote: ↑Sat Feb 20, 2021 3:47 pm I can't see us winning this, even with 15 v 14.
Something drastic will have to change.
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Jeez, that was an awful 1st half. Wasps just can't seem to keep hold of the ball. Never looked like scoring - even when we got the 3 points we weren't threatening.
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And there was me thinking it couldn't get worse...
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Feel a bit for Brookes, but again, don’t shoulder people in the face
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Paddington Bear wrote: ↑Sat Feb 20, 2021 3:39 pm This weekend is surely when the penny drops across English rugby - stop shoulder charging people’s faces. Clueless
And still more games to go .....
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FFS - do these players never learn - just what will it take for them to get it into their thick heads. He's just thrown away what little chance Wasps had in this game.
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Gopperth and Atkinson off, Umaga and Le Bourgeois on. I guess Blackett felt something had to change, but I don't know if that's going to do it.
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sockwithaticket wrote: ↑Sat Feb 20, 2021 4:14 pm Gopperth and Atkinson off, Umaga and Le Bourgeois on. I guess Blackett felt something had to change, but I don't know if that's going to do it.
Maybe he's written this off and is keeping them for the next game.

I can't watch it any longer.
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Ovals wrote: ↑Sat Feb 20, 2021 4:24 pm
sockwithaticket wrote: ↑Sat Feb 20, 2021 4:14 pm Gopperth and Atkinson off, Umaga and Le Bourgeois on. I guess Blackett felt something had to change, but I don't know if that's going to do it.
Maybe he's written this off and is keeping them for the next game.

I can't watch it any longer.
Yeah, it's getting pretty painful at this point. I don't think we've gone through 5 phases and we can't get out of our half.
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