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Whatever happens now this game has been far from ruined
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Slick wrote: Sat Jun 08, 2024 2:33 pm
sockwithaticket wrote: Sat Jun 08, 2024 2:30 pm
I like neeps wrote: Sat Jun 08, 2024 2:26 pm Have to change to the 20 minute and substitution red card now. Game ruined.
Nah. Seen too many games with a red, even an early one, go down to the wire or even result in the team a man down winning.

It's only game over when there's a quality gulf between the teams and I don't think there is here.
Not this nonsense again…
*Ahem*
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Underhill has really brought the biff today
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sockwithaticket wrote: Sat Jun 08, 2024 2:44 pm Hot day? It's max 18 degrees!
Really? Much warmer here. :wtf
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Torquemada 1420 wrote: Sat Jun 08, 2024 2:30 pm
sockwithaticket wrote: Sat Jun 08, 2024 2:30 pm
I like neeps wrote: Sat Jun 08, 2024 2:26 pm Have to change to the 20 minute and substitution red card now. Game ruined.
Nah. Seen too many games with a red, even an early one, go down to the wire or even result in the team a man down winning.

It's only game over when there's a quality gulf between the teams and I don't think there is here.
On a pitch with this width and the manner both these sides play, this will be a blow out at 20+ now.
Well, for the sake of my FR pick, I'll be happy to wear this one :lol:
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Torquemada 1420 wrote: Sat Jun 08, 2024 3:29 pm
sockwithaticket wrote: Sat Jun 08, 2024 2:44 pm Hot day? It's max 18 degrees!
Really? Much warmer here. :wtf
It's 16 where I am (Surrey/Hampshire border), according to the Met website 18 is the high in Richmond today.
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sockwithaticket wrote: Sat Jun 08, 2024 3:30 pm
Torquemada 1420 wrote: Sat Jun 08, 2024 3:29 pm
sockwithaticket wrote: Sat Jun 08, 2024 2:44 pm Hot day? It's max 18 degrees!
Really? Much warmer here. :wtf
It's 16 where I am (Surrey/Hampshire border), according to the Met website 18 is the high in Richmond today.
Met Office had 17C here but it's 20C on the thermometer.
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Mitchell's tap and go there was mad. Completely the wrong decision.


Bruce Craig's boy looks like a real mini me.
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Get the fuck in!
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Redemption for Mitchell. What a run by Hendy.
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Great work from Hendy for the try.
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sockwithaticket wrote: Sat Jun 08, 2024 3:46 pm Redemption for Mitchell. What a run by Hendy.
Runs like a drunk giraffe, but he's electric once he gets going.
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What was Redpath thinking there?
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Torquemada 1420 wrote: Sat Jun 08, 2024 3:52 pm What was Redpath thinking there?
Complete brain fade.
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Russell to kick it dead.........

{EDIT} Russell not to kick it at all?
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Well done Saints, bit of a nailr-biter
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Unlucky Bath, we were dog shit today and I think you would have won that but for the red card.
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Bath let down by a player not being able to keep his head.

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Having said that, fuck it, we're champions! So pleased for people like Lawes and Waller.
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Saints did enough and it's probably just reward for being the best team in the regular season.

Bath ran them bloody close though and their future looks very bright. 2 seasons ago they finished bottom and here they are contesting and almost winning the final.
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sockwithaticket wrote: Sat Jun 08, 2024 3:58 pm Saints did enough and it's probably just reward for being the best team in the regular season.

Bath ran them bloody close though and their future looks very bright. 2 seasons ago they finished bottom and here they are contesting and almost winning the final.
Too bloody close for comfort for this old un :shock:
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sockwithaticket wrote: Sat Jun 08, 2024 3:21 pm
Slick wrote: Sat Jun 08, 2024 2:33 pm
sockwithaticket wrote: Sat Jun 08, 2024 2:30 pm

Nah. Seen too many games with a red, even an early one, go down to the wire or even result in the team a man down winning.

It's only game over when there's a quality gulf between the teams and I don't think there is here.
Not this nonsense again…
*Ahem*
Yeeeeaaahhhh, think I’ll take that one on the chin 😬
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Congrats to Saints. Been fun to watch for a few seasons but real progression this season. Really pleased for vesty and the rest of the Saints coaching set up with a positive attacking philosophy paying off.
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Happy to see Northampton win but without the card I think Bath take it. Much stronger in the tackle and breakdown.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union ... gg7ejxq1po

Ford out of the summer tour. Smith, Smith and ?
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Oxbow wrote: Sun Jun 09, 2024 12:14 pm https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union ... gg7ejxq1po

Ford out of the summer tour. Smith, Smith and ?
Hopefully F. Smith is alright after coming off in the final yesterday.

Charlie Atkinson's been in at least one Borthwick squad, so maybe him? Furbank to be viewed as emergency fly half cover perhaps.

Don't think Orlando Bailey has had much game time this season thanks to Russell's presence. Louie Johnson is a fetus and plays for Newcastle. Harvey Skinner's a bit meh. Are there other EQP fly halves in the Prem getting any game time?
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sockwithaticket wrote: Sun Jun 09, 2024 12:18 pm
Oxbow wrote: Sun Jun 09, 2024 12:14 pm https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union ... gg7ejxq1po

Ford out of the summer tour. Smith, Smith and ?
Hopefully F. Smith is alright after coming off in the final yesterday.
He said afterwards it was just cramp, so hopefully he'll be okay.
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That's a relief.
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Finally watched the final.

Crikey, not sure I can remember a final where the 9/10 combo were so comprehensively second best and their team still won. Fin Smith was pretty poor, Mitchell extremely poor, but Bath were let down by the drop off outside of Russell.

Swap the halfbacks and this is a thumping.

Huge display by Underhill who probably did not deserve to end on the losing side. But major credit to Furbank, my MOTM, and the other Saints outside backs did not do badly either. Pleased that Saints, best side in the league for most of the season.

On the red card... We saw another great contest, which is nice. Pretty disgusting that Kitson in the guardian tried to make out it wasn't a red card, followed by this abortion in the observer by Aylwin, who has dedicated most of his rugby output to screaming about red cards:
Another final tarnished as Obano’s red card a blight on rugby’s integrity
Northampton also suffer in the reckoning as questions linger over whether they would have won with 15 v 15
Pathetic stuff from absolute dinosaurs waging a campaign in favour of massive headshots
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JM2K6 wrote: Sun Jun 09, 2024 3:46 pm Finally watched the final.

Crikey, not sure I can remember a final where the 9/10 combo were so comprehensively second best and their team still won. Fin Smith was pretty poor, Mitchell extremely poor, but Bath were let down by the drop off outside of Russell.

Swap the halfbacks and this is a thumping.

Huge display by Underhill who probably did not deserve to end on the losing side. But major credit to Furbank, my MOTM, and the other Saints outside backs did not do badly either. Pleased that Saints, best side in the league for most of the season.

On the red card... We saw another great contest, which is nice. Pretty disgusting that Kitson in the guardian tried to make out it wasn't a red card, followed by this abortion in the observer by Aylwin, who has dedicated most of his rugby output to screaming about red cards:
Another final tarnished as Obano’s red card a blight on rugby’s integrity
Northampton also suffer in the reckoning as questions linger over whether they would have won with 15 v 15
Pathetic stuff from absolute dinosaurs waging a campaign in favour of massive headshots
It's a clear red card. The journos are just looking for clicks at this point.

Seen more people want 20min red cards but that's bollocks too.
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JM2K6 wrote: Sun Jun 09, 2024 3:46 pm Finally watched the final.

Crikey, not sure I can remember a final where the 9/10 combo were so comprehensively second best and their team still won. Fin Smith was pretty poor, Mitchell extremely poor, but Bath were let down by the drop off outside of Russell.

Swap the halfbacks and this is a thumping.

Huge display by Underhill who probably did not deserve to end on the losing side. But major credit to Furbank, my MOTM, and the other Saints outside backs did not do badly either. Pleased that Saints, best side in the league for most of the season.

On the red card... We saw another great contest, which is nice. Pretty disgusting that Kitson in the guardian tried to make out it wasn't a red card, followed by this abortion in the observer by Aylwin, who has dedicated most of his rugby output to screaming about red cards:
Another final tarnished as Obano’s red card a blight on rugby’s integrity
Northampton also suffer in the reckoning as questions linger over whether they would have won with 15 v 15
Pathetic stuff from absolute dinosaurs waging a campaign in favour of massive headshots
See also Walrus
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Pleased to see Carpenter, Roebuck and Sleightholme selected.
Langdon misses out.........criminal!!!
England squad to tour Japan and New Zealand

Forwards: F Baxter, D Cole, A Coles, C Cunningham-South, B Curry, T Curry, T Dan, A Dombrandt, B Earl, C Ewels, J George (capt), J Heyes, M Itoje, J Marler, G Martin, G Oghre, B Rodd, E Roots, W Stuart, S Underhill

Backs: J Carpenter, F Dingwall, I Feyi-Waboso, T Freeman, G Furbank, O Lawrence, A Mitchell, L Northmore, H Randall, T Roebuck, H Slade, O Sleightholme, F Smith, M Smith, B Spencer, F Steward
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Must have pissed in Borthwick's cornflakes, he should definitely be on the tour.
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Also disappointing that we haven't been able to move on from the likes of Cole, Marler, Stuart and Ewels yet. The tighthead cupboard looks empty.
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Without Chessum in the mix, lock looks incredibly bare.
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sockwithaticket wrote: Mon Jun 10, 2024 11:58 am Without Chessum in the mix, lock looks incredibly bare.
Didn't notice that, presume he's injured?
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SaintK wrote: Mon Jun 10, 2024 11:42 am Pleased to see Carpenter, Roebuck and Sleightholme selected.
Langdon misses out.........criminal!!!
England squad to tour Japan and New Zealand

Forwards: F Baxter, D Cole, A Coles, C Cunningham-South, B Curry, T Curry, T Dan, A Dombrandt, B Earl, C Ewels, J George (capt), J Heyes, M Itoje, J Marler, G Martin, G Oghre, B Rodd, E Roots, W Stuart, S Underhill

Backs: J Carpenter, F Dingwall, I Feyi-Waboso, T Freeman, G Furbank, O Lawrence, A Mitchell, L Northmore, H Randall, T Roebuck, H Slade, O Sleightholme, F Smith, M Smith, B Spencer, F Steward

Isn't Langdon injured?
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Margin__Walker wrote: Mon Jun 10, 2024 12:15 pm Isn't Langdon injured?
Not sure. He did come off on Saturday with a dodgy arm/shoulder but they kept saying it looked like a stinger and I haven't seen or read anything about it since.
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Oxbow wrote: Mon Jun 10, 2024 12:20 pm
Margin__Walker wrote: Mon Jun 10, 2024 12:15 pm Isn't Langdon injured?
Not sure. He did come off on Saturday with a dodgy arm/shoulder but they kept saying it looked like a stinger and I haven't seen or read anything about it since.
I'm assuming it's an issue. Can't see him not being involved otherwise.
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Oxbow wrote: Mon Jun 10, 2024 12:07 pm
sockwithaticket wrote: Mon Jun 10, 2024 11:58 am Without Chessum in the mix, lock looks incredibly bare.
Didn't notice that, presume he's injured?
Yup, he had surgery at the start of May.
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