General rugby thread

[tgr]

Thanks - that's interesting. Could be coached to other scrum halves presumably?

[DocJock]

Yes and no.

Anyone can be coached to speed up. The best guys though, just read the game faster and see more of the whole picture.

Not that it matters too much as the EJ game plan is to kick the ball to death.

[The Mad Monk]

Leicester 15 Saracens 12

The right team won

[MrVert]

Great win for Tigers!

Superb all season

[XCP]

Well done Tiggers.

[Audis5b9]

Great game, Tigers deserved that one

(From a Sarries fan!)

[Smollet]

Glad Tigers won but as an advert for exciting rugby from the two top teams it fell well short imgo.

[C70R]

Smollet said:

Glad Tigers won but as an advert for exciting rugby from the two top teams it fell well short imgo.

It's how they've both played all season, in fairness.

[JonChalk]

I quite enjoyed that game as a neutral (veering slightly towards Tigers, because....well.....Sarries...).

Tough and challenging, not desperately exciting, but more interesting than the score would suggest.

Tigers had the better strategy, and a bit more variation to their game, that and making fewer mistakes was the difference for me.

[Smollet]

C70R said:

It's how they've both played all season, in fairness.

True. I suppose being a Quins fan I’m used to a more entertaining way of playing

[CardinalBlue]

It was a bit dusty here when this was happening


https://twitter.com/btsportrugby/status/1538194644...

[Smollet]

iwantagta said:

As a Bath fan.
Thank fk the season is over.

Worn by a Bath fan at the final today. Not you was it?

[tgr]

I think it’s drubbing

Anyway a last minute drop goal is a good way to win and well done to Burns who had to escape to Japan to avoid ignominy. Pleased for him

Borthwick to take over from Jones?

[JonChalk]

tgr said:

Anyway a last minute drop goal is a good way to win ....

Indeed, there's good precedent for important wins with late drop goals.

[ArnageWRC]

The Mad Monk said:

Leicester 15 Saracens 12

The right team won

Something is right with the world when Leicester are the champions. And I'm not a Leicester fan. 15-20 years ago I was a Sale season ticket holder, and remember a young scrum half called Wrigglesworth, as back up to Redpath.
Over the season Leicester proved they were the best, which in my opinion should be the best way to show who the best teams are.

I'm not a fan, and never will be of 'play offs' to decide champions. An off day, a dodgy decision from a ref can blow the whole season. I recall the first few seasons when Gloucester & Bath finished top, but Wasps won 'the final'. Ridiculous......

Why both rugby codes have gone down this road is disappointing - but probably brings in more ££££££

[JonChalk]

[quote=ArnageWRC]
I recall the first few seasons when Gloucester.....finished top..../quote]

Please don't bring that up - still have painful memories of that season.

[DocJock]

What an utter shambles England were today

A 50 point pasting by 14 men. EJ really has lost the plot.

[Smollet]

How Jones takes so many great players & gets them playing so poorly is beyond me.
I can’t think of a single England player who’s better or at least as good in the national side as opposed to their club.

[basherX]

Glad I decided to do a car clean instead. Sounds like were st.

[Kermit power]

DocJock said:

What an utter shambles England were today

A 50 point pasting by 14 men. EJ really has lost the plot.

Agreed to an extent, but at the same time, it's frustrating that the commentary team aren't giving any context at all.

England obviously had no Leicester or Sarries players, and only 4 of the starting XV had more than 20 caps.

Against that, it seemed a little disingenuous to talk about the BaaBaas in this instance as a scratch side in the way we think of it, given that they had the entire French coaching team, over 100 French caps in the starting line-up with 2/3 of the starting XV either in the French squad or playing for a place in it, and George Kruis the only player in that XV who doesn't play their club rugby for one of just 6 Top 14 clubs.