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A few weeks ago I think the board were seriously thinking that Jim could get this sorted . They might still be thinking the same way for all I know Respectfully, I think they are mistaken. Jim has lost the (mainly loyal) support he has garnered over the past 10 years. And if he were to search his h...

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Was at Franklin's Gardens last night and am feeling a tad depressed this morning. Fair play to Leinster - think you won at a canter and had plenty more up your sleeve if an opposition had turned up. And your supporters were a credit to the club/province. Loads of noise, loads of song, plenty of colo...

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I understand Nic Groom is away on his honeymoon.

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13th Warrior

Lo there do I see my father

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As an aside are sinners fans still blaming Alex King for their shithouse form or is there a new space-goat ? Escape Goat. Saints have been sliding downhill for ages, need s proper clearout. This. It's a matter of conjecture about how much influence Alex King had, but a lot of Saints supporters beli...

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AIs are a few weeks too soon for Callum Clarke to play his way in to the squad? Is this extraordinary enough to call up Underhill yet? You wouldn't want him anywhere near the squad. All Saints players currently infected with a sh i te virus whereby any rugby skills accrued over the past 10-15 years...

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Hmm. Mutual Consent usually means "we don't want to say you've been fired, but leave" in other sports... Between this and the Tigers defence coach it's all getting a bit football Not really. He'd been there over 3 seasons no with no real improvement. If he'd been there 6months,then maybe. Have to s...

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Hmm. Mutual Consent usually means "we don't want to say you've been fired, but leave" in other sports... Between this and the Tigers defence coach it's all getting a bit football Yep. Not very edifying but almost inevitable now the game is fully professional. Also, Saints can be Ent-like in their a...

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Just bringing in a new backs coach won't solve the bigger issue of players being past their sell-by date. However, King hasn't demonstrated he can manufacture anything creative with what he has got.

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http://www.northamptonsaints.co.uk/news ... up-opener/

Not surprised. Had a good first year. Thereafter not great.

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pandion wrote:Mallinder and Burrell could be a good pairing for Saints. Noticed Mallinder trying to be more physical when called for, just needs to get his timing right which will come.

Playing him at 12 has made a difference. Looks a lot more assured there.

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Just finished watching that horror show. The positives: - Nearly everything. We looked like a proper rugby team again, with good invention, decent attacking lines, etc. Both Groom and Kessel were excellent at 9, Mallinder was good at 12 (and his defence wasn't as bad as it has been), and with some ...

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Nice piece with Alex Corbisiero today. Seems to be doing well with the commentary and getting his body back in shape: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/rugby-union/2016/09/21/alex-corbisiero-why-im-ready-to-leave-english-rugby-behind-forev/ My suspicion is that it doesn't matter how well he gets his body ...

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Clark got a cap in the WC warm-ups. Was mediocre Indeed he was. But worth another look (once he gets fit and playing well)? That's a big if. We need an immediate fix at 7 for the Autumn- he aint that fix . I honestly assumed that Robshaw would just move across to 7 and it was about finding a new bl...

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Chuckles1188 wrote:Clark got a cap in the WC warm-ups. Was mediocre

Indeed he was. But worth another look (once he gets fit and playing well)?

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Mind you, heard a rumour the other day that Sir David Attenborough is not a pleasant chap off-camera :shock: That's like finding out Marilyn Munroe had had a boob job. :lol: Must admit I felt a little sad when I learned about it .. but then I suppose you don't get to where he has without being a no...

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Don't get the Ashton hate. Pretty much every pro or rugby insider I have met who has anything to do with him, reckons he's a great bloke . Rugby generally knows its wrong 'uns and he is not one of them. He got absolutely stuffed up on the last ban and this was pretty much f-all.* Note to arm chair ...

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Mind you, heard a rumour the other day that Sir David Attenborough is not a pleasant chap off-camera :shock: That's like finding out Marilyn Munroe had had a boob job. :lol: Must admit I felt a little sad when I learned about it .. but then I suppose you don't get to where he has without being a no...

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Don't get the Ashton hate. Pretty much every pro or rugby insider I have met who has anything to do with him, reckons he's a great bloke . Rugby generally knows its wrong 'uns and he is not one of them. He got absolutely stuffed up on the last ban and this was pretty much f-all.* Note to arm chair ...

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Jake wrote:Word is he's back to League if he cops a ban.

Really? Needs more tats .. and a growly voice.

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Mixture of hope and confusion on the Saints chat rooms (a common enough state these days). A relative whipper snapper compared to our last lock signing.

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Thought this was about Liam Fox but then realised he wasn't a surgeon.

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Watch them all the time. My kid's Head Coach will regularly pick up an element of play he's observed in the internationals and try and educate the boys about this in training. A couple of weeks ago it was about how ABs rarely flood the ruck but one of their guys can draw in up to 3 defenders into a ...

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Oh good. Dickson at SH should mean we get lightning quick service to the backs :( Didn't Groom look somewhat sharper when he replaced Dickson last week? Massively so. Night and day. If Saints asked me what single change I'd make to maximise their chances of having the best possible season my advice...

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Where England's governance failed was in its persistent failure to appoint a proven, top class coaching team. Finally they got Eddie on board and fortunately he has been able to assemble something amounting to a coaching team, but it's been a bit of "beg, borrow and steal". Aside from that, I don't...

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I've noticed an increasingly common trend on this forum. When a country is doing badly, or under-performing at test level, it has become de rigueur to blame the coaching. "Our coaching is bad" is an all too familiar comment made on this forum. The English would say this during the Lancaster era, Wa...

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Oh good. Dickson at SH should mean we get lightning quick service to the backs

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I had one of these in the late '80's, cost me £150 and took me and my then gf from London to Caithness. Same colour as well, only with a hideous vinyl roof that split and trailed streamers up the M'way - good stereo though. :nod: https://www.hagertyinsurance.co.uk/~/media/Images/Articles/2014/June/...

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I've noticed an increasingly common trend on this forum. When a country is doing badly, or under-performing at test level, it has become de rigueur to blame the coaching. "Our coaching is bad" is an all too familiar comment made on this forum. The English would say this during the Lancaster era, Wa...

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Oh dear. Not the pleasant return to Franklin's Gardens I'd hoped for. So much expectation, so much disappointment. Saints were toothless, devoid of ideas, could not summon any energy until the last 7 or 8 minutes. Looked like a return to the bad old days of Solomons and a lack of cohesion between c...

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Oh dear. Not the pleasant return to Franklin's Gardens I'd hoped for. So much expectation, so much disappointment. Saints were toothless, devoid of ideas, could not summon any energy until the last 7 or 8 minutes. Looked like a return to the bad old days of Solomons and a lack of cohesion between co...

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Loved him in Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, The Producers, Silver Streak, Willy Wonka and quite a few other filums

A great comic actor.

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https://medium.com/@OwenJones84/questions-all-jeremy-corbyn-supporters-need-to-answer-b3e82ace7ed3#.94stx45x6 Good article by a lefty socialist journo about Corbyn and his mates. The issue with the Labour party is it was taken over. So it ended up no different to the Conservatives. The true Labour ...

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I recall baiting my Irish work colleague a year or so ago saying we had three 10s better than Sexton. He's a Galway lad so doesn't know much about rugby, but he was looking at me saying I was talking crap. It was quite funny as to be fair I was trolling him hard. But seriously, does anyone think Se...

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Or, just a thought, he could alternatively give not being a complete wanker a try. But that would require some introspection, so... He used to be a decent poster but seems to have gone full-on xenophobe :( Claims it's banter but the tune really doesn't change (like AC/DC on auto-repeat). This place...

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Great news!

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Wishing Wales the best of luck

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Was at same poly as her in the mid 80s. Remember her being very small and always had a fag in her gob. Very talented even then.

RIP

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I don't think Harrison has entirely blown his chance, but with Picamoles coming in and Clark coming back in to contention, he might not get as much game time with Saints and as Openclash said, he'll also be facing competition for a squad place from Hughes and Underhill (Eddie said he hoped to pick ...

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Special mention for Mako yesterday, he was superb and has really grown over this test series. Yesterday was easily the best performance I can remember him putting in for England, massive in defence and some great ball-carrying helped England's attacking game He has been outstanding in pretty much e...

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