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Ulsters Red Hand wrote:Can they even overcome a further 35 point deduction mathematically?
edit: just checked, technically yes but need a lot of TBP's

Yes. 14 fixtures left, so they could get up to 70 points which would put them on 28. Tigers are currently on 11.

In reality, no.

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I rate sleightholme. Quick, always in the right place, very consistent for a young lad. Also worth bearing in mind he's 19 and in his first senior season.

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Aha, I knew I'd gotten my nines mixed up - I thought Taylor was Mitchell, who I thought was a big prospect. Silly mistake to make. Yeah, you're fine there then. Big fan of Furbank, just worried that Mallinder might represent the bad old Saints a bit too much - i.e. a talented flake who doesn't make...

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That was comfortably the worst I've seen Taylor play this season, though. And Mitchell is probably the better player. Tupai also looks a good prospect.

Only recruitment I would do in the backs is one more fullback/winger.

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Saints have lost both Hartley and Brussow to retirement this season, that would free up a fair bit of the cap (possibly, I'm not entirely sure how it works). Brussow was the second marquee; not sure if anyone will have replaced him or not in that spot. For a long time Dylan was the first marquee, b...

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I said back at the beginning of the season that this would be a big problem. Saracens can't just offload players, they have contracts. Presumably they needed to find players who were happy to move and then waive the transfer fee?

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Saints about to win a fairly undeserved BP victory. Severals players a bit pants, Mallinder pressed into 15 and poor positioning on several occasions, Matavesi with a terrible lineout. Probably most key to the poor first half for my money though was Taylor at scrumhalf, responsible for a fair few of...

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This game is tedious, 13 handling errors from Saints before 60 minutes.

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OptimisticJock wrote:Is Dingwall SQ? And has he shown any interest if he is?

He is, but played for England U20s so that's probably his preference.

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Who got a red?

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DragsterDriver wrote:Blimey- I had no idea Kruis was 30!

Though 30 is a toddler in lock years.

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ovalball wrote:Ah well - 2 points that we didn't look like getting - but conceding a try with a 2 man advantage

Not really a two man advantage when it takes 4 of them to tackle one Naiyaravoro

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To make a genuine criticism of Karl Dickson, he's much too lenient on the tackler slowing down the ball on the ground and also not at all generous to the jackaling defender. The two things don't cancel out, and both lead to a messy breakdown and a stop-start game.

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Cipriani giveth, Cipriani taketh away

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Right, so that one had to be clear to chalk it off? Looked a lot more forward than the other one did. Karl Dickson with the 14 point swing.

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:lol: @ ppl speculating on some sinister b.s. It's obvious the people couldn't swim. If they could they would have survived End of story. Why would the mother come out and state they could swim? All very odd and I suspect we will never learn the truth. Probably knows they couldn't swim, but just wa...

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Sale leading Saints at the AJ Bell, but Ashton is playing his last game for a couple of weeks - a hit to the face and finger in the eyes of a prone Matt Proctor at the ruck, who subsequently went off for an HIA. Bizarrely it was replayed on the screen but Sale still got the penalty.

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Just had a look at their forum, whiny bunch and a bit nasty. Also the Ireland they keep going on about just had a disastrous WC. Not sure what posts you're looking at?? There's a lot of whinging about commentators but I assume at the time they'd all just sat through 80 minutes of Jamie Heaslip talk...

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Just had a look at their forum, whiny bunch and a bit nasty. Also the Ireland they keep going on about just had a disastrous WC. Not sure what posts you're looking at?? There's a lot of whinging about commentators but I assume at the time they'd all just sat through 80 minutes of Jamie Heaslip talk...

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Just went back to watch the 'incidents'. The first two you would struggle to call penalties, last one is a borderline yellow because it's late and the tackle rides up, but there's no way it's a red. Citing officer with too much time on his hands, doubt any of them will come to anything - certainly ...

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Just went back to watch the 'incidents'. The first two you would struggle to call penalties, last one is a borderline yellow because it's late and the tackle rides up, but there's no way it's a red. Citing officer with too much time on his hands, doubt any of them will come to anything - certainly n...

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Would be good to get that fourth try, could qualify with a couple of wins from the last two matches.

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YOYO wrote: Well England squad players get super rest these days. Heard a stat about Owen Farrell play time and its he’s very well rested.

Yes, but Sarries had to cheat to set up a squad that could manage that.

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Duff Paddy wrote:
As we develop 95% of our own players we can still claim the moral high ground over any English club

Ah, the Saracens gambit. Isn't Leinster's catchment about 90% of the private schools in the country?

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how are these guys leading the premiership ? They're not, this is more or less a completely different 15 to the team that played the first 5 matches of the premiership. thanks, hadn't paid attention to the squad names Didn’t you know the official name of the this team is Northampton B Saints? Reali...

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We'd be better if Ratuniyarawa was on the bench and we played with 14, honestly.

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Akkerman wrote:how are these guys leading the premiership ?

They're not, this is more or less a completely different 15 to the team that played the first 5 matches of the premiership.

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Calling that advantage over is an absolute cunt move, no way he would've kicked it without advantage.

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DragsterDriver wrote:Not a great saints side again, on for a hosing.

Bit of an understatement. Down to the academy third string in places, more than a few debutants this week and last.

This just one to have on in the background I reckon.

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Medic running on to touch the ball and slow down the taking the lineout, looked like.

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Go on, if we can't have any interesting rugby let's have an interesting fight.

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Gloucestered that right up

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For what it's worth, I agree that with a full strength Saints pack it would have been within 2 tries. There's a gigantic drop off from the first choices, going from internationals to 20 year old academy players.

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Did Leinster really rest 13 of their players last week?? Must be a huge squad.

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Ah, odd game in the end. That got away from Saints badly. Was quite pleased with what I saw from them for most of it, against a superior side, but their discipline let them down, they made too many mistakes in contact, and they weren't able to convert in the second half when they really needed to m...

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Need to get rid of some dross in that pack. Ratuniyarawa, Moon, Gibson are all not good enough. They're second choices, but still. Just got beaten up front as expected.

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About as expected - this front five can't cut it.

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Saints might be ahead if we had a functioning lineout.

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Saints pack is too lightweight across the board. Tuala at fullback could be a weak link. The rest of the backline is decent, but they won't see any ball - Leinster could just kick the corners and dominate the set piece, not to mention the gainline and the ruck.

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Furbank's going to be rested according to Boyd. He's had a couple if HIAs recently and while he's cleared to play he's going to get a couple of weeks off now that Bigger and Tuala are available. Lawes is out with a Hamstring, 50/50 for the return match. Owen Franks is back in kiwiland for Richie Mo...

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