He threw a loopy nothing pass for an intercept try last week. He's always good for a head in hands moment or two each game.45jumper wrote:That knock-on was pure, distilled Twelvetrees.
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He and John have shared the shirt this season, both have shown up really well. When taking Harrison and Ooisthuizen into account, I can't remember the last time we had two quality options at 1 & 3Raggs wrote:What's with Cooper-Woolley? At Wasps he was our starting tighthead, now he's getting 3 minutes off the bench? I can't imagine he came cheap.45jumper wrote:That knock-on was pure, distilled Twelvetrees.

Massive win for us, that. Keeps us in the top 2 with 6 home and 4 away games to come

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Good to hear he's being used.45jumper wrote:He and John have shared the shirt this season, both have shown up really well. When taking Harrison and Ooisthuizen into account, I can't remember the last time we had two quality options at 1 & 3Raggs wrote:What's with Cooper-Woolley? At Wasps he was our starting tighthead, now he's getting 3 minutes off the bench? I can't imagine he came cheap.45jumper wrote:That knock-on was pure, distilled Twelvetrees.![]()
Massive win for us, that. Keeps us in the top 2 with 6 home and 4 away games to come
I can't remember a time when you didn't use Harrison for 70+ minutes a game

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Are Ashton and solemona injured?
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Neither can I! He's incredibly durable, but playing less every week will be good for him. Will mean he can go full throttle rather than knowing he'll have to go for nigh on 80 every weekRaggs wrote:Good to hear he's being used.45jumper wrote:He and John have shared the shirt this season, both have shown up really well. When taking Harrison and Ooisthuizen into account, I can't remember the last time we had two quality options at 1 & 3Raggs wrote:What's with Cooper-Woolley? At Wasps he was our starting tighthead, now he's getting 3 minutes off the bench? I can't imagine he came cheap.45jumper wrote:That knock-on was pure, distilled Twelvetrees.![]()
Massive win for us, that. Keeps us in the top 2 with 6 home and 4 away games to come
I can't remember a time when you didn't use Harrison for 70+ minutes a game.

We're lucky at loosehead - Ooisthuizen is a great experienced, physical option and Morozov is a serious prospect as well - he's going to be a top-class player.
As an aside, Glenn Delaney adds some nice detail on commentary - I'd like to hear more from him.
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I think Ashton pulled out in the warmup last week so probably is. Solomona was actually on the bench tonight.Brazil wrote:Are Ashton and solemona injured?
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There’s also a lot more caution/awareness around concussion now; back when I played colts in the early noughties a fair few of us would play a colts game on Saturday and then play for the senior 2nds or 3rds the day after and I can think of lots of occassions where guys carried on playing after getting concussed and then played another game the following day (it was even seen as a badge of honour to do so) - farking stupid and dangerous in hindsight!DragsterDriver wrote:Rugby is much safer than when I started playing on that front, cleaner and far less nasty twats but the collisions are worse.
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Ominous start for Quins.
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Pretty much a walk in!sockwithaticket wrote:Ominous start for Quins.
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They've stabilised well tbf.
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Quins showing up better than I expected here. That's the interesting thing about this league, hump the second placed team one week, then parity with the seventh placed team the next.
Despite the weather, the game hasn't descended to the depths of the Glaws game !
Despite the weather, the game hasn't descended to the depths of the Glaws game !
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[globus]I've played rugby with the ref doing the Tigers Wuss game. Admittedly it was summer touch, but still. Absolutely ripped us all apart, and chased down the nippy little bugger who'd be running around us earlier.[/globus]
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Dombrandt looking pretty physical in the tackle. The yank 12 runs the lines tuilagi should be.
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Woodburn just dived straight off his feet to seal off ruck before that was scored
Ismail is a lumbering donkey in defence, sadly

Ismail is a lumbering donkey in defence, sadly
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Tigers fans screaming for a TMO check on a knock on call...
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And ewers, straight off feet.JM2K6 wrote:Woodburn just dived straight off his feet to seal off ruck before that was scored![]()
Ismail is a lumbering donkey in defence, sadly
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Not watching, but Chiefs seal off routinely, straight in, off feet, done. They do it so often that refs just don't bother calling it anymore unfortunately.DragsterDriver wrote:And ewers, straight off feet.JM2K6 wrote:Woodburn just dived straight off his feet to seal off ruck before that was scored![]()
Ismail is a lumbering donkey in defence, sadly
EDIT - Oh, look at that, Lavanini being a tit (no card/pen, just handbags).
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Devoto is a lucky boy. That should have been a straight red.
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Quins could have won this.
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Noooooooo!!!!!!!!!!
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Gustard justfiably furious there. Why the hell did he blow instead of play advantage?
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Robbed by that decision, Christ. No feel for the game whatsoever. Can't believe he didn't just wait to see what happened on a turnover scrum a few yards out. Just appalling.
He just refuses to play advantage holy shit
He just refuses to play advantage holy shit
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This loss is going to be infuriating
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Care has got to stop running the clock down.
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Bins an Exeter prop on the one scrum that hadn't actually started. He's lost it.
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Well I didn’t think Quine would actually accept that gift.
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Penalty try on a scrum not going over the line... Mind you blew instead of playing advantage so whatever, care had brilliant attacking ball there
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Ref tries to make up for his earlier clanger with another one. Hmmm
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You mean he blew for a pen try, instead of letting you play advantage on it?JM2K6 wrote:Penalty try on a scrum not going over the line... Mind you blew instead of playing advantage so whatever, care had brilliant attacking ball there
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Well, that's probably the right conclusion to the match albeit via the wrong method. I'm with Kay, not sure there was enough there for the PT.
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I’m happy with the penalty try as a neutral, endless infringements. White was a yellow at the start of it all laying on the wrong side. Deffo thought quins had snatched defeat.
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There was an earlier scrum where he inexplicably blew for the pen (admitted the error later) rather than play an advantage which would hae seen Quins socre (they'd kept playing despite the whistle).Raggs wrote:You mean he blew for a pen try, instead of letting you play advantage on it?JM2K6 wrote:Penalty try on a scrum not going over the line... Mind you blew instead of playing advantage so whatever, care had brilliant attacking ball there
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I mean that had he correctly just decided it was a penalty not a penalty try, advantage would likely have seen a try. Obviously not complaining we benefited from a poor decision to give the try!Raggs wrote:You mean he blew for a pen try, instead of letting you play advantage on it?JM2K6 wrote:Penalty try on a scrum not going over the line... Mind you blew instead of playing advantage so whatever, care had brilliant attacking ball there
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Think he means the one where the ref blew as quins scored.Raggs wrote:You mean he blew for a pen try, instead of letting you play advantage on it?JM2K6 wrote:Penalty try on a scrum not going over the line... Mind you blew instead of playing advantage so whatever, care had brilliant attacking ball there
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No, not referring to that though clearly that one was a shocker.sockwithaticket wrote:There was an earlier scrum where he inexplicably blew for the pen (admitted the error later) rather than play an advantage which would hae seen Quins socre (they'd kept playing despite the whistle).Raggs wrote:You mean he blew for a pen try, instead of letting you play advantage on it?JM2K6 wrote:Penalty try on a scrum not going over the line... Mind you blew instead of playing advantage so whatever, care had brilliant attacking ball there
Very happy with the win and the performance, when I saw the two teams I thought we would get a paddling
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If I never hear Monye going on about painting pictures again, it'll be far too soon
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I was going to say, not sure what sort of advantage a ref could give that's better than a guaranteed 7JM2K6 wrote:I mean that had he correctly just decided it was a penalty not a penalty try, advantage would likely have seen a try. Obviously not complaining we benefited from a poor decision to give the try!Raggs wrote:You mean he blew for a pen try, instead of letting you play advantage on it?JM2K6 wrote:Penalty try on a scrum not going over the line... Mind you blew instead of playing advantage so whatever, care had brilliant attacking ball there

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Third deliberate knock-on yellow in the Saints Saracens game.
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Rob Baxter is a good bloke.