**OFFICIAL** English Rugby Thread

Margin_Walker · Post by **Margin_Walker** » Fri Feb 28, 2020 10:33 pm

45jumper wrote:That knock-on was pure, distilled Twelvetrees.

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 · Post by **45jumper** » Fri Feb 28, 2020 10:40 pm

Raggs wrote:
45jumper wrote:That knock-on was pure, distilled Twelvetrees.
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.

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 & 3

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

Raggs · Post by **Raggs** » Fri Feb 28, 2020 10:44 pm

45jumper wrote:
Raggs wrote:
45jumper wrote:That knock-on was pure, distilled Twelvetrees.
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.
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 & 3
Massive win for us, that. Keeps us in the top 2 with 6 home and 4 away games to come

Good to hear he's being used.

I can't remember a time when you didn't use Harrison for 70+ minutes a game

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Brazil · Post by **Brazil** » Fri Feb 28, 2020 10:48 pm

Are Ashton and solemona injured?

45jumper · Post by **45jumper** » Fri Feb 28, 2020 10:55 pm

Raggs wrote:
45jumper wrote:
Raggs wrote:
45jumper wrote:That knock-on was pure, distilled Twelvetrees.
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.
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 & 3
Massive win for us, that. Keeps us in the top 2 with 6 home and 4 away games to come
Good to hear he's being used.

I can't remember a time when you didn't use Harrison for 70+ minutes a game .

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 week

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.

45jumper · Post by **45jumper** » Fri Feb 28, 2020 11:08 pm

Brazil wrote:Are Ashton and solemona injured?

I think Ashton pulled out in the warmup last week so probably is. Solomona was actually on the bench tonight.

Joost · Post by **Joost** » Sat Feb 29, 2020 11:08 am

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.

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!

sockwithaticket · Post by **sockwithaticket** » Sat Feb 29, 2020 4:04 pm

Ominous start for Quins.

DragsterDriver · Post by **DragsterDriver** » Sat Feb 29, 2020 4:07 pm

sockwithaticket wrote:Ominous start for Quins.

Pretty much a walk in!

sockwithaticket · Post by **sockwithaticket** » Sat Feb 29, 2020 4:22 pm

They've stabilised well tbf.

Backwoodsman1 · Post by **Backwoodsman1** » Sat Feb 29, 2020 4:51 pm

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 !

Raggs · Post by **Raggs** » Sat Feb 29, 2020 4:52 pm

[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]

DragsterDriver · Post by **DragsterDriver** » Sat Feb 29, 2020 5:11 pm

Dombrandt looking pretty physical in the tackle. The yank 12 runs the lines tuilagi should be.

JM2K6 · Post by **JM2K6** » Sat Feb 29, 2020 5:13 pm

Woodburn just dived straight off his feet to seal off ruck before that was scored

Ismail is a lumbering donkey in defence, sadly

Raggs · Post by **Raggs** » Sat Feb 29, 2020 5:16 pm

Tigers fans screaming for a TMO check on a knock on call...

DragsterDriver · Post by **DragsterDriver** » Sat Feb 29, 2020 5:16 pm

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

And ewers, straight off feet.

Raggs · Post by **Raggs** » Sat Feb 29, 2020 5:18 pm

DragsterDriver wrote:
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
And ewers, straight off feet.

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.

EDIT - Oh, look at that, Lavanini being a tit (no card/pen, just handbags).

sockwithaticket · Post by **sockwithaticket** » Sat Feb 29, 2020 5:40 pm

Devoto is a lucky boy. That should have been a straight red.

DragsterDriver · Post by **DragsterDriver** » Sat Feb 29, 2020 5:45 pm

Quins could have won this.

DragsterDriver · Post by **DragsterDriver** » Sat Feb 29, 2020 5:46 pm

Noooooooo!!!!!!!!!!

sockwithaticket · Post by **sockwithaticket** » Sat Feb 29, 2020 5:47 pm

Gustard justfiably furious there. Why the hell did he blow instead of play advantage?

JM2K6 · Post by **JM2K6** » Sat Feb 29, 2020 5:48 pm

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

JM2K6 · Post by **JM2K6** » Sat Feb 29, 2020 5:49 pm

This loss is going to be infuriating

DragsterDriver · Post by **DragsterDriver** » Sat Feb 29, 2020 5:49 pm

Care has got to stop running the clock down.

JM2K6 · Post by **JM2K6** » Sat Feb 29, 2020 5:50 pm

Bins an Exeter prop on the one scrum that hadn't actually started. He's lost it.

JM2K6 · Post by **JM2K6** » Sat Feb 29, 2020 5:51 pm

dreadful pass dropped by Saili but they're all offside anyway

Sefton · Post by **Sefton** » Sat Feb 29, 2020 5:53 pm

Well I didn’t think Quine would actually accept that gift.

JM2K6 · Post by **JM2K6** » Sat Feb 29, 2020 5:54 pm

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

Dobbin · Post by **Dobbin** » Sat Feb 29, 2020 5:55 pm

Ref tries to make up for his earlier clanger with another one. Hmmm

Raggs · Post by **Raggs** » Sat Feb 29, 2020 5:56 pm

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

You mean he blew for a pen try, instead of letting you play advantage on it?

sockwithaticket · Post by **sockwithaticket** » Sat Feb 29, 2020 5:56 pm

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.

DragsterDriver · Post by **DragsterDriver** » Sat Feb 29, 2020 5:56 pm

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.

sockwithaticket · Post by **sockwithaticket** » Sat Feb 29, 2020 5:57 pm

Raggs wrote:
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
You mean he blew for a pen try, instead of letting you play advantage on it?

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).

JM2K6 · Post by **JM2K6** » Sat Feb 29, 2020 5:57 pm

Raggs wrote:
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
You mean he blew for a pen try, instead of letting you play advantage on it?

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!

DragsterDriver · Post by **DragsterDriver** » Sat Feb 29, 2020 5:57 pm

Raggs wrote:
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
You mean he blew for a pen try, instead of letting you play advantage on it?

Think he means the one where the ref blew as quins scored.

JM2K6 · Post by **JM2K6** » Sat Feb 29, 2020 5:58 pm

sockwithaticket wrote:
Raggs wrote:
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
You mean he blew for a pen try, instead of letting you play advantage on it?
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).

No, not referring to that though clearly that one was a shocker.

Very happy with the win and the performance, when I saw the two teams I thought we would get a paddling

Dobbin · Post by **Dobbin** » Sat Feb 29, 2020 5:58 pm

If I never hear Monye going on about painting pictures again, it'll be far too soon

Raggs · Post by **Raggs** » Sat Feb 29, 2020 6:00 pm

JM2K6 wrote:
Raggs wrote:
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
You mean he blew for a pen try, instead of letting you play advantage on it?
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!

I was going to say, not sure what sort of advantage a ref could give that's better than a guaranteed 7

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Double · Post by **Double** » Sat Feb 29, 2020 6:01 pm

Third deliberate knock-on yellow in the Saints Saracens game.

DragsterDriver · Post by **DragsterDriver** » Sat Feb 29, 2020 6:09 pm

Rob Baxter is a good bloke.