Leicester Tigers

One thing is for sure the RFU/Premiership aren't helping/driving it and until they do I don't see much changing.

Bookies have Saints at long odds on to win (range 4/9 to 2/7).

On handicap you can get Tigers +9 with odds of 10/11 so if you think we have a decent chance fill your boots.

If the criteria is budget, infrastructure, fan base rather than on the field performance than you are talking about US-style franchising which everyone seems to be against.

Worth pointing out that Saints have not beaten us in a league match at Franklin's Gardens since before the pandemic. In fact I think every visit since the pandemic has coincided with their annual fire drill... There is a different sort of pressure on them as table toppers at home to "finally&q...

Their flakiness came from lack of defence and poor scrum both of which they appear to have fixed. Yep Not sure why 1 result would make any difference to Mckellar career for most people In the one sense this is a game we would expect to lose given they are top of the league and on a high - and we ha...

Saints were a real flakey team in recent seasons. Not so now. We are the ones looking flakey. I have hope but my head says this is going to be difficult. If we do put in a performance and somehow win it, it would be fun obviously but also potentially transformative for our season and for McKellar's ...

Will be a massive bonus if we make the play offs IMO.

This is a certainly a one game at a time scenario.

One good thing is a don't think we have too many distractions/players out.

Not going into the end of season with high expectations but just hoping for the best.

So the English Prem is in dire straits and yet we have 2 semi finalists

I hold no torch for Ealing but I am surprised at the question given what I've always read.

Is there any real evidence to say that they would turn it down were it on the table?

Is this part of their victim narrative too

https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/rugby/ ... n%20London.

This club statement would suggest they do

https://www.ealingtrailfinders.com/news ... -standards

Ashurstwoodtiger wrote: ↑Fri Apr 05, 2024 9:54 pm Just had a thought one of the problems with promotion for Champinship Clubs is ground size, not supporter size.

Is it?

What evidence is there for that?

Have Bayonne been expelled from the League

World Rugby reveals radical plans to speed up sport and broaden its appeal

Lot to digest here:

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/ ... den-appeal

Article on our George

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/68567305