Leicester Tigers

Great shame to lose Tait and then Gibson. Two of our better performers this year.
Lucky Saints to get Gibson.

Good point but another stat is that we are only 1 point off the top 4. As negative as this may sound, you don't need to score the most tries to finish in the top 4. Of course it may come down to tries scored to determine who finished there if teams are level on points. I would take a 3-0 win every ...

After 13 games we sit ninth in the league in terms of points scored, and tenth in terms of tries scored. Current occupants of the top four places have tries scored in the 40s. (See http://www.premiershiprugby.com/matchcentre/tables/aviva_premiership_table.php) Scoring isn't everything, but with nine...

I have just checked our try stats, only Welsh and Irish have scored fewer this season. This is a worrying statistic.

RagingBull wrote:

markharbtiger wrote:This is terrible. Unless there is an amazing last 8 mins, this tells me our team aren't top four this year.

Load of clap trap.

I would be delighted to be wrong. But Quins (just scored 4th try) are giving us a lesson in a number of areas...

This is terrible. Unless there is an amazing last 8 mins, this tells me our team aren't top four this year. The table at the end of the season should be the only judge of that. It's tight in the table, doubt this will decide it. Granted. Just disappointed at who we are losing to. Quins aren't exact...

This is terrible. Unless there is an amazing last 8 mins, this tells me our team aren't top four this year.

Hot_Charlie wrote:

Downbathway wrote:
PS - might need to work on the passing. Without the forward passes you probably would have won. .

What about the missed kicks and dropped balls?

Congrats to the team for a great performance.
I was anxious about the absence of Cole but needn't have been. If only Tom Y. hadn't mucked up those two line out throws, the score would have been higher.

Downbathway wrote:What's the story with your bog of a pitch?, and why is so narrow?.

Pitch AND referee? What about the weather?

Downbathway wrote:Well done Leicester.

That's your Cup Final won for the season

You were assisted just a little by a Referee who was completely out of his depth sadly.

Thought it was only Tigers who blamed the ref?

Soggypitch wrote:No Dan Cole??!!!!

No Cole is surprising. Anyone know why? Don't recall having seen or heard about an injury. In training maybe? Was hoping to see Croft also, but know he was injured. Loamanu doesn't even make the bench which is a shame.

Actually I was happy with the red card - it wasn't his fault we lost! The guy is a complete wassock on the pitch, but you have to remember we had our own 'wind him up' merchant in Julian, although he was far more 'gentleman Jules' in his approach to dealing with miscreants. Off the park Hartley has...

Three weeks hardly sends the message 'don't do that again'. I worry for England in the World Cup.

The thing that irritates me is that there seems to be a distinct view from the Gardens, that we (tigers) somehow seem to either have dirtier players or seek to provoke Saints in our games with them to obtain some sort of card from the ref. I think reminding the stray Saints supporter on here of the ...