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by Mr_Ben
Mon Nov 08, 2010 10:50 pm
Forum: Fans Forum
Topic: England v New Zealand
Replies: 108
Views: 12062

Re: England v New Zealand

Like many others, after what happened in 2005 I couldn't quite believe what Henry had said in his defence when i read it. From what I've seen of the incident, IMHO it should result in a ban, although given previous cases involving the AB's I'm far from convinced it will. I also can't help but wonder...
by Mr_Ben
Sun Oct 31, 2010 5:41 pm
Forum: Fans Forum
Topic: Newcastle Prop Substitutions
Replies: 13
Views: 2460

Re: Newcastle Prop Substitutions

Newcastle have previous for this going back as far as when Randrew was still there. Prop A would start and be subbed after about 30 mins, only for the replacement to have to go off injured somewhere around the hour mark. By the sound of it, the mistake today was for the coach to be dumb enough to ei...
by Mr_Ben
Sun Oct 31, 2010 5:35 pm
Forum: Fans Forum
Topic: Barnes
Replies: 28
Views: 4237

Re: Barnes

Barnes W may well have given plenty of decisions against us yesterday, with the one that most confused me being a penalty which he appeared to signal for someone raking the ball back to ourside of the ruck with their foot :smt017 but in fairness he also missed Grindal knocking on while collecting th...
by Mr_Ben
Sun Oct 31, 2010 5:25 pm
Forum: Fans Forum
Topic: Gloucester v Leicester
Replies: 163
Views: 14574

Re: Gloucester v Leicester

Having finally had chance to see a match this season, to accuse the players/coaches of playing the wrong tactics strikes me as strange. Many of the mistakes made yesterday were the result of players being ambitious, for example there were many occasions where lost the ball trying to offload out of t...
by Mr_Ben
Wed Oct 06, 2010 7:36 pm
Forum: Fans Forum
Topic: Flood to return for Treviso game
Replies: 33
Views: 4708

Re: Flood to return for Treviso game

The rugby piece in today's Times says.. "Toby Flood should return for Leicester away to Treviso on Saturday after recovering from a knee injury" IMHO should is the important word, and therefore makes it recycling old news seeing how Cockers told Radio Leicester the other week that Flood wo...
by Mr_Ben
Thu Jul 08, 2010 9:26 pm
Forum: Fans Forum
Topic: Ellis retires due to injury
Replies: 88
Views: 13816

Re: Ellis retires due to injury

Sorry news.

Thanks for so many good memories over the years.

Good luck with whatever you do next Harry.
by Mr_Ben
Fri Jun 11, 2010 6:51 pm
Forum: Fans Forum
Topic: Attoub ban reduced
Replies: 12
Views: 1241

Re: Attoub ban reduced

now on BBC site:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_union/8735909.stm

No prizes for guessing which French organisation has decided on the reduction.
by Mr_Ben
Wed Jun 09, 2010 10:53 pm
Forum: Fans Forum
Topic: John Steele replaces Barron as RFU chief.
Replies: 12
Views: 1739

Re: John Steele replaces Barron as RFU chief.

I guess that would be the real test of how brave the Chief Exec wants to be. Replacing him with someone else would be the easy option, getting rid of him because he's surplus to requirements and making a tidy saving on the salary bill along the way would be a real statement of intent, and something ...
by Mr_Ben
Wed Jun 09, 2010 10:40 pm
Forum: Fans Forum
Topic: John Steele replaces Barron as RFU chief.
Replies: 12
Views: 1739

Re: John Steele replaces Barron as RFU chief.

IMO he'll get plenty of ridicule if Steels dismisses him as his first action in the job. As I see he can't go soon enough. I suspect he's done too much damage already for it to all be undone before RWC2011 but the longer a replacement gets to clear up the better.
by Mr_Ben
Wed Jun 09, 2010 10:25 pm
Forum: Fans Forum
Topic: Ben Kay ........... Commentator
Replies: 22
Views: 3249

Re: Ben Kay ........... Commentator

Good luck with the new career Ben and thanks for lots of good memories over the years, not only for Tigers but also for England.
by Mr_Ben
Wed Jun 09, 2010 10:21 pm
Forum: Fans Forum
Topic: John Steele replaces Barron as RFU chief.
Replies: 12
Views: 1739

Re: John Steele replaces Barron as RFU chief.

Bill W (2) wrote: Fourthly, he is used to dealing with opinionated idiots.
One can but hope that his first action when he takes over is to reduce their number by one.
by Mr_Ben
Sat May 29, 2010 8:28 pm
Forum: Fans Forum
Topic: Leicester Tigers - Guinness Premiership Champions 2009-2010
Replies: 56
Views: 7196

Re: Leicester Tigers - Guinness Premiership Champions 2009-2010

great game if rather nerve wracking as a Tigers fan. Credit to Sarries for their performance, they showed plenty of determination. For me Parling stealing the lineout at the end to seal the win summed things up nicely - he has been a vital part of the team all season and when it needed someone to st...
by Mr_Ben
Sat May 08, 2010 10:22 pm
Forum: Fans Forum
Topic: The duff ref list gets longer!
Replies: 67
Views: 9851

Re: The duff ref list gets longer!

Tom Crofts face when he was yellow carded was one of total amazement. and I was thinking i'd missed what had happened. I'm happy to admit Tigers didn't play well today - gifting the opposition 14 points is always going to make things difficult - but to say I was confused by some of the officiating ...
by Mr_Ben
Tue Apr 13, 2010 11:01 pm
Forum: Fans Forum
Topic: Referees and their language skills
Replies: 23
Views: 2966

Re: Referees and their language skills

Like many others, for me the French referee's have been by some way the best that I've season of late. When they've been in charge of Tigers matches, the lack of a nigh on non stop "explanation" to both sides has been noticed by plenty of people. I can't help but wonder how much effect it ...
by Mr_Ben
Mon Apr 05, 2010 12:14 am
Forum: Fans Forum
Topic: ITV4 Highlights
Replies: 49
Views: 5699

Re: ITV4 Highlights

just been watching the highlights and like others can't say I'm surprised there was little coverage of our game. One thing that stood during the piece on the Insecsts game was how at one ruck Armitage had his hands all over the ball until Waldouck raked them off it with his boot. IMO it proves that ...