Sarries away AWC

[Tigerbeat]

Who was the ref by the way? Don't recall seeing him before.......

Saracens v Leicester Tigers
Referee: Greg Macdonald
Assistant Refs: Roy Maybank & Brian Ravenhill
TMO: David Grashoff

[RagingBull]

Who was the ref by the way? Don't recall seeing him before.......

Hope I don't see him again.

[Mark62]

McGuigan, Barrow, Croft, Thacker where the stands out with Mermoz looking classy in a so so backline.

Not sure what Thacker did to be outstanding he was ok. Mcguigan has put his hand up to start next week

[LE18]

On the flip side, had we got back to within 15 to 20 metres of their try line after the penalty, we could have got a drop goal or forced another penalty for 3 more points to win the game by a point.

Rubbish Ellis, do you always defend everything they do, that was almost a certain 7 points down the drain, that was a time to back your forwards!

[ellis9]

Tigerbeat also agreed with me so no I have idea why you only included me in your response.

It wasn't 7 points down the drain as we were not guaranteed them. We could have knocked the ball on, had an accidental offside or made a forward pass amongst other things.

I think you need to take a chill pill by the way.

[Soggypitch]

Who was captain at that stage? Had Barrow gone off?

[RagingBull]

Who was captain at that stage? Had Barrow gone off?

If I was to guess I reckon Harrison maybe.

[Mark62]

Who was captain at that stage? Had Barrow gone off?

No Barrow was still on 15 minutes to go right call

[ellis9]

Hey LE18, are you going to have a go at Mark62 who also says that taking the 3 points was the right call?

[Big Dai]

Felt better after watching this. Some heart shown today by the team. Plus it's great to see a great try by one of the fat boys. McGuigan's effort was tops. Freddie was like the little girl who had a curl but could Mermoz be the teacher the backs need. We lost. yeah, but for the brain fades it could have been different.

[L Smith]

Who was the ref by the way? Don't recall seeing him before.......

Mr Magoo

[WhitecapTiger]

Who was the ref by the way? Don't recall seeing him before.......

Mr Magoo

Or, Mr dlanodcaM.......

Because apparently, everything went backwards......

[L Smith]

Who was the ref by the way? Don't recall seeing him before.......

Mr Magoo

Or, Mr dlanodcaM.......

Because apparently, everything went backwards......

Except for the Sarries pack at scrum time. I think he missed that once or twice!

[Qbec]

A fair bit to take forward but for me there are still too many basic errors coming from players who should know better.
On the flipside good to see Ben Betts on the pitch also glad Mermoz got some game before next week. For me McGuigan & Barrow did well as did a couple of others. Next week l would like to see both in the starting line up & Wells on the bench.
BTW McGuigan said post match we are trained to run those sort of lines (in his try) my question is why is he the only one to have done so then.

[strawclearer]

Felt better after watching this. Some heart shown today by the team. Plus it's great to see a great try by one of the fat boys. McGuigan's effort was tops. Freddie was like the little girl who had a curl but could Mermoz be the teacher the backs need. We lost. yeah, but for the brain fades it could have been different.

I'm glad you said this! I, too, felt strangely heartened after this - McGuigan; young Croft and even Freddie's recovery quite cheered me. I put it down to watching Wales and Italy play for the wooden spoon; a few glasses of Merlot; and mild hysteria so I'm relieved you felt it too!