London Irish Away

[mol2]

Bower was exposed. Had our best 2 loose head props not been absent the scrums in the firsts half would have been different.

One of the most stupid yellows I have seen.

Discipline cost us. Too many dumb penalties.

Good to see refs marching back 10 m for yapping. Shame it was us but I am pleased to see more of this from the refs this season.

Tom Youngs seems to have turned the clocks back a few years and learned how to talk to the ref as a captain. Well done for proving me wrong.
We have a class full back in the making. Compare that to Daly yesterday.

[Tiglon]

Bower was exposed. Had our best 2 loose head props not been absent the scrums in the firsts half would have been different.

One of the most stupid yellows I have seen.

Discipline cost us. Too many dumb penalties.

Good to see refs marching back 10 m for yapping. Shame it was us but I am pleased to see more of this from the refs this season.

Tom Youngs seems to have turned the clocks back a few years and learned how to talk to the ref as a captain. Well done for proving me wrong.
We have a class full back in the making. Compare that to Daly yesterday.

We probably would have won today if we had Daly at 10 in the second half...

[Tigerbeat]

What are we? Still a team of lemmings rushing over the cliff! Horrific, banal, and guttless display

Bit over the top. Display was bit good enough because we were no where near accurate enough. We just need to tighten up some aspects of our play and we start winning games like that.

Still a definite improvement on last season. For starters the defence was a lot better and bar one miss communication in the first half and one Rona outside break LI never looked like scoring.

Small margins proved very costly. Missed touch finds from Penalties and it could have been a different game as Tigers were getting some go forward.
London Irish had an all international front row and they had the edge in the first half.
Good to see Borthwick make changes at half time rather than wait.
Two games in and a long way to go. Better discipline and execution should put the Team in a better position.

[JP14]

Anyone else see that shocker from Elrington on Taufua, leans in with the shoulder, blatant thuggery and stupidity that was only saved by JT not being any lower... that really irked me above all things.

[Jimmy Skitz]

Anyone else see that shocker from Elrington on Taufua, leans in with the shoulder, blatant thuggery and stupidity that was only saved by JT not being any lower... that really irked me above all things.

yeah Monye pointed out he was 6 inches away from a red card

[JP14]

Bonilla needs another chance, this is a guy who steered the Jaguares to the 2019 Super Rugby final, there’s no doubting his ability.

We all have off days, I seem to call George Ford missing touch kicking out of hand for penalties against Toulon and no one called for his swift departure!

[JP14]

Anyone else see that shocker from Elrington on Taufua, leans in with the shoulder, blatant thuggery and stupidity that was only saved by JT not being any lower... that really irked me above all things.

yeah Monye pointed out he was 6 inches away from a red card

If I was Dickson I would have yellow carded him there and then doesn’t matter if he didn’t hit the head he’s gone in with a cheap shot with absolutely no attempt to perform a legal tackle.

[LE18]

Anyone else see that shocker from Elrington on Taufua, leans in with the shoulder, blatant thuggery and stupidity that was only saved by JT not being any lower... that really irked me above all things.

yeah Monye pointed out he was 6 inches away from a red card

I think it was a lot closer than that, his shoulder caught him on the throat.

[WhitecapTiger]

I mean you could blame the previous coaches for the mind set we are currently in and that it will take a while to get out of it.

Without wanting it to sound like a cure all, clearly it isn't, but the mind set following last weekend's good performance and convincing win should have improved somewhat, even in just one week, wins breed confidence or so they say.

Such mindset wasn't evident from the first whistle - there was no belief on show.

No amount of trying to play devil's advocate can lay that at the feet of departed staff.

[Wayne Richardson Fan Club]

Our last 2 games of last season Ford was awful. (But presumably carrying an injury), many people on here said last season Henry was International class (laughable).
Wigglesworth was poor today & should of got hooked way earlier, the lack of a "running" 9 is not good, did he really take over the captaincy when OTY went off, if so I really despair for Tigers....
Henro & Steward the standouts, & Taufua showed what an asset he is.
As an aside Dickson is a clueless ref.

[JP14]

Is this fair, I know I harp on about it but still...

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[WiggoTiger]

Is this fair, I know I harp on about it but still...

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Summed up the dross

[sam16111986]

What are we? Still a team of lemmings rushing over the cliff! Horrific, banal, and guttless display

Bit over the top. Display was bit good enough because we were no where near accurate enough. We just need to tighten up some aspects of our play and we start winning games like that.

Still a definite improvement on last season. For starters the defence was a lot better and bar one miss communication in the first half and one Rona outside break LI never looked like scoring.
[olist=][/olist]

unfortunately neither did we look like scoring !! But you are correct a lot of the comments are over the top so early into the campaign.

I thought we looked in a good position before Bonilla threw that horror pass. All he had to do was send it back into the tight exchanges via a centre. Keep the big lumps piling in. LI were on the ropes at that point and getting on the wrong side of the ref. We had either a try or a penalty coming. Throwing a 30 metre speculative pass under pressure really wasn't the go to option.

[Big Dai]

Hindsight is a wonderful thing but wish we’d started with Leatigaga instead of Bower and Barnes instead of Dickson

Would not Heyes have been on the right side of the scrum?

Oh...... And ........ Anyone instead of Dickinson...
Totally inept today....

But having taken the rise out of the Taffs yesterday about whingeing about Poite I couldn't possibly criticise Sir.... Could I?

[publandlord]

Bit over the top. Display was bit good enough because we were no where near accurate enough. We just need to tighten up some aspects of our play and we start winning games like that.

Still a definite improvement on last season. For starters the defence was a lot better and bar one miss communication in the first half and one Rona outside break LI never looked like scoring.
[olist=][/olist]

unfortunately neither did we look like scoring !! But you are correct a lot of the comments are over the top so early into the campaign.

I thought we looked in a good position before Bonilla threw that horror pass. All he had to do was send it back into the tight exchanges via a centre. Keep the big lumps piling in. LI were on the ropes at that point and getting on the wrong side of the ref. We had either a try or a penalty coming. Throwing a 30 metre speculative pass under pressure really wasn't the go to option.

As I said in an earlier post, ineffective big lumps and half backs. Still onwards to next week !!