Tigers @ Gloucester - Friday 24th September 2021 - 1945

[OakhamTiger32]

Cannot believe the critism of Ford. Saved us on so many occasions. Get a life! For those who criticise you should be ashamed.

I mean he had a poor game.
I don't see with saying that?

Don't think he had a poor game really.. exceptional in many respects, kicking from the tee was average with maybe a dozen points left out there but aside from that I thought he was great

[DeadlyDunc]

A win but some really rubbish decision making, Fordy was awful, make the kicks and he couldn’t do that, Burns waiting to come in!!

I’m guessing that new ACT global artificial grass surface wasn’t helping him from what it looked like.

I don’t think he trusted his footing and then the tee fell over twice on one kick.

Perhaps Burns should have come on but he might have been even less confident from practice during warming up!

[DeadlyDunc]

Cannot believe the critism of Ford. Saved us on so many occasions. Get a life! For those who criticise you should be ashamed.

I mean he had a poor game.
I don't see with saying that?

Don't think he had a poor game really.. exceptional in many respects, kicking from the tee was average with maybe a dozen points left out there but aside from that I thought he was great

Agreed

[OakhamTiger32]

Montoya, Youngs, Clare and Dolly
Who do you pick?

Montoya for me but it's tight for the 16 jersey

[baz1664]

Fordy was poor tonight, a world class fly half makes his kicks and he didn’t, if B Barrett didn’t do his job I don’t think he would get a pat on the back, he made lots of poor decisions, kicking the ball out on the full, looked shaky in his open play, hopefully just a blip but we have a decent fly half who can step in!!

[amazing tiger]

I don't believe this.
Ford missed the match winning penalty.
Youngs kicks the ball away with 80 seconds left.
Tigers concede a penalty with the clock in the red to gift them an attacking position.

It’s obvious you kick the ball there you don’t around in your own half every team or player would have done the same

We were on halfway and it was a box kick to the edge of their 22. Surely if you're going to kick you set it up for a deeper kick?

Deeper runs the risk of it going dead youngs kick was only a couple of metres from being a good kick

[DeadlyDunc]

Montoya, Youngs, Clare and Dolly
Who do you pick?

Montoya for me but it's tight for the 16 jersey

Montoya 100%

Our scrum is creaky at times and obviously Montoya is a fantastic scrummager

[RagingBull]

I mean he had a poor game.
I don't see with saying that?

Don't think he had a poor game really.. exceptional in many respects, kicking from the tee was average with maybe a dozen points left out there but aside from that I thought he was great

Personally I thought we lacked more control in the game generally.
He did make some amazing kicks though.

[RagingBull]

Montoya, Youngs, Clare and Dolly
Who do you pick?

Montoya for me but it's tight for the 16 jersey

Leaning Dolly due to looking like he could prob cover back row if needed but also isn't giving anything in the way of basic hooker work

[OakhamTiger32]

Lucky.... 5 pints to 4 win against Posh Richard

Now for a Remy

There should be a law against carpets.

What was Lucky? The win? We were ahead nearly the entire match, missed a dozen or so points and apparently Foley isn't pinging people for holding on on the floor as there were so many times we were over the ball in those final phases but he let Glos play on.. had they gone on to level the match I would have been fuming! Foley was reasonable, by his standards pretty good but he seemed to allow Glos so much time at the breakdown when previous referees have been really quick to blow the whistle.. Right team won, we deserved it but lots of silly errors and missed points made it much closer than it should have been

[RagingBull]

Would love to see Saumaki with the way we are playing currently.

[Crofty]

Lucky.... 5 pints to 4 win against Posh Richard

Now for a Remy

There should be a law against carpets.

What was Lucky? The win? We were ahead nearly the entire match, missed a dozen or so points and apparently Foley isn't pinging people for holding on on the floor as there were so many times we were over the ball in those final phases but he let Glos play on.. had they gone on to level the match I would have been fuming! Foley was reasonable, by his standards pretty good but he seemed to allow Glos so much time at the breakdown when previous referees have been really quick to blow the whistle.. Right team won, we deserved it but lots of silly errors and missed points made it much closer than it should have been

We definitely played Foley out of the game, which is what we need to do. As with last week we were good value for the win but we still have polish to apply. We're still only on year 2 of the rebuild so things are beyond my, and I bet most here if we're being honest, wildest dreams back in 2019. As the old wisdom goes, keep the faith!

[OakhamTiger32]

Can I just say.. 2 rounds played.. 10 points and we've played Exeter and a tricky away match against Glos. We have scored 8 tries, with some absolutely incredible backs play.. Potter, Steward and Nadolo looking undroppable.. (that said.. Saumaki and Murimurivalu are great options to come in)

[tigerburnie]

A good win away at Glaws, the table will tell the story at the end of the season, away wins will be few and far between, some neutrals on other clubs forums were impressed by us tonight.

[sam16111986]

10 points from the first two games. Cracking from the boys. Yep it was scrappy but we're still a work in progress.

Anyone saying Ford was awful might want to review the game in the morning when the drink has worn off. He was sensational in the first half, first part of the second half when we went to the kick heavy game plan he slipped in performance terms but he came back well to help secure the win. His kicking was a bit iffy off the tee but it didn't look as bullet proof last weekend as it did last season. I wonder how much kicking he actually did over the summer if he was rehabbing a leg injury.