Tigers vs Quins - 05th December 2021 - 3-00pm

[RichieB]

Chapeau to Kelly for an outstanding overall performance today - I wondered how he would cope today and thought he might get targeted but he was immense. YBY also excellent. Plenty of areas to work on - ball retention being a main one.

Time to breathe now ……

[RagingBull]

All the talk about Quins.
I mean Tigers coming off basically a 3/4 week break.

[Big Dai]

Now let's look at all the missed opportunities for quins....

Never mind lads. I'll give you some credit even if Lol and Hugo won't!

[Dangerous4]

Sounds like it was tough out there, and not playing our best. A win is a win, is a win, is a win, though.

[Big Dai]

Now let's look at all the missed opportunities for quins....

Never mind lads. I'll give you some credit even if Lol and Hugo won't!

OK.....that's a bit better.

[kpj tiger]

Kelly isn't the most flash player but England could do worse than him, just glues everything together in attack and defence

[Big Dai]

Kelly isn't the most flash player but England could do worse than him, just glues everything together in attack and defence

+1

[markharbtiger]

I thought Kelly was excellent, making some really key contributions. Well done Kelly and well done Tigers

[westwinds31]

Decent win against a very good side. Aside from the obvious attacking threat from Quins, they’re very street wise, blocking, holding, some of their defensive maul tactics were questionable, Care constantly in Tempest’s ear and got away with murder, especially Marler !! There’s different ways to win a game and that was another one. On we go. Ben Youngs outstanding today I really didn’t want him to come off.

Ball like a bar of soap I suspect hence the load of knocks ons.

[tigerburnie]

Excellent result.

[OakhamTiger32]

Ford, Youngs, Steward and Kelly were outstanding. Nadolo had a poor game by his standards and Wiese was pretty quiet. Van Staden was a tackling machine once again and the subs had great impact, in particular Chessum. We deserved the win and although it wasn’t pretty it was gritty and dogged defense that got us there.

So here’s a question.. we get a penalty on the halfway with less than a minute to go. We could kick for goal, running the clock into the red and either win it if the kick goes over or it’s FT if it goes dead. Only risk is it falling short or hitting the post. Either way we risk handing Quins another chance by going to touch and they steal the lineout then make it back to our 10m line before we finally get the ball back.. risky and could have cost us!

So my question is, why didn’t we kick for posts? Surely Ford has the distance and the likelihood of hitting the post is pretty slim.. seems like a poor call that could have cost us

[Postiger2]

Massive win. No complaints from me. Was never going to be an easy game against the champions in difficult conditions. Love the character the team is showing these days.

[anz3001]

Ford, Youngs, Steward and Kelly were outstanding. Nadolo had a poor game by his standards and Wiese was pretty quiet. Van Staden was a tackling machine once again and the subs had great impact, in particular Chessum. We deserved the win and although it wasn’t pretty it was gritty and dogged defense that got us there.

So here’s a question.. we get a penalty on the halfway with less than a minute to go. We could kick for goal, running the clock into the red and either win it if the kick goes over or it’s FT if it goes dead. Only risk is it falling short or hitting the post. Either way we risk handing Quins another chance by going to touch and they steal the lineout then make it back to our 10m line before we finally get the ball back.. risky and could have cost us!

So my question is, why didn’t we kick for posts? Surely Ford has the distance and the likelihood of hitting the post is pretty slim.. seems like a poor call that could have cost us

I’m certain it was because of the distance.

[Old Hob]

My thoughts exactly; kick for the posts, game over. We did look rusty at times, ball didn't stick but the heart and intent never wavered.

[dpoc74]

So my question is, why didn’t we kick for posts? Surely Ford has the distance and the likelihood of hitting the post is pretty slim.. seems like a poor call that could have cost us

I couldn’t work that out either.
We went with some friends who are quins fans and all of us were scratching our heads.