Tigers v Saints

[MrPartridge]

Who on earth would move from Apple to Microsoft???

[Noddy555]

Having seen the Saints team that they are putting out today I am optimistic about Tigers chances of getting a result. If I were the coach of Sarries or the chiefs I would have lodged a complaint with the stuffed shirts at the RFU that Saints are not putting out their strongest available Team and indeed seem to be resting players for next week's semi-final. No Lawes, No Hartley although he is on the bench.

[InGuinnessVeritas]

If I were the coach of Sarries or the chiefs I would have lodged a complaint with the stuffed shirts at the RFU that Saints are not putting out their strongest available Team and indeed seem to be resting players for next week's semi-final.

What's your problem with this? Since the 23 named players in today's Northampton squad are on their club's books, they have a perfectly legitimate right to represent the Saints.

Following your logic, would you complain to the RFU about the Tigers not fielding their strongest line-up in the LV Cup matches?

[Noggs]

Having seen the Saints team that they are putting out today I am optimistic about Tigers chances of getting a result. If I were the coach of Sarries or the chiefs I would have lodged a complaint with the stuffed shirts at the RFU that Saints are not putting out their strongest available Team and indeed seem to be resting players for next week's semi-final. No Lawes, No Hartley although he is on the bench.

Player selection for any particular game is not a matter for the RFU.

Stains team selection is interesting and they do have strength in depth. Today's selection will be looking to put their name on the team sheet for the final, assuming they get there, so we can expect a very competitive game.

I think the bookies are optimistic with their odds but I sincerely hope they are right

[Noddy555]

Been drinking already In Guiness Veritas you shouldn't really start so early it probably clouds your vision as well as your judgement. Alcohol
rots the brain cells remember.

[fentiger]

Having seen the Saints team that they are putting out today I am optimistic about Tigers chances of getting a result. If I were the coach of Sarries or the chiefs I would have lodged a complaint with the stuffed shirts at the RFU that Saints are not putting out their strongest available Team and indeed seem to be resting players for next week's semi-final. No Lawes, No Hartley although he is on the bench.

Saracens daren't complain as they're only in with a chance because the plug was pulled from the salary cap investigation

[Cagey Tiger]

Been drinking already In Guiness Veritas you shouldn't really start so early it probably clouds your vision as well as your judgement. Alcohol
rots the brain cells remember.

I see that you are falling back to your old tactic of ignoring the topic under discussion and insulting another forum user. It does tend to undermine your arguments.

I posted a while ago that this is the sort of thing I thought JM would, just not quite on this scale though.

[covrich]

Saints A playing pretty well

If we can keep our composure we can win but we look a tad nervous when defending our own line.. too many penalties at the minute

[kpj tiger]

As expected this Northampton team is highly competitive, we need to use Loamanu a bit more IMO

[TigerLad]

Carley..........

[covrich]

Burns gives away a stupid penalty and .. well that could have stopped a try..

We seem to like to shoot ourselves in the foot a bit today.

Saints A well up for it, we look a tad wobbly

[kpj tiger]

We could do with getting our backs into the game a bit more, Goneva and Tait have looking promising so far

[kpj tiger]

Slater is playing well too

[TigerLad]

Ref decides he wants to enforce in at the side when we score a try, hasn't called it since or before. I'm sure the players really appreciate the consistency....

[baz1664]

Wigglesworth has to be video ref, some bizarre decisions!!!