Tigers v Saints (A) - Premiership - Saturday 20th April 2024 - KO: 15-05

[sapajo]

None of them are sound business nor is Watson

[Lutontiger]

Feel sorry for the players - most played their hearts out and will be going home very downhearted.

[sam16111986]

None of them are sound business nor is Watson

I think Hatherall is a good player and Rogerson is a good squad player. Cracknell as an option at 8 might be fine. It's just none are the type of 7 we need.

The whining over Watson is tiresome. As his contract with us didn't start until Nov/Dec time then he'll have cost us little this season and we gambled to try and acquire a Lions and England calibre player at cut price.

[Old Hob]

I do not know what has happened to this once great club. We won the Championship 2 seasons ago but either side of that we have been served dross. Highly paid players who cannot give and receive passes, who miss what is in front of them, who run out of steam seem to be in the majority these days. A lot of sweat and effort from some but it is more thud and blunder than anything helpful. Moments of good play sparkle in the darkness but then a fat cloud of incompetence or stupidity rolls over.

Brown better than either O HC and Shilcock. I agree with Oz that Shilcock seems to exhibit a certain, what shall I say, reluctance to challenge for the ball on the floor. OHC can't seem to pass or catch and is no longer quick. JVP, Kelly, Kata Reffell all good. Pollard I'm having serious doubts about; but, if he's decided he's in a no hope team then I can understand his reluctance to get injured in a losing cause.
We are seriously going to miss Jasper.

[sapajo]

None of them are sound business nor is Watson

I think Hatherall is a good player and Rogerson is a good squad player. Cracknell as an option at 8 might be fine. It's just none are the type of 7 we need.

The whining over Watson is tiresome. As his contract with us didn't start until Nov/Dec time then he'll have cost us little this season and we gambled to try and acquire a Lions and England calibre player at cut price.

The gamble has not worked how ever you spin it.

[sam16111986]

None of them are sound business nor is Watson

I think Hatherall is a good player and Rogerson is a good squad player. Cracknell as an option at 8 might be fine. It's just none are the type of 7 we need.

The whining over Watson is tiresome. As his contract with us didn't start until Nov/Dec time then he'll have cost us little this season and we gambled to try and acquire a Lions and England calibre player at cut price.

The gamble has not worked how ever you spin it.

No it hasn't but it was still worth the gamble.

[sapajo]

I think Hatherall is a good player and Rogerson is a good squad player. Cracknell as an option at 8 might be fine. It's just none are the type of 7 we need.

The whining over Watson is tiresome. As his contract with us didn't start until Nov/Dec time then he'll have cost us little this season and we gambled to try and acquire a Lions and England calibre player at cut price.

The gamble has not worked how ever you spin it.

No it hasn't but it was still worth the gamble.

So how many games has he ever played for Tigers?

[Big Dai]

Well.....That's all the hopeful "We're gonna make the top four." Bovine Excrement put to bed. Tigers just not up to snuff under this chap and have not been for some time.

Biggest miss for me is Aled. The physical and mental sharpness just isn't there.

Now waiting impatiently for a new start. Hopefully with a coaching team that's had a severe wire brushing.


........and stop editing my posts!

[Postiger2]

This team without Jasper's carrying is a frightening prospect

[Lutontiger]

Had a chuckle at the ‘severe wire brushing’ but have to agree - might it be, to do a misquote - ‘tigers led by donkeys’?

[johnthegriff]

Stop the experiment of playing an international quality fullback.on the wing and an international winger at 12. Ideally get Kelly back to 12. We did miss Reffell when he went off but Cracknell although a different style of player was not too bad. Our discipline was awful and that has to.improve.

[OakhamTiger32]

This team without Jasper's carrying is a frightening prospect

This is worrying!

[Downsouth]

Positives for me are Carnduff, Reffell, Chessum, JVP, Wells, Montoya and to some extent Kelly and Weise. Some others very poor. Despite the score, I think with Martin, Reffell staying on and no cards, we could have nicked it. I really hope recruitment isn't done and we do get a quality attack coach.

Feels like we lost it not just that they won it, if you know what I mean...

[Goshengareth]

Ignoring all the detail and whatever, it’s just quite boring watching Tigers atm. I buy a season ticket despite living abroad and never attending matches. I just want to provide financial support. However, I do it in the context of wanting a thriving and exciting team. We are a long way off that currently.

[mol2]

Ignore the defeat to Leinster.
The concern is losing the games to Gloucester and very nearly away at Newcastle.
That form wasn’t going to trouble Saints.