Tigers v Saints (A) - Premiership - Saturday 20th April 2024 - KO: 15-05
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Re: Tigers v Saints (A) - Premiership - Saturday 20th April 2024 - KO: 15-05
None of them are sound business nor is Watson
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Re: Tigers v Saints (A) - Premiership - Saturday 20th April 2024 - KO: 15-05
Feel sorry for the players - most played their hearts out and will be going home very downhearted.
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Re: Tigers v Saints (A) - Premiership - Saturday 20th April 2024 - KO: 15-05
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.
Re: Tigers v Saints (A) - Premiership - Saturday 20th April 2024 - KO: 15-05
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.
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.
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Re: Tigers v Saints (A) - Premiership - Saturday 20th April 2024 - KO: 15-05
The gamble has not worked how ever you spin it.sam16111986 wrote: ↑Sat Apr 20, 2024 5:33 pmI 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.
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Re: Tigers v Saints (A) - Premiership - Saturday 20th April 2024 - KO: 15-05
No it hasn't but it was still worth the gamble.sapajo wrote: ↑Sat Apr 20, 2024 5:43 pmThe gamble has not worked how ever you spin it.sam16111986 wrote: ↑Sat Apr 20, 2024 5:33 pmI 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.
Re: Tigers v Saints (A) - Premiership - Saturday 20th April 2024 - KO: 15-05
So how many games has he ever played for Tigers?sam16111986 wrote: ↑Sat Apr 20, 2024 5:45 pmNo it hasn't but it was still worth the gamble.sapajo wrote: ↑Sat Apr 20, 2024 5:43 pmThe gamble has not worked how ever you spin it.sam16111986 wrote: ↑Sat Apr 20, 2024 5:33 pm
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.
Without hope we are nothing, keep the faith, a Tiger for eternity
Re: Tigers v Saints (A) - Premiership - Saturday 20th April 2024 - KO: 15-05
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!
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!
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Re: Tigers v Saints (A) - Premiership - Saturday 20th April 2024 - KO: 15-05
This team without Jasper's carrying is a frightening prospect
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Re: Tigers v Saints (A) - Premiership - Saturday 20th April 2024 - KO: 15-05
Had a chuckle at the ‘severe wire brushing’ but have to agree - might it be, to do a misquote - ‘tigers led by donkeys’?
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Re: Tigers v Saints (A) - Premiership - Saturday 20th April 2024 - KO: 15-05
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.
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Re: Tigers v Saints (A) - Premiership - Saturday 20th April 2024 - KO: 15-05
This is worrying!
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Re: Tigers v Saints (A) - Premiership - Saturday 20th April 2024 - KO: 15-05
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...
Feels like we lost it not just that they won it, if you know what I mean...
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Re: Tigers v Saints (A) - Premiership - Saturday 20th April 2024 - KO: 15-05
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.
Re: Tigers v Saints (A) - Premiership - Saturday 20th April 2024 - KO: 15-05
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.
The concern is losing the games to Gloucester and very nearly away at Newcastle.
That form wasn’t going to trouble Saints.