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Re: Saracens v Harlequins Match Thread
DIR By: T-Bone
Date: October 12, 2019, 11:54 am
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Not watched but final score not too bad away to a much stronger
team unconstrained by salary cap considerations
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Re: Saracens v Harlequins Match Thread
DIR By: SiB
Date: October 12, 2019, 12:50 pm
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Wouldn’t say that the Sarries team was much stronger
Would say on paper we had the better side
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Re: Saracens v Harlequins Match Thread
DIR By: BWQuin
Date: October 13, 2019, 2:32 pm
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We certainly didn't deserve to win the game and from 5 minutes
in I never thought we would, but we actually could have won it.
Landajo had a bit of a rough start, a couple of poor box kicks
(one of which led to Segun's try) and a few early fumbles. He
then settled down and set up Brown's try with a quick tap
penalty and also made a try saving tackle. Baldwin was the most
notable of the front rowers, he had a few good collisions with
Ibuanokpe who displayed far more aggression than we ever saw
from him. We lost one line-out, but it was on the Saracens 5m
line! We seemed to keep the line-outs fairly simple and whilst
not perfect they are much improved from what we saw against
Bristol and London Irish.
The big difference was in the second row. Skelton and Isiekwe
are two big units, they are hard to stop and are strong in
defence. Lamb went off for a HIA just before half time and
didn't return, unfortunately we didn't have the muscle to match.
Robshaw and Lawday were solid and Evans appeared to become more
frustrated as the game went on. Towards the end he won a
fantastic turnover which was followed by his second handling
error in quick succession.
Smith continues to look very good. His defence has improved, and
no charge downs this week! Sarries also had the upper hand in
the centres, Barritt continues to smash it up and Tomkins showed
a few nice touches. Saili attempted a few offloads when it
simply wasn't on and looked far more effective when he took the
ball into contact and we recycled quickly.
Brown was excellent under the high ball in pretty poor
conditions. I would have liked to have seen Ismaiel looking for
the ball and popping up in midfield. He is big man but didn't
get his hands on the ball enough. Ibitoye scored again (I'm not
sure it would have been given with a TMO) and then had a few
words with a couple of fans who were giving him a bit of chat
earlier in the game. This was then followed up by him dropping
the restart much to their amusement.
We had plenty of possession but just not in the right areas.
Sarries' defence was very hard to break through and they scored
a couple of excellent tries. For one of them they went the
length of the field, easily the best I have seen this season.
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Re: Saracens v Harlequins Match Thread
DIR By: Monte
Date: October 14, 2019, 6:53 am
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Thanks BW pleased to hear about lineout but locks worry me.
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Re: Saracens v Harlequins Match Thread
DIR By: marlowish
Date: October 14, 2019, 6:59 am
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--- Quote from: Jus-Quin-Time link ---
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> The line out - who ever is at fault - has been a weakness for
so long. How can this not be the No 1 training priority?
>
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agree - it is a fiasco that this has been allowed to carry on
for years
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