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Re: Sale thrashing and now it’s official. We are simply rubbish
DIR By: Harlequinade
Date: January 6, 2020, 6:10 am
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from grauniad!!
HTML https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/jan/06/rugby-union-talking-points-weekend-premiership
4) Quins need to get a grip – and fast
Paul Gustard’s arrival at Harlequins last season was meant to
sort out their defence but the six-try thrashing at Sale took
them to 12 conceded in the last three matches with strugglers
Wasps and Leicester the first two opponents. Quins were narrow
in Salford and bypassed all too often. The experience of Mike
Brown is being missed at full-back and Sale have one of the
strongest squads in the Premiership. Quins have a core of
hardened international experience yet they have conceded at
least 30 points in five league and Champions Cup matches this
season. “We were not good enough and got beaten up,” said their
director of rugby, Gustard, who took aim at his England prop Joe
Marler for a loss of discipline at the start of the second half
that cost him 10 minutes in the sin-bin. “It was ridiculous,”
said Gustard about the prop putting his forearm in the face of
an opponent. “There was no need for it.” It is not just Marler
who needs to get a grip. PR
• Match report: Sale 48-10 Harlequins
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