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Re: Next 4 Games confirmed
DIR By: Quinston Churchill
Date: July 10, 2020, 12:22 pm
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> Is there a link to the BT Sport fixtures? Can't see them
anywhere!
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Premiership rugby site.
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Re: Next 4 Games confirmed
DIR By: Quinky
Date: July 10, 2020, 12:24 pm
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Schedule
Friday 14th August - Harlequins v Sale Sharks, The Stoop
Saturday 22nd August - Saracens v Harlequins, Allianz Park
Wednesday 26th August - Worcester Warriors v Harlequins, Sixways
Stadium
Sunday 30th August - Harlequins v Northampton Saints, The Stoop
Tricky schedule. I'd hope we go flat out against Sarries, but we
risk injuries/fatigue for what might be seen as not so
debilitating games, especially as I can't see Sarries putting
out a lesser team at home.
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Re: Next 4 Games confirmed
DIR By: Quinston Churchill
Date: July 10, 2020, 12:25 pm
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> Awesome. Can't wait. Fully fit but fairly significantly
smaller squad. Guess it balances out. I assume our new signings
aren't with us yet?
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Me neither. I’m not sure when the new guys arrive TBH but we’ll
need them to get up to speed ASAP.
Definitely going to need more than 2 scrum halves too.
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Re: Next 4 Games confirmed
DIR By: honkytonk
Date: July 10, 2020, 12:31 pm
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We still have Dylan Munro as an Academy SH, he signed a 2 year
deal when he joined us (but i agree we need another). I would
be surprised if the new payers were not here, no reason for them
not to be. Might be a bit short on training though!!
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Re: Next 4 Games confirmed
DIR By: Quinston Churchill
Date: July 11, 2020, 3:14 am
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> Schedule
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> Friday 14th August - Harlequins v Sale Sharks, The Stoop
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> Saturday 22nd August - Saracens v Harlequins, Allianz Park
>
> Wednesday 26th August - Worcester Warriors v Harlequins,
Sixways Stadium
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> Sunday 30th August - Harlequins v Northampton Saints, The
Stoop
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>
> Tricky schedule. I'd hope we go flat out against Sarries, but
we risk injuries/fatigue for what might be seen as not so
debilitating games, especially as I can't see Sarries putting
out a lesser team at home.
>
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It is, but when you take out the mid-week game with Worcester,
it’s pretty much a regular schedule.
If we manage the squad carefully, there’s no reason why we can’t
put out strong match day 23s without burning everyone out.
I’m not sure when Esterhuizen, Louw and Green arrive from SA,
but hopefully it’s soon as we’ll need our full squad available.
Saracens have a strange squad now with Kruis, Goode, Lozowski
etc. overseas and a bunch of their new signings clearly for the
Championship (rather than the Premiership). I can’t see them
going anything other than full strength against us though, even
if that’s not quite as strong as it might have been before.
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Re: Next 4 Games confirmed
DIR By: Bucksquin
Date: July 11, 2020, 4:30 am
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> Premiership rugby site.
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Forgive the confusion, but the most recent article on that site
simply says: "The next announcement will involve the live TV
selections for both BT Sport and Channel 5, followed by the next
four rounds of Gallagher Premiership Rugby." So far as I can see
...
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Re: Next 4 Games confirmed
DIR By: Domestos
Date: July 11, 2020, 4:57 am
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Will these games take place behind closed doors?
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Re: Next 4 Games confirmed
DIR By: Benquin
Date: July 11, 2020, 5:14 am
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Excuse my ignorance but I can’t find anywhere if the stadiums
are going to be open to fans or if the games are just being
shown on tv. Can anyone advise?
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Re: Next 4 Games confirmed
DIR By: deadlyfrom5yardsout
Date: July 11, 2020, 5:30 am
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HTML https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/jul/10/premiership-tackling-burnout-fears-as-packed-fixture-list-announced-rugby-union
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Re: Next 4 Games confirmed
DIR By: deadlyfrom5yardsout
Date: July 11, 2020, 5:35 am
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Premiership Rugby accused of 'double-standards' over player
welfare after release of hectic fixture list
Former Lions manager John Spencer accuses clubs of being
"hypocritical and disingenuous" after arranging three rounds of
midweek matches
By
Gavin Mairs,
CHIEF RUGBY UNION CORRESPONDENT
10 July 2020 • 10:00pm
Premiership Rugby have been accused of “double-standards” over
player welfare by former British and Irish Lions manager John
Spencer after the league agreed a new fixture schedule that
requires clubs play a game every four days when the season
resumes next month.
Spencer, who was manager of the tour to New Zealand four years
ago, accused the clubs of being both “hypocritical and
disingenuous” after arranging three rounds of midweek matches to
enable their season to be completed in full, culminating by the
final on Oct 24.
English clubs previously refused to countenance playing just one
midweek round of matches to enable the Lions to have an extra
week’s preparation for the tours of Australia in 2013 and New
Zealand and have been critical of the impact of the Lions
playing twice a week on player welfare.
The revised Premiership fixture schedule will now see clubs play
seven matches in 28 days before the quarter finals of the
rearranged European competitions.
With Exeter Northampton Bristol and Leicester all still
technically in contention to reach both the Premiership and
Champions Cup final, they would have to play 14 games in 11
weeks to do so.
With England due to play six matches before the start of the new
Premiership season on Nov 21, Spencer said the clubs had lost
any credibility over using player welfare as an excuse not to
reach a compromise with the Lions.
“This is complete double standards by PRL,” said Spencer, who
was also a Lions director for the tours of South Africa in 2009
and Australia in 2013. “Their refusal to do it before was
disingenuous and hypocritical when you look at what they are
prepared to do now.
“We had previously asked them to play just one midweek match
played before Christmas and we could then get an extra week’s
training with the squad. Instead we were left with the
ridiculous position of those players involved in the Premiership
final meeting us with us the day before we flew to New Zealand
and six days before our first game. No Premiership coach would
put up with that.
“How can they talk about player welfare to us now? With the
Lions only playing every four years surely it is not beyond the
wit of man to make arrangements now in advance.”
Warren Gatland, the Lions head coach for the tour of South
Africa next year, made a final plea, in a Telegraph Sport
interview last month, to the Premiership to reschedule their
final next season as part of the negotiations over next season
given the impact of the Covid-19 lockdown.
However Phil Winstanley, PRL’s rugby director, insisted that the
decision to stage three midweek rounds was only a response to
the unprecedented situation because of the pandemic and would
not undermine their stance with the Lions
“I don’t think so; it’s really important that we maintain that
position,” Winstanley said.
”We don’t want to have back-to-back games, which is why we need
to manage it properly. In the past we have been quite critical
of the Lions, not wanting to play four-day turnarounds, and the
same should apply to us.
“We want to manage that correctly for the benefit of the
players. We have engaged with the directors of rugby on how we
manage that, whether that’s limiting game time or limiting
turnaround time. It’s a proactive discussion but we recognise
that we need to come up with a solution that involves both the
RPA (Rugby Players’ Association) and RFU.”
The season will resume with season with Harlequins facing Sale
Sharks at the Twickenham Stoop at 7.45pm on Aug 14, one of four
games to be televised live on the opening weekend of fixtures
since the league was suspended in March.
The revised schedule will also include a Monday matches for the
first time, with Bath’s match against Wasps at the Recreation
Ground on Monday, August 31, a bank holiday, to be shown live at
3pm.
Darren Child, PRL chief executive, said every club was
supportive of the schedule.
“We are very excited that we have managed to find a way,” said
Childs. “Many other leagues have not taken that choice, they’ve
cancelled rounds, but we’ve been able to find a way of doing it
and we think we’ve found a way of doing it safely.”
Winstanley however admitted there was no room in the schedule
for games to be postponed if a club experienced a positive test
for Covid-19 that required a number of players to self-isolate
for 14 days.
“There is no space to reschedule games, so if we get into a
situation where a club can’t field a team, we will have to come
up with a solution, but there won’t be any replays,” Winstanley
added.
Doubts surround the venue for London Irish’s first home match,
against Northampton Saints on Saturday, Aug 22, however.
Irish’s tenancy at the Madejski Stadium expired during lockdown
but construction is not yet complete at Brentford Community
Stadium, where they are due to move to.
If the stadium is not yet complete, Irish may have to forfeit
home advantage or look for a temporary ground share.
"It’s a pretty unusual time," admitted Premiership Rugby's chief
financial officer Jan Gooze-Zijl. "London Irish do have to leave
the Madejski. There are a couple of options available to them
and we hope to confirm that in the next few days."
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