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SaintK wrote: Sat May 24, 2025 3:47 pm Ah bollocks
Still amazes me Saints got the final

As per previous, the weirdness/stupidity of the draw meant they avoided the best 5 or 6 sides right up to the semi. And then did us all a favour with a mental performance

ASMO wrote: Sat May 24, 2025 3:44 pm Congratulations UBB, deserved winners, best team in the competition this year.

Defo that.

Lucu MOTM for me. Sa needs to go back to school. Horror show at hooker. More pies thrown than in a week at Melton.

Hal Jordan wrote: Sat May 24, 2025 3:41 pm UBB giving a textbook example of how not to close out a game when you're two scores up.

The combo of that, really weak discipline and a lineout-maul that a blind team of dwarves would have been embarrassed by.

Blackmac wrote: Sat May 24, 2025 3:39 pm True. Lots of bang average to poor performances.

Just be grateful it wasn't a final between 2 Fre teams

Lady P wrote: Sat May 24, 2025 3:39 pm Really? There’s some big established names in that UBB squad.

And the only final some of them have played in at club level, they were utterly humiliated by Toulouse.

Plus.......... they are French

This has haunted UBB for 2 seasons now. Discipline is terrible.

Don’t think Saints can get back from here but they’ve done bloody well with a young team and those early injuries.

It's a shame they couldn't produce more of their semi final form. UBB were there for the taking.

You could substitute that the other way round. It's a final. Both teams ...

And has to be yellow after the warning.

FFS, just scrum straight and make Northampton play out the hard way.

Game changed once Lucu took on all the tactical kicking.

Now, can UBB make a lineout maul stick?

Sandstorm wrote: Sat May 24, 2025 3:26 pm Pollock shit again

Young lad playing out of position, trying too hard.

Gazzotti has a lot of learning to do too.

Brazil wrote: Sat May 24, 2025 3:22 pm That "playing the nine" rule is such a load of horseshit

Take your pick of terrible laws.

UBB's driving maul has been w*nk. That's what, 4 tries blown now?

Pollock lucky not to see yellow there.

Neither side covering itself in glory with its kicking game. And both have reputations for being among the best.

Hal Jordan wrote: Sat May 24, 2025 3:10 pm Bordeaux-Begles playing like they're the ones a man down.

Only Toulouse are able to keep heads under pressure. UBB are classic French.

Torquemada 1420 wrote: Sat May 24, 2025 2:25 pm Meantime UBB doing a Fra v Eng in the 6N: butchering opportunities.

.................

15 v 13 and kick the ball away? You deserve to lose when you do that.

Now that is red. Unless you are a Scottish ref.

Jalibert needs to stick to what he does best. RUNNING. Leave the kicking to Lucu.

ASMO wrote: Sat May 24, 2025 2:39 pm
sockwithaticket wrote: Sat May 24, 2025 2:38 pm Cracking try. Wonderful conversion. Going in at the break level given how this half has played out is huge for Saints.
That might be the filip they need, up until then they have looked like rabbits in the headlights

Remember which side tends to go to sleep from these 2.

ASMO wrote: Sat May 24, 2025 2:35 pm Northampton being made to look very ordinary. I think they have gone to be fair

2 teams renowned for shipping a mass of points quickly. Could go either way. B-B to FB is a big mistake. Retiere has played there.

PCPhil wrote: Sat May 24, 2025 2:32 pm
Torquemada 1420 wrote: Sat May 24, 2025 2:31 pm That is a straight yellow FFS
The deliberate knock on you mean?

Maybe because that clearly wasn't deliberate?

No idea why Lucu isn't doing the kicking.

That is a straight yellow FFS

Blackmac wrote: Sat May 24, 2025 2:25 pm Ooops. That's red.

You should get on the same coaching teams as Hollie.

Meantime UBB doing a Fra v Eng in the 6N: butchering opportunities.

Lobby wrote: Sat May 24, 2025 12:22 pm
The French ref you're thinking of is Aurélie Groizeleau, who is very good. She is very much still around and was the ref for the Ireland England match in the Women's 6N. She will be one of the main referees for the Women's World Cup this year.

Thanks.

The Underhill decision is not on one group of officials - this is the standard now. Find any possible reason to lower the sanction based on either degree of force or mitigation.

Back when it was the high tackle framework there would be a forensic examination of whether there was a significant ...

Paddington Bear wrote: Fri May 23, 2025 10:49 pm we can probably all agree that’s enough silverware for one century now

Your wish will be their command.

Uncle fester wrote: Fri May 23, 2025 10:06 pm I like Hollie as a ref but that should have been red

She is consistent. Consistently pathetic
PS: anyway, thanks Hollie for ensuring I won the FR comp.

I had no internet connection in the hotel last night, so late to this party.
1) LOU are a team where the sum of the individuals is less than the parts. No way they were winning and probably not against even 14 men.
2) This is NOTHING to do with female refs.

Davidson is a joke. I remember when she ...

Why? Wasnt he diagnose with heart sickness while playing rugby? He didnt pass his medicals when trying to get a contract at the Stormers if I remember correctly. So the Bulls and Jake White decided otherwise.

He wouldn't have taken to the field if he wasn't cleared by doctors. Otherwise he ...

Or his death. He shouldn't have played again.

That's a rancid comment.

He might have a point here? I don't know the specifics of this one but footballer Tom Lockyer had a heart attack on the pitch in Dec 23, forcing the game
to be abandoned. Yes he could have doid. Surprisingly to me (he's ...

Sounds like the end for one region!
Welsh rugby on brink of civil war as two clubs miss latest PRA25 deadline
The Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) have confirmed the Scarlets and Ospreys are still yet to sign up to the new Professional Rugby Agreement (PRA25), and have now issued a two-year notice on ...

laurent wrote: Sat May 10, 2025 4:19 pm
Torquemada 1420 wrote: Sat May 10, 2025 12:12 pm
laurent wrote: Fri May 09, 2025 7:43 pm

Yes going to training apparently forgot his boots turned back and tried to run the crossing :(
Seriously?
as in: in his car and tried to zig zag his way in the crossing (sad stuf)

FM.

laurent wrote: Fri May 09, 2025 7:43 pm
Uncle fester wrote: Fri May 09, 2025 12:14 pm Sad news. Was he the only person in the car?
Yes going to training apparently forgot his boots turned back and tried to run the crossing :(

Seriously?

I'm curious to know if any of the bored's Lions supporters have watched many of the Aussie Supe teams' games, and how you rate the quality of the opposiion players the tourists are likely to meet.

Think most of us stopped watching super rugby a long time ago.

That’s right, let the scorn ...

Deepsouth wrote: Tue Mar 25, 2025 9:33 pm
Just sounds like how the Barmy Army conducts themselves on every tour of Australia.

Disgraceful pond scum.....

Bollox. Barmy Army can be tedious bores, but the antithesis of hooliganism.

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