2024/2025 Not Heineken Cup

[Sandstorm]

UBB just so wasteful in the 22

[ASMO]

UBB just so wasteful in the 22

Agreed, they should have been 20 points or more further ahead

[Torquemada 1420]

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 lacking experience and not surprisingly making errors.

[Hal Jordan]

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.

I fear they're falling into "the semi-final was their final" territory.

[Torquemada 1420]

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

[sockwithaticket]

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.

No disrespect to the lad because he's done his best in trying circumstances, but Litchfield does not have top end winger pace and it's hurt Northampton's attack. If they'd been able to have one of Furbank, Ramm or Hendy out there, I think they'd have been just incisive enough to make a difference.

[Lady P]

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 lacking experience and not surprisingly making errors.

Really? There’s some big established names in that UBB squad.

[Blackmac]

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 lacking experience and not surprisingly making errors.

True. Lots of bang average to poor performances.

[Oxbow]

Offside by miles, but who cares.

[topofthemoon]

Bordeaux replacement hooker has had an all-time horrendously bad outing.

[Torquemada 1420]

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

[Hal Jordan]

UBB giving a textbook example of how not to close out a game when you're two scores up.

[Blackmac]

That's as straight a line out throw as we will ever see penalised.

[Torquemada 1420]

True. Lots of bang average to poor performances.

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

[Lady P]

I’m not disputing that there have been lots of UBB mistakes, to be clear. They’ve probably dropped 20 points.

[Sandstorm]

True. Lots of bang average to poor performances.

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

[sockwithaticket]

Was that not backwards?

[Torquemada 1420]

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.

[Oxbow]

Was that not backwards?

Not in this game.

[ASMO]

Congratulations UBB, deserved winners, best team in the competition this year.

[Lady P]

Anyway and more importantly - congrats Bordeaux Begles!

[Dinsdale Piranha]

[Sandstorm]

Sleight-brain

[Tichtheid]

Congrats UBB.

[Torquemada 1420]

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

[SaintK]

Ah bollocks
Still amazes me Saints got the final

[westport]

Congratulations to UBB better side on the day of two wasteful teams

[Torquemada 1420]

Congratulations UBB, deserved winners, best team in the competition this year.

Defo that.

[Hal Jordan]

Congrats UBB.

[Oxbow]

Too many Saints players were ordinary slash poor, I can only think of Coles who played well. Freeman tried hard but couldn't do it all in his own. Ref rode us hard but no way did we deserve to win, congratulations BB.

[PCPhil]

Yep, UBB best team

[Hal Jordan]

Anyway, Borthwick will be pleased that Sleightholme has some game time.

[SaintK]

Too many Saints players were ordinary slash poor, I can only think of Coles who played well. Freeman tried hard but couldn't do it all in his own. Ref rode us hard but no way did we deserve to win, congratulations BB.

Can’t disagree with that

[ASMO]

Smith and Mitchell pretty much shit the bed, Freeman was poor but got better, Pollock was pretty anonymous. Wont have done of their Lions starting 23 chances any good.

[sockwithaticket]

UBB deserve that overall. Saints made it very difficult and the grit was admirable, but they made too many mistakes of their own whenever Bordeaux's mistakes gave them a lifeline.

[Torquemada 1420]

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

[Blackmac]

Too many Saints players were ordinary slash poor, I can only think of Coles who played well. Freeman tried hard but couldn't do it all in his own. Ref rode us hard but no way did we deserve to win, congratulations BB.

Can’t disagree with that

Yeah, Freeman worked exceptionally hard but never in a position to create anything. Mitchell, Smith and Pollock just never had any influence on the game. Really thought Saints could nick it but in the end the score flattered them.

[SaintK]

Smith and Mitchell pretty much shit the bed, Freeman was poor but got better, Pollock was pretty anonymous. Wont have done of their Lions starting 23 chances any good.

Cole’s had a pretty impressive match
Won’t do his Argentina tour chances any harm

[Kawazaki]

Thought the Saints tighthead was one of their best players.

[Jockaline]

I think Hollie has bottled it, there definitely seems to be a directive for refs to not give a red - that was as clear cut as it gets

Massively so but it's not just on her. Adamson agreed with her.

I suppose we know he's shite though.

I don't think she gave him much room to do anything else. She wasn't really looking for his opinion, it was practically rhetorical in the tone she asked if he agreed, to do anything else would have been unseemly and confrontational.