Domestic & European Rugby 2015-16

[cheltenhamlion]

Premiership season off and running. Great win for Worcester against Northampton. Gloucester won away with Billy 36 kicking them from all angles.Shaping up to be a season where anyone can neat anyone.

[Big Dick Edwards]

Worcester certainly aren't going to be whipping boys judging by their performance on Friday night.

[UK Redsox]

You bunch of bloody glory hunters, some of our teams are six games into the season already

Drive On Lyd

[cheltenhamlion]

Extraordinarily, Gloucesters pack made an impression Friday. Short at centre still though.

[paul_e]

Extraordinarily, Gloucesters pack made an impression Friday. Short at centre still though.

Is Trinder broken again?  I'm very worried he's going to go the way of JSD and be one of those players who lights up 9-10 games a season looking every bit like an England international but never stays fit enough to get a good run at it.

[cheltenhamlion]

No Trinder. Again. Billy 36 kicked ten goals though.

[cheltenhamlion]

Saracens at home for Gloucester tonight.

[paul_e]

Saints look like they're properly prepared this week after looking like they were still in pre-season last week, I think Newcastle might get a bit of a tonking tomorrow.

I really hope Glaws can give Sarries a kicking as well.  A few defeats might stop England from picking pretty much every Englishman in their squad.

[PaulWinch again]

Joseph out for 3 months.

[Dante Lavelli]

I really hope Glaws can give Sarries a kicking as well.  A few defeats might stop England from picking pretty much every Englishman in their squad.

Not so far.  Saracens just strangle the fun out of the game.  And so far Gloucester are not much more imaginative.

I notice that Hodgson gets selected as fly half ahead of Farrell.  I read recently that this is not unusual.  I think Farrell is an okay player but surely the England fly half should be selected ahead of a player i thought had retired?

[paul_e]

I really hope Glaws can give Sarries a kicking as well.  A few defeats might stop England from picking pretty much every Englishman in their squad.

Not so far.  Saracens just strangle the fun out of the game.  And so far Gloucester are not much more imaginative.

I notice that Hodgson gets selected as fly half ahead of Farrell.  I read recently that this is not unusual.  I think Farrell is an okay player but surely the England fly half should be selected ahead of a player i thought had retired?

That's been my biggest complaint about Farrell all along, he can clearly kick from a tee but the rest of his game (at 10) looks like a rookie trying to find his feet.  Not watching the game as we have guests but I'm not remotely surprised that Sarries are killing the game, that's their game plan.

[UK Redsox]

How long has 36 been Glawster's main kicker?

I'm surprised that last week's 29 was the club record or did they just mean professional/league era?

I'd have thought that 'The Boot' would have kicked more than that at some point.

[paul_e]

Saints look like they're properly prepared this week after looking like they were still in pre-season last week, I think Newcastle might get a bit of a tonking tomorrow.

I really hope Glaws can give Sarries a kicking as well.  A few defeats might stop England from picking pretty much every Englishman in their squad.

Saints 42-16 Newcastle.

As I suspeced, they looked much more like themselves today (based on what the people I know who are at the game have said), Burrell was superb apparently.

[lovejoy]

The salary cap debate is raging but seems to have gone under the radar with the World Cup going on. Basically two clubs have been cheating the salary cap and used their lawyer s to find loop holes in the rules and the premier league rugby have made everyone sign confidentiality agreements. I've no idea who the two teams are but after my BATH I am watching Robin Hood who started off fighting the SARACENS.
Fucking cheats.

[Dante Lavelli]

The salary cap debate is raging but seems to have gone under the radar with the World Cup going on. Basically two clubs have been cheating the salary cap and used their lawyer s to find loop holes in the rules and the premier league rugby have made everyone sign confidentiality agreements. I've no idea who the two teams are but after my BATH I am watching Robin Hood who started off fighting the SARACENS.
Fucking cheats.

Were's this been reported?  The bit about the salary cap, not your bath etc.