A funny thing happened at Twickenham

Back home after an ultimately disappointing day. I have to say the right team won on the day with Waldrom's stupidity costing us dear. We were the stronger team at the end, but Quins had built up too big a lead.

What was funny was at about 2:30, the Quins Front row were practising scrummaging against the replacements down near the South Stand. After two drives where they were utterly dominant my brother turned to me to ask whether the quins backups were really so poor. I told him to look more carefully at what happened which we did. There were four more goes, each one following the same process - Huge hit from Johnston, shuffle sideways and big wheel. It was like hey folks - we are showing you that we will scrummage illegally, and I bet there is nothing you can do about it. Until they were knackered there wasn't - Quins scrummaged illegally the whole game and even won a penalty for tigers wheeling when both Tigers props were moving forward.


That aside I would just like to say congrats Quins, worthy champions.

See you all in the Autumn.

Saints stand up, Wasps go uncontested and now Quins wheel...

i have no idea why Waldrom was carded, it was never a card!

LT has a point, but there's a reason its called the dark arts. Show me a front row that only ever scrummages legally and I'd tell you they weren't very good! The ref didin't pick it up, but who's to say Quins wouldn't have tried something different. I genuinely feel that Quins front row is the most improved in world rugby. They've gone from being pretty poor to very good in a short period of time. To get the better of the Tigers front row is testament to them, legally or not, they were the best. Very well done Quins management as they've pulled a blinder.

Yappy & CJ enjoy the celebrations, you are very deserving champions

Thanks guys, I have had a very happy long weekend so far

ChequeredJersey wrote:Thanks guys, I have had a very happy long weekend so far

huh?

Of which the final and result thereof were a key part

ChequeredJersey wrote:Of which the final and result thereof were a key part

lol, you drunk? or someone stole your account as your post's are a tad different!

Eh, I thought I was relatively sober, apparently not

ChequeredJersey wrote:Eh, I thought I was relatively sober, apparently not

do you go grumpy after a night out? (sorry, not trying to offend!)

Trust me I'm in no way grumpy and I don't want to do anything but congratulate Leicester on a fantastic second half of the season and a good match (in which Flood's absence may have had a deciding factor). The post above refers to thanking HongKongCherry for his congratulations and saying that I have enjoyed the past few days as I celebrated the end of a year at Med school and the completion of a degree on Thursday, my and my housemate's birthday on Friday and now the Final today. Just springing to the defence of our players but doing so by pointing out something a Tigers' player had done wrong was classless and not a good argument, sorry

Congrats on a good week then Chequered, obviously yesterdays result was the highlight

Cheers Hongkong too

ChequeredJersey wrote:Trust me I'm in no way grumpy and I don't want to do anything but congratulate Leicester on a fantastic second half of the season and a good match (in which Flood's absence may have had a deciding factor). The post above refers to thanking HongKongCherry for his congratulations and saying that I have enjoyed the past few days as I celebrated the end of a year at Med school and the completion of a degree on Thursday, my and my housemate's birthday on Friday and now the Final today. Just springing to the defence of our players but doing so by pointing out something a Tigers' player had done wrong was classless and not a good argument, sorry

no need to apologise, enjoy the the win!!

HongKongCherry wrote:there's a reason its called the dark arts. Show me a front row that only ever scrummages legally and I'd tell you they weren't very good!

+1

Rugby is strange like that. Every team attempts "gamesmanship" at the scrum, the breakdown, the lineout, there's blocking off the ball, feeding crooked into the scrum and many more tricks. Every winning team is open to the accusation of "cheating", because every team, bar none, does it.