Bath 14 - 18 Saints Post Match thread...!

[maestegmafia]

First topic message reminder :

Date: Friday, September 14
Venue: Recreation Ground, Bath
Kick-off: 19.45 BST (18.45 GMT)
Coverage: ESPN at 19:00

Referee: Andrew Small

The teams:

Bath:
15 Nick Abendanon, 14 Kyle Eastmond, 13 Dan Hipkiss, 12 Ben Williams, 11 Tom Biggs, 10 Olly Barkley, 9 Michael Claassens, 8 Ben Skirving, 7 Carl Fearns, 6 Simon Taylor, 5 Dominic Day, 4 Stuart Hooper (c), 3 David Wilson, 2 Lee Mears, 1 Paul James
Replacements: 16 Ross Batty, 17 Nathan Catt, 18 Anthony Perenise, 19 Dave Attwood, 20 Josh Ovens, 21 Mark McMillan, 22 Ollie Devoto, 23 Jack Cuthbert

Northampton Saints:
15 Ben Foden, 14 Ken Pisi, 13 Dom Waldouck, 12 Luther Burrell, 11 Vasily Artemyev, 10 Stephen Myler, 9 Lee Dickson, 8 Rhys Oakley, 7 Tom Wood, 6 Phil Dowson, 5 Christian Day, 4 Samu Manoa, 3 Tom Mercey, 2 Dylan Hartley (c), 1 Soane Tonga'uiha.
Replacements: 16 Mike Haywood, 17 Alex Waller, 18 Paul Doran Jones, 19 Mark Sorenson, 20 Courtney Lawes, 21 Martin Roberts, 22 Ryan Lamb, 23 Tom May

[maestegmafia]

Game over, saints win 14-18

[doctor_grey]

not a great win by any measure. But a win is a win.

[maestegmafia]

Not a great game by all accounts, bar the last quarter where the crowd picked up the atmosphere.

[yappysnap]

Don't put the feckin score in the title!!

[Jenifer McLadyboy]

again with the score in the thread title. probably wasn't going to get to see my recording anyway as there is so much rugby on this week. but not great if i was.

[maestegmafia]

Dont read a sports forum if you are trying to avoid a score...!

[tatterd]

I see HERSH is conspicuous by his absence. what a t00l

[Jenifer McLadyboy]

Dont read a sports forum if you are trying to avoid a score...!

Don't read a match thread should be enough.

What does anyone gain from putting the score in the thread? Fock all. What harm does it do anyone to not have the score in the title? Fock all.

What's the problem?

[thebluesmancometh]

HHHHEEEEERRRRSSSSHHHHH!!!

Oh wait, he'll be on the Ospreys thread asking the fans what happened?

[bathmad]

Discipline. Seems Skirving and Taylor aren't learning their lessons! Heroic effort in defence by Fearns.
Thought Bath played most of the rugby to be fair, no tries conceded....just needless penalties!

[yappysnap]

Dont read a sports forum if you are trying to avoid a score...!

Don't read a match thread should be enough.

What does anyone gain from putting the score in the thread? Fock all. What harm does it do anyone to not have the score in the title? Fock all.

What's the problem?

+100000

[beshocked]

Barkley was the reason Bath lost.

Instead of looking for space and running with the ball in hand he thought it was clever to kick the ball repeatedly to Saints.

E.g. right at the end Bath had a 3-4 players waiting for Barkley to pass the ball outwide which would have been a walk in try. Instead he kicks it away again!

The rest of the Bath side tried hard but it didn't seem like Barkley was on the same wavelength.

[yappysnap]

And the Bath backrow were pretty poor without Louw.

Looking forward to seeing Louw and Fearns together they just need a quality 8 then.

[bathmad]

And the Bath backrow were pretty poor without Louw.

Looking forward to seeing Louw and Fearns together they just need a quality 8 then.

Fearns is the 8, he's covering 6/7 due to absence of Louw. Mercer is 1st choice 7 when fit.

[yappysnap]

Ah fair enough, for some reason I thought Fearns was a 6 and Louw 7.

[bluestonevedder]

I'm hearing that Fearns had a bit of a stormer at the weekend?

[Bathite]

Yep, but he's been pretty consistently good since full fitness at the end of last season.

[LondonTiger]

I'm hearing that Fearns had a bit of a stormer at the weekend?

I must be going senile, as honestly I did not notice him. Watching with sound off does mess with your perception at times though.

[Bathite]

Didn't do much flashy stuff, but was huge in defence, made a lot of tackles and didn't concede penalties. Hence why you probably didn't notice him!

[Bathite]

Top of the tackles count according to Opta
http://www.premiershiprugby.com/news/20559.php#.UFiB-7LXFaF

[bluestonevedder]

17 is quite impressve- good effort. I haven't had a chance to watch the game, but may do tonight. Glad to see him back at full fitness, and getting decent game time. Pushing for AIs at all?

[beshocked]

I'm hearing that Fearns had a bit of a stormer at the weekend?

I must be going senile, as honestly I did not notice him. Watching with sound off does mess with your perception at times though.

I didn't see much of him either. Most prominent Bath player was Abendanon IMO.

[Bathite]

Depends how you watch the games lads! Bendy is always high profile because of the number of breaks and yards he makes.

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