Aviva Premiership - Round 12

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Fri 12th
19:45 Newcastle Falcons v Leicester Tigers BT Sport


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That lads feet are amazing

Amd that's even better!!!! What a try

Wouldn't mind Tigers having a word with Hammersly.

Keep away Welly

And Watson showing his defence

Nice play by Hammersley, he and Watson are looking very lively. Camacho doesn't look match fit at all. Falcons should swap Watson's wing and rake advantage of that.

Tigers need to tighten it up. No rolling mauls thus far and we've got them at the scrum.

Flippin penalties again man!!!!

Burns actually kicking well, what's happened!

Latu having a good game...just putting himself about

Can't eve catch the bloody ball

We lack a direct runner still to hold defenders out wide.

Welly wrote: We lack a direct runner still to hold defenders out wide.

Manu.

I really am glad Robinson is showing his ability now. He's owning lineouts...

Manu, Logo, Slater, Youngs all do it.

Lets keep this up lads...great stuff.

Don't get tired!

Hate it when a 9 plays for a penalty

Falcons are such drama seekers.

We need to get our back 3 running more...especially Hammersley and Watson...so dangerous

Great stuf lads

Falcons dive at the ruck and scream at the referee not paying dividends. They'd be better to use their impressive line speed as their main defensive weapon.

Bad call there

13 missed tackles just won't do, that's pathetic

We've got so much more confidence compared to earlier in the season, we actually look like a decent side.

We surely can't go down can we?

Three players through the middle of that maul but Garner doesn't want to ref it so just gives a penalty.

Our early positive kick chase seems to have disappeared as well.

Its not often we get the ref on our side Sam....very rare in fact

GeordieFalcon wrote:Its not often we get the ref on our side Sam....very rare in fact

But you certainly have today

Having said that, Falcons are taking their chances well

Get in !!!!! Wooo hooe

Playing like shyt.

No Agression what so ever.

Yes we have injuries but this is crap

Lovely play again

Yes Nathan maybe a little today but we deserve this lead aswell. Playing great

Tigers defence is not good at all tonight, we're making easy yards

GeordieFalcon wrote:Yes Nathan maybe a little today but we deserve this lead aswell. Playing great

Completely agree with that.

Have to congratulate Newcastle. After Cockers said we were doing ok they have gone up a gear or two and just been too fast for us. Tigers just not accurate enough at present.

Poor kick Michael Young

Dunno about the ref siding. He's made some poor decisions and some weak decisions but nothing more than you'd expect with home advantage.

He did miss a clear knock on at the ruck in the build up to that try, just before he awarded the penalty. The ball even bounced loose of the ruck it was a clear give away.

Our tackling is shocking. We deserve nothing from this game at present. Burns needs to stop playing in our half. Kick to the corner and take territory.

Another knock on missed from the kick off.

Chuckle. Andy Goode is an inspiration to all of us whose chests have slipped a bit...

I think we are being aggressive and and the like of Hammersley is playing great.

Latu is having a big game physically. And Andy Goode is just giving us that experience...

Garner has missed plenty of Leicester's infringements aswell, he's just Poopie in general. Newcastle good for the lead but I'm strangely confident Tigers can come back, even though I went for Newcastle by 15.

Burns sadly is increasingly a concern for me, how long until Williams is back?

Andy Goode is playing brilliantly. He's controlling where the game is played beautifully. Garner is pinging the defensive team and he's done that three times for dim Falcons penalties in their half. Goode has seen it and has done everything can to keep it in the Leicester half. Trusted the Falcons defence it's working.

I'm not a fan of refs siding with attacking teams.

Refs just need to enforce the rules, not influence the play IMO.

Fair play to Falcons, that's a strong 40 minutes. Good value for their lead.

We've been on top in every facet of the game. Best performance I have seen from Falcons in ages. Ref has given us onenor two raw calls too, but we have had the rub of the green for a change. A win here would be such an unexpected boon. I'm sure we'll manage to Frak it up some how though.

Agree, this would be a huge win. Fingers crossed we don't capitulate after half time again.

Cumbrian wrote:We've been on top in every facet of the game. Best performance I have seen from Falcons in ages. Ref has given us onenor two raw calls too, but we have had the rub of the green for a change. A win here would be such an unexpected boon. I'm sure we'll manage to Frak it up some how though.

That's what worries me

Big 40 for tigers, hopefully they learn to tackle too

So garner tells the Falcons players they need to move away from the ruck, yet doesn't penalise them?

FFS Garner

Tigers VERY lucky there

Not a chance, we had the ball and Falcons held on