2018-2019 Champions Cup

Squidgy Black

Equally daft from Davis there...

razorblunt

More bad luck for Scarlets, there was a Lozowski-esque clear out on Davies at a ruck there, in front of Poite too.
Once again BT not even referencing it.

sydthebeat

Leicester need to kick the leather off the ball for the last 15 mins.

Squidgy Black

Anyone know what the letters on Leicester's jerseys above the kukri logo are for?

sydthebeat

Squidgy Black wrote: »

Anyone know what the letters on Leicester's jerseys above the kukri logo are for?

The letters indicate the position

Ie George Ford is j = 10th letter of the alphabet

Clegg

Scarlets really struggling with Leicester's direct power game. Discipline has gone to pot.

leakyboots

Squidgy Black wrote: »

Anyone know what the letters on Leicester's jerseys above the kukri logo are for?

Is it a throwback to when Leicester used use letters instead of numbers on the back of their jerseys?

Squidgy Black

sydthebeat wrote: »

The letters indicate the position

Ie George Ford is j = 10th letter of the alphabet

Just copped that there. Pretty cool.

razorblunt

leakyboots wrote: »

Is it a throwback to when Leicester used use letters instead of numbers on the back of their jerseys?

It is, they have it on their warm up tshirts too.

vienne86

Now that was far too easy for Leicester. Have Scaarlets just given up?

Shefwedfan

BT are awful once an English team is doing good.....

thomond2006

Mighty second half from Leicester.

vienne86

thomond2006 wrote: »

Mighty second half from Leicester.

Especially defence.

Eod100

Hard to see Scarlets get past pool especially without lbp. Ulster could get 2nd with lbp as things stand.

vienne86

Scarlets butchered a certain looking try there - it would have meant two bonus points if it had been converted.

razorblunt

There's butchering an overlap and there's THAT!

Scarlets were awful, never had control of that game. BT delighted with an English club winning, commentator imploring Poite to give a penalty at the end.

LuckyGent88

Some butchering of a try at the end by scarlets. Would have got them 1 point at least

vienne86

I'm shocked Scarlets lost that, and so badly - that must be them done in the competition now. I don't favour premiership teams, but delighted for Geordan Murphy.

CatFromHue

No points for Lanelli, that's big deal for Ulster so

Squidgy Black

I mean, it's nice to see an English team other than Saracens win a European game, I was starting to get sick of BT saying the Gallagher Premiership is so much better than the champions cup, another couple wins and they'll be singing it's praises.

realhorrorshow

vienne86 wrote: »

Scarlets butchered a certain looking try there - it would have meant two bonus points if it had been converted.

They were 18 points behind.

Eod100

vienne86 wrote: »

Scarlets butchered a certain looking try there - it would have meant two bonus points if it had been converted.

Only tbp. Converted try would have made it 45 -34 so still shy of lbp

Eod100

CatFromHue wrote: »

No points for Lanelli, that's big deal for Ulster so

Yup, early days yet but hard to see runner up from that group as thing stand.

Tigerandahalf

Looks like Llanelli are out now. Their pack looks weak at the moment. Racing could win every game.

razorblunt

Tigerandahalf wrote: »

Looks like Llanelli are out now. Their pack looks weak at the moment. Racing could win every game.

Yep, backrow and second row look very weak. Much weaker without Beirne, Barclay, and Shingler.

Clegg

Scarlets pack is nowhere near as good now they've lost Beirne and Barclay. They slowed down so much ball at the breakdown as well as providing go forward. Throw in the James Davies injury as well and they've lost so much of what made them such a dangerous side. Can't score brilliant counterattacking trys if you can't poach ball.

Eod100

Squidgy Black wrote: »

I mean, it's nice to see an English team other than Saracens win a European game, I was starting to get sick of BT saying the Gallagher Premiership is so much better than the champions cup, another couple wins and they'll be singing it's praises.

Get what ya mean but Gloucester and Newcastle won last week too. Munster and Montpellier will probably stop them this weekend. Leaving a win for Wasps/Bath in that game, and likely Exeter away win.

Buer

Reading some of the posts in this thread and you could be forgiven for thinking that the Scarlets should have run out comfortable winners.

Anyone else completely forget to update their fantasy rugby team ?!

Eod100

Anyone else see any chance for upset this weekend? Guess last week it was probably Newcastle beating Toulon

Eod100

Eod100 wrote: »

Anyone else see any chance for upset this weekend? Guess last week it was probably Newcastle beating Toulon

I would absolutely LOVE it if Ulster could turn Racing over. Think the only other game with potential to be as big an upset would be Lyon away to Saracens.

Gloucester winning in Thomond would be a fairly big upset, Toulouse winning at home would be an upset and would get a lot of attention but it wouldn't be hugely surprising.

For my money Castres beating Exeter at home or Newcastle beating Montpellier at home would be the most likely surprise wins.

Lovely early try from Exeter. Castres defence sloppy.

ironingbored

Ref absolutely riding Gloucester.

eagle eye

Cipriani sent off. Ref had no choice.

eagle eye

ironingbored wrote:

Ref absolutely riding Gloucester.

I'm not a Munster fan but I'll disagree with this.
The referee has been poor imo but both sides have been given penalties they shouldn't have and a lot of stuff wasn't called that should have been.
Gloucester got a penalty for holding on where their player on the ground never released. They've also gotten away with a couple of no arms tackles.
Munster have benefitted from the poor refereeing too.

troyzer

How is POM still getting away with his illegal bind?

Absolutely baffling.

cameramonkey

some try by the castre number 4.

cameramonkey

Castre 26 exeter 19, castre a man down, red for a head hit.

cameramonkey

Exeter looking for another red card for a high tackle.

troyzer

troyzer wrote: »

How is POM still getting away with his illegal bind?

Absolutely baffling.

He's binding properly now. The ref must have had a word at half time.

troyzer

troyzer wrote: »

troyzer wrote: »

How is POM still getting away with his illegal bind?

Absolutely baffling.

He's binding properly now. The ref must have had a word at half time.

At it again.

Can somebody explain to me how he's consistently managed to do this all season without getting penalised?

accensi0n

Carberys defence the last two games has been brilliant.

Buer

That's Exeter out.

cameramonkey

Buer wrote: »

That's Exeter out.

Exeter were very one dimensional, Castre defense was solid in second half, Exeter could not break them down.

Clegg

Took all of three minutes for Wasps defence to get shredded to bits.

Clegg

Wasps hooker goes off for a HIA. Five minutes later their replacement hooker blocks a kick with his face. Now he's off for a HIA.

They're lucky they have a back row on the bench that used to play hooker.

mangobob

Edinburgh 10 Toulon 0 with 15 minutes gone.

Burkie1203

mangobob wrote: »

Edinburgh 10 Toulon 0 with 15 minutes gone.

20-7 now

razorblunt

Clegg wrote: »

Wasps hooker goes off for a HIA. Five minutes later their replacement hooker blocks a kick with his face. Now he's off for a HIA.

They're lucky they have a back row on the bench that used to play hooker.

Can they still move to uncontested on the scrums now?



JP Doyle conversing in French to Toulon, brilliant to see.

Pyrgos has made a big difference to Edinburgh, Mata at 8 is a baller too, some control from 9 and 10 and Edinburgh will take this.

Heymans

Wasps v bath is a very scrappy game. Loads of handling errors and sloppy play. Can’t see either posing a challenge to Leinster this season.