Leicester Tigers v. Northampton Saints - Premiership Final

irishbucsfan

Leicester: 15 Mathew Tait, 14 Niall Morris, 13 Manu Tuilagi, 12 Anthony Allen, 11 Vereniki Goneva, 10 Toby Flood (c), 9 Ben Youngs, 8 Jordan Crane, 7 Julian Salvi, 6 Tom Croft, 5, Geoff Parling, 4, Graham Kitchener, 3 Dan Cole, 2 Tom Youngs, 1 Logovi'i Mulipola
Replacements: 16 Rob Hawkins, 17 Fraser Balmain, 18 Martin Castrogiovanni, 19 Ed Slater, 20 Steve Mafi, 21 Sam Harrison, 22 George Ford, 23 Matt Smith.

Northampton: 15 Ben Foden, 14 Ken Pisi, 13 James Wilson, 12 Luther Burrell, 11 Jamie Elliott, 10 Stephen Myler, 9 Lee Dickson, 8 Samu Manoa, 7 Tom Wood, 6 Phil Dowson, 5, Christian Day, 4, Courtney Lawes, 3 Brian Mujati, 2 Dylan Hartley (c), 1 Soane Tonga'uiha
Replacements: 16 Mike Haywood, 17 Alex Waller, 18 Tom Mercey, 19 Ben Nutley, 20 GJ Van Velze, 21 Martin Roberts, 22 Ryan Lamb, 23 George Pisi.

Date: Saturday, May 25
Kick-off: 15:00 BST
Venue: Twickenham
Referee: Wayne Barnes
Assistant referees: Greg Garner, JP Doyle
Television Match Official: Graham Hughes
Timekeeper: Mike Hamlin
Assessor: Ed Morrison



Should be a good one. I would've called this easily for Leicester until I saw Northampton in the semi final.

Hopefully Matt O'Connor's Leicester side can win it and he can leave on a high.

Should be a cracker. A fierce rivalry and two in form sides.

irishbucsfan

I hope Rob Hawkins gets on and plays brilliantly. He owes them one.

OldRio

My cousin and his wife are in Twickers for the match.
He supports Leicester.
She supports Northampton.

Interesting times.

Buer

Hoping just for a great game with lots of incident. Possibly Northampton's last chance to win some silverware given they're losing the likes of Mujati and Tiny this summer. Can't see past a Leicster win though, too many match winners dotted throughout their team. I'll be watching Croft closely. I think he has a serious shot of getting a shot at the Lions jersey based on the impact his athleticism can have.

Rightwing

I've backed Tigers -6 for this one. Too much class for a limited Saints team.

I am pie

Try and a pen in 8 mins. Long day ahead for the saints.

Stev_o

Great try, well done Flood.

irishbucsfan

Yes!

GWAN Niall!

OldRio

This could get embarrassing.

I am pie

Lion hartley and co getting pushed about.

Stev_o

Looking at Twickers being full makes me wish today final was in the Aviva

decisions

Really good game so far. Going to record the rest for later. It's Rabo time.

Stev_o

Nicely done Saints, game on.

irishbucsfan

Salvi lucky there!

He's had a great season

irishbucsfan

My stream is a little behind...!

Buer

Mmmm, little harsh. Lawes had clearly dipped and started lunging into the tackle when Flood was in possession. The sheer impact of the hit made it look worse.

Stev_o

God Lawes has some range, miles away from the tackle then bam smashes him. Think Flood knocks into Coles knee ouch.

Risteard

Harsh IMO, was already committed. Just unfortunate for Flood.

irishbucsfan

It'd be mad if Ford came on and won it in his last game for Leicester.

Cockerill making a tw*t out of himself. Nothing wrong with the tackle imo

Davei141

Flood needs to come off for his own safety.

Stev_o

irishbucsfan wrote: »

It'd be mad if Ford came on and won it in his last game for Leicester.

Cockerill making a tw*t out of himself. Nothing wrong with the tackle imo

Flood has to come off hasn't a clue where he is.

In fairness he's a passionate coach who looks after his players id imagine most managers would be the same..they just wouldn't go from the managers box all the way to the field and scrap with every ref. But for the players it must be reassuring knowing he's in your corner.

Buer

Stev_o wrote: »

God Lawes has some range, miles away from the tackle then bam smashes him. Think Flood knocks into Coles knee ouch.

He's a class player and wonderful athlete when on song. If he could control his discipline more and keep fit, he'd be rated far higher outside of England.

OldRio

Flood has been playing well.
Right decision to check him out.

irishbucsfan

He'll be in that dressing room snorting bath salts to wake himself up. They'll do everything they can to get him back on

trouttrout

Foden having a great game

Flood is a huge loss

Buer

Bit of a wobble from Ford. Still getting up to speed. Should have been a penalty for Salvi coming in straight from the side just before that.

Great break from Tait. Ha, TT, you jinxed Foden there. Won't want to see that effort at a tackle again!

trouttrout

How Tate isn't in the England squad is beyond me. Anytime I've seen him for Leicester this season hes been brilliant

Stev_o

trouttrout wrote: »

How Tate isn't in the England squad is beyond me. Anytime I've seen him for Leicester this season hes been brilliant

Cause he's only coming back from injury. Needs to keep playing club rugby for a while putting him back to international rugby will probably result him in getting injured again.

OldRio

Carrying a ball in one hand. FFS.

Buer

His foot is out before he grounded it. Commentators missing that entirely!

Stev_o

What a tackle.

trouttrout

Buer wrote: »

His foot is out before he grounded it. Commentators missing that entirely!

Terrible commentary, obviously not a try

OldRio

Utter GobSh@t

Davei141

Lions material? What an eejit. He calls Barnes a ****ing cheat right after Barnes gives him a talking to for giving him abuse

SantryRed

Well that's game over :pac:

Grimebox

Dylan Hartley just got a red for mouthing off during a play that possibly should have never happened. There will be a lot of complaints about this one!

Stev_o

Brain implosion. Now for Boards to jump on him in 5 4 3 2 1

mrsoundie

WTF? Hartley should have kept his gob shut. Its not like he was not given a warning.

SantryRed

The ref said he called him a ****ing cheat. What does he actually expect? Fair play to the referee.

Hype710

Will he get banned? Please say yes.

almighty1

Im not Hartleys biggest fan but he the Barnes has rode Northampton the whole game.

OldRio

I called that early.
Ref 100% right.

thomond2006

Hartley sent off you say? Quelle surprise.

Risteard

Grimebox wrote: »

Dylan Hartley just got a red for mouthing off during a play that possibly should have never happened. There will be a lot of complaints about this one!

It was the right decision.

They changed the rule a couple of years ago after a Wales France match after a late comeback by Wales left them only a score behind France on the 80th minute. France had to restart after Wales scored a try and they kicked it directly out.

Changed the rule that you can't kick a restart straight out to end a half or the game.

Silly mistake compounded by the fact that Barnes repeatedly told him he couldn't kick it straight.

[Jackass]

Nice end to half, hope Leicester go on to win it, for Matt O'Connor and Nial Morris' sake. Supporting the Leinster connection.

who_me

Stev_o wrote: »

Brain implosion. Now for Boards to jump on him in 5 4... [snip]

Sorry, couldn't wait. What a gob****e. Couldn't happen to a nicer fella. :P

Seriously though, Saints have themselves to blame. A warning for dissent, followed by more dissent from the same player. Kicking directly to touch following a warning not to kick directly to touch.

Rightwing

Well done Hartley. My bet is looking that little bit safer

P_1

Potentially good news for a certain dairy farmer that red?

[Jackass]

lol, calling a ref a fu*king cheat....what an idiot.

Stev_o

Now your all watching the game :mad:

Anyway if your going to call a ref anything everyone knows you do it where he can't hear you

Stev_o

[Jackass] wrote: »

lol, calling a ref a fu*king cheat....what an idiot.

No getting caught calling that is surely the most idiotic thing in the world.