Premiership Rugby 2020-2021

Harlequins show what they can do with a 49-17 thumping of Wasps at the Ricoh Arena. Surprised that Wasps capitulated. Consistency a big issue with a lot of the teams in the Premiership.

Lost Ormond wrote: »

Relegation from the Premiership is set to be officially scrapped in mid-season following a Rugby Football Union Council vote on Friday to approve a proposed expansion to 13 teams from 2021-22

From Rob Kitson

No decision taken yet.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/55949041

Dave_The_Sheep wrote: »

Decision taken now, it seems.

It was inevitable, but relegation being scrapped was the right call - given the number of cancelled fixtures it would have been madness to keep it.

Promotion on the other hand ... will be interesting if they suffer many cancelled Champ fixtures or whatever, what line they come up with to ensure Saracens come back up no matter what.

My bet would be that any cancelled fixtures will be given as walkovers to Sarries under the guise that they had the ability to field teams but the other team didn't, and at some point if Saracens have a comfortable gap at the top of the table the league will be called early. Or some form of similar shenanigans.

Pitch in the Exeter Northampton game is ****ing awful.

Three red cards in the Wasps Leicester game.

And the Exeter - Saints game ends with this.

sydthebeat wrote: »

Dodgy

Any evidence he moved forward?

razorblunt wrote: »

That’s a horrific call from the ref, there’s no way he could see both the charge and the kicker.
Looked like Simmonds shimmied his shoulders but in that case Biggar would have every kick close to charged.

He does appear take a small step towards the ball before stopping again
https://twitter.com/BenKay5/status/1363246106092703754

Meltdown from London Irish in the opening 10 minutes if their game Vs Bristol. They actually have a man advantage after a Bristol played was yellow'd for a tip tackle.

Not Nots have tried to speed up the play due to their extra man and have instead managed to have two passes intercepted and give away two long distance intercept trys.

Bristol end their sin bin period having scored 17 points.

That was a genuinely great game to watch as a neutral.

Simple pass at the end and LI should have won it. Phipps will be replaying that in his mind for a while, I'm sure.

RugbyLover123 wrote: »

Great game to watch. Thought the final pass was very poor as opposed to Phipps’ fault. The London Irish player had Jackson and Phipps to hit and he chucked it towards the floor.

Oh, for sure, didn't mean to imply it was Phipp's fault. Just he'll be thinking what if for a while.

Thrashssacre wrote: »

Great to see Seanie playing well when he came on through he was gonna score a try near the end was still making inches with about 4 Bristol players trying to stop him.

He did well on the third try, lovely contact and offload. I had my doubts he would ever play again, anything now is bonus territory, great to see.

For exactly the same thing as lots of the other reds. Beyond silly players keep doing it.

17-12 in the Quins - Northampton game with only 13 minutes gone. Defending optional, but it's certainly entertaining!

Real shame that offload was a smidge forward. Would have been a cracking try.

Saints, playing 15 against 13 with a scrum in front of the posts in the opposition 22, manage to a) not score and then b) turn the ball over and then c) lose 50 metres and finally d) knock the ball on, losing possession.

Genuinely awful last few minutes.

Sale beat Wasps despite 4 Yellow cards in second half.
Bristol having been dominated by Harlequins for most of second half score 2 late tries to steal win at the death.

Genge is a knacker! What a yob! He's a real chunk of turd!