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STOOP TO CONQUER
The 2026/27 version of the Blue, Mostly Black and White travel down the M4 to kick off the PREM season with a visit to Harlequins under the lights. It’s a scheduling repeat for these sides who also kicked off last season with the same fixture which saw Bath begin their title defence with a 31-47 win. On that occasion some questionable first half defence led to a Will Evans hat trick and an early deficit before Bath’s power took control to secure a bonus point win in West London.
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Scarlets v Saracens Pre-Season Friendly Report
Scarlets did indeed pose rather a larger challenge than the previous pre season friendlies with played these past few weeks. To conclude our pre-season preparations, we got a scruffy but reasonable 14-26 win over Scarlets in Llaneli It certainly wasn’t the prettiest game of rugby and the conditions were squally blustery (see attached photos, the rain is sweeping in at an angle!) but with 4 different try-scorers, another impressive contribution from Sione Va’enuku and valuable minutes across the squad this was a useful test before the premiership season begins. Having taken up the very generous offer of hospitality in the Carwyn james lounge, a stay overnight at the Diplomat and coach travel to/fro the ground (my thanks to SSAaway and Scarlets for this), we made our way over to Llaneli on Friday afternoon. After a trip to the swimming pool and sauna, we put on our sarries jerseys and awaited departure to the stadium. On arrival, I must admit the staff were excellent and did indeed make us feel welcome, plus the food and drink was pretty tasty too! After many pints of Guinness and a few of the Double Dragon ale (a niche Scarlets one, I believe…) I filled in the score prediction form for 17-25 to us. I was very close as well, if only Scarlets had kicked a penalty at some point! The prize was a bottle of wine and to make things even more frustrating, the guy who did win it had the same forename as me, so I thought I did win until I heard the surname… Oh well maybe next time.We then moved to sit down 5 minutes before KO and observed Scarlets mascot high fiving various fans including our own Nige Eaton. Nice touch indeed from the Scarlets matchday team.
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Round 3: Plymouth Albion v Sheffield
Albion finally start their home campaign this weekend with the visit by the National 2 North Champions, Sheffield.
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TV Rugby 17th - 20th September 2026
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Pollock keeps options open as Saints talks continue
This isn't directly related to us - but some rumours suggest we have an interest Henry Pollock continues to play hardball in his negotiations over a Northampton Saints contract extension, insisting he is still open to offers from elsewhere, including overseas, and that he remains determined to be "quite selfish" over his future.
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PRE-SEASON ROUND 3: A GLASGOW KISS?
Many years ago my then boss was, amongst other things, a grizzled veteran of many seasons of rugby played at a reasonably high level. I mentioned a game that he was due to play on Sunday of that weekend and naively suggested that it should be a fairly easy recreational run out. Quick as a flash he snarled that "there's no such thing as expletive deleted "Sunday rugby"! His meaning was clear; every game requires the same positive mindset and to a certain extent the term "friendly" as applied to pre-season games is a similar misnomer. It'll be played in great spirit, but "friendly" is not necessarily the first term that comes to mind as we go head-to-head (hopefully not literally despite my opening title) against Glasgow Warriors this Friday at Old Anniesland.
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Sale v Bristol
Sale Sharks vs Bristol 17:30 Saturday, 26 September 2026 ‘CorpAcq’ Stadium
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Warriors v Blues
It has been a long wait for Blues to seek revenge against Worcester Warriors. Our last game didn't go to plan and I was told that Worcester admitted that the only way to beat us was to slow the game down! Throw in 2 forward passes which didn't help. However Blues were disappointly poor on the day as well.
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Scarlets v Saracens Pre-Season Friendly Preview
Right then. Down the M4 we go. It’s a Friday night under the Parc y Scarlets lights and I cannot wait. I viewed the Scarlets ticket/hotel packaged offered from the SSA and decided that it could be quite good fun to do. An unbeatable offer indeed, what with a hotel stay included and full welsh breakfast on the Saturday. Just the ticket after an evening of plenty of good rugby (hopefully) and beer (definitely). I should note that this is only the 4th time in 10 years we've encountered Scarlets in all fixtures (competitive or friendly) with the last time being 2 years ago, as pictured in the head image when we defeated Scarlets 40-21 at the StoneX in a pre season friendly. My thanks to David Loxham for the wonderful image of that outing. The precious time it was another mid season friendly at the StoneX in 2023 (another win) and then the time before was the last competitive fixture, a 22-22 draw in the European Cup when the likes of Chris Ashton was still a saracen (you can see Aled Davies who was quite a handy 9 for us if you look closely at the next picture).
