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Saracens v Bristol Bears Premiership Report
What a great day out at StoneX to make up for last weekend's shambolic display. Bristol are one of those teams who will either play like prime 1999 Australia or 2011 New Zealand one week, the the following week like a pub team still drunk from their antics the night before. Luckily for us (the bears bogey team) they played like the latter and we could secure a 5 point win and reassurance that last weekend was a blip, not a deeper lying issue. Once I'd caught up with some mates, purchased my chicken george (mango rubicon this week, very tasty too) + pint of guinness, I could sit down and contemplate the teams warming up on a chilly Saturday eve. For Bristol, it was a severely weakened team - no Benhard Janse V-R, no AJ McGinty amongst others whereas we hd gone through a big rotation compared to the side that started agsainst Sale a week ago. No Alfie Barbeary, no Hugh Tizard, no Nick Tompkins etc. They did both seem fired up though and ready to go out and give it their all. As always in our little corner of the west stand we cheered loud as the players ran out and Max celebrated his 100th appearance in red/black. I did notice A LOT of players who appeared either unavailable or injured. Theo Dan in a boot, ditto James Hadfield, Olly H with a sling the list goes on. We need to pay mind to our injury concerns as that's already 2/3 matchday 23 players gone less than a month into the season.
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Onward and Upward
Cherry and White supporters now know they are in for the best season in years. Gloucs may have been beaten 38-31 by Tigers to inflict the first defeat of the season but the way our team played in the last few minutes promises so much.
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Marcus Returns
Marcus Smith returns to the starting line-up as Quins head for a Sunday showdown at Sale kicking off at 3.00. Can he turn round our fortunes after the disastrous start?
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Where can I watch the rugby this weekend 9th - 11th October
Thanks to Chris for sending this over....
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Exeter Chiefs Women v Loughborough Lightning
TEAMS, MATCH INFORMATION, PRE-MATCH DISCUSSION THREAD AND SCORE PREDICTIONS
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Exeter Chiefs v Newcastle Red Bulls
TEAMS, MATCH INFORMATION, PRE-MATCH DISCUSSION THREAD AND SCORE PREDICTIONS
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Round 6: Sale FC v Plymouth Albion
Time to put last weekend's extraordinary events behind us as Albion make their way to Greater Manchester to take on Sale FC. Kick-off this Saturday is at 14:30.
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SAINTS, OR MAYBE SINNERS
After the first two rounds of the Premiership it looks like the current season is going to be, firstly very, very competitive and secondly very high scoring. In the first round of the five matches four were away wins and in the second round this reduced to the more normal two away wins. The total points scored in the first round exceeded the previous record even though there were fewer matches.
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Saracens v Bristol Bears Preview
Saracens managed to perform a miracle last Sunday, they got everyone on this message board to agree! We simply weren’t good enough and Sale took a deserved victory. Suddenly this Saturday’s game against Bristol Bears has become hugely important.
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SARRIES V SALE SHARKS MATCH REPORT V 2
well it's 2 for 1 today owing to a mix-up among the eds. Here is a 2nd version of the match. Unfortunately the result is the same. You know how it feels when things aren’t great and you have this lovely dream. Then you wake and for a few precious seconds its like the dream is real. Then reality returns with a band. So last week was a bit like that. After the dreariness of much of last season came the win against Leicester but today the dream was just that, a dream, and we return to grim reality.
