Saracens Women v Exeter Chiefs Women

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Exeter Chiefs Women

15 Sabrina Poulin
14 Katie Buchanan
13 Alex Tessier
12 Nancy McGillivray
11 Claudia Moloney-MacDonald
10 Liv McGoverne
9 Flo Robinson (vc)
1 Hope Rogers
2 Cliodhna Moloney-MacDonald
3 Amy Rule
4 Linde van der Velden
5 Dorothy Wall
6 Emily Robinson (c)
7 Maisy Allen (vc)
8 DaLeaka Menin

Replacements:
16 Emily Tuttosi
17 Abby Middlebrooke
18 Lola Whitley
19 Gabriella Nigrelli
20 Zoë Dare
21 Lucy Nye
22 Danielle Preece
23 Merryn Elworthy



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Saracens Women

1. ⁠Liz Crake
2. ⁠Bryony Field
3. ⁠Donna Rose
4. ⁠Julia Omokhuale
5. ⁠Laetitia Royer
6. ⁠Gabrielle Senft
7. ⁠Marlie Packer (cc)
8. ⁠Sophie de Goede
9. ⁠Olivia Apps
10. ⁠Zoe Harrison (cc)
11. ⁠Lotte Sharp
12. ⁠Sophie Bridger
13. Sydney Gregson
14. ⁠Alysha Corrigan
15. ⁠Jess Breach

Replacements:
16. ⁠Carmen Tremelling
17. ⁠Kelsey Clifford
18. ⁠Chloe Flanagan
19. ⁠Georgia Evans
20. ⁠Poppy Cleall
21. ⁠Tori Sellors
22. ⁠Amelia MacDougall
23. ⁠Emma Hardy

Hopefully it will be competitive but ex[pect a Sarries win sadly. It would be great to be wrong. Sarries 38 Chiefs 24

Saracens 35 Chiefs 30.

Sarries 24: Chiefs 30

In Rob we trust.
By the way - cream on first. There's nothing to debate.

Sarries W 33 - 24 Chiefs W

Sarries 26 Chiefs 27

Just because I want it to happen, Saracens W 31 Chiefs W 33

Not holding out much hope here, but still going with:
Saracens 26; Chiefs 31

Let's see if yesterday's result can be matched in North London 🤔

It was very close!

Gutted for the ladies after that.
They played so well but literally one loose kick changed the course of the game.
Another performance for the club to be proud of this weekend 👏

A wonderful effort when you remember that we decided to play the match with a squad of 16, against Saracens’ squad of 23. I haven’t seen official confirmation, but as far as I could tell the only bench player to get on the pitch was Merryn Elworthy. It was clear in the closing 10 minutes that most of our players were completely spent, so it’s not surprising that Liv’s kick looked tired and aimless and Jess Breach was able to run through several defenders.
After the men’s team bucked the club trend on Saturday by using bench players really intelligently, it’s a shame that we didn’t trust our women’s bench to come on in the closing minutes and bring a bit of energy.
Nevertheless it was a mighty effort by our women against one of the big beasts at their home ground.

Congratulations to Scottish Chief on winning the Chiefs Women prediction league.

To not replace any of the front row until the last 5 mins was ludicrous. In an attritional game like that and as well as the starters were doing the team needed fresh legs. Don't understand the thinking.

Thanks OTH for compiling the league. Much appreciated.

It was a wonderful performance, didn’t get the rub of the green from the ref and the game was there for the winning, unfortunately one wayward clearance gave them the opportunity to win it at the death. Forwards were immense.

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A wonderful effort when you remember that we decided to play the match with a squad of 16, against Saracens’ squad of 23. I haven’t seen official confirmation, but as far as I could tell the only bench player to get on the pitch was Merryn Elworthy. It was clear in the closing 10 minutes that most of our players were completely spent, so it’s not surprising that Liv’s kick looked tired and aimless and Jess Breach was able to run through several defenders.
After the men’s team bucked the club trend on Saturday by using bench players really intelligently, it’s a shame that we didn’t trust our women’s bench to come on in the closing minutes and bring a bit of energy.
Nevertheless it was a mighty effort by our women against one of the big beasts at their home ground.

I've now read the match report and it looks like we used four of our eight bench players, two with 4 minutes to go, one with 11 minutes to go and one with 18 minutes to go. That's still a lot of unused resource!

I only watched the first half but it seemed to me that Chiefs just kept shooting themselves in the foot.
Silly errors compounded all the time...shame as it was there to win!

Thanks to OTH for organising and look forwards to defending my title next season 👏👏
A great effort from our girls but it didn’t quite work out.

Interesting game.
I think you played as well as I've seen you play all season and we played as poorly although obviously there's correlation in those two things.
Definitely fair to say we probably should have lost that one.
That said you look good for next season.
How good is Menin at 8?