Saints v Ulster QF Saturday 8pm KO BT Sport 2

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Snipe Watson wrote: Sat Apr 10, 2021 10:19 pm Rotate the squad for the rainbow debacle and get ready for a semi.

Jared needs to address some of the defence issues and we need Hendy and Carter back. Doubt there's much chance of getting Marcell back, but he would be handy.
Rocky has spoken - looks very unlikely.

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Couple of weeks until the semi final. Hopefully Hendy will be back and possibly a few others.
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fermain wrote: Sat Apr 10, 2021 10:17 pm who is this Warren Gatland director of rugby for Northampton? really pleased with their 1st half perfrormance??? 3 yellow cards, loads of illegal play? Warren Gatland
He's delusional.
We were pure mince in the first half. We should have put them to the sword but they bullied us with 13.
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Dan summed up the difference between the 2 halves in one word - physicality
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What a game. That will do our boys the world of good. Fair play to Northampton, that was some game. I've a good feeling about this competition.
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Dave wrote: Sat Apr 10, 2021 10:22 pm Couple of weeks until the semi final. Hopefully Hendy will be back and possibly a few others.
Marcell? Is we can get Marcell, Carter.and Hendo on the pitch we will win this competition
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Is Jack McGrath able to play ball?
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Jackie Brown wrote: Sat Apr 10, 2021 10:27 pm What a game. That will do our boys the world of good. Fair play to Northampton, that was some game. I've a good feeling about this competition.
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Jackie Brown wrote:
Dave wrote: Sat Apr 10, 2021 10:22 pm Couple of weeks until the semi final. Hopefully Hendy will be back and possibly a few others.
Marcell? Is we can get Marcell, Carter.and Hendo on the pitch we will win this competition
It was reported that he wouldn't make the Challenge Cup but could play the final rounds of the Image dung in mid June.
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If Ulster get a home draw in the semi I’d like to think we can go the whole way ... bookies have Ulster 6/4 favourites

If only Henderson, Carter, McGrath, Coetzee and Addison were available :drunken:
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Dave wrote: Sat Apr 10, 2021 10:32 pm
Jackie Brown wrote:
Dave wrote: Sat Apr 10, 2021 10:22 pm Couple of weeks until the semi final. Hopefully Hendy will be back and possibly a few others.
Marcell? Is we can get Marcell, Carter.and Hendo on the pitch we will win this competition
It was reported that he wouldn't make the Challenge Cup but could play the final rounds of the Image dung in mid June.
Well, thanks to their ridiculous draw we won't be in those final rounds. Feck their stupid Covid Variant Cup.
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As somebody has said, Dan must have really torn a strip off them at half time. Or was there something tactical going on? Softly softly in the first half, then all guns blazing in the second. Of course they couldn't predict the yellows or going so far behind but if the plan was to stay well in touch in the first half then run away in the second, maybe it worked. Still worrying that they couldn't do better against 13 men.

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Cap'n Grumpy wrote: Sat Apr 10, 2021 10:12 pm
justinr73 wrote: Sat Apr 10, 2021 9:58 pm Yellows possibly clouded the issue in the first half.
While we didn't take advantage at the time, I think the physical effort for saints from that period told in the end.
I dunno. Three of them got a ten minute breather and eight of them got subbed off.
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Bogbunny wrote: Sat Apr 10, 2021 10:18 pm
jean valjean wrote: Sat Apr 10, 2021 9:57 pm
d4surfer wrote:Any preference for the semi?
A fit Henderson. Two away wins deserves a home semi i reckon.

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The first half the passing was like the under 12s at the player rather than in front of him — everybody taking the ball standing still. Lowry trying to hard and getting isolated and penalised several times.

The second half was less static with the ball but the defence was shaky to say the least .

A good result from a very unconvincing performance with a few players carting the bruises for maybe a week or two
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