The rugby

[Blazing Saddles]

Saints slightly second team currently getting the better of Bath’s A team….

 

[Dorset Boy]

Saints have been exceptional
Bath awful

 

[Blazing Saddles]

Nobody saw this result coming, but Northampton took Bath to the cleaners, with a sparkling display of 15 man rugby.
Better in all departments.

 

[Blazing Saddles]

Saints have been exceptional
Bath awful

Lawrence just summed Bath’s night up.

 

[Dorset Boy]

Bath humiliated - worst performance for 3 years.
So many players so far off the pace.

That's not taking anything away from Saints - that was THE best performance of the season by a distance

 

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Just to wish you all..

 

[Pross]

Just to wish you all..

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Why’s he drinking Guinness? He needs a nice pint of Butty Bach!

 

[Blazing Saddles]

Sale currently repeating last year’s bossing of Bristol in Bristol, who look a different side.
A Christmas hangover perhaps.

 

[Blazing Saddles]

I don’t know what’s gone wrong with Bath. After getting a bonus point inside 20 minutes, while a man up, they have gradually deteriorated.
Exeter now have them on the rack.

 

[Pross]

That was one hell of a final play. 30 odd phases, Exeter kept their discipline throughout and didn’t give a penalty but Bath eventually got over the line.

Thought the 20 minute red was harsh and the original yellow was the right decision.

 

[Blazing Saddles]

I think that’s what they call getting out of jail.

Bath play goal line rugby from the 22 to score the winning try.
Pretty it was not, but a win is a win.

 

[Dorset Boy]

That was one hell of a final play. 30 odd phases, Exeter kept their discipline throughout and didn’t give a penalty but Bath eventually got over the line.

Thought the 20 minute red was harsh and the original yellow was the right decision.

Arundell landed on his head. Should have been a full red - very, very reckless.

Ruthless against 14, then gave away stupid penalties to let Exeter back in, and never rewarded at the breakdown either.
Then 38 phases to steal back the win at the end.
Lost 10 years off my life!

 

[Blazing Saddles]

Saints playing some sublime rugby after Quinn’s started so well.
It’s a world away from the Christmas Welsh derbies.

 

[Dorset Boy]

If only Quins could be as clinical as Saints!
They are a good watch when on form, Saints, so long as it's not your side they're playing against!

 

[Blazing Saddles]

That was a heck of a game. Not sure if that’s despite or because of all the handling errors.
They needed all those scrums to take a breath.
87 points, but it could easily have topped well over 100.