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The Chiel wrote:Contriving to nearly lose to 14 / 13 would have been a new low. Ref was disgracefully lenient to the Scarlets scrum, but if their backs had played behind WP & co they'd have run in a bagful. As said above even with 15 against 13 they never looked like engineering space.
Hope Taylor is OK - that looked a seriously worrying knock. And to bring on Shiel instead of Chamberlain - I really don't know what's going on there.
Rico wrote:Take the points and let us never speak of this game again...
TheSmidge wrote:The Chiel wrote:Contriving to nearly lose to 14 / 13 would have been a new low. Ref was disgracefully lenient to the Scarlets scrum, but if their backs had played behind WP & co they'd have run in a bagful. As said above even with 15 against 13 they never looked like engineering space.
Hope Taylor is OK - that looked a seriously worrying knock. And to bring on Shiel instead of Chamberlain - I really don't know what's going on there.
As we saw yesterday, SHs are often emergency wingers so it would've taken a much bigger rejig of the back division to bring Chamberlain on at that point.
dolf_lundgren wrote:I missed the game, sounds like a good one to miss.
Did Chamberlain get on at all? Its becoming a bit of a trend how little he is trusted and it needs to happen at some point. Maybe Cockers is looking for a game where we are not in a dog fight with 20 to go. Bringing him on would have meant we needed to put Jaco to FB, and Blain on the wing.
The Edinburgh live feed seemed to suggest Bennet was on the wing when Taylor went off? Would have thought Johnstone there would have made more sense, but Bennet is very capable.
Fingers crossed Taylor is ok.
TheSmidge wrote:The Chiel wrote:Contriving to nearly lose to 14 / 13 would have been a new low. Ref was disgracefully lenient to the Scarlets scrum, but if their backs had played behind WP & co they'd have run in a bagful. As said above even with 15 against 13 they never looked like engineering space.
Hope Taylor is OK - that looked a seriously worrying knock. And to bring on Shiel instead of Chamberlain - I really don't know what's going on there.
As we saw yesterday, SHs are often emergency wingers so it would've taken a much bigger rejig of the back division to bring Chamberlain on at that point.
Tichtheid wrote:I haven’t seen the game yet, but apparently Taylor has a broken nose, broken cheek and broken jaw.
Was the “tackle” the reason the Scarlets player was sent off?
Tichtheid wrote:I haven’t seen the game yet, but apparently Taylor has a broken nose, broken cheek and broken jaw.
Was the “tackle” the reason the Scarlets player was sent off?
The Chiel wrote:
But on Saturday Steele was the only backs option left. Nothing against Shiel, but if Cockerill has so little confidence in Chamberlain why pick him. I get it was a tight game so a normal like for like subbing on wasn't appropriate, but you'd have thought a 10 who's presumably also played some rugby at centre could have fitted into the defensive patterns more easily than a 9.
However the win was the thing so onwards. But if I was Chamberlain I'd have very little confidence left.
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