Rugby, the original version

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Aug 2020
5:14pm, 22 Aug 2020
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flanker
Well, we've changed the team. No change - still lacking skills, vision, or any clue really.

At least richmac will be happy for a change.
Aug 2020
10:48pm, 22 Aug 2020
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Too Much Water
No fear of relegation means a chance to experiment I guess. Not sure what Borthwick learned?
Aug 2020
12:39am, 23 Aug 2020
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flanker
After the last match, there was nothing to lose.

And I expect he's learnt what he already knew. We lack decent players, decent coaches, and a decent management structure. Good luck to him.
Aug 2020
9:26am, 23 Aug 2020
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richmac
Happy Bath won obvs, bit disappointed that Borthers couldn't fire tigers up more against his old club.

.a young tigers side trashed by our A team. Which may have been unwise for us to do considering we play saints on Wednesday and a top 4 spot is at stake.
Aug 2020
10:22am, 23 Aug 2020
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Eynsham Red
I’m looking forward to Tuesday evening’s top of the table clash.
It will be interesting to see how all the teams perform midweek with such a quick turnaround between games. Could this cause more injuries?
Aug 2020
11:05am, 23 Aug 2020
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Badger
Highly likely. I don't think the regulations about times between playing full games have changed; this week's batch of 3 games in 10-11 days mean that everyone is going to be rotating their starting XV a lot, but there will still be players playing at least one full game and coming on as subs in the third. I did think Wasps had overdone their rotation for the first 20 minutes or so yesterday!
Aug 2020
11:32am, 23 Aug 2020
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richmac
I agree, Till the end of the season is going to be attritional, or the intensity will slump with the workload.

I reckon Academies will be emptied, championship players will get chances and maybe a few who retired last year will be persuaded to give it a go. In my one eyed view I reckon Louw may suit up one or two last times.
Aug 2020
12:41pm, 23 Aug 2020
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Badger
Sorry, meant two full games, not one!
Aug 2020
12:12pm, 27 Aug 2020
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richmac
Comfortably in the smug zone right now.
Aug 2020
12:31pm, 27 Aug 2020
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Albert O Balsam
The coverage on BT since the restart is really quite odd -

-Take the game I watched last night, a single commentator so there wasn't that banter you'd usually find, (plaudits must go to them as that has got to be a difficult thing to do )

plus halftime consisted of some stats and a view of the main stand with the sun going down.

However, I'll take it - just so glad to see something back on.

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