Kit watch - Prem kit rankings:
10: Leicester Tigers. Looks better with a sponsor but...you know
9: Quins. Quarters are always classic but that collar is a hate crime against them
8: Gloucester. It's fine
7: Sale. Clean kit, collar looks good, weird paint smear things are odd
6: Saracens: Black out kit with gold is really quite something but there is better
5: Bristol. Solid hoops, proper rugby kit
4: Bath. Again a classic look with more black around the arms and neck, very slick
3: Newcastle. A new identity, new colours.. and they really do pop. Love it
2: Exeter. Brave to roll back colours by 20 years. Really fresh kit, looks class
1: Saints: Macron are great at folded collars that last. The finer details of the shirt, detailing of the green, pinstripe details between that and the black and solid hoops game.
The Champions win again 🏆
To sell your club's talisman after losing a play-off final on pens.
Build a squad with the money that eventually wins the league , and then buy him back in the Premier League.
I must be dreaming.
#PUSB
Clips also going around of objects being thrown at the ref and slurs including “puta”.
For a sport that prides itself on respecting the referee, cannot see how World Rugby can sit on their hands on this one.
Action must be taken.
Either @WorldRugby address the Pumas’ behaviour throughout last nights game, or they risk our beautiful game going to shit like the kissball has. There was stuff off the ball all night & then this at the end. They are a disgrace & need sorting out.
#ARGvENG
Classic bully-victims. Turn up in a strip designed to insult, after provocations from their government and football team, then get mortally upset because they simply overhear the other team celebrating beating them. Imagine how they would have celebrated.
The fact Argentina’s coaches had to shield the referee from their own players is a total disgrace.
There should be repercussions from World Rugby.
Unprecedented.
Last night Argentina wore a shirt that celebrated Maradona’s cheating against England.
Had VAR been in place in 1986 the Hand of God goal would never have been allowed.
So it was very fitting that the TMO denied them the final try.
Karma.
It’s not space that Pollock needs.
It’s time and opportunities.
Give him 20 touches and he’ll make three or four linebreaks.
Coming off the bench you’re limiting him to around eight or so touches and one linebreak.
In the (probably not too distant) future, people will look back with bemusement at the time the England boss continually named Henry Pollock as a replacement.
Strange to regularly start matches with one of your top talents on the bench, as good as he is when he comes off it.