We Are Through Week 1
And we are the only team without any tries, bonus points and/or points on the league table.
Before you panic, this is not a doom & gloom post, it is a general look at what we are missing after week 1 and a look ahead to our M5 derby with Gloucester on Friday night.
Missing
Try scoring opportunities - We did everything but score in open play against Sarries. Our scrum was solid, our line out mostly worked and our kicking has been worse, but still we did not score. So why do "people" always say get the set piece right and you will score?
I guess the first response to that is they may not have considered the Sarries Wolf Pack defence. Is it possible that we were not all that bad and that they were just that good? The general feeling among fans and TV "experts" is that Sarries had a slow start then put 29 points on us once they got going.
Maybe we were just playing much better than expected and it took them a whole half to beat us?
Even I am not that optimistic but it is food for thought.
Three of our best - Our backs have been talked about all preseason and we were missing three of the highlights; Chris Pennell, Bryce Heem and Francois Hougaard.
ANY team in the Premiership would miss those three outstanding players.
Answer
Did my second point answer the first? Have we spent all summer assuming we would be at full strength and not have a plan B? Is it just really bad luck that Biggs is also injured so we had to play our third / fourth choice winger (Though he played pretty well) Hammond against the European Champions?
I always struggle with an early [in the season] M5 derby, there is nothing riding on it yet. We both lost in dramatic second half fashion, though I am not sure I could have been so positive if we had lost after leading 31-7 at home.
In the real world I work with a lot of Gloucester fans, some we not too shocked by either of our results at the weekend, but they pretty much all think we can bag a win at home against them.
I am on the Superbru app trying to predict results. Looking on there it would appear our last 12 games, going back to 2007 have been pretty evenly split
Friday Night vs Glaws
I always struggle with an early [in the season] M5 derby, there is nothing riding on it yet. We both lost in dramatic second half fashion, though I am not sure I could have been so positive if we had lost after leading 31-7 at home.
In the real world I work with a lot of Gloucester fans, some we not too shocked by either of our results at the weekend, but they pretty much all think we can bag a win at home against them.
I am on the Superbru app trying to predict results. Looking on there it would appear our last 12 games, going back to 2007 have been pretty evenly split
They have only beaten us once at Sixways so that is good enough for me to predict a win.
A bit of luck wouldn't go amiss. Some injury rest-bite would be lovely and for the boys to have some confidence in their ability to play on our new pitch, that would be huge!
We are still going to be missing; Pennell, Heem, Hougaard and now Schonert and maybe GJ. Very key players in critical positions.
One final thing we could do with - some more of this:
What do we need?
A bit of luck wouldn't go amiss. Some injury rest-bite would be lovely and for the boys to have some confidence in their ability to play on our new pitch, that would be huge!
We are still going to be missing; Pennell, Heem, Hougaard and now Schonert and maybe GJ. Very key players in critical positions.
One final thing we could do with - some more of this:
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