The top two sides in each Pro14 conference face off this weekend: Ulster at home (yay!) to the Blue Meanies (boo!), and Munster hosting Connacht tonight.
In the Premiership, Bath v Exeter looks like the most exciting match.
Onna telly this week
Friday 5th March
Munster v Connacht
19:35
Premier Sports 1
Leicester v London Irish
19:45
BT Sport 1
Sale v Newcastle
20:00
BT Sport Extra
Saturday 6th March
Zebre v Glasgow
14:00
Premier Sports 2
Bath v Exeter
15:00
BT Sport 2
Wasps v Gloucester
15:00
BT Sport Extra
Worcester v Bristol
17:15
BT Sport Extra
Ulster v Leinster
19:35
Premier Sports 1
Ospreys v Dragons
19:35
S4C / Premier Sports 1
Sunday 7th March
Harlequins v Northampton
15:00
BT Sport 1
Edinburgh v Treviso
15:15
Premier Sports 1
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465 thoughts on “A Brief Interlude for Pro-woo and Premiership”
Glasgow down to 13 as Oli Smith knocks the ball on deliberately. 5m lineout, but Glasgow turn it over at the maul! Shit, Glasgow have two backs in the bin and Zebre went for the driving maul?
Zebre with a turnover penalty. Not sure who the Irish commentator is, but he’d been moaning about Zebre being offside for a while before that. Bloody French refs. Penalises Zebre for going off their feet with Glasgow in all sorts of trouble. Bloody French refs.
Zebre break beautifully from a box kick and should have scored but for more shitty handling! They have the penalty for offside and nail it! 20-10 after 53 minutes.
Another botched attack by Zebre who looked odds on to score. Glasgow counter with pace and Dobie is in under the posts! 20-17 going into the final quarter!
Zebre clinging on now. Glasgow shoulda scored in the corner but spilled it under pressure. Another penalty and then another and now a yellow card. The Weege take it quickly and – Gordon’s Alive! – he’s over! 20-24 as Glasgow lead with 12 to go…
Somebody wants Patrick Zaki freed. Rhink Zebre would settle for their midfield being freed right now. Keatly kicks to row K and they’re back for a Zebre lineout on halfway. Glasgow steal a sloppy tap back and belt it upfield. They have the lineout deep into Zebre territory. A score now should be the game.
Penalty advantage, but Nick Grigg bursts through a muddled midfield and the Weege are in da house! 20-31 and only a repeat of the last 5 in the 1st half will get Zebre back into this.
Zebre with a penalty 5m out, but can they score quickly enough to get a restart? Can they score at all? French ref has been very good and calm in his communication. And the Weege hold it up to get the turnover scrum! Game over!
Good game that- Exeter’s tempo was great in the second half, their handling too. Basically, wore Bath out.
Who says Exeter can’t/don’t play open rugby?
Bath blew themselves out in the first half. Exeter stayed patient, got into their game and simply went up a couple of gears in the second half. At the end Hoggy was sitting with an ice pack on his knee but hopefully its nothing too serious.
Leinster/Ulster….more cards than Hallmark. O’Brien a bit lucky to avoid a red…didn’t get low, appeared to misread Madigan’s line which was interpreted as late movement from Madigan. Warwick- forearm away from the body into the chin… pretty much textbook red.
That said decent rugby by both teams. Nice finish from Balacoune. Interesting use of tap by Leinster instead of strumming it down. But will be hard for Ulster at 14 vs 15
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Zebre defend the maul well and turn over possession. They’re now a man up. Can they make it count?
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Glasgow down to 13 as Oli Smith knocks the ball on deliberately. 5m lineout, but Glasgow turn it over at the maul! Shit, Glasgow have two backs in the bin and Zebre went for the driving maul?
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Free kick to Glasgow for early engagement š.
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Handling again crap. EP Kings would clobber these sides if they played in the Top 14. Oh.
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Zebre with a turnover penalty. Not sure who the Irish commentator is, but he’d been moaning about Zebre being offside for a while before that. Bloody French refs. Penalises Zebre for going off their feet with Glasgow in all sorts of trouble. Bloody French refs.
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Zebre break beautifully from a box kick and should have scored but for more shitty handling! They have the penalty for offside and nail it! 20-10 after 53 minutes.
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Another botched attack by Zebre who looked odds on to score. Glasgow counter with pace and Dobie is in under the posts! 20-17 going into the final quarter!
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Zebre clinging on now. Glasgow shoulda scored in the corner but spilled it under pressure. Another penalty and then another and now a yellow card. The Weege take it quickly and – Gordon’s Alive! – he’s over! 20-24 as Glasgow lead with 12 to go…
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Gordon’s only half alive! Off with a dodgy arm.
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Somebody wants Patrick Zaki freed. Rhink Zebre would settle for their midfield being freed right now. Keatly kicks to row K and they’re back for a Zebre lineout on halfway. Glasgow steal a sloppy tap back and belt it upfield. They have the lineout deep into Zebre territory. A score now should be the game.
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Penalty advantage, but Nick Grigg bursts through a muddled midfield and the Weege are in da house! 20-31 and only a repeat of the last 5 in the 1st half will get Zebre back into this.
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Zebre with a penalty 5m out, but can they score quickly enough to get a restart? Can they score at all? French ref has been very good and calm in his communication. And the Weege hold it up to get the turnover scrum! Game over!
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BP win for the Weege! Weee! Ge.
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Thank feck. A win at bloody last.
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A good win at that, BB, some nice rugby in that game, from both sides too.
Embraās fixture v Benetton tomorrow has been postponed due to one of the Italian squad testing positive for the rona.
Nathan Chamberlain just canāt catch a break, sitting as an unused sub for eight or so games, he was finally due to start tomorrow
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A fairly youngish back line too, average age under 23 and I suspect very few appearances between them (apart from the centres).
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Oh feck, Hoggy injured?
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Thankfully, doesn’t seem like it.
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Jonny the try scoring machine!
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I didn’t think Exeter were going to get on the scoreboard at all, in the first quarter….
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Good game that- Exeter’s tempo was great in the second half, their handling too. Basically, wore Bath out.
Who says Exeter can’t/don’t play open rugby?
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Bath blew themselves out in the first half. Exeter stayed patient, got into their game and simply went up a couple of gears in the second half. At the end Hoggy was sitting with an ice pack on his knee but hopefully its nothing too serious.
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Cornish Pirates scalped Saracens 25-17 after 8-10 at half time.
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Oof, Bristol just squeaked a win against Wuss. 23-24 the final score.
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Good symbol for the Tories’ ‘Crap for Heroes’ campaign.
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TRY Ulster!
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TRY Ulster! Well, it may be checked….
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It’s good!
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Second yellow for Leinster – down to 13.
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Leinster lucky to escape a 3rd card.
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BOO! Leinster try.
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Our hero Stuart McCloskey has been given a yellow in a clearly outrageous ref decision. And Leinster bloody score again.
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Well, that’s it. Red card for Andrew Warwick.
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‘Nother Blue Meanie try, not surprisingly.
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12-24 at HT. Not good.
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LĆ” breithe sona duit, a TomP
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Leinster/Ulster….more cards than Hallmark. O’Brien a bit lucky to avoid a red…didn’t get low, appeared to misread Madigan’s line which was interpreted as late movement from Madigan. Warwick- forearm away from the body into the chin… pretty much textbook red.
That said decent rugby by both teams. Nice finish from Balacoune. Interesting use of tap by Leinster instead of strumming it down. But will be hard for Ulster at 14 vs 15
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Trisk – I can’t see anything but a bloodbath in the second half, unless the card is evened up shortly.
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Two lovely tries in the last couple of minutes of the O’s-Drags game, one for each side.
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Baloucooooooooooune in for his second!
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That was nice
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Oh bloody hell. Alleged blocking.
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Pffft
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Looked a decent dummy line to me
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Great finish from Balacoune but pulled up for blocking/crossing by McCloskey – maybe a little unlucky.
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Valiant Ulster defence eventually breached once more for the BPT.
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Yep, Ruddock opts to bite – I guess it’s read that McCloskey makes contact but so does Ruddock
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Aargh, can’t believe that wasn’t a try. Like the cut of this Izuchukwu’s jib.
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Drags take the lead with another nice try made by Sam Davies. Not great defending from the O’s though. 20-24 with ten to go.
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