Quins vs Northampton - Sunday 3pm

[Puja]

Harlequins: Green; Marchant, Northmore, Anyanwu, Murley; Smith, Care; Marler (c), Musk, Louw; Lamb, Herbst; Kenningham, Evans, White.

Replacements: Riley, Garcia Botta, Kerrod, Hammond, Jurevicius, Gjaltema, Allan, David.


Saints: Furbank; Freeman, Dingwall, Hutchinson, Collins; Biggar, Mitchell; Iyogun, Matavesi, Petch; Salakaia-Loto, Coles; Scott-Young, Ludlam (c), Augustus.

Replacements: Haywood, Heffernan, Hill, Moon, Graham, James, Proctor, Sleightholme.

[Epaminondas Pules]

This looks like a proper fun game. Nightmare for both defences!!!

[Peej]

Looking forward to seeing Anyanwu again, he's impressed so far this season.

[Epaminondas Pules]

Had a rocky old time in the main last week.

[FKAS]

So on paper and form this should be an absolute try fest of attacking rugby. Fingers crossed.

Anyanwu has had a bit of a shock with the difference between age grade and senior level rugby. Hoping for his sake he can adapt a bit for this game as Saints aren't a side to forgive defensive lapses.

[Epaminondas Pules]

I was impressed with how he kept going / trying last week, despite having a largely poor game, and then made a telling intervention to lead to a Quins score.

[Mellsblue]

So on paper and form this should be an absolute try fest of attacking rugby. Fingers crossed.

Anyanwu has had a bit of a shock with the difference between age grade and senior level rugby. Hoping for his sake he can adapt a bit for this game as Saints aren't a side to forgive defensive lapses.

He played for Richmond in The Champ last year so the jump shouldn’t be quite as big as age grade to Prem but he still looks all over the place in d.

[fivepointer]

Game of the weekend.

Saints young props face another tough afternoon as does Anyanwu up against the Saints midfield.

[Adam_P]

Anyanwu Vs Hutchinson should be interesting - two very different ways to play centre.

Concerningly short on looseheads - 4th choice TH on the bench covering.

Pretty much every match up in the backline has potential to be great. Hopefully it's dry on Sunday!

[Peej]

I didn't think Anyanwu had looked that bad, but there you go!

[Banquo]

Had a rocky old time in the main last week.

That's pirate life for ye. Arrr

[Banquo]

Be interesting to see Freeman at 15 and Furbank at 10 at some point.

[Spiffy]

Had a rocky old time in the main last week.

That's pirate life for ye. Arrr

He'll be keen to show he's worth his salt this week.

[FKAS]

Had a rocky old time in the main last week.

That's pirate life for ye. Arrr

He'll be keen to show he's worth his salt this week.

Mugging off Dingwall and then scoring for the resulting counter an excellent way to start.

[fivepointer]

That was predictably entertaining. Saints didnt help themselves by blowing 2 surefire tries but did well to come back and get 2 BP's. Murley's try was a beaut.

[FKAS]

That was predictably entertaining. Saints didnt help themselves by blowing 2 surefire tries but did well to come back and get 2 BP's. Murley's try was a beaut.

Three certain tries had Dingwall, Mitchell and the second row (Moon?) all actually given the pass instead of holding onto it too long getting tackled man and ball. Having done all the hard work to open Quins up and then fail a basic skill like two on one, draw the man and pass. A drill they've been doing in training since they first held a ball. The coaches must have been banging their heads against their laptops.

Entertaining game though, end to end stuff. The defence coaches might need a lie down in a darkened room after that though.

[Scrumhead]

Yeah. Definitely rode our luck and we’d have had absolutely nothing to complain about if Saints had come away with a win. I honestly thought we were about to lose in the last minute two weeks on the trot.

[Mikey Brown]

I’ve been banging on about Murley for England for ages now, but worried with the social media hype for him picking up he’s got even less of a chance with Eddie.

[Puja]

That was predictably entertaining. Saints didnt help themselves by blowing 2 surefire tries but did well to come back and get 2 BP's. Murley's try was a beaut.

Three certain tries had Dingwall, Mitchell and the second row (Moon?) all actually given the pass instead of holding onto it too long getting tackled man and ball. Having done all the hard work to open Quins up and then fail a basic skill like two on one, draw the man and pass. A drill they've been doing in training since they first held a ball. The coaches must have been banging their heads against their laptops.

Entertaining game though, end to end stuff. The defence coaches might need a lie down in a darkened room after that though.

I think the criticism of Mitchell for not giving the pass was very harsh - Green was treading water superbly and, had Mitchell given the early pass, it would've allowed Green to shut down the space and kill the move. 9 times out of 10 it was the right decision to try and draw him and someone needed to warn Mitchell that Marchant was about to blindside him.

Puja

[Banquo]

That was predictably entertaining. Saints didnt help themselves by blowing 2 surefire tries but did well to come back and get 2 BP's. Murley's try was a beaut.

Three certain tries had Dingwall, Mitchell and the second row (Moon?) all actually given the pass instead of holding onto it too long getting tackled man and ball. Having done all the hard work to open Quins up and then fail a basic skill like two on one, draw the man and pass. A drill they've been doing in training since they first held a ball. The coaches must have been banging their heads against their laptops.

Entertaining game though, end to end stuff. The defence coaches might need a lie down in a darkened room after that though.

I think the criticism of Mitchell for not giving the pass was very harsh - Green was treading water superbly and, had Mitchell given the early pass, it would've allowed Green to shut down the space and kill the move. 9 times out of 10 it was the right decision to try and draw him and someone needed to warn Mitchell that Marchant was about to blindside him.

Puja

nah, it was 3 on 1, early pass worst case 2 on 1 with two quick guys. Running dummying just slows it all down and lets marchant get back. Butcher is right.

Saints performance a coach killer, just appalling handling and at least two gift tries.

[Danno]

I don't know why we switch off in defence so comprehensively, other than needing Marler and Esterhuizen to bark orders at the rest for the full 80.