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Wasps send Bristol down, Sarries fight back to stun Saints

Josh Bassett scores Wasps’ opening try at Bristol

Wasps consigned Bristol to an immediate return to the Championship with a 36-21 win at Ashton Gate to move five points clear at the top of the Premiership, while champions Saracens produced a stunning fightback to beat Northampton Saints.

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Dai Young’s side took another step towards securing a home play-off semi-final and finishing at the summit by confirming sorry Bristol’s fate, running in six tries to claim a fifth consecutive Premiership win.

Jason Woodward scooped up a loose ball to run 60 metres for an opening try which Gavin Henson converted to put Bristol 7-0 up, but ruthless Wasps scored 21 unanswered points before the break.

Converted tries from Josh Bassett, Tommy Taylor and Joe Simpson put Young’s men in command, with the lively Kurtley Beale a thorn in Bristol’s side.

Christian Wade, the leading try-scorer in the Premiership, marked his 100th top-flight appearance with yet another five-pointer before Guy Thompson dotted down and Bassett completed a double.

Jack O’Connell and Nick Fenton-Wells crossed the whitewash for the home side late on, but they are down with two games still to play.

Sarries looked set for a first loss in five Premiership games at Franklin’s Gardens, but the European champions producing a stunning late rally to snatch a 27-25 victory which struck a blow to Saints’ top-six hopes.

Harry Mallinder scored the only try of the first half, while another early in the second from Dylan Hartley – impressive up against his England back-up hooker and British and Irish Lions rival Jamie George – put Saints 20-6 to the good.

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Mark McCall’s side were 13 points adrift when Ken Pisi added a third try for Northampton, but Chris Ashton came off the bench to dot down and Marcelo Bosch dived over to bring the London club level two minutes from time.

Alex Lozowski held his nerve to add the extras and give Sarries, who rung the changes with a European Champions Cup semi-final with Munster to come next weekend, a win which leaves them just two points behind second-placed Exeter Chiefs.

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BH 27 minutes ago
Crusaders confirm major matchday change at One New Zealand Stadium

Hahaha imagine a bunch of knights riding on top of those rocking horses like little children. It’d undermine the Crusaders intimidation factor.

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BH 28 minutes ago
Crusaders confirm major matchday change at One New Zealand Stadium

Or they could have a weekly Hobbyhorse Riding competition with those fake horses on a wooden stick! The kids would love it

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JS 29 minutes ago
The All Blacks strongest midfield partnership for the next World Cup is already clear

Great points.

Following on from your observation of the AB’s under the Razor regime, I totally agree and why Beauden would resort to a contestable kick after several unsuccessful phases to breach the gainline and wonder if that was philosophical in how that regime viewed ‘attack’ which to the fan looked dysfunctional and incoherent especially when resulting after all that - in a contestable?



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NH 34 minutes ago
Australian sides learn to win ugly as seminal Super Rugby Pacific run-in looms

Where do you think the reds and brums need to improve in their games brett? You alluded to the lack of gainline carries by the brums, what about the reds? Of course, an ugly win is better than nothing but I worry these ugly wins weren’t against any team in the top 5… Odd that both of these teams actually have decent records against the better teams this year (canes vs reds aside), but have both had uncharacteristic fades and losses against lower ranked teams.

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John 49 minutes ago
Aussie Super Rugby takes: Wallabies lock’s statement, Brumbies must muscle up

Fair argument again, but my point is if the Brumbies want to be top two and title winners, they need a better gainline winning %. That is as simple as I can make my point.

Re the points for and against, as you point out, the Reds have scored almost 80 points less than the Brums.



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NH 1 hour ago
Aussie Super Rugby takes: Wallabies lock’s statement, Brumbies must muscle up

Wallabies line speed only increased in the rate at which suaalii was back pedalling by the end of last year. Reds I’d argue are running a ‘connected’ rush D this year, I think connection is still more important than the rush, but they are coming up with more speed than they did, and the wallabies did last year imo. But, oppo teams have certainly found something out wide as the last 3 weeks at least, and even the drua, moved the ball their as often as possible.

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John 1 hour ago
Aussie Super Rugby takes: Wallabies lock’s statement, Brumbies must muscle up

Reds run a defence like the Wallabies. So yes, you are right, no rush, no umbrella. I would go further and say their linespeed is slower than the Wallabies, the Wallabies sped up in the back end of the year.

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SB 1 hour ago
Three overseas players that must be brought home for the Wallabies

Yes, eligible only in July 2027 though.

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SB 1 hour ago
Three overseas players that must be brought home for the Wallabies

Swain is a quality player. That incident was ages ago and Quinn Tupaea is back playing well now. So time to move on.

I think Swain should’ve played way more last year for the Wallabies. Particularly when Frost was exhausted.



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John 1 hour ago
Three overseas players that must be brought home for the Wallabies

What Super Rugby team are you putting Staniforth in?

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SB 1 hour ago
Three overseas players that must be brought home for the Wallabies

Adam Coleman last played for Tonga in a loss to Spain, July 2024. So he’s eligible again in July 2027.

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SB 1 hour ago
Three overseas players that must be brought home for the Wallabies

Definitely good enough, as backup to Wright. Currently he’s the best Aussie fullback in the world, we don’t know how Wright will come back from his injury.

Who knows, maybe Banks will have family issues or whatever and want to return. Highly unlikely but if it’s based on ability and form he should be in the Wallabies squad in the middle of the year. The 3 tests they play in July are very important to them, the French will likely pick a stronger team than what was sent to New Zealand last year and having lost to Ireland as well as Italy last year 3 losses could potentially be on the cards if they don’t pick their absolute best.



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JW 1 hour ago
Three overseas players that must be brought home for the Wallabies

Yeah the three OS picks will be locked in contractually, and a lot more that you would then have to try to bring back instead!

But I’m not sure Tupou will continue to be one, or obviously Big will for that matter either (past the WC).



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JW 1 hour ago
Three overseas players that must be brought home for the Wallabies

You don’t want to go too far on the depth side though right?

Tahs have Samu/Gamble



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sorrel 1 hour ago
The stage was all set for Ireland, so why did we witness such a poor performance?

Ireland? Poor performance? Were we watching the same game? This is the closest score between these two sides in a decade. That doesn’t just happen because a couple England players are taking time off. Obviously, Ireland wants to perform better and obviously it wasn’t a perfect performance, but this was the best performance we’ve seen anyone put in against England in years.

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JW 1 hour ago
Three overseas players that must be brought home for the Wallabies

They’ll be eligible later in the year, so a good pick to get them back for 2027. But why stop at 3 players?

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JW 1 hour ago
Three overseas players that must be brought home for the Wallabies

I think the purpose here is to actually improve them SB. Can’t sign him up? Can’t improve a side.

But that is a bugger because I think he is good enough to add depth, SR or Internationally?



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JW 1 hour ago
Three overseas players that must be brought home for the Wallabies

The idea definitely works, it is when you’re on the edge of collapse you have to ask yourself “is this idea the best?”.

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Mzilikazi 1 hour ago
Leinster player ratings vs Sale | 2025/26 Investec Champions Cup

Hallion….bit of a wild rough character. In my world growing up in Ulster would have been generally considered likeable. But in some parts might be applied to an unpleasant fellow as well.

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JW 1 hour ago
Three overseas players that must be brought home for the Wallabies

They only played at the WC, and are eligible again I believe.

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