LEICESTER TIGERS vs BRISTOL BEARS | FULL TIME HOT TAKES

[@MrFubber]

🐻🐻🐻😊😊 Very happy man. That first half was bonkers. Ellis was superb. Just hope we can start to translate that away form to Ashton Gate.

[@clydebear6914]

As a Mick I'm usually tuned into URC games, but I found myself dipping into this from the start. Holy crap! What a game! Six tries after 20 minutes! Bears looking seriously good. Pat Lam still showing how great a coach he is. 👏

[@samj928]

I think rensburg gets called up to SA before he qualifies for England he’s an 8/9/10 out of 10 every week since he arrived

[@zwet4269]

SA has DDA, Andre Esterhuizen, Ethan Hooker and even Am lately. He might suffer the same fate as Tyrone Green

[@samj928]

You’re right they have ridiculous depth in every position but I’d probably have him over Esterhuizen I know he’s a big unit but bvr seems to be made of steel and to be honest I’d just love to see him get a few caps for the boks would definitely mean much more to him than playing for England

[@HarryNye]

44 tries in 8 games is ridiculous 😅

[@nickstone295]

Bristolian here, loved the accent at the end! Proper job!

[@peterp9918]

Agree with everything you said about van Rensberg. Borthwick would be mad not to select him but it wouldn't sit right. Rassie should pick him just to disqualify him and therefore weaken England.

[@zwet4269]

I doubt Rassie thinks like that. He'd pick him because he wants him in the team not to just spite England

[@AllInTheGame01]

What a turnaround from Bristol after last wk's hiding @LA Rochelle.

[@peterp9918]

Does raise the issue of the Prem's quality.

[@AllInTheGame01]

@@peterp9918 8 of 10 Prem Teams are in the Champions Cup, that's far too many! Personally only want the Top 4 Teams in it (with the next 4 in the Challenge Cup), also only want the Top 6 Teams from the Top 14 & URC in it (with the next 6 in the Challenge Cup) for a more streamlined & exclusive pair of European Cup Competitions!

[@24hr_rugby_jake]

@@peterp9918absolutely doesn’t. Bristol were without Macginty who makes their attack click and are we forgetting this is La Rochelle, 2 European cups in the last 3 years? Sure they’re not current winners but it’s not like they’ve fallen off a cliff. And Bristol messed up at least 2-3 nearly certain tries against La Rochelle, whereas nowell scored a wonder try, these little things made 35-7 seem like a bigger margin, if you actually watched it you would know it was closer in quality. Leicester also came 8th last year in the prem, don’t seem to be doing too badly in Europe 🤷‍♂️👍

[@24hr_rugby_jake]

@@AllInTheGame01yeah another salty non English person. Go read my above comment

[@DM-rp9ik]

A turn around in result sure but they got badly beaten by La Rochelle and Leinster. I'd imagine if they played both of them teams again next week, the result would be the same.

[@jonbrook4009]

I think it's safe to say if you think van Rensburg should be picked for England - as most England fans probably do - and if you think he's the answer to England's 12 shirt, it's absolutely certain Borthwick WON'T pick him. He'll pick a player who hasn't played competitve rugby for a few months because he kicked a penalty at the weekend for the reserves. I'd actually say England should not only pick Janse at 12, they should pick Pat Lam as head coach.

[@chrismoyse3529]

Bears are the hot favourites for me. Not sure I can see anyone beating them. They are Bath’s nemesis and can blow away anyone playing like that. Stunning.

[@MattGreen-sq2gh]

As ever. Great review Tim. Love the Bristolian accent at the end too! Rensburg for England is a must! 🐻🐻🐻

[@JosephHeather-t3b]

Bristol for premiership contenders or even winners???

[@Gilescowdemdem]

They're top of the table...so, yes.

[@NTL578]

Can't see why not.

[@chrismoyse3529]

Absolutely!

[@06alepea1]

For me it’s Bristol or Bath. Bath have the better pack, but Bristol’s handling is ludicrous.

[@matthewhoppe3643]

Bristol style is most like how Scotland play at International level I recon. Both try play with width and offloads or super fast rucks. Definitely can work, but maybe not now with way game rules seem to continually favoring big setpiece slow style kicking style. If rules really speed up, tough on blitz defence offsides, don't make box kicks so favored then game will become so much better to watch and attract new patrons

[@scottjenkins7445]

Come.on the bonus point bears 💪💪💪💪🔥🔥🔥

[@Neil-1502]

Love your channel and as a jock Glasgow supporter I hope you’re doing one of today’s Glasgow Edinburgh game , hopefully it’s as good as this one

[@davidwalker2402]

Let’s look at the quality of the premiership and stop conning ourselves…

[@24hr_rugby_jake]

A Leicester side that put up a very respectable performance against Bordeaux? What’s your point David

[@davidwalker2402]

@ their consistency is amazing, getting like the England team now, counting all the close results as positives 🤣

[@24hr_rugby_jake]

@@davidwalker2402 but different comparing an England team with all the resources compared to Leicester who have a smaller budget than Bordeaux. But yes, close games at either level are still more positive signs than negative ones

[@lawLess-fs1qx]

Pat lam the Connacht Legend becoming the Bristol Legend. Hope he adds the premiership title to his URC title.

[@NTL578]

What a game!

[@jonbrook4009]

'...can it win trophies...?' If you can keep the ball alive and have the players to move it continuosly and find space, logically it will win every time. But good luck with finding those players.

[@neilboulton9813]

Come on Bris, looking forward to Sale on Friday. We are on fire and as stated we were superb against Sarries and lost narrowly. We hope it can get us over the line this style, we were disappointing against Leinster but we did lose mcGinty in the opening 15 minutes and this completely distrupted our rythmn and we just hope his knee injury is not serious.

[@robertscriven602]

And i thought Quins were poor against Bristol the other week! 😱

[@stewartcowie3385]

Devastated gutted very sad day for us tigers😢

[@markosborne6971]

Van Rensburg lions qualified ?

[@99RML]

Much to be admired about the Bristol style of play; the quality of handling across the park and the way their forwards steam onto the ball at pace and hit holes in particular. However I think you're right Tim that the Premiership isn't close enough in style or intensity to international rugby to be useful preparation, supported by Bristol's results in Europe the last two weeks (admittedly against two of the best teams around). I'm sure I remember the Prem being criticised for being boring 10-12 years ago and it's almost like it's swung too far the other way...at least in terms of benefit to England. Makes for entertaining games though and playing like this could well win Bristol the Premiership title at least.

[@matheusalves5160]

That's the worst I've seen the Tigers in many years... It was painful to watch, Leicester wasn't being able to conceive any attacking strategy without fumbling at the very last minute. Idk what happened, props to Bristol, of course (Ibitoye and Oghre were great too, besides all the players you've spoken about), but we're awful today. Our defense had as many holes as a swiss cheese, i don't think that it was because Leicester was missing some players since Pollard (who, alongside Steward, Kata, Liebenburg and now OHC is one of our most reliable players) was offpaced too... Kata and OHC were good tho.

[@peterm..6981]

..the Bristol-Pistols shootin it up .. 🤓 .. ___________________

[@MadeByMuel]

Pat lam… future wales coach?

[@ianllewelyn9658]

The five years residency rule is way better than it was when Aki, Lowe, Hansen and Gibson-Park qualified for Ireland.

[@davidwalker2402]

@@ianllewelyn9658 you do know England had more foreign players at the last WC than Ireland.

[@bainystaby]

The answer to would the style of rugby played at the prem,translate to international rugby especially English rugby. Answer is no just because if you look across say the top five teams where a majority of English players would have been picked. More or less key players are foreign players that dominate the English premier.

[@andrewharris1837]

Makes URC seem very dull😅

[@finleyallen8877]

I can't wait till Van rensperg can play for england

[@davidwalker2402]

Yeah biggest pool of players in the world , but you still need more 😮

[@stuartcricket4684]

@@davidwalker2402 yeah as all our center's are non England qualified at nearly all our clubs

[@alecmillward355]

Up the bears

[@ritchiebirnie6124]

Bristol = Fiji

[@James-o2u9x]

Hope Rensburg gets picked for S.A. The guy is pure Bok. Residency rules are just plain wrong.

[@colinchisholm300]

English Premiership, great league, shit refs and even worse video refs. Video ref in Quins game should never be involved again.

[@mt3776]

The refs in this fixture should never be involved again, I truly hope he gets investigated

[@06alepea1]

Christ alive every time a team loses there’s fans blaming the ref.

[@24hr_rugby_jake]

Premiership easily has the best refs

[@06alepea1]

This result just shows how low quality the Prem actually is. The top Prem teams are miles behind the top URC/Top14 teams.

[@JackFrench-v5c]

Can agree with that somewhat , but Northampton are definitely better than some of the top urc teams. Just look at last week as an example

[@EggchasersRugby]

Not convinced it does show that. I definitely think that the low salary cap in the Prem means there are issues when the juggernaut packs roll in. But I think they're really well coached and their attack is excellent. Bristol and Northampton are great examples of this. Saracens bullied the Bulls at home, Saints beat them at Loftus too. And they are one of the better URC teams. Leinster stand alone in quality when fully loaded - in URC/Prem

[@garyambrosini1427]

Northampton and Harlequins got to the Champions Cup semi finals last year

[@06alepea1]

@@EggchasersRugbyI think people are confusing an entertaining and competitive league with a high quality league. As you say, the Prem teams all have pretty big weak points.

[@24hr_rugby_jake]

@@06alepea1it’s literally just Toulouse and Leinster. You can argue Bordeaux and La Rochelle as well but Bordeaux didn’t exactly thrash Leicester with home advantage and if you watched La Rochelle Bristol you would know Bristol left a few tries out there. Also without Macginty who runs their attack. But sure let’s here how far ahead the urc and top 14 is, even though if memory is correct it was 2 premiership teams in the semi finals last year

[@rawndoug4102]

Respectfully I have had enough of this overhype of Bristol. They are a great team on their day but when it’s not their day they are just nowhere with their style of play, yes they scored the most points recorded against Bristol but they still managed to concede 4 tries they go all out attack but their defence gets sloppy I don’t think this style of rugby will work within the knockout system

[@nickjones2162]

Overhype? Record breaking score record breaking winning streak. If it ends now it’s still not overhype surely?

[@rawndoug4102]

@ overhype may have been the wrong word to use however their style of play is unlikely to win trophies it gives an attractive game of rugby but will be less effective in knockout styles of rugby as they concede a huge amount of tries - the only game this season that the opposing team hasn’t scored 4 tries was the opening round against Newcastle. They make the game look good but I doubt it will be effective in terms of winning trophies

[@stuartcricket4684]

Steward was awful so slow fell off tackles!, which Steward were you watching?