A week can bring big changes, last week we seemed to be in Spring at Allianz Park, this weekend we appeared to be back in Winter! That might be down to the cricket season starting, or just the vagaries of good old English weather. Last week Saracens played Glasgow Warriors in the Quarter Final of … More Saracens – What a difference a week makes!
A bonus point win for Saracens against Leicester Tigers … More Saracens v Leicester Tigers
One of the joys/downsides of having so many international players in the squad is the way the starting XV is stretched during both the autumn Internationals and 6 Nations. The Premiership Rugby Cup softens some of the blow, but there are two Premiership Rugby games during this AI spell. The first for Saracens being Sale … More Saracens v Sale Sharks
My head still seems to be in the cricket world in spite of it being the rugby season, hence the delay on writing. I missed two of Saracens matches in October, the Harlequins match because I was away doing something that’d been planned for 10 months. I saw most of the second half as Saracens … More Saracens in October
And so that’s the cricket season finished! Wow I’ve had an amazing summer, I’ve seen some amazing individual performances , there’ll be plenty of TV cricket over the winter, but I prefer my sport live, Rugby is my sport of choice over the winter months, Saracens are my team of choice, with the odd alternative … More Saracens v Bath – Rugby’s Back!
The start of the cricket season meant I was due to travel to Leeds to watch Essex play at Headingley, the atrocious weather meant I cancelled my plans leaving me free to spend the weekend at Allianz Park. SARACENS STORM V BATH UNITED I write this as a time when there’s a good deal of … More A Saracens Weekend!
I have photos to share and a little to say about both the Saracens match and the England match, so here I go. (Photos to follow – WordPress isn’t co-operating) I set off to Allianz Park with 2 England losses to contemplate, Scotland had run amok at Murrayfield on Saturday, with England seemingly forgetting one … More Saracens v Leicester Tigers – With a bit of an England rant too!
Autumn International time is nearly here which means club rugby switches over to the Anglo Welsh Cup, before I focus on the match I went to here’s an explanation of the competition from the Premiership Rugby site – Each team in pool 1 shall play each team in pool 4 once and each team in … More Saracens v Harlequins
With a busy week full of cricket this is going to be more about the photos than the words. The final home game of the ‘standard’ season saw Bristol visiting Allianz Park, they’d battled for several years to get into the Premiership, finishing top of the league only to fail in the play offs. That … More Saracens v Bristol
I’d met Roanne several times with his Saracens Sports Foundation hat on and found him to be a friendly and charismatic man, it was no surprise therefore to find him in hospitality mode when I was lucky enough to be in the 100 Club pre-match. A Saracens Supporters Association evening where he was the host … More Saracens behind the Scenes – Roanne Crouse
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