Post by Jamie Crawford on Dec 2, 2014 15:54:46 GMT
From our website; “The Knights maintained their perfect Cup run with a fourth win from four games away at Bedford on Friday evening leaving them top Pool 4.
The victory puts the Knights on 19 points and significantly boosted the team’s chances of reaching the quarter final stage, second placed Cornish Pirates currently sit on 12 points so one more victory would secure the Pool 4 top spot.
The eight quarter finalists are comprised of the top ranked side in each pool, plus the three best-placed runners-up…”
Cornish Pirates actual score is debatable as the RFU and the Pirate’s website gives them 12, the BBC gives them 16 and now Statbunker gives them 11 or should it be seven as started by the Southwest News? Becoming too concerned with another team’s score is what we do as fans but the team must concentrate on winning the game, ideally with a bonus point and then it’s irrelevant how other teams are doing.
Only the top four of the five pool winners will receive a home fixture for the quarter-finals on the weekend of January 24th.
The Pool current leaders are:
Pool 1: Bristol 13 points
Pool 2: Rotherham Titans 14 points
Pool 3: Worcester Warriors 13 points
Pool 4: Doncaster Knights 15 points
Pool 5: Leinster 14 points.
On Statbunker All teams have played three games except Pool 5, who have played four games. Leinster have lost one of their four games. I'll wait until it's been updated and post again.
The Knights are the only team to have won a winning bonus point on each of their three games and long may that continue as our points difference is the lowest of the top-placed teams, although Bristol’s is only six higher.
After a return to winning ways against Bedford Blues last Friday, the Knights progress to their fifth B & I Cup game against the Cornish Pirates. The Knights remain the only unbeaten team in Group Four.
The danger man with the boot for the Pirates in the Championship has been Fly Half Kieran Hallett. Hallett’s strike rate has been over 81%.
Scrum Half Tom Kessell is equal third in the list of top Championship try-scorers this season
after scoring five tries over eight games. Full Back/Wing/Fly Half Kieran Goss has scored four tries over eight games, averaging a try every two games. The Knights must watch for Kessell collecting the ball from scrums/rucks/mauls and nipping around the forwards to touch down. If the ball is passed out, Goss knows where to put the ball down to score points.
The Pirates are the fourth highest try-scorers in the Championship and the Pirates are eighth; they have scored nearly twice as many tries as the Knights.
DONNY, DONNY, DONNY…
The victory puts the Knights on 19 points and significantly boosted the team’s chances of reaching the quarter final stage, second placed Cornish Pirates currently sit on 12 points so one more victory would secure the Pool 4 top spot.
The eight quarter finalists are comprised of the top ranked side in each pool, plus the three best-placed runners-up…”
Cornish Pirates actual score is debatable as the RFU and the Pirate’s website gives them 12, the BBC gives them 16 and now Statbunker gives them 11 or should it be seven as started by the Southwest News? Becoming too concerned with another team’s score is what we do as fans but the team must concentrate on winning the game, ideally with a bonus point and then it’s irrelevant how other teams are doing.
Only the top four of the five pool winners will receive a home fixture for the quarter-finals on the weekend of January 24th.
The Pool current leaders are:
Pool 1: Bristol 13 points
Pool 2: Rotherham Titans 14 points
Pool 3: Worcester Warriors 13 points
Pool 4: Doncaster Knights 15 points
Pool 5: Leinster 14 points.
On Statbunker All teams have played three games except Pool 5, who have played four games. Leinster have lost one of their four games. I'll wait until it's been updated and post again.
The Knights are the only team to have won a winning bonus point on each of their three games and long may that continue as our points difference is the lowest of the top-placed teams, although Bristol’s is only six higher.
After a return to winning ways against Bedford Blues last Friday, the Knights progress to their fifth B & I Cup game against the Cornish Pirates. The Knights remain the only unbeaten team in Group Four.
The danger man with the boot for the Pirates in the Championship has been Fly Half Kieran Hallett. Hallett’s strike rate has been over 81%.
Scrum Half Tom Kessell is equal third in the list of top Championship try-scorers this season
after scoring five tries over eight games. Full Back/Wing/Fly Half Kieran Goss has scored four tries over eight games, averaging a try every two games. The Knights must watch for Kessell collecting the ball from scrums/rucks/mauls and nipping around the forwards to touch down. If the ball is passed out, Goss knows where to put the ball down to score points.
The Pirates are the fourth highest try-scorers in the Championship and the Pirates are eighth; they have scored nearly twice as many tries as the Knights.
DONNY, DONNY, DONNY…
