Post by Jamie Crawford on Oct 26, 2015 11:49:42 GMT
Following two home games the Knights now travel to Ashton Gate Stadium this Friday (6th - edit) to play league leaders Bristol.
Bristol have only lost one of their eight league games played; to Leeds Carnegie. Bristol have scored the most points in the Championship and had the second-lowest amount of points scored against them but London Scottish have had the fewest scored against them and we beat them last Saturday. Similarly the Scottish have relinquished the fewest tries but the Knights have had two fewer scored against them than Bristol.
The Knights are above Bristol in the home league table as, although both teams have only been beaten once at home, the Knights have played five home games to Bristol’s four. Until Friday after the game Bristol hadn’t lost at home, or have my glass lenses adopted a pink colour?
Bristol’s Gavin Henson (some bloke they picked up from Wales) is the Championship’s leading points-scorer but Dougie Flockhart is second and only four points behind. Hopefully Friday will see those positions reversed.
Henson has a strike rate of over 84% so the Knights need to keep their discipline.
Bristol’s Oliver Robinson is (back row) no slouch at scoring points, sitting eighth on the list. Robinson hasn’t kicked any points but he is the top try-scorer in the Championship with ten tries in eight games, the same as Nottingham’s Paul William Grant. Latu Makaafi is third and just one try behind, so again hopefully Friday will see the positions reversed. This season is seeing the back row being the top try-scorers rather than the wings.
The leading five Championship try scorers play in the Back Row, Carnegie’s Jonah Holmes (Wing) is the first back to appear on the list this season. Holmes has scored five tries this season, the top two flankers (Robinson & Grant) have scored twice as many!
Bristol have scored their tries fairly evenly throughout the game but the majority of their tries that have been conceded have been in the last quarter and the first quarter.
Elsewhere this weekend around this Nation of ours:
Moseley welcome the Cornish Pirates to Billesley Common on Friday. They KO 15 minutes before us at 19.30.
Saturday
London Scottish (7) play at home at Richmond Athletic Ground against Jersey (9)
Ealing Trailfinders (12) nip across the Capital to play London Welsh (8) at Old Deer Park
Bedford Blues (4) play Leeds Carnegie (2) at Goldington Road
Sunday
Nottingham’s (6) Lady Bay Sports Ground welcome Rotherham Titans (5)
First is playing third (us) and the following day second play fourth.
Only Bedford, Rotherham or Nottingham could overtake us but as Nottingham are playing the Titans, they can’t both overtake us. However we want to look at consolidating our third place position with a victory against Bristol.
Friday will be a very tough test for the in-form Knights but it will be a game that Bristol won’t be looking forward to.
DONNY, DONNY, DONNY…
Bristol have only lost one of their eight league games played; to Leeds Carnegie. Bristol have scored the most points in the Championship and had the second-lowest amount of points scored against them but London Scottish have had the fewest scored against them and we beat them last Saturday. Similarly the Scottish have relinquished the fewest tries but the Knights have had two fewer scored against them than Bristol.
The Knights are above Bristol in the home league table as, although both teams have only been beaten once at home, the Knights have played five home games to Bristol’s four. Until Friday after the game Bristol hadn’t lost at home, or have my glass lenses adopted a pink colour?
Bristol’s Gavin Henson (some bloke they picked up from Wales) is the Championship’s leading points-scorer but Dougie Flockhart is second and only four points behind. Hopefully Friday will see those positions reversed.
Henson has a strike rate of over 84% so the Knights need to keep their discipline.
Bristol’s Oliver Robinson is (back row) no slouch at scoring points, sitting eighth on the list. Robinson hasn’t kicked any points but he is the top try-scorer in the Championship with ten tries in eight games, the same as Nottingham’s Paul William Grant. Latu Makaafi is third and just one try behind, so again hopefully Friday will see the positions reversed. This season is seeing the back row being the top try-scorers rather than the wings.
The leading five Championship try scorers play in the Back Row, Carnegie’s Jonah Holmes (Wing) is the first back to appear on the list this season. Holmes has scored five tries this season, the top two flankers (Robinson & Grant) have scored twice as many!
Bristol have scored their tries fairly evenly throughout the game but the majority of their tries that have been conceded have been in the last quarter and the first quarter.
Elsewhere this weekend around this Nation of ours:
Moseley welcome the Cornish Pirates to Billesley Common on Friday. They KO 15 minutes before us at 19.30.
Saturday
London Scottish (7) play at home at Richmond Athletic Ground against Jersey (9)
Ealing Trailfinders (12) nip across the Capital to play London Welsh (8) at Old Deer Park
Bedford Blues (4) play Leeds Carnegie (2) at Goldington Road
Sunday
Nottingham’s (6) Lady Bay Sports Ground welcome Rotherham Titans (5)
First is playing third (us) and the following day second play fourth.
Only Bedford, Rotherham or Nottingham could overtake us but as Nottingham are playing the Titans, they can’t both overtake us. However we want to look at consolidating our third place position with a victory against Bristol.
Friday will be a very tough test for the in-form Knights but it will be a game that Bristol won’t be looking forward to.
DONNY, DONNY, DONNY…
I hope not 'cos I'm going! Perhaps that's the reason why there are no Championship games!!
