Leicester v Saracens - HIGHLIGHTS | Last Minute Drama In The Final! | Gallagher Premiership 21/22 

Me too. I had a few beers, but I felt more drunk than 2 bottles of whiskey combined. The drop goal was a crazy atmosphere. The Leicester fans cannot be beaten, still the biggest team in the country by far.

His defence is still his weakest point but he's been a revelation for Tigers this season, I'm delighted he's staying on for 22-23.

@@linalmeemow absolutely that’s why it was soo surprising yesterday, but players of his calibre rise to the occasion. Deserves to stay on for next season definitely

He has come on defensively at tigers. He will be a monster once he's got 2 seasons under his belt at tigers!!

Ashton has always been massively underrated

@@billybob01234567 I think he was over rated when he first came on the scene. That stupid splash and just a meh attitude. He has matured brilliantly! He will reward us with a great few seasons 100%

It was a great hame, egde of seat stuff all the way!

I felt the same with my 2 kids a special day

Same here

Crowd was unbelievable. Even as an Irish man I can only tip my hat to you all - I know they're two massive clubs but a sold out Twickers is mighty impressive 👏 atmosphere looked immense.

@WorkInProgress I think it is yeah haha but it still kinda shocks me every time. But I guess that's the advantage of every team involved located in that country. The URC could have a SA side playing a final vs a Welsh side in Dublin hahaha not ideal in ways.

@@IrishBorussen It wasn't quite sold out but I think that's mainly because Sarries have a small core fanbase. There must've been 25-30,000 tigers fans there at least.

Said by a true rugby fan!

squidgerugby is that you?

He's good but surely not the best in the world, possibly not even the best in England.

Ever heard of someone called Marcus Smith?

This comment unravelled at such rapid speed and then exploded into sheer stupidity - but I do love that it's your way of celebrating ;)

Second half they were on the ropes let’s not lie, but they got the win that’s all that matters

*the whole season

Tactical masterclass from Tigers. When was the last time Sarries failed to score a try in a game?

Apart from the drop goal, the other thing I enjoyed was to see the pig sick look on Farrel's face at the end.

Mate you couldn't have put that in any better words!

Leicester forced Saracens into playing their way, and it worked. Saracens style is hard, aggressive rugby with lots of hard lines and inside balls. They also like to fling it around a bit in the backline and kick for territory. Had Leicester allowed them to have the game their own way, it would've been a demolition job, but they didn't. Tigers deservedly won that. What a credit to Leicester those players (especially Ben Youngs and Burns) are.

At Welford Road earlier this season. We’ve played them 3 times this season and stopped them scoring a try in 2 of those games.

Wiese has been superb this season, his tackle technique has improved no end and he's got his aggression under control - he's gone from a yellow card machine to one of the most consistently excellent 8s in the Prem.

And both would walk into the England team which tells you something about SA depth and England's lack of options.

@@bodhid Not sure either would "walk in", England aren't wanting for decent flankers or eights. That said, once you get to England's third string players you see significant weakness - look at that dismal performance against the Barbarians.

@@bodhid England have depth where SA don't, at 10 for example. Also England have an embarrassment of riches in the back row, with players like Earl, Curry, Underhill, Dombrandt, Simmonds, Willis, Lawes, Mercer etc.

@@joeboonmusic4004 I'm not sure we have that level of depth; either way SA seem to have the upper hand in the forwards and until we canget parity or dominance they'll always have a head start

Wouldn't say by far, but definitely best team. Saracens hunting them down for 1st place.

Legendary game!

A real heart-in-the-mouth game!

The Scott one was even worse so it evened out

@@Tom_Harding First, the Scott one was nowhere near as bad, Vunipola ran into Scott leading with the head - Scott wasn't moving into the tackle, he was static. Second, it happened with five minutes to play. Nothing was evened out at all.

@@linalmeemow the Scott one had mitigation so would have been a yellow

@@thealien4372 Absolutely, the mitigation being Scott was static and not moving into the tackle. The law needs to be looked at again, there has to be some onus on the ball carrier to look after their own welfare, I can't see how Scott could have avoided a card while making that tackle.

@@Tom_Harding are you blind?

In the world?

@@jamesbywater Yep you heard it the BEST IN THE WORLD

@@Theemptythroneistaken Love the enthusiasm, Sir. But I humbly believe it is possible that a South African or NZ-based club could potentially beat Leicester.

@@jamesbywater Maybe who knows.

It was on ITV4.

@@linalmeemow .dam.. I Missed it! 🍻

Any combination of a London Irish , Bristol, Northampton Saints or Harlequins final would have been entertaining and full of running rugby. Unfortunately until something changes the bully boy kicking game is going to prevail as witnessed by yesterdays match.

@@rhodsullivan7773 The joy of rugby is the difference in styles, a game like yesterday's is just as entertaining to me as an open running game!

@@linalmeemow it is to us hard core rugby fans. But no way you will grow the game with this sort of style usually coming out on top 9 times of 10 against teams who attack from everywhere and chuck the ball about. Its sad as you want to really encourage that kind of rugby, but teams literally cannot play that way against this style. Its the anti rugby, as much as I still love watching sarries and Leicester play. Everyone has to copy this style if they want sustained success. I've tried to show many friends rugby games and get them into it and they just can't handle the tactical kicking and defensive strangulation. I do understand where non rugby fans are coming from. Need to keep trying to encourage positive rugby in the laws. But not sure how you do it. Its very important to have different styles, but this is like playing elden ring and one class is completely op compared to all others. So you are kind of stupid if you choose to play one type. Even if it does look nice. Sad reality of rugby at the moment. Even my own club team are now transitioning away from the rugby that I love, to try and have a more forwards muscle orientated game. Gutted tbh. But know it will win us more games in the prem.

@@rhodsullivan7773 long may it continue best kind of rugby

Yes cause sacerry were breaking Leicester line all season except 5he weren't guess you missed the other 2 games this season?

How

attacking. Very impressive from the old poacher Well deserved Leicester

Could say evening out the drop by Koch to win a penalty on the sarries line earlier.

@@soddof7972 I am a neutral, do not support Leicester or saracens, just an observation on that scrum, you are lucky to get given a scrum penalty from which a try is scored when it looks as it was your prop who went long, lost his feet and face planted the ground, but take your luck and celebrate the win

Finals tend to be this way its very nervy and nobody wants to make a mistake

Absolutely agree. Arguably Leicester had more emotional reasons for winning that trophy.

yeah that's what I was thinking they are both reds

Adam, I disagree with you there. First one, definite red. Second one, Gloucester had a similar call easier in the season where because the defender "only" braced into the contact and got knocked back it was only a yellow. I guess there's still got to be a degree of players looking after themselves and not running head first into a braced opponent occupying a space

obviously not, the result stands

He's a Bristol boy, wants to be closer to his family. Can't blame him for that, just happy to have had him at Tigers while we did.

Taking a pay cut apparently and moving back to his family - I wish him well once a Tiger always a Tiger.

Crusaders are the Sarries of the Southern Hemisphere. Change my mind.

you obviously know nothing about rugby 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Yeah id like to see Leicester play Crusaders or Saracens at the Stonex. They'd get destroyed by the fans alone

@@JamesHall-xb7dw Tigers only lost by seven the last time they visited the Stonex. Not exactly "destroyed."

With five minutes to go, three down and a Tiger heading to the bin? It was absolutely the logical choice.

@@linalmeemow so logical that we lost, look at what they did near the end of the first half, same distance and they sent it. We just didn’t take risks, we were settling for a draw in a final. Even when we got the ball back from kick off, WE KEPT ON KICKING, no logic

@@watts1881 You levelled the score with 5 minutes to go and a man advantage. It's cup final rugby, you play the percentages. It was absolutely the right decision even if it didn't work out, and they'd take that same decision every time.

@@linalmeemow but it clearly didn’t work, and even so what did we do after to even put us in a position to get more points, did we run the ball, did we hold onto the ball for than 30 seconds. I would of much rather went out fighting, either scoring a try and having to defend on the line for 10 minutes like 2011 and either winning or losing, than scoring a penalty and it all it would take is a drop goal or a penalty from our undisciplined team. I want to see fight, we had no fight

@@watts1881 well what If you managed to hold on till extra time and scored and won then it would have been fine the penalty was the right call but form the kick off was the problem, they should have held on to the ball for the remainder of the game

You need some vinegar to go with all that salt!

*Salty tears intensify.

Barnes bottled it, knew he'd get criticised for ruining the game if gave a red early on in the game then couldn't give the second as he had to be consistent.

I have no problem with this interpretation. Perhaps as neither player needed an HIA and both were clumsy rather than "violent" commom sense is returning a bit.

@@soddof7972 Didn't Vunipola have to go off? The problem here is that the cards have to be a deterrent to any head contact, and they're not being applied consistently.