Guinness Premiership Week 3
After a great start by the Worcester Warriors in the first two weeks in which they drew against Gloucester (15-15) and won away at London Irish last week, they will be hoping to make it three unbeaten games this afternoon when they meet Saracens at [Fortress] Sixways. After last week Worcester were sitting in fifth place in the table; with a little luck they might move up another place or two by this evening.
Drahm and Le Roux both make their first starts for Worcester this afternoon. Drahm was an automatic selection due to the fact Brown was injured early in the game last week. The selection of Le Roux this week certainly appears to have killed off the rumours of him leaving the club. I think both Drahm and Le Roux are going to be key players for Worcester this season. What i saw of Le Roux in the Middlesex sevens tournament three weeks ago really impressed me. If the rest of the team can tune into the frenchman's mind we could see some very creative and effective rugby by Worcester this year.
Last night London Irish suffered their second defeat of the season when they were soundly beaten 29-3 by Sale Sharks. (ouch!)
The season is in its early stages but the two teams predicted to finish at the bottom of the table are doing rather well, and in Bristol's case, extremely well. You can't get better than sitting at number one when everybody was writing you off (including me) before the season began.
In the prediction league on the Warriors supporters site i predicted todays result to be a 19-15 win for Worcester. I'm hoping this season the accuracy of my predictions improves. Last week i predicted 15-23 to Worcester (I would have changed it late on to 15-19...but i forgot). Not a bad guess either way as the score ended as 15-20.
Score predictions
Today's games
Worcester 19 Saracens 15
Northampton 22 Newcastle 15
Leicester 36 Bath 12 (I don't see this being a very pretty sight for the already suffering Bath supporters)
Sunday's games
Bristol 17 Gloucester 21 (I have a feeling a third successive win for Bristol will be just beyond their reach)
Leeds 14 Wasps 26 (I don't think Leeds' poor start to the campaign will improve this weekend)
In my opinion Leeds and Bath will almost certainly still be keeping each other company at the bottom on Sunday evening.
We shall see later.
Drahm and Le Roux both make their first starts for Worcester this afternoon. Drahm was an automatic selection due to the fact Brown was injured early in the game last week. The selection of Le Roux this week certainly appears to have killed off the rumours of him leaving the club. I think both Drahm and Le Roux are going to be key players for Worcester this season. What i saw of Le Roux in the Middlesex sevens tournament three weeks ago really impressed me. If the rest of the team can tune into the frenchman's mind we could see some very creative and effective rugby by Worcester this year.
Last night London Irish suffered their second defeat of the season when they were soundly beaten 29-3 by Sale Sharks. (ouch!)
The season is in its early stages but the two teams predicted to finish at the bottom of the table are doing rather well, and in Bristol's case, extremely well. You can't get better than sitting at number one when everybody was writing you off (including me) before the season began.
In the prediction league on the Warriors supporters site i predicted todays result to be a 19-15 win for Worcester. I'm hoping this season the accuracy of my predictions improves. Last week i predicted 15-23 to Worcester (I would have changed it late on to 15-19...but i forgot). Not a bad guess either way as the score ended as 15-20.
Score predictions
Today's games
Worcester 19 Saracens 15
Northampton 22 Newcastle 15
Leicester 36 Bath 12 (I don't see this being a very pretty sight for the already suffering Bath supporters)
Sunday's games
Bristol 17 Gloucester 21 (I have a feeling a third successive win for Bristol will be just beyond their reach)
Leeds 14 Wasps 26 (I don't think Leeds' poor start to the campaign will improve this weekend)
In my opinion Leeds and Bath will almost certainly still be keeping each other company at the bottom on Sunday evening.
We shall see later.
posted by Nat at 11:34
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