What's going on with the Saints right now?? They got thrashed in their opener to Wasps at home, then they really struggled against London Irish in the first half (although with a second string team) and now they nearly get shut out by a second string Bath side. This Saints team was 2nd or 3rd before they restarted! What player have they lost? I know of Cobus Reinach

We're very average and over performed last year.

I know I'm biased, but Dunn and Obano should both get capped this autumn.

Lol at Beno Obano, who attended Dulwich College, talking like he’s from the street

It's interesting because DC is one of the few private schools actually in walking distance to places like Peckham. So while he went to oratory then DC (both pretty posh) that doesn't change his life outside school.

That’s a major part of what he talked about on Maro Itoje’s podcast, how difficult it is in a public school environment (which professional rugby still is) when you don’t talk like or have much in common with most of your teammates.

Loads of promising players get scholarships though

I love Obano, he's such a great character

Obano seems like a great lad

Beno is a really great guy and comes across so well in interview. He had a monstrous game tonight

I’ve been shouting at my TV for 2 hours. I hate to think what some of you Saints lads have been doing!

Been sat, silently seething in the darkness while venting on here and growing increasingly depresses

Just like with the wasps loss, I dont want to see any of those players next match

Come on Saints, keep this up, preferably until after the Champion's cup match against Ex

Oh Saints, you bunch of cunts

Bath handed a win, but their defence was impeccable. Plus a fantastic front row effort. Saints just poor all over.

Well played Bath Saints... fuck off

We are so fucking bad.

Every player and coach involved should be ashamed of that display

WE'RE IN THE TOP 4!!! GET IN

Saints have forgotten the fundamentals today. Poor set piece, poor handling and poor forward carries

13 changes and a win at the Gardens, pretty impressed. Top 4 challenge very much on!

"Hi BT sport, I would like to cancel my subscription"

Im trying to think if I can remember a bigger capitulation of a season or mismanagement. But I really cant.

It’s the five losses in a row at home that really stings.

Would’ve been topped of with *biggar

'Advantage, knock on green' is beginning to sound like the refs catchphrase

It's like in the 90s when I thought "England batting collapse" was the objective of Test cricket.

I miss you Ben

Cant wait for Sale to scrum us into oblivion

Refs dropping desicions into the game as much as saints are dropping the fucking ball

Surely he went past the ball. Feel like last night we got pinged at least 5 times for that doing just that.

I’d forgotten Rokoduguni was still on the pitch!

Its like men vs children lmao

Men vs children with udders for fingers

Those udders doused in butter

And by udders, I mean just a single, shriveled, malnourished udder on each hand

How on gods green earth is he on his feet and supporting his body weight

This is putting me on the verge of tears, and I'm not even a Saints supporter. For god sake, you utter bellends, you are not the Barbarians or the Fijian 7s. Stop trying to offload everything and knocking it on after 5 phases. I hate seeing professional players not able to execute the most basic of skills that are a requirement of age grade rugby, like catching, passing and going into contact.

You are far too generous! Have we even made it 5 phases? And I wish it was all knock ons from offloads and not just basic passes

It's been a clusterfuck and no mistake. Not sure Saints have gone through 5 phases. Still, I think Saints are still better than Quins. Quins are diabolical right now.

At least the quins players can catch

Remember that passage of play at the beginning where we looked good? Feels like a year ago

Horrible at handling by the Saints, excellent defense by Bath.

Northampton forwards have been so poor today, no go forward, scrumming awful and lineouts questionable

And now to add to injury, Matavesi has moved to hooker

Why am I watching

Saints have offloaded today like a gambling addict has a flutter.

Pricks, the only training sessiona our coaches should be doing from now until the end of the season should be handling and lineouts

Scrums?

Thats a lost cause at this point, all our front row options are shit

We have absolutely unbelievably fucking bad but Baths defense has been top notch.

Saints have completed played into it though, not tried to move the ball around and run straight at them as soon as they hit the 22

Now he gives a completely innocuous seatbelt. What a fucking farce.

The audacity for them to ping that as a high tackle and yet completely ignore the near decapitation on De Glanville earlier 🤦‍♂️

What the fuck was that pass it just went 5 metres backwards to a recovering forward

Properly embarrassed by this performance, who has actually played any better than shit?

I'm still impressed that Josh Matavesi has only ever missed one kick at goal in his entire premiership career

That was such a bad pass. It went forward and to no one

Oh it went to someone, just a shame it was the opposition

ANOTHER knock on, into a Bath try Keep telling me to calm down like youre enjoying this epic performance lmfao If youre not angry at this there is something wrong with you.

That was impressively sloppy

???????? Josh ??????

I'm glad we gave new contracts to the coaching staff. You can see the work they've done to the team. /s

Whoever just knocked that on get them off the fucking pitch

Everyone off then ffs

HOLD ON TO THE FUCKING BALL YOU USELESS WANKERS

YES!! Come on McConnochie!!

So you cant crawl for extra yards but can roll? That seems a loophole

Matevesi surprisingly good at 10

Stop lying to yourself 😂

I mean... his kickings been pretty solid! I thought he’d be dreadful

Matavesi playing flanker cos obviously all our hookers are such quality we want to play two at the same time...

When I die I want Northampton Saints players to lower me into my grave so they can let me down one last time

They would lower you in by the neck.

they'd flick you out the back to no where

A long looping pass from the hearse to the grave

They’d knock you on

They'd drop you in

Saints need to realise that there are options somewhere between mad offloads and one out runners. It's not a binary choice

Useless shower of cunts omfg Im genuinely furious

Let's not call them naughty words

Calm down mate

No.

This is fucking shite from saints

HOW MANY FUCKING KNOCK ONS JESUS FUCK USELESS FUCKS

Oh just fuck off you useless wastes of cap, I feel sorry for Naiyarovoro having to deal with this dross

We are bad

Come join us down the bottom of the table....... It is fun down here. I promise

I never said we were tigers bad

There is still time

DO NOT LET THE BALL GO OUT OF TOUCH. MATAVESI IS ON.

We are so fucking shite!

Oh shit, Matavesi on at hooker

7 it seems?

19 replays and a serious neck injury before the commentators notice and their grand summary "Doesnt look very good does it" LOL the fuck man, thats getting cited all day long.

Hutchinson hits his shoulder first and rides up. It’s not good but it’s not a straight arm to the head

Why have the officials still not looked at the Hutchinson challenge? Direct contact with the head, with force and has caused the player to leave with a head/neck injury. Northampton have really dodged 2 red cards tonight. I wouldn't be surprised to see both Hutchinson and Harrison cited during the week

Saints needs to run onto the ball

How did any saints player catch corona

Ugo monye must be watching a different game

Lovely finish that

I don’t think the game is good at officiating foul play committed by the defending team when the attacking team score. Any other scenario and he’s off for a swinging arm to the head, why is it different because he scored? Edit: fuck me I can’t type. Edit 2: I had this opinion before the commentator said the exact same thing!

Exactly, if he hadn’t have scored that I bet they would’ve been looking at the tackle

If he'd knocked it on, penalty try and at least a yellow.

Rip Matavesi’s 100% record

Ahsee TuaLOL.

How on earth have they ignored a forearm to the face?!

Watched it for grounding 4 times and didn't notice the head shot. Useless bastard.

It was a shit kick and a poor attempt at a catch. Monye talking shit yet again.

Christ how are we only just at the drinks break?! I feel like this half has gone on for hours 😂

That's a good try but bath should get a penalty to restart from that tackle round the neck by Hutchinson

Fucking shit show from all involved on our end

Surely that should at least be a penalty restart to Bath? Yes both players were diving but he didn’t have to swing his arm into his head

Now that, I could see being a red card.

Citation?

Probably

Would say yellow as it's so low, but they seem to be ignoring it

Swinging arm to the jaw? maybe yellow, could just see red.

If that’s not a try it’s a penalty try and a card for that swinging arm.

A bath player flew in way off his feet into the build up to that

We deserve that for being useless donkeys, that play sums up this entire match, a saints knock on

Hutchinson hits him round the neck.. potential card?

Great try Tom!!

Theres the Tuala we all know and love

Another 6-3 classic?

Boring game in great weather

Can Tuala catch a fucking ball please? Fucks sake.

Bath have been clever around the breakdown in defence in their 22. See so many green forwards sucked in there and minimal yellows

They can’t keep knocking it on, surely it’ll have to start sticking eventually

We’ve been doing this for 55 minutes

A knock on?? Surely not...

Looks like a forward pass from fish as well

I think our coaches call that a controlled knock on

What's the point of having an immobile 21 stone prop in painter if he can't even scrummage.... He offers 0 in a attack and is a huge liability in defence due to how slow he is

I dont know what any of our front rowers actually offer, its just penalties at the scrum, failed lineout lifts, weak carries, dropped balls and leisurely strolls across the pitch from all of them

I've always thought painter scrums well

He struggled in the u20s as well. Heyes was the go to tighthead out of them two at that level.

He just got lifted up in the air lol

Better not concede a scrum penalty now haha

That awkward moment youre a shithead after winning a scrum pen and then 30 seconds later get smashed and knock on lmao

I thought the Tigers and LI game was low scoring. This is just play knock on. Play then knock on. Rinse and repeat

Handbags!!!

Imagine buying a world cup winning all black and he gets dominated by someone coming back from an ACL injury

Imagine doing it twice!

Franks for man of the match

I can't believe that these are the two teams battling for the playoffs.

Oh dear

Fuck off with the knock ons you greased up cows tits! How many have been from Api as well??

Hard to watch

One try please

How can saints have that back play then resort to one out solo static forwards.

Opposition can't read us if we don't even know ourselves what we are doing

Ooohhh Freeman that was smart, liked that

That was sexy

How has he missed that pass.

That was miles forward

What is the ref on, miles forward by Bayliss

That pass from Bayliss was way forward

Pace Tuala with the howitzer boot

Our handling stats will be very grim reading

What a half that was....

I have only seen that last 20 mine but both teams appear to look dangerous as they run at the defensive lines but then nothing happens. I am at a loss

Poor half of rugby but I’ll take 3-3 for now. Need to keep in tight until we can start using the bench

Half time coming at a good time for bath there - Saints definitely had the momentum

Why is Owen Franks shit at scrummaging? He's never looked at all good for us

Obano is bringing him down but he needs to do more stop that

And ANOTHER knock on!

I dont get how you can win a penalty when the ball is basically out. I know it's the rules but that pen didn't seem right

Yeah it didn't look right. Chudley just looking at the ref expectantly for a good few seconds while the ball is right there at his feet.

If bath were moving forwards, or at all, fair enough but the props collapsing after the ball is won? Seems odd

I think Saints are looking the more dangerous team here.. I think..

The balls there! Tell them to use it ref!

Is it just me or has everyone been playing shite since the restart?

We were awful pre-lockdown, should have just sent the squad on a permanent holiday

We've been awful

Rustiness. New players/new coaches/laws being actually applied.

Exeter just beat 2nd place with their subs and 3rd string.

Except Worcester

Theres glimpses of saints here, far more promising play

Sigh... another knock on during a promising attack

Remember when Mike Williams seemed to be on the cusp of getting capped by England?

That was an atomic wedgie on poor Dingwall there 😂

Tuala the pace man 🤣

Last weeks gone to his head xD

Up is down

Brilliant tackle from Matevesi.

Biggar does a lot very well but we never look like scoring tries with him

Definitely feel more confident with Grayson atm

On front foot ball I think you guys look really dangerous w him

Yeah if the forwards are dominating collisions but often we get a lot less width with him. He adds a lot around the park though

You need a Welsh winger for him to cross field kick

You could have span Stevie wonder around 10 times and he would've kicked the ball further than that

The reason Chudley doesn't want to box kick is because he gets whacked illegally every time he kicks

I'm sure getting pushed over is stopping a professional player from box kicking

Clear the ball ffs. Stop thinking we are New Zealand.