Sarries down Biarritz for vital win

Sarries down Biarritz for vital win

15 Jan 2012

Saracens are favourites to advance to the European Cup quarter-finals after their 20-16 win over Biarritz in Watford.

While fullback Alex Goode was named Man of the Match, it was outside centre Owen Farrell who starred with boot for Saracens as he kicked five penalties to clinch the four-point win.

The English Premiership defending champions, who spent their week training in Cape Town, led 14-6 at the break before scrumhalf Dimitri Yachvili (who scored all Biarritz’s match points) spearheaded his team’s second-half fight. The French international’s third penalty created a one-point game at the death, but Farrell nailed a 77th minute three-pointer which helped his team to their fourth win of the tournament.

Saracens now top Pool 5 by five log points and will travel to Treviso for their final group game.

In Sunday’s other fixture, Leinster recorded a 23-16 away win over Glasgow in Pool 3 to secure their spot in the next round.


27 Comments

  • 1.grant10: Reply to this comment
    15 Jan 2012, 20:39 pm

    well played Sarries…hope you go all the way..

  • 2.carol: Reply to this comment
    15 Jan 2012, 23:00 pm

    @grant10-1:
    As long as they keep beating the French teams I am happy! ;-)

  • 3.bryce_in_oz: Reply to this comment
    16 Jan 2012, 03:14 am

    Saracens could not buy a win in the HC last year before a certain aura came into the mix… this year they top their table and will actually go through to the play-offs!

  • 4.rangerman: Reply to this comment
    16 Jan 2012, 06:51 am

    haha, no sign of gwantie on this thread :lol:

    craven.

  • 5.Transformation: Reply to this comment
    16 Jan 2012, 07:39 am

    saracens could not buy a win in HC last year when brendan venter was the coach, they ditched him & miraculously their fortunes seem to have changed.

  • 6.bryce_in_oz: Reply to this comment
    16 Jan 2012, 07:44 am

    @Transformation-5:

    Brendan Venter was great in taking them to a AP premiership… but they wanted to go one further and appointed John Smit as a coach that would take them further… fantastic decision clearly!

  • 7.the artist formerly known as gunther: Reply to this comment
    16 Jan 2012, 07:49 am

    What price turbo weverse now?

  • 8.au revoir mon tout noirs, au revoir...: Reply to this comment
    16 Jan 2012, 08:08 am

    @grant10-1:
    why dont you just keep your snide remarks all to yourself, grant… :grin:

  • 9.HongKongSlong: Reply to this comment
    16 Jan 2012, 08:30 am

    Sarries are making their Saffas English and are now beating the best!

  • 10.Transformation: Reply to this comment
    16 Jan 2012, 09:07 am

    @bryce_in_oz-6: smit, who has no domestic competition winner’s medal of any kind :roll: – both seasons when the sharks worn the currie cup he was ubiquitous by his absence. the lard that blocks the works, so to speak.

  • 11.rangerman: Reply to this comment
    16 Jan 2012, 09:10 am

    @Transformation-10: he has a wc and two 3n (out of the 3 we have won) so he probably isnt too concerned at snipers who played basketball for 163rd ranked south africa :lol:

  • 12.Transformation: Reply to this comment
    16 Jan 2012, 09:34 am

    @rangerman-11: :lol: nice try

    8-match tournaments are a totally different kettle of fish compared to league-based ones, smit failed in all his seasons in the currie cup & super rugby. tri-nations & rwc, he was playing with the BEST talent in the country, at the sharks his ineptitude showed, where he couldn’t rely on other franchise cappies like vic, juan etc to bail him out.

  • 13.the artist formerly known as gunther: Reply to this comment
    16 Jan 2012, 09:48 am

    Barney was magnificent.

  • 14.Transformation: Reply to this comment
    16 Jan 2012, 09:57 am

    @the artist formerly known as gunther-13: how many minutes did he play?

  • 15.the artist formerly known as gunther: Reply to this comment
    16 Jan 2012, 10:34 am

    @Transformation-14:

    all of them?

    :lol:

  • 16.Transformation: Reply to this comment
    16 Jan 2012, 10:43 am

    @the artist formerly known as gunther-15: :mrgreen:

    nice.

  • 17.trupisero: Reply to this comment
    16 Jan 2012, 11:24 am

    @grant10-1: see the turbo-forwarding of the Sarries scrum?

  • 18.HongKongSlong: Reply to this comment
    16 Jan 2012, 11:28 am

    @trupisero-17: Thats what some decent props will do for you.

  • 19.Hondo: Reply to this comment
    16 Jan 2012, 15:39 pm

    @trupisero-17:
    Once freed from the quota shacles of the Beast and Steenkamp (at test level) JS demonstraes what he can do with decent props.
    Simple

  • 20.Transformation: Reply to this comment
    16 Jan 2012, 15:57 pm

    @Hondo-19: he was kak with Greyling & Kruger beside him, so what? :lol:

  • 21.Biscuit: Reply to this comment
    16 Jan 2012, 16:30 pm

    The thread is about Sarries and Bairitz.
    Smit played well.
    Why not comment on the game?

    Why harp on points you guys have made a few hundred times before?
    (in Grants case a few 10,000
    It shows your lack of objectivity

  • 22.au revoir mon tout noirs, au revoir...: Reply to this comment
    16 Jan 2012, 16:35 pm

    @Hondo-19:
    you need to have your head read if you think steenkamp is in any way whatsoever a shackle of any sort… to anyone.

  • 23.Transformation: Reply to this comment
    16 Jan 2012, 16:37 pm

    @au revoir mon tout noirs, au revoir…-22: he is the wrong hue ;)

  • 24.bryce_in_oz: Reply to this comment
    16 Jan 2012, 16:44 pm

    @Transformation-10:

    Currie Cup a barometer? ROTFLMAO… you need to aspire to greater things… like a 3N, RWC medal, BIL tour win and a century of test matches!!!

  • 25.Transformation: Reply to this comment
    16 Jan 2012, 16:52 pm

    @bryce_in_oz-24: :D

  • 26.>^..^< katman: Reply to this comment
    16 Jan 2012, 17:01 pm

    @Biscuit-21: Apart from the terrible high tackle near the end (he was lucky to not get carded), he was very solid.

  • 27.Biscuit: Reply to this comment
    16 Jan 2012, 20:13 pm

    @>^..^< katman-26:

    I missed that tackle . Got distracted.

    Your comments are about the game so great. If it was a bad high tackle then he was lucky. But solids you say.

    What winds me up is thay any thread somehow degenerates into a smit bash.
    Last week smit was in SA and got asked questions about the sharks.
    Degeneration

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