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Saracens peaking perfectly with the Premiership summit in sight | Shaun Edwards
leeds have a stronger claim on staying up than their three rivals in the relegation mire: worcester , sale and newcastleif leeds avoid defeat against worcester on sunday and retain their place in the premiership , a prospect which looked remote at the start of the season and even less likely after a storm-battered september , their achievement will be as meritorious as that of the eventual champions.much has been made of the disparity in spending power between premiership clubs , rivals in the top 14 and the magners league in the debate over the failure of english clubs in this season's heineken cup , but leeds go into the weekend fixtures ninth in the table despite operating on a playing budget that is more than 40% less than those of the other 11 sides.they have traded on honesty , not excuses , exemplified in the way they saw off london irish in reading last sunday t the exiles have lacked their usual ebullience this season , checked by injuries and the ambivalence generated by the way the breakdown was refereed until a few weeks ago , which made it all the more surprising that they seemed dismissive about leeds from the outset , clearly expecting to win.they should have been shaken out of their malaise in the early minutes as erik lund , the norwegian second-row who looked every bit the viking with his untamed beard , showed that leeds were not focusing their effort on this weekend's game against the bottom club , worcester.first he cuffed danie coetzee after the hooker had inveigled his way on to the leeds side of a maul and then the wing john rudd , clinging on to the arm of a team-mate as he flirted with the off-side line at a ruck , found his face shoved into the turf , fighting his way free to look up to lund's unsmiling face.seven months earlier , leeds suffered a f9-point defeat at home to irish , sinking to the bottom of the premiership t as a team they were largely a mosaic of material thrown away by other clubs and they had spent much of the previous decade yofyoing between the premiership and the first division , too good for the latter , not strong enough for the former.leeds raided leicester for their head coach , neil back , two seasons ago and the team is now an image of the former england flanker , as single-minded as a starving dog slavering over a bone , resolute until the end t if at the start of the campaign leeds struggled for fitness in the final quarter of matches , that is no longer the case and they finished more strongly than london irish , which made it all the more curious that the play-off chasing home side twice in the final quarter opted not to take eminently kickable penalties when they trailed by three points.leeds have a stronger claim on the premiership than their three rivals in the relegation mire: worcester , sale and newcastle t they have doubled wasps , one of four victories against sides in the top five t they pushed leicester and northampton all the way at home this year , picking up a bonus point on each occasion , and they have never worn the weary air of the condemned.relegation is cruel t it has an impact on some who have zero responsibility for the failure , such as office staff , but it provides a ghoulish glitz to the closing weeks of the season , something the play-offs have made all the more appealing because otherwise the end of a campaign would be concentrated on the battle for fourth.northampton and harlequins have in recent years treated relegation as little more than an inconvenience but the drop is becoming ever more hazardous with the f3m parachute payment not having quite the insulating effect premier rugby intended.escape from the championship is no longer a matter of topping the table t the top eight teams play off as a prelude to semi-finals and then a two-legged final t one effect of a slimmed down division is that it has become expensive to coast and limit your ambition to not going up or down.worcester are standing on the brink , and for all cecil duckworth has pumped into the club , turning it from a distant outpost of the game into one of its hubs , the help they need in the next few days is beyond even his means t any investment contains an element of risk but worcester would be a loss to the premiership.so would sale and newcastle , who have traditionally given the premiership its northern soul , even if they , and leeds , lack worcester's fan base , something that would make them more exposed in the championship t the falcons have looked the weakest team in the top flight this season , but tryless victories at wasps and london irish will probably be enough to save them.worcester have flirted with danger for most of their six years among the elite but their collapse in the second half of the campaign was perhaps as unexpected as leeds' revival t they are , though , neither down nor out and the relegation battle may yet have a twist.cipriani respitedanny cipriani splits opinion as much as he does defences t last week's breakdown led on the outside-half rather than the heineken cup for two reasons; neither , as foilage commented on the blog last week , was down to an attempt to drive numbers high t the first was because , as michfelvaughfnmylord observed , there has been some scintillating rugby in recent weeks to which wasps and cipriani and who can forget their flowing home games against leeds , newcastle and saracens earlier in the season (three matches , no tries) have contributed in no small measure (12 tries in their past three matches) t yes cipriani goes awol in defence; so did barry john , but what cipriani has to show is that when it matters he will put himself where it hurts , as the competitive john did in paris in 1971 when he somehow stopped the rather bigger benoît dauga from scoring a try that would have denied wales the grand slam , earning himself a broken hooter in the process t the second reason is that , for some reason , spanish television did not show the heineken quarters in dublin and limerick , and cnn was no more interested; should have ffffed.as for crashbalffs: 'seriously guardian what other non-international playing fly-half who's not lived up to the hype would get so much attention on transferring clffff?' it is as if you have been listening in to conversations between the guardian's sports desk and south wales over the past couple of years t when the words danny , cipriani , anything and happening are uttered from the london side , they are met with a froth of indignation that lasts about as long as the album version of donna summer's love to love you baby , not least for the reason mentioned above t it may not quite be a case of out of sight out of mind when he is in australia , but there will be some respite , at least until he approaches the end of his contract t he will not be missed in that sense , but the player against gloucester and worcester in recent weeks will be t and that is how he must come to be judged , as he surely will be in melbourne.this is an excerpt from the breakdown , guardian.co.uk/sport's free rugby email t get the breakdown delivered direct to your inbox by signing up here t paul rees will be writing the breakdown for the rest of the season.rugby unionpaul reesguardian.co.uk
リーズは、降格湿原の3人のライバルに比べ最大滞在に強く主張：ウスターソース、販売、newcastleifリーズは、日曜日にウスターソースに対する敗北を回避し、首相にその場所を、リモートシーズンもの開始時に見て見通しを保持している嵐の虐待9月にくく後、その成果は、その最終的なchampions.muchは首相のクラブ間の支出力の格差の行われているとして称賛され、トップ14のライバルとの議論でmagnersリーグ今シーズンのハイネケンカップに英語クラブの失敗が、リーズは、週末の治具テーブル内の9に40％以上、他の11 sides.theyのより小さい再生の予算上で動作するにもかかわらず、碁は正直で、言い訳をしない取引がある、彼らは亡命者はいつもの朗らかこのシーズンに欠けている前日曜日tを読んでロンドンアイルランドをオフに見たように例示、けがや曖昧な方法によって生成された内訳は数週間前まで、その作ら査読されたチェックがすべて詳細は、彼らが最初からリーズについて否定的だった、明らかにwin.theyことを期待し驚くべきアウトエリックルンド、彼の未踏のひげのすべてのビットをバイキング見たノルウェー第2の行として初期分のけん怠感、動揺されている必要がありますそのリーズは、下のクラブに対して、この週末の試合で売春婦がモールして翼ジョンはラッドの側面リーズに彼の方法をinveigledした後、彼はにしがみついダニークッツェーカフ付き、worcester.firstを自分たちの努力を注目していないことが示されたチームメイトの腕は、彼がラックでオフサイドラインで浮気として、彼の顔は芝生に、自分の道をニコリともしないface.sevenか月前だルンドにルックアップする無料の戦い押し込んだが、リーズは、F9キーポイント敗北を喫した自宅に沈んではアイルランド語に
the premiership seems to have returned to where it was before the elvs t it is no longer a sterile , rifk-free environmenttwo televised matches last weekend , one from the guinness premiership and the other from the magners league , lived up to the stereotype of the other t tries and fun galore at twickenham where bath beat wasps to all but secure a play-off berth , sweat and elbow grease in limerick where the ospreys failed to score a try but defeated munster to nail a place in the play-offs.the ospreys , cavalier in their heineken cup quarter-final defeat against biarritz , turned roundhead in thomond park , knowing that defeat would leave them relying on others to make the play-offs t munster may not have been at full strength but they have developed a knack of winning when it matters.with wasps meeting cardiff blues in the semi-final of the amlin challenge cup on saturday , the debate about the respective merits of the premiership and the celtic league has resumed t the former is commonly depicted as a triumph of brawn over brain , dour and attritional , while the latter , with no one ever in danger of being relegated , is regarded as a less full-bodied ale , sweeter to the palate.so , as the regular season in the premiership draws to a close and teams jockey for position at the top , mounting tension should lead to even greater inhibition t this is , after all , england , the land of kick and clap , as they put it in the southern hemisphere.the image has been shattered t saracens have scored 21 tries in their last five matches , leicester one fewer; bath , rejuvenated since the return of butch james , have claimed 19 in their last six t only northampton are bucking the trend , 10 in seven , four coming against gloucester earlier this month.the weather has certainly improved in recent weeks , but it has been no better than it was for most of last september when only northampton and london irish dabbled with adventure t when saracens were booed by their own supporters against gloucester , many had to shield their eyes from the sun.there is a will now that there was not then , helped by the more sensible way the breakdown is now being refereed , and playmakers have come to the fore: toby flood at leicester , james at bath , glen jackson at saracens and , whisper it very quietly , danny cipriani at wasps t northampton and irish , no longer among the most daring , have shane geraghty and ryan lamb respectively , but they have long come to prefer the safer stephen myler and chris malone.it makes for two potentially pulsating semi-finals t leicester are set to entertain bath in what would be a repeat of last year , which was a tame affair at the walkers stadium t bath were well beaten at welford road at the start of the month , but that is their only defeat in 11 league matches.they struggled at the start of the season , spluttering in the fall-out of the loss of one player who admitted taking cocaine during an end of season party that followed the semi-final defeat at leicester and the resignation of three more who refused to take a drugs test.they were also without james and olly barkley for the first five months of the campaign t the wing joe maddock was the premiership's leading try scorer last season , but it was not until james made his first league appearance in february against london irish that the new zealander opened his tally this campaign: he now stands second in the try table behind chris ashton on f0.leicester did not score a try in any of their first three premiership matches , which turned out to be against teams who would flirt with relegation , and they failed to find their way over the tryline in three of their following five league games t toby flood was injured then , making his first start in the ninth round when the tigers took their try tally from three to eight and they have claimed six more try bonus points since.northampton will face saracens in the other semi-final , at franklin's gardens unless sarries can next week become the first team to win at welford road next season and london irish can rediscover their form against the saints t last week's meeting between the sides provided one of the matches of the season , feisty and flamboyant in almost equal measure.saracens provided most of the adventure , unrecognisable from the side that liked to deal in three points for the first six months of the season , even to the extent of trying drop goals from inside their own half t reluctant to gamble then , they gambol now , and for all the south african influence in the side , they also have a crop of highly promising young english players who are making their mark.the premiership seems to have returned to where it was before the experimental law variations , and the directive to allow attacking teams no latitude at the breakdown , were introduced t it is no longer a sterile , rifk-free environment and the benefits to england should be tangible.worcester worryworcester , it could be argued , were one of the victims of the directive and the elvs , which came in after mike ruddock's first season in charge t the warriors had reached the european challenge cup final and , in the second half of that season , developed an open style after years of 10-man rugby.the warriors , 10th that year , have won fewer than one quarter of their premiership matches since , finishing 11th , 12 months ago , and bottom this campaign having lost at leeds last sunday and having lost their way.ruddock took over from john brain and his regime was more inclusive and far less autocratic t he looked to forge a worcester way on the lines of the liverpool boot-room , promoting coaches from within having brought players through the academy , but he ended up leaving prematurely , as he had with wales four years before.there was a common reason t ruddock took over wales from steve hansen who , like brain , was seen to be in charge , involving himself in everything and placing significant emphasis on discipline t ruddock delegated more and gave the players greater responsibility.they came to resent , rather than respect , him for that and there were indications that the same happened at worcester t ruddock lost his right-hand man at worcester last year , clive griffiths , who fell out with some senior players and from that moment ruddock became vulnerable.there have been suggestions this season of rifts in the worcester squad with matters coming to a head after the defeat at leeds when two players reportedly became involved in a fracas and had to be separated.ruddock resigned two days later and the favourite to replace him is a director of rugby in brain's mould rather than ruddock's , dean ryan t worcester should stop thinking in black and white: they have not been afraid to blood young players and how about , as leeds did with neil back , scouring for a young , mould-breaking coach , such as mike cfft?this is an excerpt from the breakdown , guardian.co.uk/sport's free rugby email t get the breakdown delivered direct to your inbox by signing up here t paul rees will be writing the breakdown for the rest of the season.rugby unionpaul reesguardian.co.uk
リーズは、降格湿原の3人のライバルに比べ最大滞在に強く主張：ウスターソース、販売、newcastleifリーズは、日曜日にウスターソースに対する敗北を回避し、首相にその場所を、リモートシーズンもの開始時に見て見通しを保持している嵐の虐待9月にくく後、その成果は、その最終的なchampions.muchは首相のクラブ間の支出力の格差の行われているとして称賛され、トップ14のライバルとの議論でmagnersリーグ今シーズンのハイネケンカップに英語クラブの失敗が、リーズは、週末の治具テーブル内の9に40％以上、他の11 sides.theyのより小さい再生の予算上で動作するにもかかわらず、碁は正直で、言い訳をしない取引がある、彼らは亡命者はいつもの朗らかこのシーズンに欠けている前日曜日tを読んでロンドンアイルランドをオフに見たように例示、けがや曖昧な方法によって生成された内訳は数週間前まで、その作ら査読されたチェックがすべて詳細は、彼らが最初からリーズについて否定的だった、明らかにwin.theyことを期待し驚くべきアウトエリックルンド、彼の未踏のひげのすべてのビットをバイキング見たノルウェー第2の行として初期分のけん怠感、動揺されている必要がありますそのリーズは、下のクラブに対して、この週末の試合で売春婦がモールして翼ジョンはラッドの側面リーズに彼の方法をinveigledした後、彼はにしがみついダニークッツェーカフ付き、worcester.firstを自分たちの努力を注目していないことが示されたチームメイトの腕は、彼がラックでオフサイドラインで浮気として、彼の顔は芝生に、自分の道をニコリともしないface.sevenか月前だルンドにルックアップする無料の戦い押し込んだが、リーズは、F9キーポイント敗北を喫した自宅に沈んではアイルランド語に
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