Was great to be there and no one can say Leicester didn’t deserved this Title - was top of the league too! Great to see Tom Youngs lift the cup at the end as well 🐯 😊

I was surprised by Chris Ashtons performance. Defensively sound and made some important rush tackles to stop sarries going wide…Also unselfish when he had the ball attacking. Very impressive from the old poacher Well deserved Leicester 👍

@linalmeemow

Жыл бұрын

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.

@jp5613

Жыл бұрын

@@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

@ZzCAKEzZ

Жыл бұрын

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

@billybob01234567

Жыл бұрын

Ashton has always been massively underrated

@ZzCAKEzZ

Жыл бұрын

@@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%

Massive thanks to my son for the early fathers day present of a ticket. I cried my eyes out! Was such an amazing atmosphere. So pleased I got to share it with my daughter who has always been a massive Freddie burns fan!

From the highlights, a game truly worthy of a final; I like to think it would be just as exciting to watch without commentary, but can we just take a moment to appreciate Martin Bayfield and his unparalleled punditry

@simonroebuck7145

Жыл бұрын

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

I was there… goosebumps all the way. The Leicester crowd was sensational.

@danka4960

5 ай бұрын

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.

Born in Leicester, it’s in the blood, the heart and the fabric of the City. Once a Tiger, always a Tiger. Yes, it was a well deserved win after this seasons achievement. Had some tears when I saw Tom on the pitch, what a man, god bless. Everyone was brilliant! Good to the Tigers roar again, thank you everyone for making a Leicester son very happy.

@ew0lf472

Жыл бұрын

Same here

I'm a footie man really, never played rugby although I understand it and loved the six nations, but my son started going and I've been going along to a few games over the last 2 seasons and about 7 games this season. It's been fantastic and me and my 2 kids were at twickenham. What a great day. All the fans were brilliant and we were crying and hugging when the drop goal went over and at the end. What a season, what a team,what a special day!

Leicester were absolutely outstanding. They shut Saracens down and played some fabulous attacking rugby. Well done Tigers :)

Great game, Leicester deserved it. Freddie Burns made that drop goal look too easy.

Fantastic game and crowd - an honour to have been in the stands at Twickenham watching it! 🏉

@IrishBorussen

Жыл бұрын

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.

@IrishBorussen

Жыл бұрын

@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.

@alexbarston1136

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

Marvellous result for Leicester. Sinfield has brought real steel to Leicester’s defence which gave the platform for this victory

Tigers fan here!! Thought it was an excellent game of Rugby between 2 of the best teams in England right now. I looked at the lineups before kickoff and knew it would be tasty. Glad to see Tigers back where we belong

Chiefs fan here Thank you Leicester for showing us how it's done

@hbw7615

Жыл бұрын

Said by a true rugby fan!

So happy for Freddie Burns

An awesome final and a deserved win for the Tigers 👏🏻👏🏻 they deserved that for the consistency all season Leicester done a Saracens on Saracens and completely shut them down for 70 minutes

As a Leicester lad who supports Leicester tigers and leicester city I couldnt be any prouder. Weve seen some top players at welford road like Geordan Murphy, Martin Johnson, Neil Back, Austin Healey, joel stransky to name a few but these boys dont half embody the grit and team spirit required to be a tiger. Come on you tigers!

TIGERS!! They dominated the whole game in my opinions and really deserved the win

@callum1971

Жыл бұрын

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

@jaqe0909

Жыл бұрын

*the whole season

Do not forget that George Ford is the true hero for Leicester. Burns took his moment but Ford was the pivotal player who's performance, control, game management and all around demeanour led Tigers to win the Premiership. Best fly half in the world bar none.

@lanewang3547

Жыл бұрын

squidgerugby is that you?

@hop333

Жыл бұрын

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

@jj9749

Жыл бұрын

Ever heard of someone called Marcus Smith?

@aleccastro4761

Жыл бұрын

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

Congrats 🔥 One of the best Rugby games ever, especially the first half.

Jasper wiese, beast mode Hanro Lienberberg performance, Safas forward was oustanding this year, SA vs Walles will be epic

@linalmeemow

Жыл бұрын

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.

@bodhid

Жыл бұрын

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

@linalmeemow

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@joeboonmusic4004

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@bodhid

Жыл бұрын

@@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

Disappointed sarries couldn't go all the way, but I do like Leicester, can't help but smile when you see top lads like Ford, Burns, Ashton and Youngs celebrating, seeing Tom Youngs lift the trophy made my disappointment completely go away 🙏🏼 cracking season hoping next year is just as good

Premership finals never disappoint! What a game

Leicester kicked over 40 times in this game, averaging 36 in the regular season, because if you try to outmuscle saracens they will find a way through your tired defence. Leicester conceded 0 tries because of it. They won by pouncing on mistakes and then clever preparation. Saracens forced to play Leicester way and they almost won. But cometh the hour, Burns was there to take advantage of the last kicking ping pong. Borthwick is a genius. He adapts even when so much is on the line and he makes huge calls. Nadolo not even in the 23 shows that. Saracens players at the end look puzzled because it’s as if they’ve woken up going; ‘when did we start playing our rugby?’ Tigers relied on planning with a dash of magic, and that slot at the end was magic. Burns; now a Tigers titan for life. And for us fans? Watching the literal translation of redemption.

@linalmeemow

Жыл бұрын

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

@paulroberts7561

Жыл бұрын

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

@motomax_99

Жыл бұрын

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

@JamesHall-xb7dw

Жыл бұрын

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.

@Songbird3000

Жыл бұрын

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.

What a thriller it was. Well done, Tigers! 👏🏻

I'd like to express my sincere gratitude to all the Leicester players and coaching staff for delivering the best season of rugby with an grandstand finish. Montoya, Weise, Kelly, Steward, Potter, Burns, Chessum Reffel have all at times been outstanding, well for most of the season to be fair. Special thanks to our departing Captain, a born leader Ellis Genge, sad you are going, good luck with your future and I hope everything goes well for you and George Ford, the little maestro, pulling the strings all season, his best season so far in my opinion, sad you are leaving us too, good luck with your future! Finally the backroom staff of Steve Borthwick, Kevin Sinfield et Al. Onwards and upwards after the incredible success of this season. 🙌

Tears in my eyes - again!!!!!

So glad Leicester pulled it off,deserved it for the season they had 🔥

Great final. Awesome display of rugby.

Absolutely brilliant game with 🐯 winners

One of the craziest game I have ever seen

Bravo Tigers! My club! 🐯💚

@asktoseducemiss434

Жыл бұрын

Legendary game!

A long long time coming if you're a Tigers fan.. 🎵🎶Up where we belong🎵👍😊😎

well done Leicester. You did a really good job

The second Leicester try was so cleverly worked. The way it sucked in the forwards defensive pod, left the smallest defenders on the blind side and Itoje effectively taken out the defensive line. Brilliant.

A brilliant result and what a final!!! A fitting way to end a great season.

Ohhhh I see it now! I was so aggrieved during the game that Potter's tackle on Faz at 0:35 was called late. That was such an outrageously good tackle. Now, on rewatching it, the TMO didn't call that one late, he called the one before it late! You can see it just in the background at 0:50. But oh man, what a beautiful tackle by Potter.

What a day absolutely world-class🎉🎉🏆

Just love SBs over the top reaction 😎😎😎

This was the best game of rugby I’ve watched in years, it had everything and really could have gone either way

@linalmeemow

Жыл бұрын

A real heart-in-the-mouth game!

Legendary game! 🙌

Burns deserved this one! What a brilliant performance both sides 🙏🏾

Well done both sides, looked like a great game

Well done to Leiceseter Tigers. Best team in the Premiership by far.

@JamesHall-xb7dw

Жыл бұрын

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

Morne steyn stuff ! There was some unreal rugga thise weekend

2 top class teams in this final divided by one play in the end - well done Sarries for getting back to competing in every way and Leicester maybe just slightly hungrier with 2 S African try scorers and man of the match. rugby was the winner 👍

Well done boys🏆 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦

Excellent performance from Tigers in a real armwrestle of a game. That said, Saracens should have been a man down for 55 minutes of this game, how the Davies yellow card wasn't a red is a mystery - direct head contact with force like that and no mitigation has been a red card offence for at least a couple of seasons now, Barnes bottled the call here. Tigers would have been out of sight long before the end of the game had the laws been applied correctly.

@Tom_Harding

Жыл бұрын

The Scott one was even worse so it evened out

@linalmeemow

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@thealien4372

Жыл бұрын

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

@linalmeemow

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@jameslawless3575

Жыл бұрын

@@Tom_Harding are you blind?

Great to see Kevin sinfield defence working those lines.

I'm a Saracens fan and I was at the Game although disappointed I have to say The best team won Leicester stopped us from playing and beat us at our own kicking game and thoroughly deserved there win and title so we'll done. I also have to say how nice the Tigers fans were a credit to our sport. Well done champs hopefully we will be back to face you again but hopefully a different result 😉 😆

Love the rugby

Absolutely deserved they were top of the table from the get go until the end the best team in the world.

@jamesbywater

Жыл бұрын

In the world?

@Theemptythroneistaken

Жыл бұрын

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

@jamesbywater

Жыл бұрын

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

@Theemptythroneistaken

Жыл бұрын

@@jamesbywater Maybe who knows.

Leicester: *wild celebrations* Steve Borthwick: 😐

What a game!

What a game

Great game. 👍. Great win....shame they didn't av it on terrestrial TV for the masses.

@linalmeemow

Жыл бұрын

It was on ITV4.

@jameshickey1294

Жыл бұрын

@@linalmeemow .dam.. I Missed it! 🍻

Well played, Tigers! I observed that in both this final and the Super Rugby Pacific final over the weekend both refs exercised common sense and used yellow cards and not reds when ruling on accidental contact with the head.

Watching Saracens players bereft after the whistle.....😁....watching Tom Young's lift the Cup....😭.... I don't like either club, but for Tom Young's, all love and respect.

@JamesHall-xb7dw

Жыл бұрын

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

Well done tigers from a quins fan

Was at the game and saw we kicked far too much to the best aerial fullback in the league. Counted maybe one kick off Farrell in the second half that didn’t hit Steward and we regathered it. Back three didn’t step up to the occasion and had Billy V taking majority of the high balls. Gutted cos we could’ve won it at the end, but we go again next season

Saracens played far too negatively imo. Both teams clearly where going with a kicking strategy, and in that area saracens and Leicester were clearly on equal footing as shown by the close score. However I feel the saracens back had the advtange over Leicester and when they started running with pace and with farrell picking some great balls they looked dangerous. But clearly the decided strategy was kicking and they just stuck with it too their disadvantage. I feel this is something wrong with English teams their too reliant on coaches to dictate strategy as opposed to seeing what’s on the field. Leicester on the other hand we’re quite content with the continuing kicking game were they could go toe to toe with sarries and eventually come out on top.

@rhodsullivan7773

Жыл бұрын

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.

@linalmeemow

Жыл бұрын

@@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!

@Camerooonify

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@Faketerra

Жыл бұрын

@@rhodsullivan7773 long may it continue best kind of rugby

@alanrickett2537

Жыл бұрын

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

Greatest sport in the world

COYT FROM QUINS

Fairly low risk tactical kicking strangulation style rugby final. Was intense and interesting seeing similar styles play against each other. Dont think that style will grow the game though beyond current supporter numbers. Very happy tigers came out on top! Absolutely deserved and the best team all season.

@Jack-lk7wk

Жыл бұрын

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

In all tree finals yesterday there was a drop goal.

Superb watch on the TV yesterday.

can someone explain why the first yellow card wasnt a red? was at the match so couldnt hear ref

I was there when it started

@mylohound

Жыл бұрын

How

If finals were won on 'whooping and hollaring' sarries would of won that. BUT THERE NOT! Plus think there were 70K Leicester fans there to! Great job boys.

awesome

Not sure this was a classic but well done Leicester, bit of luck with the scrum penalty for their second try but sarries never really troubled their line, semi finals were a better watch for the neutral and who new Wayne Barnes was such a good defender, bring on next season.

@soddof7972

Жыл бұрын

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

@martynslinn6607

Жыл бұрын

@@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

ナイスドロップゴール🏉

Up the tigers you absolute heroes

South Africa is becoming the Brazil of rugby . your top players playing all over the world in other countries still you have enough depth to win a urc . crazy . the last figure was there is across the world almost 200 + south Africans playing professional rugby .

Squidgy Rugby predicted this 🥲

I'm a Tigers fan so I'm bias but that year was there any team more deserving to win the title than the Tigers.

Wow.

The first half was incredibly tedious but that second half more than made up for it.

So glad tigers won! They deserve it

SA first 15 loose forwards....Kolisi, PSTD, Wiese. SA 2nd 15 loose forwards...Marcel Coetzee, Hanro Liebenberg , Evan Roos. SA 3rd 15 loose forwards...Elrigh Louw, Deon Fourie, Cobus Wiese/Dan Du Preez.

Red all season odd for barns to bottle the right call

@Adam-sb8em

Жыл бұрын

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

@ccrooper88

Жыл бұрын

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

Bravo aux Tigers fromage France

Love it when Farrell - gets done.. Go Tigers..

Still can't believe we chose a penalty 🤦‍♂️

@linalmeemow

Жыл бұрын

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

@watts1881

Жыл бұрын

@@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

@linalmeemow

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@watts1881

Жыл бұрын

@@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

@luckysharma5319

Жыл бұрын

@@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

the RFU have apologised to Saracens for the yellow card saying it should have been a penalty try to them and that it will not happen again. I did feel sorry though for Saracens as Earl was going to beat Leicester on his own but was let down by his team mates and Referee. A red card all season is a yellow in the Final because the player was wearing Black. It is the only reason I can see. Not a fan of either team by the way just anti play offs

Penalty try for black on the ground taking out the chaser after the charge down?

@UPTHETOWN

Жыл бұрын

obviously not, the result stands

Why would genge go to Bristol Bears 🐻 must be getting paid more 🤔

@linalmeemow

Жыл бұрын

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.

@soddof7972

Жыл бұрын

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

This shoulder to head contact rule is getting ridiculous, two extremely innocuous tackles that resulted in yellow cards.

Premiership Rugby

If it was a prop on a 9 it would have been red…

Congratulations Tigers but Davis should’ve got a red card the rules state that any contact with the head in a dangerous way is a red Card so how can The referee and TMO deemed shoulder to the chops is not dangerous yeah and my name is Eddie Jones lol

Crusaders would hammer this team.

@guyportersfootstep4553

Жыл бұрын

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

@davidwelch3914

Жыл бұрын

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

@JamesHall-xb7dw

Жыл бұрын

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

@guyportersfootstep4553

Жыл бұрын

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

sarries next season

Freddie Burns. Hall of Fame inductee?

Union fans, why do league players make such good union coaches? Genuine question

You're right, I just realized that Mario updated his favorite way to tackle ED and it's crazy! Although what he previously talked about was pretty decent, it was difficult to follow, I just go'ogled the latest in Mario Volpstein's Erections at Will, it's so much simpler and potent now!

Sarries going for points at 75 minutes was a huge mistake IMO, they had the momentum, they had a man advantage and had scrum ascendency, definitely should've gone for a try.

@linalmeemow

Жыл бұрын

Cup final rugby, you play percentages. They'd make the same decision 100% of the time in that situation.

@philsswweightlossdiary2944

Жыл бұрын

Leicester had 2 penalties in their sin bin period and didn’t go for posts either time, it nearly cost them the game. In a final, with limited time left and an almost guaranteed three points on offer I’d say any decent captain would take the points.

Great game and highlights package

@asktoseducemiss434

Жыл бұрын

attacking. Very impressive from the old poacher Well deserved Leicester

Always a pleasure to see saracens lose. Just a shame Leicester won.

@linalmeemow

Жыл бұрын

You need some vinegar to go with all that salt!

@guyportersfootstep4553

Жыл бұрын

*Salty tears intensify.

Both yellow cards are reds in the regular season games. Why are the rules different in finals?

@linalmeemow

Жыл бұрын

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.

@soddof7972

Жыл бұрын

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.

@linalmeemow

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

STOP KICKING!!!