Mismatches and Matchmakers
4/20/202656 min
There was an astonishing 54 tries across the five Prem matches this weekend, but is it a positive when so many matches were one-sided? Is the Prem in danger of becoming a two-tiered league or are teams just in transition? Ugo, Danny and Chris try to make sense of a crazy weekend which saw Saracens’ Noah Calouri bag another five tries against Sale in a huge win on Sunday. How costly could that defeat be for Sale? Exeter put on a show for their potential new owners despite a late Northampton winner and Finn Russell has been snapped up by Eddie Hearn and joins Henry Pollock at Matchroom. Could more players follow suit and what would success look like?
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Chris Jones· Host0:07
What's the most tries you've got in a match?
Danny Care· Host0:10
Three.
Chris Jones· Host0:11
Three?
Ugo Monye· Host0:11
Five.
Chris Jones· Host0:12
You got five once?
Danny Care· Host0:13
Five star, when?
Ugo Monye· Host0:15
Against Chiefs in the Champ.
Chris Jones· Host0:17
Oh, there's the caveat.
Ugo Monye· Host0:18
2005.
Danny Care· Host0:19
Still decent [laughs] Still decent, yeah. Still decent.
Chris Jones· Host0:21
[laughs] So f- so Kalori, five against the same oppo twice [laughs] in a season.
Ugo Monye· Host0:25
In fact, he would be top try scorer in the Prem just based on those two games.
Chris Jones· Host0:30
[laughs] Based.
Danny Care· Host0:31
That's mental.
Ugo Monye· Host0:32
Said he would.
Chris Jones· Host0:32
What?
Ugo Monye· Host0:33
Yeah, Revovo's on 10 tries, and I think Tommy Freeman's on 10 tries, and they're second and third in the league.
Chris Jones· Host0:38
So [laughs] his... So if he wins it, he can say, "Cheers, Sale. [laughs] Thanks, thanks for this gone."
Ugo Monye· Host0:44
What an assist from Sanderson at Sale.
Chris Jones· Host0:46
[laughs] Oh, so- What about Hammer Webb?
Danny Care· Host0:48
He, he might be up there now with five again.
Ugo Monye· Host0:50
Mate, he should've had six- Oh ... and broken the record.
Chris Jones· Host0:52
But Kalori, when he scored five in the first Sale game, should have had another, shouldn't he?
Ugo Monye· Host0:56
Yeah.
Chris Jones· Host0:56
'Cause there was a penalty try.
Ugo Monye· Host0:57
I always wonder, like, going into those games, are you aware? 'Cause I'm s- I'm sure Noah Kalori would've been watching the rugby on Saturday, see Hammer Webb scoring five, and the conversation around, "Ah, well, the record's actually six." Then you get to five. As a team- Is the record six? Yeah, the record's six. Christian Wade.
Danny Care· Host1:14
Wade. Worcester.
Ugo Monye· Host1:15
Christian Wade, double hat trick. I would be doing everything. I mean, we're not taking any... Diminishing five. Five's great.
Chris Jones· Host1:22
[laughs] You can't go into a game trying to score six tries.
Ugo Monye· Host1:24
No, but when you get four or five- Okay, you think six ... you think, "Well, the record's six. I'll take six."
Chris Jones· Host1:29
Okay, so five