Joe Shaw

He was tidy around the pitch as well, Fergus Burke.

And Joe Shaw, um, Saracens' head coach, did a media afterwards, and he said that he was just really...

He said he would've been impressed whether or not they got over the line for how they managed their way through a hell of a load of setbacks at the start of the game.

Um, you know, Ollie Hart- Ollie Hartley, poor Ollie Hartley's picked up what looks like a broken arm.

And Saracens actually scored in that, in that period, with Earl making some telling carries up through the middle.

So you could almost see, see it live that Saracens were problem-solving their way through what was a really, you know, a trick- a tricky game for them, notwithstanding Lester's, Lester's injuries.

Um, and Joe Shaw was really careful to point out Maro- Maro Itoje's part in that as a captain, re- reinvigorated after his summer off.

And they just, they just looked like they had a, they had a plan that they had a lot of conviction in Saracens, continually go, to continually going for the corner even when they were down to the 14 after Nick Isiekwe's red card.

Uh, go pick him up.

Uh, Phil Kokenosinga, not, not to be confused with Joe, uh, coming back into the Prem.

He's going, he's going to Gloucester.

Um, although they are mostly set on midfielders over there, so that was a, that is a peculiar move.

Think guys like Alfie Barbary, George Martin.

Um, I think Martin's stock goes up in that case, and I think Barbary's goes down 'cause Saracens don't t- didn't tend to s- pick a six-two very often, although with Venture, that might change.

Uh, I'm pretty sure Joe Shaw's calling a lot of shots now over there too, so we'll see if, if that changes at all.

If they traditionally go with a five-three, it means Barbary's gonna be expected to play a little bit more and/or he's gonna be pulled faster, I would say.