END OF SEASON POLLS: THE RESULTS
By The Saracens
August 26 2024
With the new season ever closer, here are the results of the Saracens 2023/4 Season’s Poll. Thanks to everyone who voted: it's just a bit of fun and also attracted quite a lot of interest from mesengers to the Board
Let’s start with your Player of the Season; There really was only 1 winner with almost 90% of the votes, your Player of the season was:
JUAN-MARTIN GONZALEZ
There were (distant) equal seconds in Maro Itoje & Andy Chrisite
Young Player of the Season was equally dominant with again over 90% of the votes going to
THEO DAN
Olly Hartley came 2nd and Samson Adejimi was 3rd
Which of our leavers will we miss most next season?
Not surprisingly most of the votes went to
OWEN FARRELL
Alex Lewington came in 2nd with Sean Maitland 3r
Which new signing will make the biggest impact? I think there was a degree of desperation in voting for the winner (basically he has to or we’re stuffed. So the winner is
FERGUS BURKE
In 2nd place Phil Brantingham and in 3rd Fraser Balmain
On to performances: The best performance of last season was:
SARACENS 52 HARLEQUINS 7 on 23rd March at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
Next best was that (must) win over Bristol Bears at Ashton Gate in May and in 3rd place the other half of the season’s double over Quins, the somewhat unexpected 10-38 victory at the Stoop in November
Worst Sarries Performance of the season was very hotly contested. In fact the votes for first place were equal so Mod’s privilege: the casting vote is mine and therefore the worst performance (in a season where there were rather a lot) was
SARACENS 10 SALE SHARKS 20 – a result that gave Sale a semi-final place and sent Sarries to Northampton
2nd worst was that Debacle in Bordeaux where Sarries lost 55-14
3rd (by just 1 vote) was that awful performance at Sandy Park for the season’s opener
And finally on to officialdom and the best and worst referees (thankfully the same guy didn’t win both categories!)
The Best Ref (and we had him no less than 6 times last season was the peerless
LUKE PEARCE
2nd was Christophe Ridley (thought to be rising fast) and 3rd Matt Carley
When it came to Worst Referee there was no contest, the winner, by a 50:22 was
KARL DICKSON
With Hamish Smails and Ian Tempest equally distant in 2nd
So that’s it for another season. Next week sees the team go to Bedford for the first of 2 friendlies and a new season will be underway.
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2024:09:18:10:56:29 by Darraghgirl.
Also well done for the Mods vote on worst game. 100% agree. The game, old Sarries would have crushed and used as a stepping stone to the final.
“Which new signing will make the biggest impact? I think there was a degree of desperation in voting for the winner (basically he has to or we’re stuffed.”
Either way his impact will be big, just depends if it is a good or bad one 😂 hopefully the former!
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