Poll Results Part 2

By Leipziger
May 29 2007

From the glorious Boxing Day defeat of the champions, to the depths of November against Harlequins, the near victory at Gloucester and the hammering at Welford Road, 2006/07 has seen more epic matches against some excellent teams, and some not so excellent...

Best home match

Sale 45%

Wasps 27% 

Leicester 18%

Llanelli 9%

"Sale Sharks - giving the Premiership champions a good thrashing can't be bad!"

"Sale (isn't it always?)"

"Wasps, sheer satisfaction of hammering a decent team, plus seeing that letter from Dallaglio ;-)"

"Leicester, cracking game and against all odds I bloody got there!"

"Llanelli Scarlets - great performance before the reinforcements came"

Worst home match

Harlequins 70%

London Irish 20%

None 10%

"Harlequins - just dire"

"Irish, it was as predictable as it was horrible"

"Can't really comment, all the ones I have been to have been pretty good"

Best away match

Gloucester 40%

Sale 30%

Leicester 20%

Bristol 10%

 

"Glos, being in the Shed was good fun"

"Sale in the league, getting turfed out of the Royal Oak at midnight and realising we'd missed the last bus back to Manchester, but not caring at all!!"

"Tigers - the only one I went to this year, but WHAT a day!"

"Best I saw was Brizz, which we lost. Sounds like Glos was the best which we, erm, ahem, also lost"

Best away trip

Leicester 40%

London Irish 20%

Others: Clermont, Gloucester, Bath, Harlequins

 

"Leicester was the beginning of an era!"

"None this season but Oirish is usually a good un"

"Glos, what a night!"

"Clermont (cracking trip) but I'll never forget this seasons Glos trip either!"

"Quins at New Year. Good company, lots of Guinness, lots of tomfoolery [yeah, ask Jason Oakes!] to take away the pain of what has to be our worst performance in years"

Favourite away ground

Welford Road 22%

Kingsholm 22%

The Rec 22%

Others: Sixways, Brive, Franklin's Gardens

 

"Bath, nearest to me and a damn sight better than Bris"

"Brive's ground was very nice, better than most English clubs could dream of"

"Franklin's Gardens by a country mile. It will be missed. Not just the stadium but the atmosphere too"

Worst away match

Harlequins 44%

London Irish 22%

Saracens 22%

Leicester 11%

 

"Quins at New Year"

"getting destroyed at Saracens once again"

"Saracens, only saw the 2nd half of the game but wish I had missed that too"

 

Best opponents

Gloucester 36%

Leicester 27%

London Irish 18%

Others: Clermont, Worcester

 

"Glos, the away match was one of the best I have seen in a long time"

"Leicester at their place although I can't remember most of it"

"Has to be Irish again, they knew where to target us at home then blew us away in Reading"

Worst opponents

Padova 23%

Northampton 23%

Sale 18%

Others: Wasps, Worcester, Bath, None

 

"Saints in the Prem, Padova"

"Wasps :-)"

"Boring Boring Bath"