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Brad Barritt takes to Twitter after latest injury scare
By Josh Raisey
Saracens fans have been fretting after their captain Brad Barritt came off against Glasgow at the weekend with an ankle injury.
Mark McCall’s men ran away comfortable 56-27 winners in the end, after they completely dominated the game after conceding an early try. The powerful performance was marred though by Barrit leaving the field on a stretcher late on.
However, the club have allayed any initial fears that this would be a serious injury.
Now Barritt has reassured fans on Twitter, saying that the injury is “a lot better than it could have been”.
Not only is Barritt captain of the men in black, he has been integral to their success over the years, and is one of their most important players. As the climax of the season approaches, it is imperative that he makes a return to keep Saracens on course for silverware.
The Premiership champions face Newcastle and Bristol over the next two weeks, but Barritt’s priority will be to return for Munster’s visit to the Ricoh Arena for the Champions Cup semi-final on the 20th April. Judging by his recent post, that may well be a possibility.
After the demolition of Glasgow at the weekend, Saracens will be many people’s favourites to lift the Champions Cup. However, Barritt is an intricate cog in the Saracens team, and is the organiser and catalyst for their fearsome defence.
While they still have a raft of talent in the centres in north London, many fans will want to see the 32-year-old back to face Munster.
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Like I've said before about your idea (actually it might have been something to do with mine, I can't remember), I like that teams will a small sustainable league focus can gain the reward of more consistent CC involvement. I'd really like the most consistent option available.
Thing is, I think rugby can do better than footballs version. I think for instance I wanted everyone in it to think they can win it, where you're talking about the worst teams not giving up because they are so far off the pace we get really bad scoreline when that and giving up to concentrate on the league is happening together.
So I really like that you could have a way to remedy that, but personally I would want my model to not need that crutch. Some of this is the same problem that football has. I really like the landscape in both the URC and Prem, but Ireland with Leinster specifically, and France, are a problem IMO. In football this has turned CL pool stages in to simply cash cow fixtures for the also ran countries teams who just want to have a Real Madrid or ManC to lose to in their pool for that bumper revenue hit. It's always been a comp that had suffered for real interest until the knockouts as well (they might have changed it in recent years?).
You've got some great principles but I'm not sure it's going to deliver on that hard hitting impact right from the start without the best teams playing in it. I think you might need to think about the most minimal requirement/way/performance, a team needs to execute to stay in the Champions Cup as I was having some thougt about that earlier and had some theory I can't remember. First they could get entry by being a losing quarter finalist in the challenge, then putting all their eggs in the Champions pool play bucket in order to never finish last in their pool, all the while showing the same indifference to their league some show to EPCR rugby now, just to remain in champions. You extrapolate that out and is there ever likely to be more change to the champions cup that the bottom four sides rotate out each year for the 4 challenge teams? Are the leagues ever likely to have the sort of 'flux' required to see some variation? Even a good one like Englands.
I'd love to have a table at hand were you can see all the outcomes, and know how likely any of your top 12 teams are going break into Champions rubyg on th back it it are?
Go to commentsYou always get idiots who go overboard. What else is new? I ignore them. Why bother?
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