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Mills kicks Worcester to shock win over Saracens
By Christopher Devine
Worcester Warriors gave their survival hopes a major shot in the arm with a shock victory over reigning Premiership champions Saracens on Saturday.
Although Sarries were missing a host of key players due to Six Nations commitments, they would still have been expected to triumph at Sixways.
However, eight penalties from Ryan Mills enabled Worcester to prevail 24-18 - denying their visitors the chance to replace Wasps at the top of the table.
Chris Ashton and Schalk Brits each touched down for Saracens and a late Ben Spencer penalty earned the consolation of a losing bonus point.
Worcester's third win of the season sees them close the gap to 10th-placed Sale Sharks to six points.
AND IT'S GAME OVER!!!!! WARRIORS BEAT THE CHAMPIONS!!!!!
— Worcester Warriors (@WorcsWarriors) February 11, 2017
Saturday's other Premiership fixture saw Leicester Tigers move into the top six with an emphatic 34-9 success against Gloucester.
Leicester were 17-3 up inside 24 minutes, despite losing Freddie Burns early on to a head injury, and never looked likely to be pegged back thereafter.
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Agree, the team isn't really in transition anymore, that happened very early, and looks to have been completed by the Argentina loss, that they fixed the cause of that Foster type result and it didn't happen again.
Disagree with how you want to lock in the team like this. As Cantab suggests the real way this team is going to move forward now is by maximising the talent, and there are plenty of other ways the forward pack could potential be improved, so it is going to need some creative and ingenuitive coaching if ABs are going to prove good enough anymore.
Go to commentsBecause Robertson is allergic to risk-taking. Perofeta and Plummer were never once trialled at First Five-Eight, Beauden was kept at Fullback for like half the season despite having close to ten players over the year who can play that position.
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