me too, he just said 8 minutes added time, be remarkable if they hold on

Large cat lands among pigeons 23-17 with kick to come...

My radio must be behind yours !!!

Kick is over, so CP must win surely 25-17

Neither team deserved to win the Bedford Coventry game. I actually think Coventry deserved to win it less as they really only got into our 22 twice and didn’t make a line break all game. Bedford knock on over the line and countless penalties ultimately cost us, although deciding penalty was v dubious.

Well played the Pirates, but remember Saracens only have to be in the top 2. 

Yes, happy, happy, happy

Brilliant result for Pirates, just brilliant, well played, and Bedford are above Sarries in the league too 😂😂😂

Give us P........Give us an I...........Give us an Arrrrrrrrrr🍺🍺🍺

Good for you.

More importantly though, this is one more nail in the stupid ring fencing debate. Up the Pirates!

So you should be. What a fantastic result for Pirates. That’s got to be the biggest upset in this division for years, if not ever. Just looked and 7 of the Saracens team that started in the European semi-final last year started against CP today. In total there were 12 players from the matchday 23 against Racing that were involved in the game today. This notion that Sarries had a weak team is garbage. Pirates should get all the credit in the world. 

Fantastic result for Pirates - brilliant, well done from the whole of rugby!!!! 

For a tackle that was a turn head down and drop on his head, Bedford are very lucky not to have lost a player for 35 minutes red, and a few weeks ban too.

The next yellow may have been a little harsh, but I have a strong feeling that may have been the hapless Hamish Smales trying to make up for his previous error. 

Not sure why we would get pinged at scrums for early engagement (very 1st scrum) then Cov do the same and we have 3 re-sets.

The referee even called that the Blues player had the ball in the maul and then he gets penalised for bringing the maul to the ground!

Also not 100% convinced Tupai lost the ball before sticking it on the try line, it was hard to tell from the camera. He then copied in his dad’s footsteps with the yellow.

Camera angle selection was pretty poor (one seemed to lose colour) but I am sure will get better. Best part of the commentary was when it went silent for 5 or so mins.

Saracens must be as sick as Long John's parrot, who was sitting on a perch asking "Can you smell fish?"

Good one Pirates 

Ha ha ha. Welcome to the Championship.

If it’s not given, it’s not forward, just like the try 

It's a result the majority of community rugby fans want. If Sarries don't get promoted this season, it will force the Old Boys Club to continue with promotion/relegation.

Looking at the league table, Sarries must be pleased there is no relegation.

Well done Pirates.

Your 6 came through the middle fine, but then collapsed the maul, so nailed on rather than dubious.
 

First card was because he landed first on the shoulder, then to the head which mitigates it from a red to a yellow.  Another ref may have given a red card, but I actually think he was correct if what he described was correct in fact.

Second penalty - he'd just warned the teams that, because of the penalty count and field position, next one would go.  There were two offences there - 4 (binned) collapsed it but 17 had also gone in the side. Both within 10m of the goal line.  Silly.

The last one was just reeated infringements and the ref told them they could keep giving the penalties and he'd keep carding.   

No errors.  

There was an obstruction on the way there as well, in front of the bench, which was pretty obvious and missed, but that's how it goes sometimes.
 

I thought they were pretty cynical in the second half when Cov started to actually catch the ball and apply some pressure.  

Both teams will improve immeasurably over the coming matches, and with no relegation let's just celebrate the fact that we had some rugby to watch... 

True Rob, I think that we lost with the last kick of the game from a penalty I/we felt hard done by provoked the one-eyedness. Like you say it was great to see some competitive rugby again, and to be honest, it wasn’t a game either set of supporters will remember for long, not a classic, let’s hope both sides improve on the performance. 

As I saw it at the time your player came through the middle onto our ball carrier - perfectly legal as the ref said at the time - but he was then deemed to have brought the ball carrier down - not legal.  A replay or the opportunity to watch the game again would have been nice...RFU.

To be fair it's unusual for Mr Smales to give us anything during a game so we'll take it, on another day it might have gone against us.

Cov’s defence was good and quick and never got penalised for offside (despite looking it) whereas Blues were pinged offside all day. Just a few inconsistencies.

Both were rusty not helped by the first 20 mins on injuries. Before the game I expected us to lose, so was pleasing that was a game where we should’ve won comfortably. Neither team really got their attack going, with Blues showing a few glimpses.

It would be interesting to see viewing figures on all the games.

Ampthill 7 Knights 9

Ampthill maybe lucky not to have a player yellow carded for deliberate knock on in front of their posts. But tight all round. Knights to open it up in the second half perhaps? 

Knights fumble ball Ampts collect and dot miss kick

Ampthill 12 Knights 12

Ampthill 17 Knights 12

Ampthill 17 Knights 19

Ampthill 17 Knight 19

A very tight game, quite enjoyable. Ampthill earned that point. Our pack really took control last 20 minutes. 4 points I will take that - we need to be slightly less scrappy  

You seem to be ignoring the dodgy penalties that went your way. Can’t remember Bedford being called for offside very often. I’m as one eyed for Cov as you are for Bedford and I realise that I might not agree with all the decisions. Personally thought the two pens for your first six points were very harsh but you win some you lose some.