Do you like tries? Good, because the Gallagher Premiership has been serving them up by the bucketload this season. In fact, we are on track for more tries on average per game in a Premiership season than ever before if teams keep this up which, with 7.48 tries currently being scored in each match. Given we are entering the part of the season with the best weather conditions, breaking that record seems highly likely.
Even Pat Lam at Kingsholm on Saturday – while clearly unhappy with his Bristol side’s failure to put into practice the work they had put in on the training field to try to contain Gloucester’s attack – admitted that the entertaining rugby Gloucester played in scoring nine tries was exactly what the game needed.