A very gritty Quins performance - and it hasn't been often you could put those words in the same sentence! A very enjoyable game, but I think most people were too cold to cheer too loudly.

Thought other good signs included (all mentioned by others before):

(i) finally, a good kicking game! Consistently turning their fullback around, good job by Gale.
(ii) Burnett seems an elusive runner, and can get offloads away
(iii) O'Callaghan was taking the high balls well generally, can't have been easy with the greasy ball yesterday (there was one near the end which was allowed to bounce when there were around 10 players around it, think they were all knackered)
(iv) nice tight defence on our own line - can't ask for more (except for not dropping it on the first tackle 5m out after having done all the hard work!)

Re Sammut, he does unexpected things and creates uncertainty in the other side with ball in hand - I'd love to have someone like him, lazy or not!

When you look at the trys on TV, it looks like Clubby throws Sammutt over the try line in his attempt to tackle him.

Clubb had another shocking game.

Burnett has impressed me

It would seem to me that both Howell and Clubb look somewhat frustrated by the way they are playing. It could just be a case of trying to hard, or trying things that don't work. If we could get these two sorted then we can go place.