The table as it stands (4 weeks in)

[Tigersman]

POS Team Played W D L PS PC Diff TS TC TB LB POINTS
1 Saracens 4 4 0 0 152 86 66 20 10 4 0 20
2 Exeter Chiefs 4 4 0 0 141 72 69 20 8 3 0 19
3 Wasps 4 3 0 1 124 110 14 14 13 3 0 15
4 Bath Rugby 4 2 1 1 95 95 0 12 11 2 1 13
5 Gloucester Rugby 4 2 1 1 108 98 10 13 12 2 0 12
6 Harlequins 4 1 0 3 114 105 9 13 9 2 3 9
7 Leicester Tigers 4 1 0 3 127 158 -31 14 22 3 2 9
8 Bristol Bears 4 2 0 2 73 102 -29 6 13 0 0 8
9 Worcester Warriors 4 1 0 3 99 102 -3 13 11 1 3 8
10 Newcastle Falcons 4 1 0 3 94 125 -31 11 14 1 1 6
11 Northampton Saints 4 1 0 3 83 100 -17 8 11 0 1 5
12 Sale Sharks 4 1 0 3 75 132 -57 7 17 0 0 4


Thoughts?

[fivepointer]

The 2 best sides are on top and will probably stay that way.
Wasps look in reasonable shape and both Bath and Glos have done OK.
The bottom 7 are all misfiring to one degree or another, though a couple of wins could easily see a team make up 4 or 5 places. Bristol have been better than i expected. Saints and Quins havent improved as i thought they might. Wuss looked in real trouble up until today but that win will have given them a real lift. Sale probably deserve to be in 12th place and may find moving up hard going.

[Scrumhead]

I'm not sure if the table tells us too much we didn't already know? Saracens and Exeter are a class apart and Wasps and Gloucester are probably the next best.

Beyond that, it's a morass of teams that can all beat each other on their day. For example, Bath looked very good against Quins but fairly poor against Bristol and Gloucester.

Quins current position and Worcester's jump up the table after today show the importance of losing BPs and try BPs. From a Quins point of view, we're mid table with only one win to our name and I think it's fair to say that both Saints and Newcastle have played better without the points to show for it.

Sale have had an unexpectedly poor start, but I think they'll improve. Bristol have been better than expected.

I'm not sure I agree that Worcester have looked in trouble. They've run every team close so far and picked up a great win today.

[Which Tyler]

Looking at the table... I'm not looking forwards to the next couple of weeks...

[Timbo]

Looking at the table... I'm not looking forwards to the next couple of weeks...

If the Prem was the same as Top14/Pro14 Bath would be putting out the ‘b’ team next weekend.

[CONVEX HULL]

Sarries are set to lose a shedload of players during the Autumn Internationals, I doubt they will be top in December.