Kyle Sinckler shuts down Newcastle prop with brilliant comeback

Handling errors, poor scrummaging compounded a poor performance from the tight-head on the week he was left out by England boss Eddie Jones.

One supporter commented following the Bears 30-15 defeat: "Can see why Eddie didn’t pick Sinckler. He’s been absolute guff"

"Sinckler looks miserable tonight and his performance matches," said a second

Another fan wrote half an hour into the game: "If Sinckler was a young prop bet he would of got the hook by now."

"We need to talk about Kyle Sinckler. 6/10 since he joined Bristol?" a fourth added.

The only positive thing about his performance was his superb piece of backchat to Falcons prop Adam Brocklebank at the start of the second-half.

A young player was making his Premiership debut at scrum-half. He was playing against Andy Gomersall. He tried to be funny at the first scrum and said to Gomersall "don't hurt your back putting the ball in, old man". He retorted "I would give you some abuse, but I have no idea who the f@*k you are!"

Ouch.

Harry Ellis had taken Austin Healey's position at scrum-half in 2001 - and Healey had dropped to the bench. In the changing rooms before the game, the experienced Healey came over to Ellis and asked how he was feeling ahead of his debut in front of 15,000 at Welford Road - Ellis replied 'I'm really, really nervous about it mate - absolutely bricking myself!', to which Healey told him 'Yeah, well you should be nervous - because you're f*cking sh*t!'

During the 2018 Autumn International clash at Twickenham, viewers heard him tell Australia’s forward pack: “You’re all ****ing snitches anyway”.

As Balls.ie and others have pointed out, Sinckler’s comments were surely in reference to Australia’s decision to drop Kurtley Beale and Adam Ashley-Cooper for the England game. The pair were dropped after they were found to have brought guests back to the team hotel following a defeat in Wales earlier this month.

A certain coach shouted to the referee: "ref can we make a sub?"

The ref agreed to which the coaches response was: "Good, can you come off the pitch, please?!"

Nigel Owens is openly gay and campaigns for bullying, but that does mean he’s above being self-deprecating. During a dodgy Harlequins line-out he told the hooker, in a roundabout way, he best get his throws together.