• Full-back hopes his former coach will notice good form[br]• Goode not bothered by criticisms of team’s playing styleNot many Saracens players would take the recent accusations of being boring as a compliment but Alex Goode could be forgiven for doing so. The defending Premiership champions enjoy won all 11 of their matches this season and enjoy scored 41 tries yet still they cannot shake the reputation for strangling the life out of matches rather than triumphing with any mighty style.
After final Sunday’s 26-16 win at Wasps – the side that has perhaps most captured the imagination this season – Dai Young called Saracens’ approach “a really boring way to play rugby” while Richard Cockerill,whose Leicester side face Saracens on Saturday, chose his words carefully when saying: “There’s a lot to like about Saracens, and even whether you don’t like them”.
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Source: theguardian.com