I am sure most of you will remember the monster kick from Nick Beal at Leicester a few years back, when winning at Welford Road was a regular habit.

Well that kick, it seems, went from 40 then 50, 60 to 70 metres out until at the last count Bealer's punt started somewhere west of Snowdonia.

But joking aside, it's a good tool to have in your armour.

Young Myler has slotted over a couple already this season and it might stop a few teams playing aerial ping-pong with us knowing we have a player capable of slotting them over at distance.

Talking of aerial ping-pong it is said it is a by-product of the Experimental Law Variations. Now is it just me, or as a whole are we getting used to the ELVs?

Is there slowly a degree of acceptance of them that did not exist before.

Certainly Saturday's game did not seem to suffer too greatly from them.

Perhaps it is too early to judge and once we get into the depths of winter and some quagmire pitches and then the more cynical (by some teams anyway) end of the season views might change again.

But just like in the Southern Hemisphere where there was a very anti-ELV faction early on, are people starting slowly to warm to them?

Time will tell.

Saints hit the road again this week with the trip west to Gloucester. It has always been one of those fixtures that have thrown up a few suprises over the years, where the form book has gone out the window.

Glaws are riding high once more, but if we can take the second half performance against Bath down there, please not the first half one, then there is no reason why we cannot get something out of this game, especially as we welcome back the Scottish contingent.

Of course, Kingsholm is known as a bit of a bear-pit, but a big well done to the Gloucester faithful who last week let their club know quite vocally what they thought of someone's daft idea of post-score music.

In a classic case of 'people power', the club relented this week to the pressure and stopped the practice.

Though this week I hope the tuneful Oh When The Saints from the travelling hordes is heard after a few scores of our own.