Long post, thought I put it here rather than in the emotion filled match thread - I had to celebrate Carr's try in silence as I think the dog would have had a heart attack (she struggles with the emotional rollercoaster of watching me watch sport!).
Agree with loads of what has been said by others but my thoughts below.
Scrum - BT stat about best in Prem interesting though it is based just on completed scrums on own put in so not that technical. We were ok at best here.
Lineout - Good, solid all game, mixed it up well with some good moves (maybe Matthews had the chance to get to grips with the call book). Good win on their throw too.
Maul - Got pinged a couple of times but in the unbiased opinions of Lol, Dai and Wasps fans on social media these were unfair. I thought we worked well to bring down a couple and Lauch was also annoyed when he brought one down in their half and was told to leave the ball and let them play away so no complaints here.
Breakdown - The cliched Wild West show. We won a few, lost a couple, slowed them down and competed well but didn't get a complete dominance. What was nice was that we didn't go into contact in ones, get isolated and turned over.
Kicking/Aerial - Some poor but some good. Not a great deal of change, clearances generally good, kicks to compete less so and still some that you're not sure what the intention was. We were better in the air than we have been though.
Front Row - Carried well but interesting how few tackles the starting props made (admittedly we had a lot more ball). Didn't get caught out and decent but nothing exceptional. Taylor has a great game - top tackler, good on the floor, good darts. Cruise his usual self (a good thing).
Second Row - Lauch was a talisman as he often is and Matthews ran the lineout well. Matthews and Cardell didn't really put their hand up for any carrying either but did little wrong.
Back Row - Great. Tackled, competed hard at the breakdown, carried well, made over 100m combined, linked well and obviously Carr's try.
Half Backs - No great change from Dan, looked to burst through a couple of times, but it seemed forced. Still a bit slow and in field kicks are usually a disappointment. Jacob had a good game overall but place kicking and one out on the full would possible be criticised more if he was a different 10.
Centres - Booj isn't a top player but he isn't awful and he did some nice things. Fekitoa had a great game, it has obviously taken a few months to settle into the style and the league but I am impressed with him and thing he will have a really good season. Strong, tackled well, good runs and good decision making. Jimmy looked good when he came on - he was really important in Carr's try in sucking defenders in and creating the space wide.
Back Three - Still worried when other teams go wide but they all look dangerous on the attack. Minozzi is a decent defender for a little guy and there are defiantly tries in these guys - looking forward to the ground getting firmer and the ball being drier.
A couple of other things I noticed, leadership has been questioned. I though Lauch stepped up here really well. Early on when we were pinged for not rolling he questioned Peace and that may have led to us getting a pen for Afoa not rolling (no way was that a pen) and Pearce saying to Lauch something along the lines of 'See, I'm penalising them too'. Little things but he's doing what a captain should.
Anyone questioning the coaching should look at the way we defended. We were very ready for the Bristol game plan of quick pop passes in traffic with runners coming through and shut them down here and forced a lot of handling errors. I think we had clearly been looking at their plays and come up with a plan to nullify it, which is what you want from the coaching team.
Obviously there are negatives - we left 8 points out there with missed kicks (to their 3) and Piutau's kick return through the dog leg when Valianu failed to go up in line could easily have been another try to them.
We keep saying it, but it is fine margins. We could so easily have lost and that would have been totally undeserved but we managed to get the final try and get 5 points instead of 1. If we had got the try that was disallowed against Quins last week we could have done the same there but didn't so that (in some quarters) was written off as a terrible performance and proof we were going down and this is a fantastic win. So a couple of close calls in the Quins and LI games and we'd be in the mix in the top half.
I've been very close to wanting Dai to step aside or make serious coaching changes but I think we are on the right course. Dai is right to say we are not a top 4 side at the moment but we have been unlucky. I think we have enough to survive this year and then build on the youngsters we have.