Aviva Premiership 15/16 - Round 11

[Which Tyler]

Friday; 7.45pm
BTSports 1; 7.00pm
Ref: Matthew Carl
TJs: Andrew Jackson & Simon McConnell
TMO: Sean Davey


Bath:
15 Tom Homer
14 Semesa Rokoduguni
13 Matt Banahan
12 Kyle Eastmond
11 Horacio Agulla
10 Dan Bowden
09 Chris Cook

1 Max Lahiff
2 Rob Webber
3 David Wilson
4 Stuart Hooper (c)
5 Dominic Day
6 Matt Garvey
7 Francois Louw
8 Leroy Houston

16 Tom Dunn; 17 Nathan Catt; 18 Henry Thomas; 19 Charlie Ewels; 20 Tom Ellis; 21 Alafoti Faosiliva
22 Niko Matawalu; 23 Max Clark


Gloucester:
15. Billy Burns
14. Charlie Sharples
13. Bill Meakes
12. B. lly Twelvetrees
11. Steve McColl
10. James Hook
09. Willi Heinz

1. Paddy McAllister
2. Richard Hibbard
3. John Afoa
4. Tom Savage
5. Mariano Galarza
6. Sione Kalamafoni
7. Jacob Rowan
8. Ben Morgan

16. Darren Dawidiuk; 17. Nick Wood; 18. Nicky Thomas; 19. Elliott Stooke; 20. Matt Kvesic
21. Callum Braley; 22. Mark Atkinson; 23. Ross Moriarty

 

[LeinsterMan (NotTigsMan)]

WTF Billy Burns @ 15!!!!

God help Glous if Bath break the line.

 

[Duck a l'Orange]

WTF Billy Burns @ 15!!!!

God help Glous if Bath break the line.

Moriarty at 23 as the outside backs replacement... It's a brave call.

Seriously, why have Billy Burns at 15 with Sharples available but on the wing?

 

[Every Time Ref]

Will be interesting / nailbiting to see Bowden at ten ... if he's bad we could be in serious trouble for the next 6 weeks

 

[Irish boy]

Bowden is a good solid ten he can easily do a job. He was our 10 for 2 seasons

 

[Every Time Ref]

Gto a reputation as a bit of a revolving door defensively hasn't he? Not that that's any big change at 10 for Bath

 

[SuperEagle]

Leicester Tigers (v Sale Sharks, Welford Road, Saturday 3pm)
15 Tommy Bell
14 Peter Betham
13 Mathew Tait
12 Matt Smith
11 Telusa Veainu
10 Freddie Burns
9 Sam Harrison
1 Logovi'i Mulipola
2 Tom Youngs (c)
3 Fraser Balmain
4 Dom Barrow
5 Graham Kitchener
6 Mike Fitzgerald
7 Lachlan McCaffrey
8 Jordan Crane

Replacements
16 Leonardo Ghiraldini
17 Riccardo Brugnara
18 Greg Bateman
19 Ed Slater
20 Tom Croft
21 Jono Kitto
22 Gonzalo Camacho
23 Jack Roberts

Good looking team, especially the forwards. Looking at the weather, it's likely to be a "forwards match."

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Sale Sharks: 15. Mike Haley, 14. Will Addison, 13. Sam James, 12. Sam Tuitupou, 11. Nev Edwards, 10. Danny Cipriani, 9. Chris Cusiter, 1. Ross Harrison, 2. Tommy Taylor, 3. Vadim Cobilas, 4. Bryn Evans, 5. Andrei Ostrikov, 6. Cameron Neild, 7. TJ Ioane, 8. Josh Beaumont (capt).


Replacements: 16. Neil Briggs, 17. Eifion Lewis-Roberts, 18. Brian Mujati, 19. Jonathan Mills, 20. David Seymour, 21. Peter Stringer, 22. Joe Ford, 23. Tom Arscott

We're definitely taking this seriously! In previous years we'd usually send a weakened side to away games at top 4 clubs and focus on our home games.

 

[LeinsterMan (NotTigsMan)]

Should be a good game.

Reckon sale will win TBH.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

I doubt it - something about Tigers just kills us in the last 20.
Remember in the LV when we were up by 20 or something and then you came back and won by 15 or something.
Terrible

 

[Bee]

Thank god there are teams even worse, so Bath probably won't get relegated... :wall::%#%#:

 

[Which Tyler]

Absolutely dire match just then; but come one - we're not even close to being that bad

 

[LeinsterMan (NotTigsMan)]

Bath on a roll.

Craig will need to find more London Irish players.

 

[j'nuh]

lol at the Bath fans leaving in the 74th minute. Only 4 points down. Union equivalent to the Wigan Walk. :lol:

tbf, that game transcended terrible for the neutral and became the ultimate borefest. At one point it even descended into the ~2008 aerial kicking duel.

Bath would have won if Eastmond stayed on.

 

[Bee]

Bath on a roll.

Craig will need to find more London Irish players.

Tell us about buying players...

 

[ncurd]

lol at the Bath fans leaving in the 74th minute. Only 4 points down. Union equivalent to the Wigan Walk. :lol:

tbf, that game transcended terrible for the neutral and became the ultimate borefest. At one point it even descended into the ~2008 aerial kicking duel.

Bath would have won if Eastmond stayed on.

Probably agree with you mostly there the game clearly turned when Eastmond went off. Give Banahan his due he acquitted himself well in trying circumstances if his bit of nouce at the end led to a win he'd been rightly held up as hero last night.

Only defence I can give to people leaving early is it was absolutely lashing it down and it appeared to be uncovered seats they were leaving.....still utterly insane when your only 4 points behind. As was the booing Ive no idea what's going on with the team mental capacity but we keep losing games we should be winning at the moment.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Not a stellar game from Cipriani so far.
Missed 3 of 4 penalties (including two pretty darn easy ones), and just given away a (admittedly really harsh) penalty for a "deliberate" knock on,
Spent almost the entire game in the Tigers game so far and it's 3 - 3

 

[LeinsterMan (NotTigsMan)]

4 from 5 now missed by Cips.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

He's been great from the tee recently - can't help but feel the whole will he leave/won't he leave distraction is playing a part.
Needs to stop fannying around just make his mind up already.

 

[Which Tyler]

Doesn't sound like he's showing Eddie that he made a mistake