Aviva Premiership 15/16 - Round 18

[TRF_Olyy]

Round 18 Fixtures

Live on BT Sport

Live on BT Sport

Live on BT Sport

Live on BT Sport​

 

[ncurd]

Slightly confused to how Gloucester v Bath is not on BT Sport.

 

[LeinsterMan (NotTigsMan)]

Who wants to watch 2 below mid table teams?

 

[Irish boy]

Relegation thriller. We are quite entertaining awful defence plus decent attack=points

 

[j'nuh]

Who wants to watch 2 below mid table teams?

Wuss vs Irish is a bit of a strange game to televise instead of the West Country derby though...

 

[TRF_Olyy]

West country derby only matters to the west country.
Relegation battle is more interesting.

 

[ncurd]

Is it really a battle? Worcester are pretty much safe and Irish are reliant on Falcons games

Also Tigers/Sharks probably has the same relevancy table wise.

Plus the west Country derby is the most likely to end up in a mass brawl.

 

[j'nuh]

West country derby only matters to the west country.
Relegation battle is more interesting.

Eh, I would have thought BT would want to play any game involving a packed 'Holm. Bath and Tigers at the very least. The atmosphere it creates will not be rivalled by the 5 travelling fans of Irish at Sixways!

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Also Tigers/Sharks probably has the same relevancy table wise.

True, but this is our only game on BT this year (or is it now two? I can't remember if they gave us another one after all the complaints)

 

[ratsapprentice]

I think Irish could still stay up, they look pretty strong after their trip to the states... having said that, the Falcons don't look terrible.

 

[Duck a l'Orange]

Falcons team to face Wasps (Sunday, 3pm, Kingston Park)

15 Simon Hammersley

14 Alex Tait

13 Chris Harris

12 Adam Powell

11 Marcus Watson

10 Mike Delany

9 Michael Young

1 Rob Vickers

2 George McGuigan

3 Taione Vea

4 Calum Green

5 Sean Robinson

6 Mark Wilson

7 Will Welch (captain)

8 Nili Latu

Replacements

16 Scott Lawson

17 Alex Rogers

18 Mike Cusack

19 Ally Hogg

20 Sinoti Sinoti

21 Sonatane Takulua

22 Andy Goode

23 Belisario Agulla

Interested to see Sinoti Sinoti at 20. Backs biased bench or are they looking to use him as a back row? Not sure I can believe that.

 

[curtbob7]

Sarries -just
Gloucester -just
Wuss
Wasps
Tigers -just
Saints

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Sale Team
15. Mike Haley, 14. Will Addison, 13, Sam James, 12. Sammy Tuitupou, 11. Nev Edwards, 10. Danny Cipriani, 9. Peter Stringer, 1. Eifion Lewis-Roberts, 2. Tommy Taylor, 3. Vadim Cobilas, 4. Bryn Evans, 5. Jonathan Mills, 6. Cameron Neild, 7. David Seymour (c), 8, TJ Ioane

Replacements 16. Neil Briggs, 17. Ross Harrison, 18. Brian Mujati, 19. Andrei Ostrikov, 20. Magnus Lund, 21. James Mitchell, 22. Joe Ford, 23. Mark Jennings


Leicester Tigers:
15 Tommy Bell
14 Mathew Tait
13 Manu Tuilagi
12 Owen Williams
11 Vereniki Goneva
10 Freddie Burns
9 Ben Youngs
1 Marcos Ayerza
2 Harry Thacker
3 Dan Cole
4 Dom Barrow
5 Graham Kitchener
6 Laurence Pearce
7 Tom Croft
8 Jordan Crane (c)


Replacements
16 Greg Bateman
17 Ellis Genge
18 Fraser Balmain
19 Sebastian de Chaves
20 Opeti Fonua
21 Sam Harrison
22 Peter Betham
23 Telusa Veainu

 

[LeinsterMan (NotTigsMan)]

Basically Tigers game plan send Manu at Cips (Wherever he may be hiding)

50/60 mins Bring betham on at 13 rest Manu, and Fonua on @ 8

New game plan

Send Fonua at Cips at all times.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Basically Tigers game plan send Manu at Cips (Wherever he may be hiding)

50/60 mins Bring betham on at 13 rest Manu, and Fonua on @ 8

New game plan

Send Fonua at Cips at all times.

Let's not talk about **** defenders when you're starting Freddie Burns.

 

[ncurd]

It'll probably be as successful as Wales plan to send Roberts at Ford anyway.

 

[LeinsterMan (NotTigsMan)]

Please Cips makes Burns look like Wilkinson in defence.

Burns Defence to his credit has improved soo much this season, speaking as someone who thought he was a bit of a flake at one time, been impressed.

Although with cips it seems like Ben youngs could do a job on him anyway.





Those mean powerhouse 9's hey.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Average out their defences over the past few seasons and Cipriani is comfortably the better defender.
It's not even close, really.

It's just a matter of whether he's dreaming of Coventry, or not, this week.

 

[LeinsterMan (NotTigsMan)]

Please Olyy can you for once stop being so one eyed.

Honestly.

And it has only taken now for Tigers to work there magic on Burns, after glous ruined him.

 

[gaston le gaff]

Average out their defences over the past few seasons and Cipriani is comfortably the better defender.
It's not even close, really.

It's just a matter of whether he's dreaming of Coventry, or not, this week.

Lets hope he keeps dreaming of Coventry for the next few weeks, until after the 1/4 final then he can do what he wishes.!!!!!!