Aviva Premiership 15/16 - Round 3

[TRF_Olyy]

Round 3 Fixtures

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Live on BT Sport​

 

[LeinsterMan (NotTigsMan)]

Tigers first start for Fonua, Barrow on the bench with Veainu and Kitto
Leicester Tigers (v Wasps, Welford Road, Sunday 3.15pm)
15 Mathew Tait (c)
14 Adam Thompstone
13 Peter Betham
12 Matt Smith
11 Vereniki Goneva
10 Owen Williams
9 Sam Harrison
1 Fraser Balmain
2 Tom Youngs
3 Dan Cole
4 Mike Williams
5 Mike Fitzgerald
6 Tom Croft
7 Lachlan McCaffrey
8 Opeti Fonua

Replacements
16 Greg Bateman
17 Logovi'i Mulipola
18 Tiziano Pasquali
19 Dom Barrow
20 Jordan Crane
21 Jono Kitto
22 Seremaia Bai
23 Telusa Veainu

 

[Irish boy]

We are going to get murdered.
15 Ojo
14 Maitland
13 Fowlie
12 Mulchrone
11 Tiks
10 Noakes
9 Mckibben
8 Mckusker
7 Cowan
6 Sinclair
5 Symons
4 Skivs
3.Aulika
2.Paice
1. Smallbone

Can't be bothered to do bench seriously how noakes startes in front of Geraghty is beyond me. Anyway good to see Cowan and Maitland back

 

[ncurd]

Bath side to face Quins

15 Anthony Watson
14 Semesa Rokoduguni
13 Ollie Devoto
12 Kyle Eastmond
11 Matt Banahan
10 George Ford
9 Niko Matawalu
1 Max Lahiff
2 Rob Webber
3 David Wilson
4 Dominic Day
5 Dave Attwood ( c )
6 Matt Garvey
7 Guy Mercer
8 Leroy Houston

Replacements

16 Ross Batty
17 Nick Auterac
18 Henry Thomas
19 Stuart Hooper
20 Max Northcote-Green
21 Chris Cook
22 Rhys Priestland
23 Tom Homer

 

[LeinsterMan (NotTigsMan)]

Not sure on baths looking Midfield, has Devoto played much @ 13?

 

[ncurd]

Premiership Final after Watson was injured....I believe JJ moved to the wing, one of the issues we had in that final TBH

West Country derby with Gloucester after we qualified. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-union/32707043

Honestly he's going to have to learn it he's de facto replacement center in the squad and JJ is out for 3 months, it's him or Banahan with Agulla still at the world cup and Homer being benched wing option narrow as well.

 

[j'nuh]

Sarries
Glos
Bath
Saints
Exeter
Wasps

Glos team:

Gloucester Rugby:
Charlie Sharples; David Halaifonua, Billy Twelvetrees (capt), Bill Meakes, Jonny May; James Hook, Willi Heinz; Paddy McAllister, Richard Hibbard, John Afoa; Tom Savage, Sione Kalamafoni; Ross Moriarty, Matt Kvesic, Ben Morgan


Replacements:
Chris Brooker, Yann Thomas, Paul Doran-Jones, Elliott Stooke, Jacob Rowan, Callum Braley, Billy Burns, Henry Purdy

Tigers first start for Fonua, Barrow on the bench with Veainu and Kitto
Leicester Tigers (v Wasps, Welford Road, Sunday 3.15pm)
15 Mathew Tait (c)
14 Adam Thompstone
13 Peter Betham
12 Matt Smith
11 Vereniki Goneva
10 Owen Williams
9 Sam Harrison
1 Fraser Balmain
2 Tom Youngs
3 Dan Cole
4 Mike Williams
5 Mike Fitzgerald
6 Tom Croft
7 Lachlan McCaffrey
8 Opeti Fonua

Replacements
16 Greg Bateman
17 Logovi'i Mulipola
18 Tiziano Pasquali
19 Dom Barrow
20 Jordan Crane
21 Jono Kitto
22 Seremaia Bai
23 Telusa Veainu

Are Tigers done with Freddie Burns then?

 

[LeinsterMan (NotTigsMan)]

Burns broke his jaw in the last preseason game.

https://twitter.com/freddieburns/status/655009958547861504

 

[Mattybuck]

Not sure on baths looking Midfield, has Devoto played much @ 13?

We signed Jeff Williams, I presume as cover at 13 but believed he has been injured.

 

[GreenTiger]

Burns broke his jaw as Tigs said.

 

[ratsapprentice]

Diprose has obviously been working Quins hard this off-season - their defence has been very good so far this season.

Bath looking to be getting into the swing of things.

More great link play from Kvesic leads to a try for Glos.

Itoje looking good for Sarries from what I can see.

 

[Irish boy]

Keep going boys

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Wuss v Glaws sounds a cracker!

 

[LeinsterMan (NotTigsMan)]

The AP is such a better comp for having wuss in it.

 

[04perryo]

Ahhh man cracking game but feeling a little disappointed with the result, can't complain about the effort we showed though.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Shame that Wuss couldn't get the win, but they'll take an away BP relatively soundly.

Quins Bath result was a surprise!

 

[ratsapprentice]

Not sure about that Olyy!

Quins looked very good defensively last week, and Bath looked like they hadn't properly got back into the swing of things as a team (although individually some players have been performing well).
It was the same again this week.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

I just wouldn't expect Bath to get nothing from a home game, really!

 

[Mattybuck]

Funny start to season by Bath so far, looked at times today to be hitting their straps, only to undo themselves with a high penalty count.

Looks like the team are a bit out of sorts with disruption to pre-season.

Still it's a marathon not a sprint, not hitting the panic button... Yet!

 

[Mrs. Peter Quinn]

I just wouldn't expect Bath to get nothing from a home game, really!

Didn't watch todays game but last week Bath displayed zero desire to play rugby - despite having the leagues most exciting back division. They simply did not want to play attacking rugby (I know conditions were crap but Wasps still tried) and if such an attitude persists then they will continue to lose games.