Aviva Premiership - Round 18

[TRF_Olyy]

Round 18 Fixtures

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[ratsapprentice]

Bath Rugby team to face Sale Sharks
15. Nick Abendanon
14. Anthony Watson
13. Ollie Devoto
12. Kyle Eastmond
11. Semesa Rokoduguni
10. George Ford
9. Peter Stringer
1. Paul James
2. Ross Batty
3. David Wilson
4. Stuart Hooper ( c )
5. Dave Attwood
6. Matt Garvey
7. Guy Mercer
8 Leroy Houston
Replacements
16. Tom Dunn
17. Nathan Catt
18. Anthony Perenise
19. Dominic Day
20. Carl Fearns
21. Micky Young
22. Gavin Henson
23. Horacio Agulla

 

[LeinsterMan (NotTigsMan)]

Sale Team to face Bath: Tom Arscott, Tom Brady, Jonny Leota, Sammy Tuitupou, Mark Cueto, Danny Cipriani, Dwayne Peel, Eifion Lewis Roberts, Marc Jones, Vadim Cobilas, Andrei Ostrikov, Michael Paterson, Dan Braid, David Seymour, James Gaskell

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Think this should be a cracking game - with the exception of Flouw/Webber its first choice for both sides.
Both on good form and both confident after good wins last week.

 

[SuperEagle]

I'm well excited about this weekend, it's the big one. Derby day and there's players with points to prove and scores to settle all over the park.

T. Youngs vs Hartley - England's no1 and 2 hookers going head to head.
England's 2nd choice scrumhalf Dickson faces off against the forgotten man, B Youngs.
Tuilagi vs Burrell in the centres - 'nuff said
North vs Goneva is a matchup I can't wait to see.
Both Foden and Tait (if fit) will be wanting to put down markers for inclusion on the trip to NZ in the summer and give Mike Brown something to think about.


Saints looked off colour last week whilst the Tigers roared back into form, but so far this season Saints have been better and will be looking to stick one on their "big brother down the road" for the first time in 8 attempts.

The weather looks like it's going to be dry and to top it all off, a certain Mr W Barnes will be the man in the middle!

I can't wait.

 

[LeinsterMan (NotTigsMan)]

Harlequins Team
15. Mike Brown
14. Ollie Lindsay-Hague
13. Matt Hopper
12. Jordan Turner-Hall
11. Sam Smith
10. Nick Evans
9. Danny Care

1. Joe Marler
2. Dave Ward
3. Kyle Sinckler
4. Nick Kennedy
5. George Robson
6. Luke Wallace
7. Chris Robshaw (C)
8. Nick Easter

16. Max Crumpton
17. Mark Lambert
18. Paul Doran Jones
19. Charlie Matthews
20. Tom Guest
21. Karl Dickson
22. Ben Botica
23. Tim Molenaar

London Irish team to face Harlequins:

15. James O’Connor*; 14. Topsy Ojo*; 13. Fergus Mulchrone; 12. Eamonn Sheridan; 11. Marland Yarde*; 10. Shane Geraghty*; 9. Tomás O’Leary*; 1. Matt Parr; 2. Jimmy Stevens; 3. Jamie Hagan*; 4. George Skivington (Captain); 5. Nic Rouse; 6. Kieran Low*; 7. Blair Cowan; 8. Ofisa Treviranus*

Replacements: 16. Mike Mayhew; 17. John Yapp*; 18. Leo Halavatau; 19. Jebb Sinclair*; 20. Gerard Ellis; 21. Alex Lewington; 22. Myles Dorrian; 23. Darren Allinson

 

[LeinsterMan (NotTigsMan)]

CHIEFS SIDE TO FACE GLOUCESTER

15 Luke Arscott
14 Fetu’u Vainikolo
13 Ian Whitten
12 Phil Dollman
11 Matt Jess
10 Henry Slade
9 Dave Lewis
1 Ben Moon
2 Jack Yeandle
3 Hoani Tui
4 Dean Mumm (capt)
5 Damian Welch
6 Dave Ewers
7 Tom Johnson
8 Kai Horstmann

16 Luke Cowan-Dickie
17 Carl Rimmer
18 Alex Brown
19 Don Armand
20 James Scaysbrook
21 Haydn Thomas
22 Gareth Steenson
23 Sam Hill

Gloucester Rugby:

Rob Cook; Charlie Sharples, Mike Tindall, Billy Twelvetrees (capt), Jonny May; Ryan Mills, Jimmy Cowan; Nick Wood, Darren Dawidiuk, Shaun Knight; Elliott Stooke, Will James; Sione Kalamafoni, Matt Kvesic, Ben Morgan

Replacements:

Koree Britton, Yann Thomas, Sila Puafisi, Lua Lokotui, Gareth Evans, Tavis Knoyle, Freddie Burns, Henry Trinder

 

[LeinsterMan (NotTigsMan)]

NORTHAMPTON SAINTS TEAM TO PLAY LEICESTER
Aviva Premiership Round 18
Franklin’s Gardens
Saturday, March 29th, 2014
Kick off 3:15pm
15 Ben FODEN
14 Jamie ELLIOTT
13 George PISI
12 Luther BURRELL
11 George NORTH
10 Will HOOLEY
9 Kahn FOTUALI’I
1 Alex WALLER
2 Dylan HARTLEY (capt)
3 Salesi MA’AFU
4 Courtney LAWES
5 Christian DAY
6 Calum CLARK
7 Phil DOWSON
8 Tom WOOD

Replacements
16 Mike HAYWOOD
17 Ethan WALLER
18 Tom MERCEY
19 James CRAIG
20 GJ VAN VELZE
21 Lee DICKSON
22 James WILSON
23 Ken PISI

No Dickerson and Myler.

Tigers

15 Mathew Tait
14 Vereniki Goneva
13 Manusamoa Tuilagi
12 Anthony Allen
11 Adam Thompstone
10 Owen Williams
9 Ben Youngs
1 Marcos Ayerza
2 Tom Youngs
3 Logovi'i Mulipola
4 Louis Deacon
5 Ed Slater (c)
6 Jamie Gibson
7 Julian Salvi
8 Jordan Crane

Replacements
16 Rob Hawkins
17 Boris Stankovich
18 Fraser Balmain
19 Graham Kitchener
20 Pablo Matera
21 David Mele
22 Toby Flood
23 Scott Hamilton

 

[LeinsterMan (NotTigsMan)]

Newcastle Falcons: 15 Alex Tait, 14 Noah Cato, 13 Gonzalo Tiesi (c), 12 Danny Barnes, 11 Sinoti Sinoti, 10 Phil Godman, 9 Warren Fury, 1 Rob Vickers, 2 Scott Lawson, 3 Oliver Tomaszczyk, 4 Scott MacLeod, 5 Fraser McKenzie, 6 Mark Wilson, 7 Andy Saull, 8 Chris York

Replacements: 16 George McGuigan, 17 Gary Strain, 18 Scott Wilson, 19 Sean Tomes, 20 Richard Mayhew, 21 Mike Blair, 22 Joel Hodgson, 23 James Fitzpatrick

Warriors
15 Chris Pennell
14 Josh Drauniniu
13 Alex Grove
12 Ravai Fatiaki
11 David Lemi
10 Ryan Lamb
9 Jonny Arr
1 Ofa Fainga'anuku
2 Agustin Creevy
3 Rob O'Donnell
4 James Percival
5 Mariano Galarza
6 Mike Williams
7 Sam Betty
8 Jonathan Thomas (C)

Replacements
16 Ed Shervington
17 Paul Andrew
18 Jerome Schuster
19 Semisi Taulava
20 Richard de Carpentier
21 Paul Hodgson
22 Ignacio Mieres
23 Andy Symons

 

[LeinsterMan (NotTigsMan)]

Saracens side to face London Wasps;

15. Alex Goode; 14. Chris Ashton, 13. Duncan Taylor, 12. Brad Barritt, 11. David Strettle; 10. Charlie Hodgson, 9. Neil de Kock; 1. Mako Vunipola, 2. Jamie George, 3. Matt Stevens, 4. Steve Borthwick ©, 5. Mouritz Botha, 6. Jackson Wray, 7. Kelly Brown, 8. Ernst Joubert.

Replacements; 16. Schalk Brits, 17. Richard Barrington, 18. James Johnston, 19. George Kruis, 20. Jacques Burger, 21. Richard Wigglesworth, 22. Owen Farrell, 23. Marcelo Bosch.

Wasps
15. Andrea Masi
14. Jonah Holmes
13. Elliot Daly
12. Chris Bell (c)
11. Tom Howe
10. Andy Goode
9. Joe Simpson
1. Simon McIntyre
2. Tom Lindsay
3. Jake Cooper-Woolley
4. Tom Palmer
5. Kearnan Myall
6. James Haskell
7. Guy Thompson
8. Nathan Hughes

16. Carlo Festuccia
17. Ricky Reeves
18. Phil Swainston
19. James Cannon
20. Sam Jones
21. Brett Sheehan
22. Joe Carlisle
23. Charlie Hayter

 

[TheSaffycen]

Bath, Glos, Quins, Saracens, Tigers, Newcastle
Big people out for Northampton Dickson, Dickinson, Manoa, Myler

 

[ratsapprentice]

I will be very impressed if Saints can get anywhere near their dominant best with those key players out - even at home.
They're starting an U20's FH.

 

[SuperEagle]

Big people out for
...Northampton Dickson, Dickinson, Manoa, Myler

...Leicester Croft, Parling, Cole, Flood, Mafi, Benjamin.

There, I evened things up for you

 

[TheSaffycen]

Leicester Croft, Parling, Cole, Mafi, Benjamin.

Flood is on the bench but point still stands that Leicester have been ****ed by injury this year so we haven't really seen them at full strength, looking at the teams I cant see how Saints can win this. Does anyone know if these are injuries or are they going all Quins and just losing because they don't think they can win ?

 

[SuperEagle]

Flood is on the bench but point still stands that Leicester have been ****ed by injury this year so we haven't really seen them at full strength, looking at the teams I cant see how Saints can win this. Does anyone know if these are injuries or are they going all Quins and just losing because they don't think they can win ?

Dickson is on the bench as well.

To be fair to Saints, they only lost one match (I'm not counting the LV Cup) and every team has an off-day every now and then. I'm sure Northampton will come out firing for this one and Tigers will have be on form to match them.

This has the makings of a classic.

Also, Bath could effectively end Sale's playoff hopes in tonight's match

 

[Goodey]

Sale don't really have play off hopes.

Good Leicester side out but I'd rather have Kitchener over Deacon and almost anyone over Hamilton these days, he seems to have lost all memory of speed. Confident of an away win looking at our depth but anything could happen, should be a corker.

 

[LeinsterMan (NotTigsMan)]

Sale don't really have play off hopes.

Good Leicester side out but I'd rather have Kitchener over Deacon and almost anyone over Hamilton these days, he seems to have lost all memory of speed. Confident of an away win looking at our depth but anything could happen, should be a corker.

Who else would be instead of Hamilton it between him and Smith and Hamilton played well last week.

Also with Matera instead of Waldrom which adds more strength in the breakdown, Kitchener covers the big ball carrying bench player.

Deacon add more grunt and that imo where to attack saints without Monoa and Dickinson.

...Leicester Croft, Parling, Cole, Flood, Mafi, Benjamin.

There, I evened things up for you

add in Morris, Bowden and Scully

 

[ratsapprentice]

Anyone else confused after that game?

 

[TRF_Olyy]

God knows how we won that. I think the referee was right not to award a PT as the scrum wasn't going forwards/over the line, but it feels wrong that we gave away so many penalties one after the other and Bath got nothing (well apart from Thomas getting binned).
Think the ref probably felt so too, hence the question he gave for Batty's try: If he had asked Try: Yes or No? it wouldn't have been given.

Luckily Ford had a mare at the tee/with his DGs.
Didn't help that we lost Cueto and Braid pre-game, and then had Buckley on the Bench as lock/backrow cover and no back sub.

 

[ratsapprentice]

We were going forward in the scrums though... Cobilas and Thomas were just collapsing as soon as that happened.


Absolutely mental.

We do come unstuck against organised defenses when it's wet though.
And because we don't really have any ballast in the backline we need our carrying forwards to be fit - Fearns made a huge impact when he came on.