Aviva Premiership - Round 22

[TRF_Olyy]

Round 22 Fixtures

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[chippieolamus]

Slightly off topic but Nathan Earle made his injury comeback for Sarries today vs the army, he set up a try apparently.

 

[LeinsterMan (NotTigsMan)]

So god damned pumped for this!! Derby game and play off hopes on the line for us!
Can't wait.

At home I fancy our chances even against a full strength Saints.

Reckon our team will be something like this:
1) Mulipola, 2) Youngs, 3) Cole
4) Thorn, 5) Kitchener,
6) Parling/Gibson, 7) Salvi, 8) Crane
9) Youngs, 10) Burns
12) Loamanu, 13) Tait
11) Goneva, 14) Thompstone, 15) Morris

16) Thacker, 17) Ayerza, 18) Balmain, 19) Slater, 20) Gibson/Pearce, 21) Harrison, 22) Bell, 23) Scully/Catchpole/Smith

Saints team i have no idea would be surprised if Hartley Lawes and Myler start though.

TBH considering our PD and our general season I'm still shocked we are 3rd ATM hopefully it finishes like it and we can try and get revenge against Barf!

Nervous and excited!

 

[91jmay]

We will go full strength minus North would be my guess but could be wrong, I would hope we go for win. Injuries happen if they happen. Perhaps Dickson rested. Hope we ruin their season, expect Leicester to win though.

 

[LeinsterMan (NotTigsMan)]

Prob more chances of a suspension than a injury.

 

[91jmay]

As long as it is worth it.

 

[SWAGGER]

Ayerza will start I reckon and parling is fit so I expect he to play at 6 but I agree with the rest of that team. I hope Leo will be fit for the bench. Also Salter to get more time of the bench and will start if we qualify for the knockouts

 

[Tmartin995]

Chiefs team v Sale:
1. Moon 2. Cowan-Dickie 3. Francis 4. Mumm 5. Lees 6. Armand 7. White 8. Waldrom
9. Chudley 10. Steenson 11. Jess 12. Hill 13. Slade 14. Whitten 15. Nowell

16. Yeandle 17. Rimmer 18. Brown 19. Welch 20. Horstman 21. Lewis 22. Bodily 23. McGuigan

EDIT: Good to see Saints have put out a competitive team against Tigers... Relying on outscoring Sarries now.

 

[LeinsterMan (NotTigsMan)]

Slater @ 6 ahead of Gibson

Leicester Tigers (v Northampton Saints, Welford Road, Saturday 3.30pm)
15 Niall Morris
14 Vereniki Goneva
13 Mathew Tait
12 Christian Loamanu
11 Adam Thompstone
10 Freddie Burns
9 Ben Youngs (c)
1 Logovi'i Mulipola
2 Tom Youngs
3 Dan Cole
4 Brad Thorn
5 Graham Kitchener
6 Ed Slater
7 Julian Salvi
8 Jordan Crane

Replacements
16 Harry Thacker
17 Marcos Ayerza
18 Fraser Balmain
19 Sebastian De Chaves
20 Jamie Gibson
21 Sam Harrison
22 Tommy Bell
23 Jack Roberts

 

[LeinsterMan (NotTigsMan)]

Saints go 50/50

Makes sense

NORTHAMPTON SAINTS TEAM TO PLAY LEICESTER
Aviva Premiership Round 22
Welford Road
Saturday, May 16th, 2015
Kick off 3:30pm
15 Ahsee TUALA
14 Jamie ELLIOTT
13 Dom WALDOUCK
12 Tom STEPHENSON
11 Tom COLLINS
10 James WILSON
9 Lee DICKSON
1 Alex CORBISIERO
2 Mike HAYWOOD
3 Salesi MA’AFU
4 Sam DICKINSON
5 James CRAIG
6 Phil DOWSON (capt)
7 Teimana HARRISON
8 Jon FISHER

16 Dylan HARTLEY
17 Alex WALLER
18 Gareth DENMAN
19 Christian DAY
20 Ben NUTLEY
21 Kahn FOTUALI’I
22 Sam OLVER
23 Howard PACKMAN

 

[Tmartin995]

Probably saw Tigers' performance last weekend and wanted to avoid them in the Semis

 

[Every Time Ref]

Bath team is out, on my phone so can't post it but interestingly pretty much a full team - JJ the only obvious name missing.

Gloucester seem to have basically gone full second team, could be one of their worst Derby days in a while...

 

[SelimNiai]

I did enjoy the "spat" between McCall and Diamond in the week. Very football manager-esque

 

[chippieolamus]

Wilson at 10? Interesting, didn't know he could play there. Sarries for the game vs Welsh:
1) Vunipola
2) Brits
3) Kruis
4) Du Plessis
5) Hargreaves (c)
6) Wray
7) Burger
8) Vunipola
9) De Kock
10) Farrell
11) Ashton
12) Wyles
13) Bosch
14) Strettle
15) Goode

16) George
17) Gill
18) Figallo
19) Itoje
20) Brown
21) Wigglesworth
22) Hodgson
23) Taylor

 

[LeinsterMan (NotTigsMan)]

Wilson at 10? Interesting, didn't know he could play there. Sarries for the game vs Welsh:
1) Vunipola
2) Brits
3) Kruis
4) Du Plessis
5) Hargreaves (c)
6) Wray
7) Burger
8) Vunipola
9) De Kock
10) Farrell
11) Ashton
12) Wyles
13) Bosch
14) Strettle
15) Goode

16) George
17) Gill
18) Figallo
19) Itoje
20) Brown
21) Wigglesworth
22) Hodgson
23) Taylor

Brave call putting Kruis at TH!

 

[chippieolamus]

Brave call putting Kruis at TH!

Apparently they think he'll settle well into the new role. You could say he'll Kruis through the game.

I'm sorry.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

I did enjoy the "spat" between McCall and Diamond in the week. Very football manager-esque

Very Gatlandesque, dont you mean?

It was a daft comment from McCall and then Dimes is never one to back down from an argument :lol:

Sale team:
15. Tom Arscott, 14. Tom Brady, 13. Johnny Leota, 12. Sam Tuitupou, 11. Mark Cueto, 10. Danny Cipriani, 9. Chris Cusiter, 1. Eifion Lewis Roberts, 2. Tommy Taylor, 3. Vadim Cobilas, 4. Jonathan Mills, 5. Nathan Hines, 6. Dan Braid (capt.), 7. David Seymour, 8. Josh Beaumont

Replacements: 16. Marc Jones, 17. Ross Harrison, 18. Ciaran Parker, 19. Michael Paterson 20. Mark Easter, 21. Will Cliff, 22. Joe Ford, 23. Mike Haley

Minus Addison (injured) that's our strongest 23 imo.
I'd have started Haley at 15 with Brady on the bench (Cuets had a great game vs Newcastle) but i can understand Arscott given a run at 15 - he's been in truly outstanding form this season, and if he gets more of the ball at 15 then that'll be grand. Haley offers more zip from the bench than the other two.

Not sure how the game will go - our last few games vs Chiefs have seen a massive walkover to chiefs, a narrow win to chiefs, a massive walkover to us and a narrow win to us.
Worryingly our scrum has creaked a lot the last few weeks (understandable as Vadim is playing 70+ mins every week, as we've no real backup).

I think Exeter will win, probably with 4 tries - I'm hoping for a LBP, and more importantly a good performance.

 

[SelimNiai]

Very Gatlandesque, dont you mean?

It was a daft comment from McCall and then Dimes is never one to back down from an argument :lol:

Sale team:
15. Tom Arscott, 14. Tom Brady, 13. Johnny Leota, 12. Sam Tuitupou, 11. Mark Cueto, 10. Danny Cipriani, 9. Chris Cusiter, 1. Eifion Lewis Roberts, 2. Tommy Taylor, 3. Vadim Cobilas, 4. Jonathan Mills, 5. Nathan Hines, 6. Dan Braid (capt.), 7. David Seymour, 8. Josh Beaumont

Replacements: 16. Marc Jones, 17. Ross Harrison, 18. Ciaran Parker, 19. Michael Paterson 20. Mark Easter, 21. Will Cliff, 22. Joe Ford, 23. Mike Haley

Minus Addison (injured) that's our strongest 23 imo.
I'd have started Haley at 15 with Brady on the bench (Cuets had a great game vs Newcastle) but i can understand Arscott given a run at 15 - he's been in truly outstanding form this season, and if he gets more of the ball at 15 then that'll be grand. Haley offers more zip from the bench than the other two.

Not sure how the game will go - our last few games vs Chiefs have seen a massive walkover to chiefs, a narrow win to chiefs, a massive walkover to us and a narrow win to us.
Worryingly our scrum has creaked a lot the last few weeks (understandable as Vadim is playing 70+ mins every week, as we've no real backup).

I think Exeter will win, probably with 4 tries - I'm hoping for a LBP, and more importantly a good performance.

It did have the whiff of Judy

 

[Every Time Ref]

What did Diamond say?

 

[chippieolamus]

What did Diamond say?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-union/32704834

"I think he should just concentrate on motivating his own team.
"All they've got to do is beat London Welsh like everybody else has done, it's ridiculous.
"When people are most desperate, they say the most desperate things.
"I think he is disappointed that his own motivation isn't good enough to get that Harlem Globetrotter team to beat a really good, workman side like Exeter."

Not sure Sarries can be referred to as Harlem Globetrotters, but there you go. I think that's a mantle which resides solely with Toulon.