Aviva Premiership - Round 4

[TRF_Olyy]

Round 4 Fixtures

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[LeinsterMan (NotTigsMan)]

Jordan Crane is the Leicester tiger second row cover, could be one to watch.

 

[ratsapprentice]

 

[SelimNiai]

Wonder how many LW will concede this week.

 

[ratsapprentice]

At least 30, I would imagine.

 

[Peat]

Could easily be more - that's a ridiculously potent Glaws backline if it gets a bit too much space.

 

[ratsapprentice]

Yeah - wouldn't be surprised to see them concede 200 pints in 4 games.
I'm just accounting for a possible poor Gloucester showing/a jump in LW's defensive quality... covering my own arse basically.

 

[TheSaffycen]

Welsh have been seriously found with pace on the outside. So this should be fun for May and Sharples and I could well see one or both of them getting 3 tries. I would say Glos to put 40 + on them.

 

[Wendigo7]

Chiefs vs Quins.

Bloody hell. There are no gimmes anymore in the league are there.

Chiefs by 6 or 7. Steenson to play well.

Why isn't Conlon playing more? He's a really classy flanker for his age.

 

[ratsapprentice]

Bath Rugby team to face Northampton Saints
15. Luke Arscott
14. Semesa Rokoduguni
13. Jonathan Joseph
12. Kyle Eastmond
11. Olly Woodburn
10. George Ford
9. Chris Cook
1. Paul James
2. Rob Webber
3. David Wilson
4. Stuart Hooper ( c )
5. Dave Attwood
6. Alafoti Fa’osiliva
7. Guy Mercer
8. Leroy Houston
Replacements
16. Tom Dunn
17. Nick Auterac
18. Henry Thomas
19. Dominic Day
20. Charlie Ewels
21. Peter Stringer
22. Gavin Henson
23. Ollie Devoto

CHIEFS SQUAD TO FACE HARLEQUINS
15 Phil Dollman
14 Jack Nowell
13 Henry Slade
12 Sam Hill
11 Matt Jess
10 Gareth Steenson
9 Will Chudley
1 Ben Moon
2 Jack Yeandle (capt)
3 Tomas Francis
4 Mitch Lees
5 Damian Welch
6 Dave Ewers
7 Ben White
8 Thomas Waldrom
16 Elvis Taione
17 Carl Rimmer
18 Moray Low
19 Don Armand
20 Kai Horstmann
21 Pat Phibbs
22 Ian Whitten
23 Tom James

 

[LeinsterMan (NotTigsMan)]

Mulipola injured as well for Leicester!!!!!!!!! but Benjamin back.

Leicester Tigers (v London Irish, Welford Road, Saturday 3pm)
15 Mathew Tait
14 Blaine Scully
13 Vereniki Goneva
12 Owen Williams
11 Miles Benjamin
10 Freddie Burns
9 Ben Youngs (c)
1 Tom Bristow
2 Leonardo Ghiraldini
3 Fraser Balmain
4 Sebastian De Chaves
5 Graham Kitchener
6 Jamie Gibson
7 Julian Salvi
8 Jordan Crane

Replacements
16 Neil Briggs
17 Riccardo Brugnara
18 Tiziano Pasquali
19 Laurence Pearce
20 Robert Barbieri
21 Harry Wells
22 Sam Harrison
23 Matt Smith

 

[Peat]

Can we play the HEC game now?

 

[LeinsterMan (NotTigsMan)]

Can we play the HEC game now?

cheeky

Hopefully by the time that happens.

Mulipola and Ayerza will be back with Thorn, Manu, Croft and Loamanu at the very least.

FYI a missing team would look like this:

1) Ayerza, 2) Youngs, 3) Cole
4) Thorn, 5) Parling
6) Croft 7) Matera, 8) Slater
9) Mele, 10) Bai
12) Allen, 13) Manu
11) Thompstone, 14) Loamanu 15) Morris

16) Thacker, 17) Rizzo, 18) Mulipola
19) Deacon, 20) Price 21) Hepetema, 22) Camacho, 23) Hamilton

But tbh that team is a decent squad with a potentially good backline.

Bristow has got a good amount of experience from Welsh a couple season ago.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Can we play the HEC game now?

I just wish we were playing them before Christmas, when their players start coming back and they're all out for blood



Sale:

Luke McLean, Tom Brady, Jonny Leota, Mark Jennings, Tom Arscott, Danny Cipriani, Chris Cusiter, Alberto de Marchi, Shalva Mamukashvili, Eifion Lewis Roberts, Jonathan Mills, Michael Paterson, Magnus Lund, David Seymour, Mark Easter
Replacements Cameron Neild, Ross Harrison, Vadim Cobilas, Josh Beaumont, Viliami Fahiki, Will Cliff, Joe Ford, Andy Forsyth


Saracens:
15. Alex Goode; 14. Chris Ashton, 13. Duncan Taylor, 12. Brad Barritt ©, 11. David Strettle; 10. Charlie Hodgson, 9. Neil de Kock; 1. Rhys Gill, 2. Jamie George, 3. James Johnston, 4. George Kruis, 5. Mouritz Botha, 6. Jackson Wray, 7. Jacques Burger, 8. Ernst Joubert.]Replacements; 16. Scott Spurling, 17. Richard Barrington, 18. Petrus Du Plessis, 19. Jim Hamilton, 20. Kelly Brown, 21. Richard Wigglesworth, 22. Ben Ransom, 23. Nick Tompkins.

 

[TheSaffycen]

Right i'm going for a Glos win by 40+, Tigers wins by 20+, Saracens by 5-10, Bath by 3-8, Exeter by 7-13, Wasps by 10-17

 

[TheSaffycen]

Welsh 10-46 Gloucester and the same old story, welsh got tired at around the 60th minute and got blown away. The first half was quite tight at 10-12.

 

[Patchey]

Welsh looked good for their Monday until about the 62nd minute, then Glose tore them a new one.

 

[TheSaffycen]

Some pretty damning stats for Welsh. 33 missed tackles, including 3 from Olly Barkley. Dan Robson was incredible making 75 meters beating 2 defenders and making 3 clean breaks.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Was working through the game, but I've heard Justin Burnell kicked off when interviewed?
Mentioned the refereeing being gash, and that the penalty count was 20-7 against Gloucester but no cards?

 

[Wendigo7]

The awareness and the switching off of London Welsh was very poor.

Make no mistake, Gloucester were nothing to write home about but jeez the sooner they are relegated the better.