Bath v BaaBaa.s, Sunday, 2.00

[Which Tyler]

Livestreamed on the Bath offy

Bath Rugby:
15 Tom de Glanville
14 Will Butt
13 Jonathan Joseph
12 Max Ojomoh
11 Matt Gallagher
10 Orlando Bailey
9 Max Green

1 Arthur Cordwell
2 Tom Dunn
3 D'Arcy Rae
4 Fergus Lee-Warner
5 Tom Ellis
6 Josh Bayliss
7 Miles Reid
8 Richard de Carpentier.

16 Niall Annett, 17 Valeriy Morozov, 18 Johannes Jonker, 19 Quinn Roux, 20 Ted Hill
21 Tom Carr-Smith, 22 Ollie Lawrence, 23 Joe Cokanasiga

 

[Vieux Talonneur]

Would that be the same Joe Cokanasiga that's not fit enough for England v ABs duty?

 

[Which Tyler]

That's the one.
I'd grant that there's a difference between starting at international level, and benching for a club side against the BaaBaas (I don't think Eddie would ever put Jo on the bench)
There's also a few days difference, so the injury may simply be less severe than first thought.

I'm really not sure whose S&C / medical teams I'd trust more - neither have a great reputation recently

 

[Vieux Talonneur]

That's the one.
I'd grant that there's a difference between starting at international level, and benching for a club side against the BaaBaas (I don't think Eddie would ever put Jo on the bench)
There's also a few days difference, so the injury may simply be less severe than first thought.

I'm really not sure whose S&C / medical teams I'd trust more - neither have a great reputation recently

Very true, but you can still get hurt in friendlies and Eng have a game to go against the world champions. Given our other wings injury records you'd think Jones would want to keep his options as open as possible. Unless he hasn't liked what he's seen from Coka and is just discounting him.

 

[Which Tyler]

Meh, he released him back to his club, knowing that his club had a match this week.
If he didn't want to risk Jo playing this week, he could have kept him as the 25th man (and we could have complained about just what Freeman has to do to get a look in)

 

[Don't Skip Leg Day]

I'd assumed Coko would go as the travelling reserve this weekend but maybe that's Freeman instead.

Hopefully he gets a run out for bath and stay injured. I think he's played alright this series so far. Definitely offers more threat than Nowell.

 

[Which Tyler]

I'd assumed Coko would go as the travelling reserve this weekend but maybe that's Freeman instead.

Hopefully he gets a run out for bath and stay injured. I think he's played alright this series so far. Definitely offers more threat than Nowell.

The travelling reserves would be the 2 from the named 25 who don't make the 23, surely

 

[Ragey Erasmus]

I'd assumed Coko would go as the travelling reserve this weekend but maybe that's Freeman instead.

Hopefully he gets a run out for bath and stay injured. I think he's played alright this series so far. Definitely offers more threat than Nowell.

Yeah, I was a bit worried as his form dropped off a lot after his first caps but I can't really think of any time he has been shown up in his last games and he has shown signs of his power game.

 

[Don't Skip Leg Day]

The travelling reserves would be the 2 from the named 25 who don't make the 23, surely

I completely forgot who the extra forward and back was to be honest but that makes sense.

 

[Which Tyler]

Barbarians:
15 Mike Brown (c)
14 Francois Hougaard
13 Luther Burrell
12 Levi Aumua
11 Marland Yarde
10 Damian McKenzie
9 Gareth Simpson

1 Murray McCallum
2 Tom Cruse
3 John Ryan
4 Graham Kitchener
5 Elliott Stooke
6 Kiran McDonald
7 Iacopo Bianchi
8 Abe Papali'i

Replacements:
16 Marco Manfredi, 17 Hayden Thompson-Stringer, 18 Elliott Millar-Mills, 19 Tim Cardwell, 20 Olly Robinson
21 Cathal Forde, 22 Jacopo Trulla, 23 AJ Lam, 24 Matt Banahan

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Can't believe Cruse is fit again and still clubless - he's played so well for Wasps, I'd have thought he'd be picked up by someone
Maybe post Baabaas after he's proved fitness


Be interesting to see how Yarde goes - he was in fine form before.....all of that

 

[Which Tyler]

 

[Which Tyler]

How the hell did he get that!

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Great finish,
Not sure it's given in the Prem but play ball!

 

[Which Tyler]

Great finish,
Not sure it's given in the Prem but play ball!

Yeah, if it mattered, it goes to TMO, and probably denied.
Mind, if it mattered, TdG wouldn't have been allowed to reach the ball

 

[Which Tyler]

Huzzah!

Thanks Zach (really, really missed you)

 

[TRF_Olyy]

I was gonna say I'm pretty sure they're not lining up in the numbers listed above

 

[Which Tyler]

I was gonna say I'm pretty sure they're not lining up in the numbers listed above

Not even close - I don't think it's even got starters and benchers right - just thrown them out there.
Confused me with Zach playing BaaBaas the last couple of weekends, and seeing his scrum cap wearing 7 - now I've seen that player's face, it isnt' Zach though - but he helped us with that 2nd try by trying an offload to Brown that wasn't on

 

[Which Tyler]

Alfie confirmed