Champions Cup 2019/2020: Pool 3

[Leinster Fan]

Ulster have but themselves in a great position here, things would have to go very wrong for them not to have a quarter final spot. Will be tough trying to get anything in Clermont but the home game against a finished Bath should seal the deal. Probably a runners up spot though unless they can pull a massive game out in France.

Cooney has to start for Ireland, I don't see how anyone could rationalise picking Murray over him (and to be fair I haven't seen anyone trying) at the moment.

 

[Which Tyler]

Teams' Up for the dead rubber

Friday 10/01/20 KO: 7.45 @Bath Rec
Ref: Pascal Gaüzère
TJs: Maxime Chalon, Julien Dufort
TMO: Éric Gauzins

Bath United:
15. Anthony Watson (c)
14. Gabe Hamer-Webb
13. Max Wright
12. Jackson Willison
11. Aled Brew
10. Freddie Burns
9. Max Green

1. Lewis Boyce
2. Jack Walker
3. Christian Judge
4. Matt Garvey
5. Rhys Davies
6. Tom Ellis
7. Mike Williams
8. Josh Bayliss

16. Ross Batty, 17. Lucas Noguera, 18. Sam Nixon, 19. Levi Douglas, 20. Nahum Merigan
21. Ollie Fox. 22. Alex Davies, 23. Tom de Glanville

Harlequins:
15 Aaron Morri
14 Vereniki Goneva
13 Luke Northmore
12 Paul Lasike
11 Gabriel Ibitoye
10 Brett Herron
9 Danny Care

1 Joe Marler
2 Max Crumpton
3 Kyle Sinckler
4 Tevita Cavubati
5 Dino Lamb
6 James Chisholm
7 Chris Robshaw (c)
8 Alex Dombrandt

16 Jack Musk, 17 Santiago Garcia Botta, 18 Will Collier, 19 Glen Young, 20 Semi Kunatani
21 Niall Saunders, 22 Tom Penny, 23 Ross Chisholm.


I'm guessing that the 2 teams are approaching this match with slightly differing priorities...

The Bath forum have spent the last couple of weeks calling for precisely this sort of team as it's a dead rubber, and R&R for the first XV is mroe important than this match. They're now complaining that we'll have lost all choesion and thrown the match by doing this...

 

[Not Mike Brown's Sock]

This is ****

 

[Which Tyler]

This is ****

I'm finding it surprisingly entertaining...

 

[duncanb]

I'm finding it surprisingly entertaining...

Me to

 

[Ragey Erasmus]

Watson off, please don't have let Bath injure a key Bath and England player just returned from injury in a ******* dead rubber...

Also Bath defenders are so damn lazy

 

[Leonormous Boozer]

We'll worked try from the 2012 Leinster bench there.

Ulster are here to play.

 

[Leonormous Boozer]

Kick your points Ulster, you're away to Clermont ffs.

 

[Leonormous Boozer]

First time Ulster have looked like Ulster this season, stupid when in the ascendency, soft once behind.

Should end the McCloskey for Ireland chat too (it won't), flat track bully with no rugby brain at all.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Never heard the Ulster HC speak before - didn't know he was English!

 

[TheSaffycen]

Glad this is on terrestrial tv, great start to the game as well.

 

[Not Mike Brown's Sock]

Dombrandt for England!

 

[Leonormous Boozer]

Ulster are up there with the best of the booers.

 

[Ragey Erasmus]

Ulster fans all game:

 

[Leonormous Boozer]

McCloskey having another game below the standard of an international centre...

 

[Not Mike Brown's Sock]

Controversial that... Looked like gustard had a word with that french prop when he went off. Straight into the changing room at the stoop in a European game... History repeats itself

 

[duncanb]

Ulster tried there best to stuff it up but Bath let them off with Red card.
Just about deserved the win.

 

[unrated]

Yay ! Ulster won!!! I support all teams with ex sharks... you can't fight the currency wars so just accept fate and adapt. Bath probably did not deserve that red though. Slow mo made it worse than it was. But Bath was never going to take it in Ireland.

Coetzee my man of the match but that is probably my subjective/biased opinion.

 

[Leonormous Boozer]

Should have put bets on Freddie and Billy Burns for motm. It was always going to one of them despite Addison and Balaclune being a sight better than either today.