Premiership Rugby Shield (AKA, the A-League)

[Which Tyler]

Sarries Storm Vs Exeter Braves will be live on "Freeports"
Freeview: 95
Freesat: 252
BT: 95
Sky: 422
Virginia: 553
Talk talk: 95

Bristol Cubs
15. Jack Tovey
14. Matt Welsh
13. Piers O'Conor
12. Sam Bedlow
11. Tom Pincus
10. Tiff Eden
9. Harry Randall

1. Jordan Lay
2. Tom Lindsay
3. Lewis Thiede
4. Joe Joyce
5. Ehize Ehizode
6. Sam Graham
7. Jake Heenan (c) 8. Nick Haining.

16. Will Capon, 17. Tom Rowland, 18. Ollie Dawe, 19. Joe Batley 20. Nick Fenton-Wells
21. Reiss Cullen, 22. Jack Bates, 23. Ioan Lloyd.

Bath United
1. Arthur Cordwell
2. Michael van Vuuren
3. Sam Nixon
4. Levi Douglas
5. Charlie Ewels
6. Tom Ellis
7. Josh Bayliss (c)
8. Miles Reid

9. Alex Davies
10. Tom de Glanville
11. Ruaridh McConnochie
12. Max Clark
13. Max Wright
14. Levi Davis
15. Darren Atkins

Replacements
16. Tom Doughty, 17 Geraud Clermont, 18. Kieran Verden, 19 Rhys Davies, 20. Paul Grant
21. Jack Davies, 22. Will Butt, 23. Will Partington



Looking further ahead, they've released their first 5 weeks of televised matches.
Round 1 – Monday 03 September 19.45 Saracens v Exeter
Round 2 – Monday 10 September 19.45 Harlequins v Bristol
Round 3 – Monday 24 September 19.45 Northampton v Wasps
Round 4 – Monday 01 October 19.45 Newcastle v Northampton
Round 5 – Monday 17 December 19.45 Gloucester v Bristol

So Bris and Saints getting 2 appearances, none for Bath, Leicester, Sale and Worcester

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Bristol win 30 - 21

 

[Which Tyler]

Bath fans very unhappy with both the ref, and the Bath players.
Sounds like they ****** off therefore, who then only reffed one side. The moral of that story is always "don't **** off the ref"

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Peep the Quins backline for their Shield game:
15. Charlie Walker
14. Gabriel Ibitoye
13. Alofa Alofa
12. Henry Cheeseman
11. Tim Visser
10. Tim Swiel
9. Dave Lewis


Compared to the Sale side playing Wasps A
15.Nathan Pope; 14. Tom Brady, 13. Tom Roebuck, 12. Connor Doherty, 11. Billy Wara; 10. Kieran Wilkinson, 9. Matt Sturgess;



Quins have also drafted in a handful of forward "guests" into their side.
Can't see this comp lasting long





Edit:
Sale Jets win 27-39 at Wasps,
Can't remember the last time the Jets won, so I'm happy with that.
Good to see Wasps put out a proper development side as well.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Wasps have pulled out of their (televised) game against Saints,

Saints have managed to organise a last minute friendly against London Irish but have lost the TV spot

 

[curtbob7]

only the A-League I know but we're getting spanked again tonight. 40-13 to Falcons

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Redpath and Moore returning from injury for Sale tonight

 

[Which Tyler]

Bath v Glaws, live:
24 - 31 FT.
Glaws adapted to the (poor) ref much better for the second half

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Sale vs Leicester live as well



Good to see clubs actually embrace modern technology

 

[Which Tyler]

Bath started doing it about 6-7 years ago, but usually don't

 

[BPM]

Redpath and Moore returning from injury for Sale tonight

TBH, I completely forgot about Moore.

I'll be interested to see how he gets on. As a plus point the injury had meant he's off the radar so the hype around him and England/Wales dilemma has died a bit of a death.

Sam Willis and Dombrandt (I know he's older but he's still inexperienced) have shown than young 8s can cut it in the Premiership so it would be good to see him make his mark.