Aviva Premiership 17/18 - Round 11

[Which Tyler]

Sale:
15. James O'Connor
14. Denny Solomona
13. Sam James
12. Rohan Janse Van Rensburg
11. Byron McGuigan
10. AJ MacGinty
9. Faf De Klerk

1. Ross Harrison
2. Rob Webber
3. WillGriff John
4. Bryn Evans
5. Andrei Ostrikov
6. Jono Ross (capt)
7. Ben Curry
8. Josh Strauss

16. Marc Jones, 17. James Flynn, 18. Halani Aulika, 19. George Nott, 20. Cameron Neild
21. Will Cliff, 22. Mike Haley, 23. Josh Charnley.

Unavailable for selection:
Josh Beaumont, Tom Curry, Mark Jennings, Johnny Leota, Marland Yarde

Bath:
15. Anthony Watson
14. Jack Wilson
13. Matt Banahan
12. Rhys Priestland
11. Aled Brew
10. Freddie Burns
9. Kahn Fotuali'i

1. Lucas Noguera
2. Michael van Vuuren
3. Henry Thomas
4. Charlie Ewels
5. Elliott Stooke
6. Matt Garvey (c)
7. Francois Louw
8. Paul Grant

16. Nathan Charles; 17. Nick Auterac; 18. Max Lahiff; 19. James Phillips; 20. Zach Mercer; 21. Levi Douglas
22. Chris Cook; 23. James Wilson

Unavailable for selection:
Catt, Obano, Batty, Walker, Perenise, Knight, Palma-Newport, Charteris, Attwood, Underhill, Faletau, Ellis
Lewis, Tapuai, Clark, Rokoduguni, Homer, Williams

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Would've preferred to have Ioane and Odogwu on the bench for Neild and Charnley but like that a lot

 

[Scotty]

Exeter Chiefs team vs Saints,

15 Henry Slade
14 Jack Nowell
13 Ian Whitten
12 Sam Hill
11 Olly Woodburn
10 Gareth Steenson (capt)
9 Will Chudley

1 Ben Moon
2 Luke Cowan-Dickie
3 Harry Williams
4 Sam Skinner
5 Jonny Hill
6 Dave Ewers
7 Don Armand
8 Sam Simmonds

16 Jack Yeandle
17 Carl Rimmer
18 Greg Holmes
19 Mitch Lees
20 Thomas Waldrom
21 Stuart Townsend
22 Joe Simmonds
23 James Short

Dollman and Turner injured so Slade at FB.

 

[Scotty]

Lirish passed ball back to the 22 twice from outside the 22 and kicked straight to touch. Comentators picked up on it. Is there a new law update ive missed or does wayne barnes not know the rules after 191 games?...

 

[Mrs. Peter Quinn]

Great try Lewington but Wuss 11 got that horribly wrong

 

[Scotty]

Wuss 11 may have messed up but i think he made up for it haha

But both good trys

 

[Mrs. Peter Quinn]

Wuss 11 may have messed up but i think he made up for it haha

But both good trys

Yeah, second try in particular was stunning

 

[BPM]

Adams is a quality player. The result means Worcester are almost certainly safe, but I wouldn't be surprised if some of the bigger sides starting taking interest in him.

 

[Mrs. Peter Quinn]

Lewington has a little something too. Probably will get snaffled when Irish go down.

 

[Scotty]

Agreed, amd at 22 he could ma

Adams is a quality player. The result means Worcester are almost certainly safe, but I wouldn't be surprised if some of the bigger sides starting taking interest in him.

Agreed, and he's welsh so the welsh regions will be trying to get him i suspect.

 

[BPM]

True. If I were one of the Welsh clubs he'd be one of my top targets.

If he wants to stay in England, I'd be very happy to have him as a replacement for Yarde.

Same goes for Lewington.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Blimey wasn't expecting that!

Pretty dire first half but the second was as good as I've seen us play this season.

Hell of an early Christmas present!

 

[Scotty]

Good win for Chiefs, even if sarries get a BP win we are still 9 points ahead at the mid season point.

Joe simmonds has some talent id like to see more of him. Ewers had some good carries but didnt seem as much a bulldozer as i was hoping for tbh but glad he's back. Have alot of options in the back row now.

 

[Every Time Ref]

Blimey wasn't expecting that!

Pretty dire first half but the second was as good as I've seen us play this season.

Hell of an early Christmas present!

I didn't see any, what's the summary? Result looked pretty awful, how bad/good were we/you?

 

[TRF_Olyy]

I didn't see any, what's the summary? Result looked pretty awful, how bad/good were we/you?

Our defence was excellent throughout, but really picked up the intensity in the 2nd half
Had a 25min or so period after half time where we were just attacking really really well, breaking the line at will

Don't think bath were necessarily terrible it was just one of those days, plenty of knockons, some wayward passes etc

I know it's a tired cliche but we looked far more "up for it" (in the second half anyway)

 

[LeinsterMan (NotTigsMan)]

Hate Christmas eve games, Not watching the tigers game as a loss will just **** me off big time, not worth it.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

I reckon Tigers will win,
Sarries look out of sorts and Tigers looked decent enough last week, for me, to get the home win.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Filthy pass back inside from Thompstone!

 

[Vieux Talonneur]

Nice DG from Fazlet. Still surprised we don't see more of them.

 

[Vieux Talonneur]

Good scrummaging from Tigers.