Benetton Treviso v Leicester Tigers

[Teh Mite]

Stadio Comunale di Monigo, 9/8/2010 @ 14:30 (Sky Italia)

 

[Duckdee]

Should win this. Twelvetrees won't be nervous about playing at this level, after his performance against Ospreys last season, and this could be a game to give Manu Tuilagi a decent run.

 

[Duckdee]

Show's what I know:

15 Geordan Murphy (c)
14 Scott Hamilton
13 Dan Hipkiss
12 Matt Smith
11 Alesana Tuilagi
10 Toby Flood
9 Ben Youngs
1 Boris Stankovich
2 George Chuter
3 Martin Castrogiovanni
4 Ed Slater
5 George Skivington
6 Tom Croft
7 Ben Woods
8 Thomas Waldrom

Replacements
16 Rob Hawkins
17 Julian White
18 Dan Cole
19 Steve Mafi
20 Craig Newby
21 James Grindal
22 Horacio Agulla
23 Billy Twelvetrees

Benetton Treviso: 15 Luke McLean, 14 Ludovico Nitoglia, 13 Tommaso Benvenuti, 12 Alberto Sgarbi, 11 Andrew Vilk, 10 Kristopher Burton, 9 Fabio Semenzato; 1 Ignacio Fernandez Rouyet, 2 Leonardo Ghiraldini, 3 Lorenzo Cittadini, 4 Antonio Pavanello, 5 Cornelius van Zyl, 6 Robert Barbieri, 7 Alessandro Zanni, 8 Paul Derbyshire,
Replacements: 16 Diego Vidal, 17 Franco Sbaraglini, 18 Pedro di Santo, 19 Enrico Pavanello, 20 Marco Filippucci, 21 Simon Picone, 22 Tobias Botes, 23 Joe Maddock

 

[TRF_Olyy]

That's a bloody impressive Leicester team.

Tigers by a bajillion.

 

[Teh Mite]

May well silence the "Leicester are past it" brigade. Assuming they turn up.

 

[munstermuffin]

Castro to let loose

 

[Thingimubob]

Treviso holding their own by the looks of it - 18 - 18 atm according to the BBC website

 

[danit]

what a pity, a game thrown away by Maddock (horrible season by him so far) at the end of a shining day

Treviso at home will be a huge hurdle for anyone

 

[TRF_Olyy]

I thought Tigers would run rampant there, but Treviso seemed to put up a massive fight, with Leicester only scraping through.
As you said, no one should consider them an easy 5point trip, they were unlucky not to get more points this afternoon.

 

[Duckdee]

Sloppy play and no lineout.

Flood, Woods and Hipkiss were ruled out before the start, so that may have disrupted some things, but credit to Treviso, they pushed Leicester for the whole 80.

 

[gingergenius]

didn't see the game, but i hope that this result, plus the positive start to the magners' shows that the italy can finally have a competitive side worthy of the heineken cup.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

It'll be interesting to see how well they perform on the road.
Obviously they've been exceeding a lot of peoples expectations in the Magners, but HEC is a step up, and travelling to Stade Aimé Giral or Welford Rd could be a different beast altogether,
I think this group is very hard to predict, with all teams capable of putting in either brilliant or terrible performances, it really depends on that day.