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Leicester vs Gloucester

Duckdee

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Twelvetrees and Cpt Croft.

Leicester Tigers (v Gloucester Rugby, Welford Road, Saturday 3pm)
15 Scott Hamilton
14 Horacio Agulla
13 Manu Tuilagi
12 Billy Twelvetrees
11 Alesana Tuilagi
10 Toby Flood
9 Ben Youngs
1 Boris Stankovich
2 Rob Hawkins
3 Martin Castrogiovanni
4 Steve Mafi
5 George Skivington
6 Tom Croft (c)
7 Ben Woods
8 Thomas Waldrom

Replacements
16 George Chuter
17 Julian White
18 Dan Cole
19 Jordan Crane
20 Craig Newby
21 James Grindal
22 Jeremy Staunton
23 Matt Smith


Gloucester Rugby: 15 Olly Morgan, 14 Jonny May, 13 Henry Trinder, 12 Eliota Fuimaono-Sapolu, 11 Tom Voyce, 10 Freddie Burns, 9 Dave Lewis; 1 Alasdair Dickinson, 2 Scott Lawson, 3 Rupert Harden, 4 Will James, 5 Dave Attwood, 6 Matt Cox, 7 Andy Hazell, 8 Brett Deacon (c). Replacements: 16 Olivier Azam, 17 Nick Wood, 18 Paul Doran-Jones, 19 Alex Brown, 20 Alasdair Strokosch, 21 Rory Lawson, 22 Tim Taylor, 23 Tim Molenaar
 
Tigers out for blood after last weekend, though Gloucester will be smarting after losing to Sale

Tigers should spank them though - very strong team and at home - The return of Twelvetrees as well! :D


Interesting to see Croft at captain, has he captained much before?
I think it was Bullitt who tipped him for England captain in the future
 
Can't tell from that Gloucester team if they've written this one off and targeting Saints on Tuesday or if they're that badly hit with injuries.

Yoda say: One sided this one will be. MMMMMMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
 
They have a few injuries in the backs with tindall, sharples, simpson daniel, vainikolo.
 
All I can do is laugh. Freddie Burns looked bloody excellent today though. Can't wait to see what a full strength Gloucester team looks like now!!!

Leicester looked shambolic tbh, that was a team they should have beaten.
 
Alesana played a caricature of himself, taking his three tries very well, but being completely useless everywhere else. Youngs and Flood were a bit wayward with their passing, but otherwise did ok. Skivington really shored up the line-out, which only failed when Chuter came on. Twelvetrees had a solid performance, and Castro was just a beast.

As to how the game played as a whole, I'm going to cop-out and say "it was one of those days." Credit to Gloucester for getting their 3 points.

I think it would be unfair to drop Allen for the rest of the season, but Billy deserves another start after today. Would 11 Manu, 12 Allen, 13 Twelvetrees work?
 
Heard the score read out at the Sale game today - the whole crowd went "WHA-?"

Sounds like a great match - will make sure to catch the highlights on ITV4

Not sure if Twelvetrees would work at 13 - well, he'd certainly work, but he's best used at 12 or 10 where he can be more creative
Allen has been very good recently though - think Twelvetrees should make the bench more and be brought on for Floor or Allen at 50-60 minutes
 
13 was where Twelvetrees played for Bedford most of the time iirc.

Also, Bullitt's post is now funny.
 

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