London Irish v Leicester Tigers

[Teh Mite]

Madjeski Stadium, Saturday 4th December, 14:30
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[Duckdee]

Leicester Tigers (v London Irish, away, Saturday 2.30pm)
15 Geordan Murphy (c)
14 Scott Hamilton
13 Matt Smith
12 Anthony Allen
11 Alesana Tuilagi
10 Billy Twelvetrees
9 Ben Youngs
1 Marcos Ayerza
2 George Chuter
3 Dan Cole
4 Louis Deacon
5 George Skivington
6 Thomas Waldrom
7 Craig Newby
8 Jordan Crane

Replacements
16 Rob Hawkins
17 Martin Castrogiovanni
18 Peter Bucknall
19 Ed Slater
20 Steve Mafi
21 James Grindal
22 Jeremy Staunton
23 Manu Tuilagi


London Irish: 15 Delon Armitage, 14 Topsy Ojo, 13 Elvis Seveali'i, 12 Daniel Bowden, 11 Jonathan Joseph, 10 Ryan Lamb, 9 Paul Hodgson; 1 Clarke Dermody (c), 2 David Paice, 3 Faan Rautenbach, 4 Nick Kennedy, 5 Kieran Roche, 6 George Stowers, 7 Richard Thorpe, 8 Chris Hala'ufia. Replacements: 16 Brian Blaney, 17 Alex Corbisiero, 18 Paulica Ion, 19 Matt Garvey, 20 Steffon Armitage, 21 Sailosi Tagicakibau, 22 Seilala Mapusua, 23 Chris Malone

In other news, Stankovich has signed a contract extension.

 

[Teh Mite]

Holy crap, one that's not been cancelled!

 

[Duckdee]

Sadly, we have to thank the roundballers' undersoil heating for that.

 

[Teh Mite]

The other games haven't been cancelled due to frozen pitches, rather because of ice on the terraces.

Thank **** I'm not going to the Madjeski this weekend though, it's cold enough there in May on the upper seats!!!

 

[Duckdee]

Ah, ok then. *goes back to his corner*

 

[Teh Mite]

11-16 to tigers with 15 minute to go. Look like Irish's annual seklf distruction has started early this season as Tigers are dominating without getting out of 3rd gear.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Tigers scrum making complete mincement out of Irish today

Almost definate try for Irish a minute ago if D. Armitage hadn't been selfish - 3 on 1 overlap, and he tried to run straight through the defender


Ryan Lamb deciding to try and run that could be very costly...

Yup, penalty try

 

[Duckdee]

Lovely scrums! There's going to be difficult decisions when Croft returns, he obviously needs to be playing, Waldrom's carrying is a real weapon, and Crane looked like he was leading the team over Murphy, and has great control at the back of the scrum. I'd say shift Waldrom to 7, Newby doesn't really offer anything special.