Premiership Rugby 21/22 - Rd 3

[will311293]

One of the articles i was reading today...back in full training and available to them on Saturday...ill find out which one it was.

You are right Scholtz, Hougaard, Carr, Young, West were all declared fit by Blackett and in full training.

 

[Geordie]

That makes it a tougher game for us. And we're without big Greg Peterson at lock as hes away with the USA team.

Still if we want to be moving away from the basement we need to be fronting up to games like this...

 

[Which Tyler]

Friday Night Rugby

Bristol:

15. Charles Piutau; 14. Ioan Lloyd, 13. Piers O'Conor, 12. Sam Bedlow, 11. Henry Purdy; 10. Callum Sheedy, 9. Harry Randall; 1. Yann Thomas, 2. Will Capon, 3. Kyle Sinckler, 4. Ed Holmes, 5. Joe Joyce, 6. Chris Vui, 7. Jake Heenan, 8. Steven Luatua (c).

System players: 16. Jake Kerr, 17. Jake Woolmore, 18. Max Lahiff, 19. Fitz Harding, 20. Dan Thomas, 21. Andy Uren, 22. Antoine Frisch, 23. Alapati Leiua.

Bath:
15 Tom de Glanville, 14 Semesa Rokoduguni, 13 Jonathan Joseph, 12 Max Ojomoh, 11 Will Muir, 10 Orlando Bailey, 9 Ollie Fox; 1 Beno Obano, 2 Jacques du Toit, 3 Will Stuart, 4 Josh McNally, 5 Charlie Ewels ©, 6 Tom Ellis, 7 Sam Underhill, 8 Josh Bayliss
Replacements
16 Tom Dunn, 17 Lewis Boyce, 18 D'Arcy Rae, 19 Mike Williams, 20 Miles Reid, 21 Max Green, 22 Max Clark, 23 Anthony Watson

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Bath's 10-15 looks rreeaall nice,
On paper this should be a really good game, though with the way they're both playing atm it does have the potential to be a stinker

Surprised at the English Lions being available - was reading something yesterday that said Watson still wasn't available until the 18th, but Faletau (injured?) was

Guess there must be a playtime-limit for early release

 

[will311293]

That makes it a tougher game for us. And we're without big Greg Peterson at lock as hes away with the USA team.

Still if we want to be moving away from the basement we need to be fronting up to games like this...

I am quietly confident except for Radwan... he scares the cr*p out of me. Reminds me of Wade, can just make something out of nothing.

 

[Geordie]

I am quietly confident except for Radwan... he scares the cr*p out of me. Reminds me of Wade, can just make something out of nothing.

Yeah hes something special...but dont take your eyes off our other winger Iwan Stephens....2 in 2 for him aswell.

Hes actually a FB...getting his intro to the prem on the wing...and hes been blistering aswell....

 

[Don't Skip Leg Day]

Friday Night Rugby

Bristol:

15. Charles Piutau; 14. Ioan Lloyd, 13. Piers O'Conor, 12. Sam Bedlow, 11. Henry Purdy; 10. Callum Sheedy, 9. Harry Randall; 1. Yann Thomas, 2. Will Capon, 3. Kyle Sinckler, 4. Ed Holmes, 5. Joe Joyce, 6. Chris Vui, 7. Jake Heenan, 8. Steven Luatua (c).

System players: 16. Jake Kerr, 17. Jake Woolmore, 18. Max Lahiff, 19. Fitz Harding, 20. Dan Thomas, 21. Andy Uren, 22. Antoine Frisch, 23. Alapati Leiua.

Bath:
15 Tom de Glanville, 14 Semesa Rokoduguni, 13 Jonathan Joseph, 12 Max Ojomoh, 11 Will Muir, 10 Orlando Bailey, 9 Ollie Fox; 1 Beno Obano, 2 Jacques du Toit, 3 Will Stuart, 4 Josh McNally, 5 Charlie Ewels ©, 6 Tom Ellis, 7 Sam Underhill, 8 Josh Bayliss
Replacements
16 Tom Dunn, 17 Lewis Boyce, 18 D'Arcy Rae, 19 Mike Williams, 20 Miles Reid, 21 Max Green, 22 Max Clark, 23 Anthony Watson

How's Max Ojomoh looking these days? Do you think he's ready for an England squad call up this season?

 

[Ragey Erasmus]

Bath's 10-15 looks rreeaall nice,
On paper this should be a really good game, though with the way they're both playing atm it does have the potential to be a stinker

Surprised at the English Lions being available - was reading something yesterday that said Watson still wasn't available until the 18th, but Faletau (injured?) was

Guess there must be a playtime-limit for early release

TBH Bath are usually able to put out a reasonable set of backs, it's our forwards who aren't up to scratch. I've consistently felt we have some of the most lazy and lethargic forwards in the league.

 

[Which Tyler]

How's Max Ojomoh looking these days? Do you think he's ready for an England squad call up this season?

He's stand-out in a poor side.
As for whether he's ready - I'm always more cautious than most; and would virtually never pick any player in their breakthrough season - The time to judge class vs purple patch, and to assess mentality is after the opposition video analysts have got their teeth into what the player does and teams start finding and exposing flaws.
Far too many examples of players having a stand-out first season, suffering second season syndrome, and dropping back down the pecking order

 

[Geordie]

Has Ollie Lawrence fallen in to that ?

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Not enthusiastic about our chances in the slightest
Definitely would've given Wilkinson the nod to start

 

[Geordie]

Falcons for Wasps at KP - 15.00:

15 Tom Penny,
14 Adam Radwan,
13 Ben Stevenson,
12 Pete Lucock,
11 Nathan Earle,
10 Will Haydon-Wood,
9 Louis Schreuder;

1 Adam Brocklebank,
2 George McGuigan,
3 Mark Tampin,
4 Marco Fuser,
5 Philip van der Walt,
6 Callum Chick,
7 Will Welch (captain),
8 Carl Fearns.

Replacements: 16 Jamie Blamire, 17 Kyle Cooper, 18 Trevor Davison, 19 Will Montgomery, 20 Gary Graham, 21 Cameron Nordli-Kelemeti, 22 Brett Connon, 23 George Wacokecoke.

 

[EdBirch]

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Any word on when your Lions are available?
I'd have thought they'd make an appearance this round

 

[Not Mike Brown's Sock]

Any word on when your Lions are available?
I'd have thought they'd make an appearance this round

With Ashton back in a couple weeks, their backline starts to look rather tasty

 

[LeinsterMan (NotTigsMan)]

 

[Mumbles119]

Wasps team to face Newcastle Falcons at Kingston Park on Saturday (kick-off 3:00pm)

Wasps (First-team appearances)

15 Ali Crossdale (1)
14 Marcus Watson (53)
13 Sam Spink (8)
12 Jimmy Gopperth (129)
11 Josh Bassett (151)
10 Jacob Umaga (51)
9 Dan Robson (138)
1 Robin Hislop (1)
2 Tom Cruse (100)
3 Jeff Toomaga-Allen (46)
4 Vaea Fifita (1)
5 Elliott Stooke (1)
6 Brad Shields (54) (c)
7 Gabriel Oghre (47)
8 Tom Willis (42)

Replacements

16 Dan Frost (1)
17 Tom West (54)
18 Biyi Alo (19)
19 Tim Cardall (31)
20 Ben Morris (44)
21 Will Porter (31)
22 Will Simonds (4)
23 Zach Kibirige (48)

Unavailable due to injury: Charlie Atkinson, Alfie Barbeary, Malakai Fekitoa, James Gaskell, Joe Launchbury, Michael Le Bourgeois, Rob Miller, Ryan Mills, Matteo Minozzi, Paolo Odogwu, Theo Vukasinovic, Jack Willis, Thomas Young.

 

[Geordie]

As an England fan...there's a whole raft of young talent to keep an eye on in this Bath v Bristol game...

 

[Ragey Erasmus]

Bristol had a blocker that the Bath tackler had to hit rather than the player with the ball because they were standing directly in the way. Not a fan of how these blockers get away with it, the Bath player literally had the blocker completely wrapped and their hands on the player with the ball.

 

[Which Tyler]

As an England fan...there's a whole raft of young talent to keep an eye on in this Bath v Bristol game...

Concerningly many.
Though so far this season the problems have been further forward than the kids