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Hope he has a breakout year this year, profile england are calling out for.13. Rekeiti Ma'asi White,
Anyone see the games? Who looked like a good prospect? I've only seen the results and scorers.Exeter Chiefs 45 London Scottish 19
Exeter Chiefs 46 Cornish Pirates 24
I feel like RMW is the subject of some lazy assumptions - 'he's a centre from a PI background so he must be a big, physical beast and automatically good'. In theory, he has good genes for rugby but that doesn't necessarily mean he's particularly good. Name and genetic potential only gets you so far.I don't rate RMW tbh, much more excited about Joe Bedlow coming back off loan from the championship, apparently he went very well there.
Hopefully a full preseason/good run of time without injury means RMW will kick on, but he looked really bad last season - IMO he should be out on loan for the season this year to get game time and get his head into senior rugby
Players I'm hoping to see more of this season:
Wills on the wing, had a good u20s campaign - likely to get some more game time this season with Reed no longer EQP
Burrows at 5 - not sure how much game time he'll get but he's highly rated. Hopefully see him in the Prem cup
Nye Thomas at 9 - he's tiny but scrappy as hell, you can tell he learned from Faf. Got some decent periods of game time last year, hoping he's our starter in the Prem cup
Tristan Woodman at 7 - spent last season out playing for various local clubs (Caldy, Fylde, Sale FC) to get used to senior rugby - Looks top draw
100000%, the amount of "He's the next Manu!" that comes from journos/commentators when he doesn't play that play style at all is crazyI feel like RMW is the subject of some lazy assumptions - 'he's a centre from a PI background so he must be a big, physical beast and automatically good'. In theory, he has good genes for rugby but that doesn't necessarily mean he's particularly good. Name and genetic potential only gets you so far.
Yeah, good shout - his career so far has been so disjointed hopefully he can get a good solid run of no injuriesMy big hope from Sale is for a proper breakthrough season from Harper. You might argue he's already had that in part, but the time he's spent out with injuries mean he hasn't really cemented a spot which is there for the taking.
Didn't see game but Paul Brown Bampoe getting a hat trick is fun. Hopefully he kicks on. Also apparently 8k fans for the games is pretty impressive.Anyone see the games? Who looked like a good prospect? I've only seen the results and scorers.
Referee: Anthony WoodthorpeMunster, Saturday 31 August
MunsterBath's team
Yeah, it's a very 'I could almost see us fielding this team in a bad injury crisis during the 6N' selection from us. Pretty much all of our new players will get a shot. A few club players on the bench in Fitzgerald and Cleary, albeit Fitzgerald is on a 3m deal for us. Expect pretty much the entire team to swap at HTMunster
1. Jeremy Loughman
2. Diarmuid Barron (C)
3. John Ryan
4. Gavin Coombes
5. Fineen Wycherley
6. Ruadhán Quinn
7. John Hodnett
8. Jack O'Donoghue
09. Ethan Coughlan
10. Billy Burns
11. Shay McCarthy
12. Seán O'Brien
13. Tom Farrell
14. Liam Coombes
15. Patrick Campbell
Replacements: Scott Buckley, Max Clein, Niall Scannell, Josh Wycherley, Stephen Archer, Ronan Foxe, Conor Ryan, Jack Daly, Alex Kendellen, Jack Oliver, Luca Cleary, Tony Butler, Bryan Fitzgerald, Diarmuid Kilgallen, Mike Haley.
Bit of a mismatch on the starters. Will be a good learning experience for the lads.