Sale Sharks - Harlequins (05/05/2012, 14:00)

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Sale have named an all English (well, apart from Mathie who is English qualified) 23 for this match in an effort to get our EQP % for the season up to get the RFU bonus:

15.Rob Miller, 14.Tom Brady, 13.Will Addison, 12.Luther Burrell, 11.Mark Cueto, 10.Tommy Bell, 9.Scott Mathie, 1.Lee Imiolek, 2.Marc Jones, 3.Henry Thomas, 4.Kearnan Myall, 5.Tom Holmes, 6.Will Bordill, 7.David Seymour (capt.), 8.Mark Easter.[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, Garuda, sans-serif]Replacements: 16.Tommy Taylor, 17. Ross Harrison, 18.Joe Ward, 19.Billy Emerson, 20.Jordan Davies, 21.Will Cliff, 22.Iain Thornley, 23.Charlie Amesbury.[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, Garuda, sans-serif]While it will be good to see Tommy Bell get a run out, and to see how some of the academy players get on, this could come back to bite us on the derrier. HEC rugby is not yet secure (granted it's unlikely that Bath will 5pt Tigers, but weirder things have happened) and this is our last ever match at EP so why aren't we putting our strongest side out to get a win and go out on a high?[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, Garuda, sans-serif]Also that bench is a weird make up: [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, Garuda, sans-serif]Hooker, Prop, Hooker, Flanker, Centre, Scrumhalf, Centre, Wing.[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, Garuda, sans-serif]Aaaaannnyyywwwaaaayyy, I look forward to watching this on premiershiprugby.tv when they upload it just to see how Bell and Harrison get on in the run up to the Junion World Championship - also to see how Iain Thornley goes after his sabbatical at Leeds.
Also Henry Thomas vs Joe Marler, as Henry could well be touring in SA in the summer.


Quins have named, I think, their strongest 23 (taking in to account injuries):
[/FONT]Harlequins: 15. Mike Brown, 14. Tom Williams, 13. George Lowe, 12. Jordan Turner-Hall, 11. Sam Smith, 10. Nick Evans, 9. Danny Care, 1. Joe Marler, 2. Joe Gray, 3. James Johnston, 4. Olly Kohn, 5. George Robson, 6. Maurie Fa'asavalu, 7. Chris Robshaw (capt.), 8. Nick Easter
Replacements: 16. Rob Buchanan, 17. Mark Lambert, 18. Will Collier, 19. Tomas Vallejos, 20. Tom Guest, 21. Karl Dickson, 22. Rory Clegg, 23. Matt Hopper​

 

[Teh Mite]

Sale chief executive Steve Diamond: [On his squad selection] "England are hosting the World Cup in 2015. Up here, we're proud of players who want to play for England and we've got a lot of ambition.
"Today was a wonderful chance for our lads who have played quite a lot of games this year, but been in the shadows as well, to play in the first team in front of a full house against a top side."
"I think we were accused earlier on in the week of fielding a weakened side by Premier Rugby. I think Premier Rugby should take on the bigger issues of avoidance of salary caps by some clubs.
"We picked our strongest side, contrary to what Premier Rugby and various other people have accused us of doing.
"To put 23 English players out in one game is remarkable; I think we should be applauded for it."

Who does that pillock trying to convince, there's more spin in that then anything Alastair Campbell spouted during the 05 lions.

He was after the 80 grand from the RFU. Otherwise he would have named more then 1 prop.

 

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Sale chief executive Steve Diamond: [On his squad selection] "England are hosting the World Cup in 2015. Up here, we're proud of players who want to play for England and we've got a lot of ambition.

"Today was a wonderful chance for our lads who have played quite a lot of games this year, but been in the shadows as well, to play in the first team in front of a full house against a top side."

"I think we were accused earlier on in the week of fielding a weakened side by Premier Rugby. I think Premier Rugby should take on the bigger issues of avoidance of salary caps by some clubs.
"We picked our strongest side, contrary to what Premier Rugby and various other people have accused us of doing.
"To put 23 English players out in one game is remarkable; I think we should be applauded for it."