Irish vs Newcastle

[Puja]

Newcastle Falcons team to face London Irish (Saturday, 3pm, Madejski Stadium)

15 Simon Hammersley

14 Alex Tait

13 Chris Harris

12 Juan Pablo Socino

11 Vereniki Goneva

10 Toby Flood

9 Sonatane Takulua

1 Rob Vickers

2 Kyle Cooper

3 Jon Welsh

4 Calum Green

5 Sean Robinson

6 Mark Wilson (captain)

7 Gary Graham

8 Nili Latu

Replacements

16 Ben Sowrey

17 Sam Lockwood

18 Scott Wilson

19 Evan Olmstead

20 Will Welch

21 Michael Young

22 Joel Hodgson

23 Josh Matavesi

London Irish

15 Greig Tonks

14 Joe Cokanasiga

13 Tom Fowlie

12 Johnny Williams

11 Alex Lewington

10 James Marshall

9 Scott Steele

1 Gordon Reid

2 Saia Fainga’a

3 Petrus du Plessis

4 Franco van der Merwe

5 Teofilo Paulo

6 Mike Coman (captain)

7 Max Northcote-Green

8 Ofisa Treviranus

Replacements

16 Tom Woolstencroft

17 Ben Franks

18 Ollie Hoskins

19 Sebastian De Chaves

20 Blair Cowan

21 Ben Meehan

22 Theo Brophy Clews

23 Aseli Tikoirotuma

[Puja]

Williams and Fowlie in the Irish centres, with TBC on the bench. It seems someone has finally realised that it might be worthwhile chancing their arm a bit.

Puja

[fivepointer]

Irish do get something out of the game, a losing BP. Als they failed to score a try and its this that is really going to condemn them to the drop.

[Epaminondas Pules]

Irish do get something out of the game, a losing BP. Als they failed to score a try and its this that is really going to condemn them to the drop.

Worcester got one too, so no change this week. This was a fixture that Irish had to target. They just look woeful.

[loudnconfident]

(On a cold night at the Madejski) Newcastle scored when they had to. Irish pushed hard but were always second best. They just did'nt look as professional. I suppose money talks? Jan 13th is against Krasny Yar(who they?) in the Euro Challenge Cup. Might be a win for the faithful... At least The Greyfriars were serving Siren's Liquid Mistress...

[Banquo]

Irish do get something out of the game, a losing BP. Als they failed to score a try and its this that is really going to condemn them to the drop.

Worcester got one too, so no change this week. This was a fixture that Irish had to target. They just look woeful.

not quite as bad as Saints in fairness- leading the race to the bottom