Bath vs Scarlets for the Rag Doll; Friday night Rugby on BTSport

[Which Tyler]

Bath:
15. Anthony Watson
14. Matt Banahan
13. Jonathan Joseph
12. Ben Tapuai
11. Aled Brew
10. Rhys Priestland
9. Chris Cook

1. Beno Obano
2. Tom Dunn
3. Henry Thomas
4. Elliott Stooke
5. Luke Charteris
6. Matt Garvey (c)
7. Sam Underhill
8. Zach Mercer

16. Michael van Vuuren; 17. Lucas Noguera; 18. Max Lahiff; 19. James Phillips; 20. Paul Grant
21. Kahn Fotuali’i; 22. Freddie Burns; 23. James Wilson


Scarlets:
15 Leigh Halfpenny
14 Johnny Mcnicholl
13 Paul Asquith
12 Scott Williams
11 Tom Prydie
10 Rhys Patchell
9 Gareth Davies

1 Rob Evans
2 Ken Owens (c)
3 Samson Lee
4 Tadhg Beirne
5 David Bulbring
6 Aaron Shingler
7 James Davies
8 John Barclay

Ryan Elias, Wyn Jones, Werner Kruger, Lewis Rawlins, Josh Macleod, Aled Davies, Dan Jones, Hadleigh Parkes

[Greebo]

Quite keen to see how Beno Obano and Sam Underhill go. Is it on TV?

[fivepointer]

BT Sport 7pm

The front row match up could be very interesting. Pleased to see Underhill back.

[Raggs]

The return of Underhill!

[twitchy]

Should be a good game.

[Digby]

Starring

Matt Garvey as Sad Sack
Anthony Watson as HiFi
Chris Cook as Dotty
Sam Underhill as Back-to-Front
Luke Charteris as Claude
and
Rhys Priestland as Lucy

[Which Tyler]

"Leigh Halfpenny and Johnny McNicholl have both been ruled out of Scarlets' game v Bath after failing fitness tests. Rhys Patchell now at full-back, Asquith on wing, Hadleigh Parkes into centre."

Apparently both pulled up in the captain's run today!

15 Rhys Patchell, 14 Tom Prydie, 13 Hadleigh Parkes, 12 Scott Williams, 11 Paul Asquith, 10 Dan Jones, 9 Gareth Davies, 1 Rob Evans, 2 Ken Owens ©, 3 Samson Lee, 4 Tadhg Beirne, 5 David Bulbring, 6 Aaron Shingler, 7 James Davies, 8 John Barclay



Replacements; 16 Ryan Elias, 17 Wyn Jones, 18 Werner Kruger, 19 Lewis Rawlins, 20 Josh Macleod, 21 Aled Davies, 22 Steff Hughes, 23 Will Boyde

[Which Tyler]

Arse, not that we lose much with Burns, but the plan changes, hopefully for the better (though it looks like we did start with the better plan)

[Which Tyler]

Beautiful

[Which Tyler]

This his just a fantastic display of exhibition rugby, I just wish I could enjoy it properly.

[16th man]

Scarlets on another planet to Bath here.

[Mellsblue]

This his just a fantastic display of exhibition rugby, I just wish I could enjoy it properly.

It could be worse I’ve just watched Ospreys Select v Bedford on Ospreys Facebook page, with no commentary and a camera man who I can only assume is drunk. To top it off it’s a 0 v 3 snooze fest. The cameraman may have the right idea.

[Which Tyler]

Not sure how it's a knock on at all when the ball gods backwards

[Raggs]

Thought it went back too.

Underhill has put in some good carries, takes the ball at pace.

[Oakboy]

Have Bath set a record for missed tackles? The Scarlets are splendid at pace but tacklers should not be brushed off so easily, surely?

[Buggaluggs]

Have Bath set a record for missed tackles? The Scarlets are splendid at pace but tacklers should not be brushed off so easily, surely?

Yes. Yes they should when foolish enough to go up against the mighty Scarlets

[Buggaluggs]

We can't get carried away with just one half of rugby. But it does seem clear now that Wales will easily win the GS this year.

[Mellsblue]

We can't get carried away with just one half of rugby. But it does seem clear now that Wales will easily win the GS this year.

Don’t come on the EMB with your blind optimism. It’s doom and gloom on here or you can pack your bags.

[Which Tyler]

The comeback begins!
ahem

[Digby]

Scarlets play some excellent rugby

[Timbo]

Scarlets play some excellent rugby

Yep. When they fully clicked at the back end of last season I genuinely think they would have beaten any team in the northern hemisphere.

Some really exciting rugby teams in the Pro14, with Scarlets, Glasgow, Leinster, Cheetas, Connacht...all do things slightly differently too. Makes a change from watching the Premiership where everything is pretty generic.

[Raggs]

Not sure you can class the premiership as generic, the top 4 teams in the league all have very different styles.

[Timbo]

Not sure you can class the premiership as generic, the top 4 teams in the league all have very different styles.

Gloucester don’t have a very different style from Saracens. It’s a variation on a theme, like most of the Premiership.

But anyway, the top 4 isn’t the league and Wasps and Exeter (to an extent Sale) are the only clubs with very distinct styles imo.

[fivepointer]

Scarlets were excellent. Some of their offloading and continuity play were of a very high order.

But goodness Bath were timid in defence and badly disjointed at times. They will be very disappointed to have performed so poorly in a key game.

None of the England hopefuls exactly shone but i thought Obano went pretty well and Dunn put in a good 80 minutes.

[Mellsblue]

How did Underhill go?