I only saw the second half, but didn't make a massive impression. Mind, no-one did - it was a bitty game in terrible conditions with a terrible ref, and the majority of the half was spent with France attacking the edge of the 22 fruitlessly before knocking on or giving away a penalty for England to kick to touch and then lose the lineout and get mauled back to the 22 whereupon the cycle restarted.
Puja
I do hope this isn't a precursor to the tone of your 'highlights reel' after the main event .......though one can't help feeling it might be.
Though I'm sure we will hear talk of 'a wins a win, we are back on track and led by our captain we showed real aggression in defence'. To which he will add; 'I thought Courtney was immense today'
I only saw the second half, but didn't make a massive impression. Mind, no-one did - it was a bitty game in terrible conditions with a terrible ref, and the majority of the half was spent with France attacking the edge of the 22 fruitlessly before knocking on or giving away a penalty for England to kick to touch and then lose the lineout and get mauled back to the 22 whereupon the cycle restarted.
Puja
I only saw the last 20 minutes and France barely made it out of their own half...
Side for Ireland - 8pm on Fri. game is live on Sky.
15. Jordan Olowofela (Leicester Tigers)
14. Gabriel Ibitoye (Harlequins)
13. Fraser Dingwall (Northampton Saints)
12. Tom Hardwick (Leicester Tigers)
11. Ben Loader (London Irish)
10. James Grayson (Northampton Saints)
9. Ben White (Leicester Tigers)
1. Toby Trinder (Northampton Saints)
2. Henry Walker (Gloucester Rugby)
3. Marcus Street (Exeter Chiefs)
4. Dino Lamb (Harlequins)
5. James Scott (Worcester Warriors)
6. Josh Basham (London Irish)
7. Ben Earl (capt) (Saracens)
8. Sam Moore (Sale Sharks)
Replacements
16: Gabriel Oghre (Wasps)
17: Alex Seville (Gloucester Rugby)
18: Joe Heyes (Leicester Tigers)
19: Sam Lewis (Leicester Tigers)
20: Ted Hill (Worcester Warriors)
21: Rory Brand (London Irish)
22: Will Butler (Worcester Warriors)
23: Tom Seabrook (Gloucester Rugby)
Only seen one whole game and snatches of some of the others. Seen little of Scott but he is an U19 so will be available next year too.
From last year Street, Earl and Ibitoye look very fine players. Walker is a livewire hooker, Basham is a heavy duty grafting 6, Dingwall seems a very tidy footballer and the 2 fly halves, Grayson and Hardwick, show lots of promise.
Ben White hasn't looked particularly likely this 6N, I'm afraid. Our hopes lie with Jack Maunder moving from Exeter, or White and Chudley both coming down injured simultaneously.
Scrumhead wrote:Who’s the other Tigers 9? Harry Simmons I think?? Looked quite promising when I saw him in the AW Cup.
He's a bit older at 21, isn't getting past Sam Harrison, and has no contract beyond the end of this season. I fully expect to see him given zero chance to prove himself before being offered an exciting opportunity in the Championship with London Irish/Nottingham.
Scrumhead wrote:Who’s the other Tigers 9? Harry Simmons I think?? Looked quite promising when I saw him in the AW Cup.
He's a bit older at 21, isn't getting past Sam Harrison, and has no contract beyond the end of this season. I fully expect to see him given zero chance to prove himself before being offered an exciting opportunity in the Championship with London Irish/Nottingham.
Puja
Harry Simmons is 20 (he only turned 20 in November’s but becuase the cut off for U20’s is January he missed the age regrade by only 36 days)
He also signed a new deal in Jan https://www.leicestertigers.com/news/ti ... -contracts
Scrumhead wrote:Who’s the other Tigers 9? Harry Simmons I think?? Looked quite promising when I saw him in the AW Cup.
He's a bit older at 21, isn't getting past Sam Harrison, and has no contract beyond the end of this season. I fully expect to see him given zero chance to prove himself before being offered an exciting opportunity in the Championship with London Irish/Nottingham.
Puja
Harry Simmons is 20 (he only turned 20 in November’s but becuase the cut off for U20’s is January he missed the age regrade by only 36 days)
He also signed a new deal in Jan https://www.leicestertigers.com/news/ti ... -contracts
Sooooooo........
Well, if you're going to bring something as mundane as *facts* into the discussion...
Good to hear he's signed a new contract, as I do have hope that he'll be good, but I am concerned that he'll spend that new contract getting FA gametime and stagnating.
Puja wrote:
He's a bit older at 21, isn't getting past Sam Harrison, and has no contract beyond the end of this season. I fully expect to see him given zero chance to prove himself before being offered an exciting opportunity in the Championship with London Irish/Nottingham.
Puja
Harry Simmons is 20 (he only turned 20 in November’s but becuase the cut off for U20’s is January he missed the age regrade by only 36 days)
He also signed a new deal in Jan https://www.leicestertigers.com/news/ti ... -contracts
Sooooooo........
Well, if you're going to bring something as mundane as *facts* into the discussion...
Good to hear he's signed a new contract, as I do have hope that he'll be good, but I am concerned that he'll spend that new contract getting FA gametime and stagnating.
Puja
Would be surprised if that happens TBH, MOC doesn't seem to mind playing young scrum halfs in the last 4 games Simmons had a decentish (10 + minutes) in 3 of them, and TBF Harrison has been excellent in the last 2 games, the fact that he was fine releasing Kitto early so he can bring up Simmons and White gives me confidence.
Interesting Tigers go into next season with all our 9's being academy products Youngs, Harrison, Simmons, White.
Agreed. I’m not a fan of O’Connor, but in fairness to him, Youngs and Harrison are the obvious choices to start/bench and he has given the younger guys opportunities in the AW Cup/since Youngs’ injury.
Bloggs wrote:Who does Ben white play for? Looks a good prospect too
That's the Leicester scrum half that I was saying hadn't looked hugely impressive this 6N earlier in the thread. Good to hear he's turning in a performance.
