Premiership Rugby Cup

[Scrumhead]

Quins team vs. Bath:

1. Boyce
2. Elia
3. Collier
4. Merrick
5. South
6. Dombrandt
7. White
8. Clifford
9. Mulchrone (c)
10. Catrakilis
11. R. Chisholm
12. Saili
13. Alofa
14. C. Walker
15. Morris

16. Ward 17. Auterac 18. Swainston 19. Lamb 20. Luamanu 21. Lewis 22. Lang 23. Lasike

Bath:

1. Noguera-Paz
2. J. Walker
3. Nixon
4. Charteris
5. Garvey (c)
6. Douglas
7. Bayliss
8. Reid
9. Chudley
10. A. Davies
11. McConnochie
12. Clark
13. Wilson
14. Davis
15. Homer

16. Batty 17. Vaughan 18. Lahiff 19. Britton 20. J. Davies 21. Green 22. Wright 23. Atkins

Two fairly even lineups so could be a good game. Could be an interesting debut for Auterac.

[twitchy]

Good to see malins get a run out. I'd forgotten about him.

[Puja]

Think HTS might have a hard day against Hayes in the scrums.

My usual quality level of prediction.

That was an awful game. I struggled to stay awake it was that pedestrian. Learned nothing, achieved nothing, and the only thing of interest was listening to the commentators desperately trying to imply that this was a first team game by referencing players having "second first team game of the season" and "stepping up this higher level of first team rugby".

Puja

[twitchy]

Joel Kpoku was motm and looked fantastic.

[fivepointer]

He was very good and looks like he will take the step up to regular 1st team rugby pretty easily. Thought the young Tigers lock, Jordan, acquitted himself well. Crossdale and Gallagher looked lively.

Apparently Dombrandt was very good for Quins. I saw him in a one of the A league games and he definitely has something about him.

[Tigersman]

Yeh Jordan is rated he still needs to put on some mass though to reach his potential at lock but he is a leader him and martin dominated at U18 level.

I rate Lewis as well IMO should focus on being a 6 again like Jordan could prob do with putting on some weight but his line and offload to Faeo for his try was very good.

Tigers fielding J.Ford and Smith at 13 was our biggest mistake couldn’t create anything.

Harry Wells is coming into his own this season must have one of the highest turnover amounts for a lock in England.

[twitchy]

Decent game, lawday looked quality, and both newcastle wings have serious pace.

[fivepointer]

Good game today. Exe did well to come back but Falcons really let it slip.
Agree about Lawday, who was very good again. The young Exe half backs did OK. Marshall, the Falcons openside, was very industrious and the wings are rapid.

[Scrumhead]

Watched the highlights this evening. I was looking forward to seeing some of the Quins and Saints game, but instead 40mins was dedicated to two games with the other 4 games getting barely 5mins each.

From what I’d read, Mitchell, Grayson and Dingwall were all very good for Saints and Dombrandt was very good for Quins, but aside from seeing the tries, I didn’t get much more insight.

From what I saw, Stuart, Kibirige and Radwan were very good for Newcastle and Kpoku stood out for Saracens. I also thought Woolstonecroft was looking good for Saracens too.

[Puja]

Maunder the younger was also a standout - crisp, clean, fast, accurate service, contestable box-kicks, and getting to every ruck within a maximum of a couple of seconds puts him ahead of Youngs on form for me! Got badly caught once, but that's something that'll come with experience.

Puja

[twitchy]

For the record Bodilly isn't slow what so ever.

[Mikey Brown]

Radwan's step/pace for their first try was kind of absurd too.

[jimKRFC]

After a poor performance ast week hopefully Bris can find some form this week!

Bristol Bears team to face Gloucester Rugby on Friday, November 2nd (7.45pm KO):

15. Luke Morahan; 14. Tom Pincus, 13. Piers O’Conor, 12. Sam Bedlow, 11. Ryan Edwards; 10. Callum Sheedy (c), 9. Andy Uren; 1. Jack Cosgrove, 2. Tom Lindsay, 3. Nicky Thomas, 4. John Hawkins, 5. Sam Jeffries, 6. James Dun, 7. Dan Thomas, 8. Nick Haining.

Replacements: 16. Shaun Malton, 17. Jake Woolmore, 18. Lewis Thiede, 19. Aly Muldowney, 20. Jake Heenan, 21. Harry Randall, 22. Tiff Eden, 23. Charles Piutau.

CP finally fit!

[Scrumhead]

Is that Jeffries’ first involvement this season too? I seem to remember him looking good a couple of seasons ago.

[jimKRFC]

He came on against Worcester and did ok in a bad performance. He has shown a lot of potential so good to have him back. Muldowny and CP back could give us a bit of a boost going back to the league.

[Digby]

A big congrats to Sara Cox for taking charge of the Wasps game this weekend. And here's hoping having female refs is simply based on ability and becomes simply part of the everyday in the near future such congrats would only come from family and friends

[Puja]

A big congrats to Sara Cox for taking charge of the Wasps game this weekend. And here's hoping having female refs is simply based on ability and becomes simply part of the everyday in the near future such congrats would only come from family and friends

Hear hear.

Puja

[Mellsblue]

A big congrats to Sara Cox for taking charge of the Wasps game this weekend. And here's hoping having female refs is simply based on ability and becomes simply part of the everyday in the near future such congrats would only come from family and friends

Hear hear.

Puja

It’s been a good few days for her. First the drive time gig on BBC R2 and now this. Big congratulations.

[Which Tyler]

A big congrats to Sara Cox for taking charge of the Wasps game this weekend. And here's hoping having female refs is simply based on ability and becomes simply part of the everyday in the near future such congrats would only come from family and friends

Thirded - I hadn't wanted to bring it up myself, as I feel it OUGHT to be unremarkable; unfortunately, we don't yet live in that world.

[fivepointer]

Bravo. we've had lady TJ's but this is a new and very welcome development.
Didnt an Irish lady ref take a high level game some weeks back?

[Renniks]

It's a fantastic step, but long way to go!

Has anyone seen her previous reffing? Do we know what type of ref she is?

[Tigersman]

Leicester Tigers (v Worcester Warriors, Welford Road, Saturday 3.00pm)

15 George Worth

14 Jonah Holmes

13 Matt Smith (c)

12 Gareth Owen

11 Jordan Olowofela

10 Tom Hardwick

9 Sam Harrison

1 Facundo Gigena

2 Jake Kerr

3 Joe Heyes

4 Will Spencer

5 Graham Kitchener

6 Valentino Mapapalangi

7 Will Evans

8 Fred Tuilagi

Replacements

16 Tatafu Polota-Nau

17 Campese Ma’afu

18 David Feao

19 Sam Lewis

20 Tommy Reffell

21 Ben White

22 Joe Ford

23 Andrew Forsyth

Last time Forsyth played for Tigers was 2013 Started in the team that beat SA in 2009.

[Tigersman]

15 Chris Pennell
14 Bryce Heem
13 Ollie Lawrence
12 Francois Venter
11 Perry Humphreys
10 Duncan Weir
9 Francois Hougaard
1 Callum Black
2 Jack Singleton
3 Nick Schonert
4 Anton Bresler
5 Darren Barry
6 Ted Hill
7 Sam Lewis
8 GJ van Velze (C)

Replacements
16 Niall Annett
17 Ethan Waller
18 Gareth Milasinovich
19 Andrew Kitchener
20 Matt Cox
21 Michael Heaney
22 Jamie Shillcock
23 Wynand Olivier

[Stom]

Harlequins XV to play Newcastle Falcons (kick-off: 15:00)

15. Ross Chisholm (92)
14. Cadan Murley (2)
13. Francis Saili (8)
12. James Lang (28)
11. Tim Visser (63)
10. Demetri Catrakilis (9)
9. Niall Saunders (1)

1. Lewis Boyce (20)
2. Dave Ward (148)
3. Phil Swainston (12)
4. Dino Lamb (13)
5. George Merrick (84)
6. Jack Clifford (Captain, 77)
7. Archie White (23)
8. Alex Dombrandt (2)

Game Changers

16. Elia Elia (22)
17. Nick Auterac (1)
18. Will Collier (134)
19. Ben Glynn (23)
20. Paul Lasike (6)
21. Dave Lewis (19)
22. Henry Cheeseman (14)
23. Aaron Morris (23)

Not considered for selection

Alofa Alofa
Renaldo Bothma
Mike Brown
Rob Buchanan
Danny Care
James Chisholm
Max Crumpton
Nathan Earle
James Horwill
Gabriel Ibitoye
Semi Kunatani
Mat Luamanu
Joe Marchant
Joe Marler
Chris Robshaw
Kyle Sinckler
Marcus Smith
Matt Symons
Ben Tapuai
Luke Wallace

[Puja]

Last time Forsyth played for Tigers was 2013 Started in the team that beat SA in 2009.

Is he back full time now? Good squad man to have, I'd say.

Good to see Worcester being only one substitution away from the dream centre partnership of Lawrence Olivier.

Puja