Racing 92 v Leicester Tigers

[Tigersman]

Leicester Tigers (v Racing 92, away, Sunday 4.15pm local / 3.15pm UK)
15 Jonah Holmes
14 Adam Thompstone
13 Manu Tuilagi
12 Matt Toomua
11 Jonny May
10 George Ford (c)
9 Ben White
1 Ellis Genge
2 Tatafu Polota-Nau
3 Dan Cole
4 Will Spencer
5 Harry Wells
6 Mike Fitzgerald
7 Brendon O’Connor
8 Sione Kalamafoni

Replacements
16 Jake Kerr
17 Campese Ma’afu
18 Gaston Cortes
19 Mike Williams
20 Will Evans
21 Guy Thompson
22 Ben Youngs
23 Matt Smith


Wow Ben youngs dropped for Ben White is a big move by Murphy. Must rate him, TBF has looked better in the stints I have seen him play recently.

Nice to Evans back into the fold after his injury.

Racing 92: 15 Brice Dulin, 14 Simon Zebo, 13 Virimi Vakatawa, 12 Olivier Klemenczak, 11 Juan Imhoff, 10 Finn Russell, 9 Teddy Iribaren; 1 Eddy Ben Arous, 2 Dimitri Szarzewski (c), 3 Cedate Gomes Sa, 4 Bernard Le Roux, 5 Leone Nakarawa, 6 Wenceslas Lauret, 7 Baptiste Chouzenoux, 8 Antonie Claassen

Replacements: 16 Ole Avei, 17 Guram Gogichashvili, 18 Ben Tameifuna, 19 Dominic Bird, 20 Boris Palu, 21 Antoine Gibert, 22 Louis Dupichot, 23 Ben Volavola

[Stom]

I really just do feel like the difference between Leicester of old and this Leicester is...

6. Croft
7. Moody
8. Corry

6. Fitzgerald
7. O'Connor
8. Kalamafoni

[Tigersman]

Whilst I agree I wouldn't mind
6. Kalamafoni
7. Thompson
8. New 8

Tigers just seem incapable of signing a ball carrying 8.

[fivepointer]

Given Tigers form i dont think they will take anything from the game. Racing look far too strong and will surely win comfortably.

[Mellsblue]

Those locks are well down on the usual quality, too. I don’t say this lightly given Wells’ two years at the finishing school.

[Mikey Brown]

Whilst I agree I wouldn't mind
6. Kalamafoni
7. Thompson
8. New 8

Tigers just seem incapable of signing a ball carrying 8.

I assumed that was the idea with Denton coming in. They clearly hadn’t realised he wasn’t intending on making any tackles, staying fit or catching the ball at any point though.

[Tigersman]

Best i’ve seen White play

[fivepointer]

Well done Tigers. They played some good stuff today and thoroughly deserved their try BP.
Very impressed with young White. Decision to start him was completely justified. Manu looked good.

[Tigersman]

Tigers should go for something like
1. Genge, 2. TPN, 3. Cole
4. Spencer, 5. Wells
6. Fitzgerald, 7. Thompson, 8. Kalamafoni
9. White, 10. Ford
12. Toomua, 13. Manu
11. May, 14. Thompstone, 15. Hopefully Holmes if not erm erm erm erm ?

16. Kerr, 17. Ma'afu, 18. Heyes
19. Williams, 20. Evans
21. Youngs, 22. erm erm erm erm erm, 23. erm erm erm erm

[Mikey Brown]

I’m always interested enough to ask whether Tait is still around, drooped, injures or gone abroad? But never paying quite enough attention to absorb the response. I guess he’s 30-odd now though.

Veianu gone?

[Tigersman]

I’m always interested enough to ask whether Tait is still around, drooped, injures or gone abroad? But never paying quite enough attention to absorb the response. I guess he’s 30-odd now though.

Veianu gone?

Tait was injured in pre-season, started traiining again the other week.

Veainu out for a bit more still after his injury v Sarries in the Prem cup.

[Mikey Brown]

Ah. Thanks. Tait is a nice option I guess but Veianu is something else.

Is White likely to get more of a run? He looked good.

[Tigersman]

White has overtaken Harrison it seems so my guess would be yes.

Hoping he starts next week.

[Puja]

Best i’ve seen White play

Same here - while some of the passing was a touch wayward, at least it was quick and direct. Can finally see what the fuss is about and would like to see more of it.

Puja

[Timbo]

I’m always interested enough to ask whether Tait is still around, drooped, injures or gone abroad? But never paying quite enough attention to absorb the response. I guess he’s 30-odd now though.

Veianu gone?

Tait was injured in pre-season, started traiining again the other week.

Veainu out for a bit more still after his injury v Sarries in the Prem cup.

Veainu would have torn it up on that Racing surface.

Also, i’d love to see George Ford play in a team as good as that Racing team. He’d be unplayable.

[fivepointer]

Great surface to play on and great venue.
Some of Racing's offloading was outrageously good.

[Tigersman]

Saw on twitter that Manu is on 4 tries in 4 games which is his best ever scoring streak.