Scarlets v Tigers 5:30PM 12/01/2019

[Tigersman]

Leicester Tigers (v Scarlets, away, Saturday 5.30pm)
15 George Worth
14 Jonah Holmes
13 Gareth Owen
12 Kyle Eastmond
11 Jordan Olowofela
10 Matt Toomua (c)
9 Ben White
1 Greg Bateman
2 Jake Kerr
3 Joe Heyes
4 Harry Wells
5 Graham Kitchener
6 Mike Williams
7 Will Evans
8 Valentino Mapapalangi

Replacements
16 Ross McMillan
17 Facundo Gigena
18 David Feao
19 Mike Fitzgerald
20 Brendon O’Connor
21 Ben Youngs
22 Joe Ford
23 Sam Aspland-Robinson

Scarlets: 15 Johnny McNicholl, 14 Paul Asquith, 13 Kieron Fonotia, 12 Hadleigh Parkes, 11 Steff Evans, 10 Dan Jones, 9 Gareth Davies; 1 Rob Evans, 2 Ryan Elias, 3 Samson Lee, 4 Joshua Helps, 5 David Bulbring, 6 Ed Kennedy, 7 Dan Davis, 8 Ken Owens (c)
Replacements: 16 Marc Jones, 17 Wyn Jones, 18 Simon Gardiner, 19 Tom Price, 20 Joshua Macleod, 21 Kieran Hardy, 22 Steff Hughes, 23 Ioan Nicholas

[fivepointer]

Nothing riding on the game but what a test for Joe Heyes up against an excellent loose head.

Nice to see Evans getting another run, White starting and SA-R on the bench.

[Puja]

One advantage of us being out of Europe bar miracles is to give a few players a rest. Good expansive team to put out though; I'll enjoy seeing how a few of those go.

Puja

[Scrumhead]

What’s the latest re. Veainu? I’d heard he was due back soon?

[Tigersman]

What’s the latest re. Veainu? I’d heard he was due back soon?

Tail end of 6N's was the hopeful case.

[Epaminondas Pules]

Two tries for scarlets, both greatly helped by the officials. First try was a dummy throw at the lineout. Second one came from a penalty for holding on when Davies was lying in the way. Thems the breaks.

[Buggaluggs]

I don't think you can claim the officials are the difference between the teams. Both side making a lot of mistakes, but more mistakes from Leicester and Scarlets well on top in pretty much every area. If Leicester cut out the errors they could get back in it as they have some tasty runners.

[Buggaluggs]

Steff Evans playing like he has something to prove. Which he does, I guess.

[Tigersman]

Williams annoying me so much.

Team v Glous had like 9 different starting players FFS.

[Buggaluggs]

Which Williams?

[Tigersman]

Which Williams?

Both.

But kind of expecting better from Shane at least.

[Buggaluggs]

Not much going Leicester's way

[Buggaluggs]

"He deserved that try, whether it was a try or not" ???

[Tigersman]

Leicester don’t deserve it.

I know Murphy thinking he needs to get continuity for the games without the England players but we are paying the price for crap depth in multiple positions

Heyes has a good game considering he was up against a international Loosehead. Considering he is 19 and still U20’s.

[Buggaluggs]

Steff Evans & Ken Owens both looked good. Wales with a lot of talent on the wing these days.

[Epaminondas Pules]

I don't think you can claim the officials are the difference between the teams. Both side making a lot of mistakes, but more mistakes from Leicester and Scarlets well on top in pretty much every area. If Leicester cut out the errors they could get back in it as they have some tasty runners.

Not at all, don’t mean it to sound that way. Second best to the scarlets all night. We needed a bit of rub of the green and going down did for us, chance wise. We wee second best, but that’s even harder when you’re already down on the scoreboard.

[Puja]

White reverted to disappointing type this week. Achingly slow service and poor decision-making at the base. Worth was poor too - I'm not convinced either of them are Premiership standard players.

Puja

[Mikey Brown]

Which Williams?

Both.

But kind of expecting better from Shane at least.

You talking about Shane Williams as a pundit? I think he's the only person in the game as bad as Dallaglio.