Irish vs Tigers - Sunday 2.30pm

[Puja]

London Irish: 15 Paddy Jackson, 14 Waisake Naholo, 13 Curtis Rona, 12 Terrence Hepetema, 11 Ben Loader, 10 Stephen Myler, 9 Ben Meehan, 1 Danny Hobbs-Awoyemi, 2 Saia Fainga’a, 3 Ollie Hoskins, 4 Ruan Botha, 5 Franco van der Merwe (c), 6 Blair Cowan, 7 TJ Ioane, 8 Albert Tuisue

Replacements: 16 Motu Matu’u, 17 Allan Dell, 18 Lovejoy Chawatama, 19 George Nott, 20 Matt Rogerson, 21 Nick Phipps, 22 Matt Williams, 23 Tom Parton


Leicester Tigers (v London Irish, away, Sunday 2.30pm)

15 Jonah Holmes

14 Adam Thompstone

13 Andy Forsyth

12 Tom Hardwick

11 Jordan Olowofela

10 Noel Reid

9 Sam Harrison

1 Greg Bateman

2 Tom Youngs (c)

3 Joe Heyes

4 Harry Wells

5 Calum Green

6 Sione Kalamafoni

7 Guy Thompson

8 Jordan Taufua

Replacements

16 Charlie Clare

17 Facundo Gigena

18 Nephi Leatigaga

19 Tomás Lavanini

20 Jordan Coghlan

21 Ben White

22 George Worth

23 Sam Aspland-Robinson

[Puja]

We need a win this week. Not 100% sure we'll get it, but it could be vital to our season.

Puja

[Tigersman]

Missing a lot already
Don't see us winning.

[Digby]

Two bad teams on paper but one of them doesn't have Paddy Jackson, go Tigers!

[francoisfou]

Missing a lot already
Don't see us winning.

Pack looks good, though, and the replacements too. Fingers crossed Tigers'll come away with a win.

[fivepointer]

3 English starters for Irish. Makes it hard for me to root for them despite Loader on the wing.
Er, go....Tigers.

[Tigersman]

Glad tigers are rotating Props now.
Was worried Heyes might have gone the cole route already of playing 80 mins game whilst he was away.

[Mellsblue]

Bloody hell. Irish seemed to have wasted quite a bit of money on foreign journeymen.

[Banquo]

Bloody hell. Irish seemed to have wasted quite a bit of money on foreign journeymen.

...falls off chair in surprise....

[Mellsblue]

Bloody hell. Irish seemed to have wasted quite a bit of money on foreign journeymen.

...falls off chair in surprise....

Haven’t heard of him. Where’s he from?

[Mikey Brown]

Has officer Trevor Anus finally called it a day?

[Banquo]

Bloody hell. Irish seemed to have wasted quite a bit of money on foreign journeymen.

...falls off chair in surprise....

Haven’t heard of him. Where’s he from?

Tenuous old boy

[Mellsblue]

...falls off chair in surprise....

Haven’t heard of him. Where’s he from?

Tenuous old boy

Never heard of it. I’m guessing an island near Samoa or Fiji?

[Digby]

Haven’t heard of him. Where’s he from?

Tenuous old boy

Never heard of it. I’m guessing an island near Samoa or Fiji?

That's just a lovely drive through the covers

[Banquo]

Haven’t heard of him. Where’s he from?

Tenuous old boy

Never heard of it. I’m guessing an island near Samoa or Fiji?

Mornington Crescent

[Puja]

Currently 22-6. Looks like we'll be going into Europe bottom of the table.

Puja

[Banquo]

Currently 22-6. Looks like we'll be going into Europe bottom of the table.

Puja

Thanks heavens for Sarries!

[Tigersman]

Bottom 4 after 4 games
Bath
Quins
Wasps
Tigers

All within 4 of each other.

Anyone had money on that?

although TBH Quins is really the only major surprise I guess for me.

[fivepointer]

Tigers England contingent really cannot come back quickly enough. That was a very poor result.
Irish proving to be a lot better than i thought they would be.
With Wuss winning at the w/e its not easy to predict who will go down, though i dont think the bottom 4 will be the same as they are currently - and you certainly would have got very long odds on those teams at the wrong end of the table.

[Stom]

Wasps might struggle, actually...

[Which Tyler]

For anyone who watched the match - how are Bath's academy players doing? Anyone to keep an eye out for?

[Tigersman]

Loader.

[Scrumhead]

Tigers England contingent really cannot come back quickly enough. That was a very poor result.
Irish proving to be a lot better than i thought they would be.
With Wuss winning at the w/e its not easy to predict who will go down, though i dont think the bottom 4 will be the same as they are currently - and you certainly would have got very long odds on those teams at the wrong end of the table.

From a Quins POV, I think we’re in for a tough season. I think Worcester are a lot better than they get credit for, but I’d have expected us to beat them at home and a losing bonus point is a poor return. We’re in bad form with few of our new players looking settled and we have a lot of injuries. The ECC is a very unwelcome distraction, so unless we pick up points from the remaining Premiership games this year, I think we’ll be right in the dogfight.

Marler and Sinckler will make a difference, but not to the extent that Ford, May and Genge will for Tigers and losing Marchant from January is a massive blow particularly considering he’s probably going to be out injured until he leaves.