London Irish v Harlequins Wed 7.45

[fivepointer]

London Irish: Stokes; Norton, Neal, Cokanasiga, Hassell-Collins; Atkins, Meehan; Dell, Cornish, Hoskins, Donnell, Munga, Cooke (capt), Smart, Curtis-Harris.

Replacements: Atkins, Elrington, Chawatama, Nott, Moore-Aiono, Englefield, Macken, Homer.

Harlequins: Morris; Murley, Northmore, Lang, Earle; Smith, Steele; Garcia Botta, Baldwin, Kerrod, Lamb, Lewies, Lawday, Robshaw (capt), J Chisholm.

Replacements: Gray, Thomas, Collier, Hammond, White, Landajo, Esterhuizen, R Chisholm.

[Mikey Brown]

Pretty hard to get excited about this one. I thought Irish would be targeting it with more first choice players.

Good to see Esterhuizen on the bench, though Lasike boshing it up the middle seems to be about the only thing consistently working for us this season.

[Puja]

Interested to see Cokanasiga the younger getting a run-out. Is this his senior debut?

Puja

[Stom]

Pretty hard to get excited about this one. I thought Irish would be targeting it with more first choice players.

Good to see Esterhuizen on the bench, though Lasike boshing it up the middle seems to be about the only thing consistently working for us this season.

Well Esterhuizen should be able to do the same but better...

[Scrumhead]

Pretty hard to get excited about this one. I thought Irish would be targeting it with more first choice players.

Good to see Esterhuizen on the bench, though Lasike boshing it up the middle seems to be about the only thing consistently working for us this season.

I thought Irish would target it too, but the fact that they haven’t might actually make it a better game.

Keen to see Esterhuizen in action!

[Epaminondas Pules]

Interested to see Cokanasiga the younger getting a run-out. Is this his senior debut?

Puja

One sub appearance previously.

Good to see Munga there too. He looked seriously good at schools level.

[padprop]

People talking about how competitive the english back row is but alot of talented wingers in the prem at the moment, especially Hassel-Collins:

May, Thorley, Hassel Collins, Mcconnohie, Coka, Watson, Daly, Nowell

Tough to pick from that.

Also the wasps wingers who can are a bit underrated

[Mikey Brown]

Weird how we're just watch endless replays of Cokanasiga smashing Lang in the face with his forearm, which has sent him off the field, and the ref/tmo isn't interested.

[padprop]

Weird how we're just watch endless replays of Cokanasiga smashing Lang in the face with his forearm, which has sent him off the field, and the ref/tmo isn't interested.

Very obvious shoulder imo

[Mikey Brown]

Hit him in the shoulder you mean?

[Scrumhead]

Weird how we're just watch endless replays of Cokanasiga smashing Lang in the face with his forearm, which has sent him off the field, and the ref/tmo isn't interested.

Pretty sure it was Dan Norton wasn’t it? I thought it was borderline yellow, but Lang pretty much ran in to his forearm rather than Norton really projecting his arm in to his face.

[padprop]

Hit him in the shoulder you mean?

Looked to me that Norton’s step made Lang’s head connect with Norton’s shoulder when he tried to make the tackle. Happy to be wrong if theres other evidence but the lack of interest by the TMO may be explained by that

[TheNomad]

People talking about how competitive the english back row is but alot of talented wingers in the prem at the moment, especially Hassel-Collins:

May, Thorley, Hassel Collins, Mcconnohie, Coka, Watson, Daly, Nowell

Tough to pick from that.

Also the wasps wingers who can are a bit underrated

Water, water everywhere, and not a 9 on the horizon

[FKAS]

People talking about how competitive the english back row is but alot of talented wingers in the prem at the moment, especially Hassel-Collins:

May, Thorley, Hassel Collins, Mcconnohie, Coka, Watson, Daly, Nowell

Tough to pick from that.

Also the wasps wingers who can are a bit underrated

Water, water everywhere, and not a 9 on the horizon

Mitchell, Maunder, White, Randall, Uren? I think Uren is the oldest at 24. Hopefully see one come in as understudy to Youngs and start pushing him to perform.