Pre Season News

[Epaminondas Pules]

Newcastle Falcons v Sale Sharks (Saturday, 7pm, Heywood Road)

15 Louis Brown, 14 Jack Metcalf, 13 Oli Spencer, 12 Cameron Hutchison, 11 Alex Hearle, 10 Brett Connon (captain), 9 Sam Stuart; 1 Luan de Bruin, 2 Ollie Fletcher, 3 Murray McCallum, 4 Adam Scott, 5 John Hawkins, 6 Marcus Tiffen, 7 Josh Bainbridge, 8 Freddie Lockwood.

Replacements: 15 Elliott Obatoyinbo, 14 Adam Radwan, 13 Connor Doherty, 12 Sammy Arnold, 11 Ben Stevenson, 10 Kieran Wilkinson, 9 James Elliott; 1 Adam Brocklebank, 2 Jamie Blamire, 3 Richard Palframan, 4 John Kelly, 5 Kiran McDonald, 6 Cameron Neild, 7 Tom Gordon, 8 Callum Chick (captain), 16 Bryan Byrne, 17 Mike Rewcastle, 18 Philip van der Walt, 21 Hugh O’Sullivan, 22 Max Pepper, 23 Ollie Leatherbarrow, [blank shirt] Joe Davis.

Sale Sharks: 15 Joe Carpenter, 14 Tom Roebuck, 13 Waisea Nayacelevu, 12 Rob du Preez 11 Tom O’Flaherty, 10 George Ford, 9 Gus Warr; 1 Bevan Rodd 2 Luke Coawn-Dickie, 3 Asher Opoku-Fordjour, 4 Ernst van Rhyn, 5 Hyron Andrews, 6 Tom Curry, 7 Ben Curry (captain), 8 Jean-Luc du Preez.

Replacements: 16 Ethan Caine, 17 Si McIntyre 18 James Harper, 19 Ben Bamber, 20 Tom Burrow, 21 Sam Dugdale, 22 Rouban Birch, 23 Raffi Quirke, 24 Tom Curtis, 25 Rekeiti Ma’asi-White, 26 Will Addison, 27 Arron Reed, 28 Luke James.

[Epaminondas Pules]

Vs Munster

Gloucester Rugby travelling squad

Jamal Ford-Robinson

Ciaran Knight

Alfie Petch

Afolabi Fasogbon

Jack Singleton

Gareth Blackmore

George Knowles

Freddie Thomas

Freddie Clarke

Ruan Ackermann

Caio James

Deianne Gwynne

Harry Taylor

Lewis Ludlow

Zach Mercer

Jack Clement

Caolan Englefield

Tomos Williams

Charlie Chapman

Gareth Anscombe

Charlie Atkinson

Rory Taylor

Max Llewellyn

Louis Hillman-Cooper

Jack Reeves

Christian Wade

Ollie Thorley

Matt Ward

George Barton

Morgan Adderly-Jones

[Mellsblue]

Lambs to the slaughter.

Told ya

[Puja]

Lambs to the slaughter.

Told ya

You get no marks for making obvious predictions that anyone could call!

Puja

[Which Tyler]

In less obvious news, Baths essentially -academy teak led Cardiff firsts-ish at HT, 11-15 before finally losing 29-18 after Cardiff decided to just do some mauling practice.

Not seen the match itself, but purely from the score-board, it's one to be proud of

[jimKRFC]

Bristol 40 - 19 Newport
Munster 19 - 33 Gloucester

[Which Tyler]

Munster not having a good time of their pre-season then

[Banquo]

Munster not having a good time of their pre-season then

all about the conditioning

[Adam_P]

26 - 54 in Saints Leinster. Logan put in some very impressive carries off the bench.

[Puja]

Leicester win 31-7 against Scarlets.

Puja

[Banquo]

26 - 54 in Saints Leinster. Logan put in some very impressive carries off the bench.

odd Saints lineup. tho constrained.

[FKAS]

Leicester win 31-7 against Scarlets.

Puja

A lot of mixing and matching on the day. Brown limping off with Woodward again getting a go at 15 before Steward came on.

Shillcock, Martin, Cole and Chessum should all be back for week one Vs Chiefs.

[Adam_P]

26 - 54 in Saints Leinster. Logan put in some very impressive carries off the bench.

odd Saints lineup. tho constrained.

A weirdly large number of players listed as not available for selection, presumably injured

[jimKRFC]

Bristol team to face Connacht in the final pre-season friendly (behind closed doors):

15. Rich Lane, 14. Gabriel Ibitoye, 13. Benhard Janse van Rensburg, 12. James Williams, 11. Benja Elizalde, 10. AJ MacGinty, 9. Harry Randall; 1. Ellis Genge, 2. Harry Thacker, 3. George Kloska, 4. Josh Caulfield, 5. Joe Batley, 6. James Dun, 7. Benjamin Grondona, 8. Fitz Harding (c).

Subs: 16. Gabriel Oghre, 17. Jake Woolmore, 18. Max Lahiff, 19. Joe Owen, 20. Paddy Pearce, 21. Kieran Marmion, 22. Jack Bates, 23. Deago Bailey.

If it's like the others then they won't post the results. Does seem like Kloska is making a push to be starting tighthead. Nice to see Deago back in contention to, but hopefully starting behind Elizalde isn't a sign he's on his last chance..

[Adam_P]

Teams for Saints vs Bedford

[Which Tyler]

Bath v Dragons
Friday night, 19:15; livestream on Bath's tiktok


TEAMS

Bath:
1a Arthur Cordwell
2a Tom Dunn
3a Will Stuart
4a Quinn Roux
5a Charlie Ewels
6a Ted Hill
7a Miles Reid
8a Alfie Barbeary

09a Ben Spencer (c)
10a Finn Russell
11a Will Muir
12a Orlando Bailey
13a Ollie Lawrence
14a Joe Cokanasiga
15a Tom de Glanville

Bench:
1b Francois van Wyk
2b Niall Annett, 2c Hame Faiva
3b Archie Griffin, 3c Billy Sela
4b Jacques du Plessis, 4c Ethan Staddon
5b Ross Molony
6b Ewan Richards
7b Guy Pepper
8b Josh Bayliss

09b Louis Schreuder, 09c Tom Carr-Smith
10b Sam Harris
11b Ruaridh McConnochie
12b Will Butt
13b Louie Hennessey
14b Tyler Offiah
15b Austin Emens



Dragons:
1 Rodrigo Martinez
2 Brodie Coghlan
3 Leon Brown
4 Matthew Screech
5 Ben Carter (c)
6 Ryan Woodman
7 Harri Keddie
8 Shane Lewis-Hughes

09 Rhodri Williams
10 Lloyd Evans
11 Ewan Rosser
12 Aneurin Owen
13 Jared Rosser
14 Rio Dyer
15 Cai Evans

Bench: Rhodri Jones, James Benjamin, Oli Burrows, Luke Yendle, Owain James, Nick Thomas, George Nott, Evan Minto, George Young, Dane Blacker, Will Reed, Steff Hughes, Huw Anderson, Harry Rees-Weldon

[Puja]

Interesting that Saints are playing Luke Green at 3, ahead of Millar-Mills and Davison, for what is probably going to be their toughest match of their entire season. I know he's rated at Saints, but I wasn't expecting him to be competing for a starting shirt.

Obv pre-season is pre-season and all things may be different come the start of the Prem, but it's interesting to see he's in the mix.

Puja

[FKAS]

Interesting that Saints are playing Luke Green at 3, ahead of Millar-Mills and Davison, for what is probably going to be their toughest match of their entire season. I know he's rated at Saints, but I wasn't expecting him to be competing for a starting shirt.

Obv pre-season is pre-season and all things may be different come the start of the Prem, but it's interesting to see he's in the mix.

Puja

Perhaps Millar-Mills and Davison haven't been training the house down during pre season and this is a bit of a kick up the backside.

[fivepointer]

Good to see Green back in England. Didnt really go anywhere after u20s but maybe a couple of season in the US has sharpened his game.

[Epaminondas Pules]

Saracens Men team to play Scarlets:

1 Rhys Carre

2 Theo Dan

3 Marco Riccioni

4 Harry Wilson

5 Hugh Tizard

6 Andy Onyeama-Christie

7 Toby Knight

8 Tom Willis

9 Ivan van Zyl (c)

10 Fergus Burke

11 Rotimi Segun

12 Nick Tompkins

13 Alex Lozowski

14 Tobias Elliott

15 Elliot Daly

Replacements:

Samson Adejimi, Phil Brantingham, Harvey Beaton, Olamide Sodeke, Max Eke, Charlie Bracken, Louie Johnson, Brandon Jackson, Alec Clarey, Sam Crean, Reggie Hammick, Angus Hall, Alex Goode

[Stom]

Didn't see it posted, so Quins beat London Scottish 35-0...

Harlequins Starting XV: 1. Wyn Jones (51) 2. Jack Walker (61) 3. Titi Lamositele (51) 4. Harry Browne (51) 5. George Hammond (51) 6. Zach Carr (40) 7. Seb Driscoll 8. Tom Lawday (Captain) 9. Jake Murray 10. Connor Slevin (40) 11. Roma Zheng (40) 12. Bryn Bradley (51) 13. Will Joseph (51) 14. Oscar Beard 15. Leigh Halfpenny (40)

Impact Players: 16. Jack Musk (61) 17. Jordan Els (51) 18. Will Hobson (51) 19. Stephan Lewies (51) 20. Will Trenholm (51) 21. Archie White (40) 22. Will Porter (61) 23. Jamie Benson (40) 24. Lennox Anyanwu (51) 25. Hayden Hyde (51) 26. Nick David (40) 27. Cassius Cleaves (40)

A distinct lack of backrows for that game.

Interestingly, it was scoreless in the first half, with all the points coming in the second half.

[Epaminondas Pules]

Gloucester squad for Edinburgh friendly:

Gloucester Rugby squad | Edinburgh (A)
Val Rapava-Ruskin

Ciaran Knight

Afolabi Fasogbon

Kirill Gotovtsev

George Knowles

Gareth Blackmore

Jack Singleton

Freddie Thomas

Matias Alemanno

Deian Gwynne

Freddie Clarke

Ruan Ackermann

Caio James

Lewis Ludlow

Harry Taylor

Zach Mercer

Charlie Chapman

Caolan Englefield

Tomos Williams

Gareth Anscombe

Charlie Atkinson

Rory Taylor

Seb Atkinson

Max Llewellyn

Louis Hillman-Cooper

Jack Reeves

Ollie Thorley

Christian Wade

George Barton

Ioan Jones

Morgan Adderly-Jones

[anders_limpar]

Interesting that Saints are playing Luke Green at 3, ahead of Millar-Mills and Davison, for what is probably going to be their toughest match of their entire season. I know he's rated at Saints, but I wasn't expecting him to be competing for a starting shirt.

Obv pre-season is pre-season and all things may be different come the start of the Prem, but it's interesting to see he's in the mix.

Puja

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/sport/rugby_u ... r-AA1qeA3d

Good article on saints scrum here, hopefully this is a pathway that can work as well as the saints backs have

[anders_limpar]

Edit: double post

[Mellsblue]

Teams for Saints vs Bedford

Live stream on the Northampton YouTube channel if any of you want to watch some proper rugby.