Sale v Bath

[Epaminondas Pules]

Sale Sharks Starting XV:  

15. Joe Carpenter, 14. O’Flaherty, 13. Will Addison, 12. Rekeiti Ma’asi-White, 11. Arron Reed, 10. Rob du Preez ©, 9. Gus Warr, 1. Si McIntyre, 2. Ethan Caine, 3. WillGriff John, 4. Ernst van Rhyn, 5. Hyron Andrews, 6. Jean-Luc du Preez, 7. Sam Dugdale, 8. Dan du Preez.  

Replacements:  

16. Tadgh McElroy, 17. Tumy Onasanya, 18. Tye Raymont, 19. Jonny Hill, 20. Ben Bamber, 21. Nye Thomas, 22. Alex Wills, 23. Sam Bedlow.

[Epaminondas Pules]

Bath Rugby Starting XV: 1 Beno Obano, 2 Niall Annett, 3 Thomas du Toit, 4 Quinn Roux, 5 Charlie Ewels ©, 6 Josh Bayliss, 7 Miles Reid, 8 Alfie Barbeary, 9 Louis Schreuder ©, 10 Finn Russell, 11 Ruaridh McConnochie, 12 Will Butt, 13 Max Ojomoh, 14 Joe Cokanasiga, 15 Tom de Glanville

Replacements: 16 Kepu Tuipulotu, 17 Francois van Wyk, 18 Vilikesa Sela, 19 Ross Molony, 20 Ewan Richards, 21 Tom Carr-Smith, 22 Orlando Bailey, 23 Jaco Coetzee

[Mikey Brown]

How is Ma'asi White getting along? This looks like a fairly rare start for him.

https://all.rugby/player/rekeiti-ma-asi-white

Is he (still) considered a top talent and England contender down the line?

[Banquo]

How is Ma'asi White getting along? This looks like a fairly rare start for him.

https://all.rugby/player/rekeiti-ma-asi-white

Is he (still) considered a top talent and England contender down the line?

been playing at Caldy, along with Bedlow.

[fivepointer]

2 England u20 tight heads on the respective benches.

Ma’asi-White did look very good for the u20s abut just hasnt moved on. Hopefully he'll get more opportunity to do so.

[Which Tyler]

Schreuder at 9 isn't the 2nd best SH at Bath - and way down the pecking order as captain, surely!

I simply do not understand JvG's intransigence here; though he has earned our trust, he obviously sees a very different Schreuder to me (and many)

[Which Tyler]

Just spotted - this one's on ITV this week

[Which Tyler]

Dammit, LBND is up there!

ETA, Kepu pulls out Dunn to bench

[Which Tyler]

Milked it worse than Lawrence, but brain-dead by Schreuder

[Danno]

Dickson keeping the whistle in his mouth again

[Which Tyler]

Dickson keeping the whistle in his mouth again

But doesn't seem the forward pass right in front of him

[Which Tyler]

Ojomoh lazy tracking back after Reed kicks it on

[Which Tyler]

And another example of the new SH law being terrible - no control at the back = no price to pay.

[Slater582]

That was a nice offload from Barbeary to Russell earlier in the match.

Dammit, LBND is up there!

ETA, Kepu pulls out Dunn to bench

Hoping it is not injury, was looking forward to watching him in the U20 Six Nations which starts next week.

[Which Tyler]

And another example of the new SH law being terrible - no control at the back = no price to pay.

Austin loving the new SH law because SHs can do... exactly what they were always could do

[Danno]

Great finish

[Danno]

Great finish

X2

[Which Tyler]

How is Schreuder 2nd choice?
Leading by example though, I guess

[Which Tyler]

Great finish

X2

Make that 3

[Danno]

Great finish

X2

Make that 3

Enjoying this

[Oakboy]

I didn't much like Healey's remark that Marcus is rumoured to be getting the 15 shirt in Dublin.

[Which Tyler]

Sale can be mighty pissed off about that one!

Even if it was 3 seconds left for the scrum, you don't take the free kick, surely

[Puja]

Sale can be mighty pissed off about that one!

Even if it was 3 seconds left for the scrum, you don't take the free kick, surely

The game doesn't stop on an offence - it counts as part of the same phase as the scrum, rather than a new phase. Otherwise players would just intentionally offend to end the match if they were leading.

Puja

[Danno]

BoD rocking the murder gloves again

[Which Tyler]

We do NOT deserve to be within a score here.

But I'll take it.


Bench is stronger, and with the wind at our backs, typically better 2nd halves than first...

We really need to hope those count for us, as we need to change the run of play - bigly.

TCS for Schrueder would certainly help.