Leicester Tigers (v Castres Olympique, Welford Road, Saturday 5.30pm)

[fivepointer]

15 Telusa Veainu
14 Nick Malouf
13 Gareth Owen
12 Matt Toomua
11 Jonny May
10 George Ford
9 Ben Youngs
1 Ellis Genge
2 Tom Youngs (c)
3 Dan Cole
4 Dom Barrow
5 Graham Kitchener
6 Valentino Mapapalangi
7 Luke Hamilton
8 Sione Kalamafoni

Replacements

16 George McGuigan
17 Greg Bateman
18 Pat Cilliers
19 Dan Tuohy
20 Brendon O’Connor
21 Sam Harrison
22 Joe Ford
23 Mathew Tait

[Puja]

Owen in at 13 which pleases me. Smith injured or a selection decision? Mike Williams banned - he is quickly becoming an utter liability.

You'd've said that this was an utter must-win for us.

Puja

[Beasties]

Just started watching this. Absolutely delicious offload from Mapapalangi.

[Puja]

Great result, although disappointing that we took our foot off the pedal and let them get a bonus and kill our p/d. Our defence is worryingly porous and our set piece is still flimsy as hell, which is something that better (and more motivated) sides will take advantage of.

May has to start for England. He looks like he's taken a step up in every department this year - his work rate and interplay especially.

Puja

[Mikey Brown]

Looks to be a lot more vocal too?

It was nice to see Tait well involved, but kind of funny to see him look so slow when he made that break and have to let May run it in.

[Digby]

...and kill our p/d.

Does he know you feel this way? Watching the Exeter match I was already thinking he might be having a bad weekend with how many players had socks down around their ankles rather than smartly pulled up, and now this!