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Gloucester Rugby:

15. Jason Woodward; 14. Tom Marshall, 13. Henry Trinder, 12. Billy Twelvetrees, 11. Ollie Thorley; 10. Billy Burns, 9. Willi Heinz (capt); 1. Josh Hohneck, 2. James Hanson, 3. John Afoa; 4. Tom Savage, 5. Mariano Galarza; 6. Jake Polledri, 7. Lewis Ludlow, 8. Ruan Ackermann

Replacements:

16. Motu Matu’u, 17. Cameron Orr, 18. Fraser Balmain, 19. Ed Slater, 20. Freddie Clarke, 21. Ben Vellacott, 22. Mark Atkinson, 23. Matt Scott


Leicester Tigers (v Gloucester, away, Saturday 2.30pm)

15 Telusa Veainu
14 Nick Malouf
13 Manu Tuilagi
12 Matt Toomua
11 Adam Thompstone
10 Joe Ford
9 Sam Harrison

1 Greg Bateman
2 Tom Youngs (c)
3 Logovi’i Mulipola
4 Mike Fitzgerald
5 Graham Kitchener
6 Mike Williams
7 Brendon O’Connor
8 Sione Kalamafoni

Replacements

16 Tatafu Polota-Nau
17 Kyle Traynor
18 Pat Cilliers
19 Harry Wells
20 Luke Hamilton
21 Harry Simmons
22 Gareth Owen
23 Mathew Tait

lots of clashes of styles there!

Is Ben Morgan crocked?

Unavailable for selection:
Val Rapava Ruskin, Jacob Rowan, Charlie Sharples, Andy Symons

which means Thrush, Williams, Morgan and Hibbard are just not selected. Something of a turn about on Matt Scott too.

It's still a strong Tigers side, will end up being close I think.

Good to see Simmons on the bench - I've been impressed with him.

The back row has a 6, 7, and an 8, the front row looks solid, Veainu's back, and we've got Toomua and Tuilagi fit and (in theory) firing. No excuses for this one - if we can't put up a good performance with that team named, then there's trouble behind the scenes that needs sorting pronto.

Puja

14 each at half time, evenly balanced scorewise, stats suggest Glos have done more with the ball so far

defenders beaten Glos 24, Tigers 3
Carries Glos 83, Tigers 53
Tackles Glos 43, Tigers 76

Looking good for Glos with 15 to go

BOC best game in a Tigers shirt.

Simmons showed alot more in his cameo than harrison did.

Bonus point went begging, camped in tigers 22 for large parts of that last 20, glos played some nice stuff.

Trinder looks to have gone well=- how was the match up with Tuilagi?

Banquo wrote:Trinder looks to have gone well=- how was the match up with Tuilagi?

Manu looks so rusty.

Manu was closed down quickly, didn't really get into any stride. Trinder oozed class a few times. Glos played well, should have scored more. Think Ackerman knows his best team now, more or less.