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Leicester Tigers (v Harlequins, Welford Road, Saturday 3.00pm)

15 Telusa Veainu

14 Adam Thompstone

13 Manu Tuilagi

12 Gareth Owen

11 Jonah Holmes

10 Matt Toomua

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 Michele Rizzo

18 Pat Cilliers

19 Harry Wells

20 Luke Hamilton

21 Harry Simmons

22 Joe Ford

23 Mathew Tait

Harlequins: 15 Aaron Morris, 14 Alofa Alofa, 13 Joe Marchant, 12 Jamie Roberts, 11 Tim Visser, 10 Marcus Smith, 9 Jonno Kitto; 1 Lewis Boyce, 2 Joe Gray, 3 Kyle Sinckler, 4 Stan South, 5 Charlie Matthews, 6 Luke Wallace, 7 Dave Ward (c), 8 James Chisholm
Replacements: 16 Charlie Piper, 17 Mark Lambert, 18 Will Collier, 19 Sam Twomey, 20 Archie White, 21 Dave Lewis, 22 James Lang, 22 Gabriel Ibitoye

Glad to see Toomua at 10 - Ford the lesser is not cutting it and this is a non-negotiable must-win game for us.

Puja

Battle for that coveted 8th spot in the league.

Thats a very mobile looking Quins pack.
Pleased that Holmes is getting a start. Looked pretty good from what i've seen. New England squad player Ibitoye on the bench. He's a cracking young player.

Other than, Sinckler the pack is either rank average or youngster with potential. That’s not a good combo. As for the replacements.......
If Leicester don’t win this they should be driven to Rutland Water for a mass suicide.

Mellsblue wrote:Other than, Sinckler the pack is either rank average or youngster with potential. That’s not a good combo. As for the replacements.......
If Leicester don’t win this they should be driven to Rutland Water for a mass suicide.

Wallace is a decent 7, and Chisholm isn't rank average or that young

But yes.

Banquo wrote:

Mellsblue wrote:Other than, Sinckler the pack is either rank average or youngster with potential. That’s not a good combo. As for the replacements.......
If Leicester don’t win this they should be driven to Rutland Water for a mass suicide.

Wallace is a decent 7, and Chisholm isn't rank average or that young

But yes.

Wallace is at 6, and with Ward at 7 he’ll have to play like a 6, but I’ll give you he’s above average. Chisholm is 22, I’d class that as young. Even moreso when you take into account he missed most/a lot of last season with an injury.

Mellsblue wrote:

Banquo wrote:

Mellsblue wrote:Other than, Sinckler the pack is either rank average or youngster with potential. That’s not a good combo. As for the replacements.......
If Leicester don’t win this they should be driven to Rutland Water for a mass suicide.

Wallace is a decent 7, and Chisholm isn't rank average or that young

But yes.

Wallace is at 6, and with Ward at 7 he’ll have to play like a 6, but I’ll give you he’s above average. Chisholm is 22, I’d class that as young. Even moreso when you take into account he missed most/a lot of last season with an injury.

Not that young v young v youngster

Chisholm is a top player in the making IMO. He’s missed a lot of rugby in his career already, otherwise I think he’d be held in a lot higher regard. I’m really not sure about the balance of that back row though.

This really is a must win for both sides. Tigers can’t really afford to lose at home, but Quins absolutely need a win to put the horror of last weekend’s game.

Yeah Wallace at 6 is not a goer for me. I thought it was only done previously so we could pretend to Lancaster that Robshaw was playing openside.

Really do rate Chisholm though.

I don’t really like Ward at 7 either. As good as he can be over the ball, his decision making isn’t always the best and as we saw last week he gives away a lot of dumb penalties. It’s not that he doesn’t do that a hooker too, but playing at 7 makes the frequency that little bit higher.

If Tigers don't win this game with a bp, their season will be over - bar the shouting for O'Connors head!

francoisfou wrote:If Tigers don't win this game with a bp, their season will be over - bar the shouting for O'Connors head!

How so?
Would still have to play for top 6.

Nice day for it.

Tuilagi looks like he's carrying that knee, beaten too easily there; also planted his feet and got square on. Slimmed down by the looks of it.

Nice try.

Tigersman wrote:

francoisfou wrote:If Tigers don't win this game with a bp, their season will be over - bar the shouting for O'Connors head!

How so?
Would still have to play for top 6.

Just thought that with away games at Sarries, Bath and Wuss, they'll not come back with many points, so maximum points in their three home games against Quins, Falcons and Saints are a must if they're to have a hope.
And their form has been inconsistent to poor, so that's why I'm not exactly overflowing with confidence they'll make the top 6 - but I'd be delighted if they did!!!

Manu looked sharp enough with the ball mind, could have passed

They keep saying chisolm is injured, am I going crazy or are there two of them?


e- ignore me I'm assuming james is his brother?

sack the jugglers

Smith should have gone himself

Interesting voice over....gaps being created for quins by Sinckler pulling players back!

Shame, would like to have seen Smith's pace! When Tigers retain the ball and don't faff about, they look so much better.

There's not much quality to get excited about.

Tigers' winning bp seems light years away!

How did he not see the man on the right?