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Harlequins XV to play Gloucester Rugby, Sunday 10th March (kick-off: 13:00)
15 Mike Brown (313)
14 Nathan Earle (19)
13 Joe Marchant (76)
12 Francis Saili (18)
11 Ross Chisholm (98)
10 James Lang (42)
9 Dave Lewis (27)

1 Lewis Boyce (32)
2 Elia Elia (30)
3 Will Collier (147)
4 Matt Symons (18)
5 James Horwill (Co-Captain, 61)
6 Jack Clifford (89)
7 Chris Robshaw (Co-Captain, 267)
8 Alex Dombrandt (16)

Game Changers
16 Dave Ward (163)
17 Joe Marler (187)
18 Phil Swainston (20)
19 George Merrick (96)
20 James Chisholm (72)
21 Niall Saunders (4)
22 Marcus Smith (50)
23 Alofa Alofa (64)

The Quins Unavailable XV

1. Nick Auterac
2. Rob Buchanan
3. Kyle Sinckler
4. Ben Glynn
5. GUEST
6. Renaldo Bothma
7. Luke Wallace
8. Paul Lasike
9. Danny Care
10. Demitri Catrakilis
11. Gabriel Ibitoye
12. Ben Tapuai
13. Henry Cheeseman
14. Cadan Murley
15. Aaron Morris

Gloucester Rugby:

Jason Woodward; 14. Tom Marshall, 13. Billy Twelvetrees, 12. Mark Atkinson, 11. Ollie Thorley; 10. Danny Cipriani, 9. Willi Heinz (capt); 1. Josh Hohneck, 2. James Hanson, 3. Fraser Balmain; 4. Ed Slater, 5. Franco Mostert; 6. Ruan Ackermann, 7. Jaco Kriel, 8. Ben Morgan


Replacements:

Franco Marais, 17. Kyle Traynor, 18. Gareth Denman, 19. Freddie Clarke, 20. Lewis Ludlow, 21. Callum Braley, 22. Owen Williams, 23. Matt Banahan

Glos unavailable, injured, or called up xv

McAllister
T Gleave
VRR
GGrobler
Savage
Safe
G Evans
Polledri
Vellacot
L Evans
Purdy
A Guest,
Trinder
Sharples
T Hudson,

Finisher :- Dreyer

Glos need something out of this game, but our record at the Stoop is appalling....

Quins having a bad day so far. Really bad missed tackle from Brown for the first try and some very good play from Gloucester for the second.

Quins made absolutely nothing from 10mins where Tom Marshall was in the bin for stopping a likely try with a blatant deliberate knock on.

Quins will come good - once they stop bleating and whingeing.

Glos controlling well in the wind tho first half.

This is frankly terrible. I've turned it off. A reversion to type or a blip?

Very happy - more control than Glos have shown all season. Put to bed a couple of stoop hoodoo's too.

Stom wrote:This is frankly terrible. I've turned it off. A reversion to type or a blip?

It was awful. Easily the worst I’ve seen us play since last season, but given our recent run of form, it’s a bit soon to suggest we’ve reverted to being rubbish again.

Credit to Gloucester. As much as we were $hit, they were very good.

Expected more from Quins. Frankly they werent at the races at all.
Glos were excellent. Their attacking game was terrific. Cips in great nick, helped enormously by the clever and very under rated Atkinson alongside. Thorley again looked a great prospect and Woodward was first rate.

Yeah. I’d agree with all of that.

TBH, Quins league position has flattered us and we were probably due a loss. I just wasn’t expecting to come today given Gloucester’s record at The Stoop.

A lot of Quins fans are very angry. I’m a little more circumspect. We were terrible today, but we’re still in a good position to stay in the top 4 which is light years from where we were last season and we’re not even one season in to the Gustard era.

If anything, this weekend’s games just reinforce how competitive and open this league is outside of the top 2.

fivepointer wrote:Expected more from Quins. Frankly they werent at the races at all.
Glos were excellent. Their attacking game was terrific. Cips in great nick, helped enormously by the clever and very under rated Atkinson alongside. Thorley again looked a great prospect and Woodward was first rate.

Atkinson is very solid, a good fulcrum, and I like Woodward a lot.

Stom wrote:This is frankly terrible. I've turned it off. A reversion to type or a blip?

I’d suggest an unhappy Gustard is much more likely to get a reaction from the team than an unhappy Kingston.

Isn’t it Sarries up next for your lot? Quins always up for that game.

Get off the Atkinson train, you Johnny-come-latelys. There’s only room for one passenger....