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Saturday 5.30, BTSport2
Ref: Frank Murphy (Ireland)
TJs: Stuart Gaffikin, Eddie Hogan O'Connell (Ireland & Ireland)
TMO: Olly Hodges (Ireland)


Harlequins:
1 Joe Marler
2 Elia Elia
3 Will Collier
4 Stephan Lewies
5 Matt Symons (VC)
6 Chris Robshaw (Captain)
7 Will Evans
8 Tom Lawday

9 Danny Care (VC)
10 Marcus Smith
11 Cadan Murley
12 James Lang
13 Michele Campagnaro
14 Ross Chisholm
15 Mike Brown

Game Changers:
16 George Head, 17 Santiago Garcia Botta, 18 Simon Kerrod, 19 Tevita Cavubati, 20 Semi Kunatani
21 Niall Saunders, 22 Paul Lasike, 23 Gabriel Ibitoye


Bath:
1. Lewis Boyce
2. Jack Walker
3. Christian Judge
4. Josh McNally
5. Charlie Ewels (c)
6. Elliott Stooke
7. Josh Bayliss
8. Francois Louw

9. Chris Cook
10. Freddie Burns
11. Ruaridh McConnochie
12. Max Wright
13. Jonathan Joseph
14. Semesa Rokoduguni
15. Anthony Watson

Replacements
16. Tom Dunn, 17. Beno Obano, 18. Will Stuart, 19. Matt Garvey, 20. Rhys Davies
21. Will Chudley, 22. Rhys Priestland, 23. Jamie Roberts

Points of (my) interest:
Some real squad rotation there from Bath - hopefully with an eye on R&R, rather than a sign of giving up after last week's loss.
Louw and Watson back from RWC duty, allows a specialist FB.
Mind you, Louw at #8... and Stooke on the flank... Hope Zach's knee is okay!
Still no Cokanasiga lends credence to the theory that he was injured during RWC training (but not sent home, despite 4 other wings in the squad!)
WTF Quins? "Game Changers"?

Marler getting back on the horse.

Puja

Puja wrote:Marler getting back on the horse.

Puja

But will he drink or go for a swim?

Which Tyler wrote: WTF Quins? "Game Changers"?

I doubt I am the only Quins fan questioning their loyalty over this b%:@£&!

Indeed. I’m yet to see a sub really change the game for us.

I find getting that annoyed about labels for substitutes really bizarre, but we are all different...the team has bigger issues than being called a game changer

Injury updates on Jo, Zach and Henry. # of them are screwed, we're waiting to see if Zach is
httpss://www.bathrugby.com/news/injury-update-co ... er-thomas/

Scrumhead wrote:Indeed. I’m yet to see a sub really change the game for us.

You clearly don’t remember Ben Botica.

Mikey Brown wrote:

Scrumhead wrote:Indeed. I’m yet to see a sub really change the game for us.

You clearly don’t remember Ben Botica.

Very good.

Mikey Brown wrote:

Scrumhead wrote:Indeed. I’m yet to see a sub really change the game for us.

You clearly don’t remember Ben Botica.

Or Tom Williams....

True, but we didn’t call them ‘Game Changers’ then.

Which Tyler wrote:Injury updates on Jo, Zach and Henry. # of them are screwed, we're waiting to see if Zach is
httpss://www.bathrugby.com/news/injury-update-co ... er-thomas/

Flippin' heck they dont sound good. Does raise the questions when was Joe injured and why wasnt he flown back to the UK during the WC?

Gotta feel for Thomas. He's had more than his fair share of injuries. The poor guy deserves a bit of luck.

fivepointer wrote:

Which Tyler wrote:Injury updates on Jo, Zach and Henry. # of them are screwed, we're waiting to see if Zach is
httpss://www.bathrugby.com/news/injury-update-co ... er-thomas/

Flippin' heck they dont sound good. Does raise the questions when was Joe injured and why wasnt he flown back to the UK during the WC?

Gotta feel for Thomas. He's had more than his fair share of injuries. The poor guy deserves a bit of luck.

In case you missed it, discussion has moved to the EPS thread

No way that’s a yellow. Why aren’t they taking Watson off?

Poor game in the wet, but Quins thankfully much better than last week. I felt we were fairly good in the first half without really making Bath pay, but ultimately that gave us enough of a cushion to see off their comeback.

What were the Anthony Watson and Ewels injuries?

Timbo wrote:What were the Anthony Watson and Ewels injuries?

Watson was knee - twisted awkwardly being tackled, hobbled on for another couple of minutes.
Ewells looked lower limb, and looked like it might be quite nasty, despite limping off, his face was looking shell shocked

box kick fest

Pretty much. Typical wet weather game with two teams trying not to lose.