Quins vs Bath - Saturday

[Puja]

Harlequins: 15 Mike Brown, 14 Chris Ashton, 13 Joe Marchant, 12 Ben Tapuai, 11 Nathan Earle, 10 Brett Herron, 9 Danny Care, 8 Alex Dombrandt, 7 Will Evans, 6 Chris Robshaw (c), 5 Glen Young, 4 Matt Symons, 3 Simon Kerrod, 2 Scott Baldwin, 1 Joe Marler
Replacements: 16 Joe Gray, 17 Santiago Garcia Botta, 18 Will Collier, 19 Stephan Lewies, 20 Tom Lawday, 21 Martin Landajo, 22 James Lang, 23 Paul Lasike

Bath: 15 Anthony Watson, 14 Semesa Rokoduguni, 13 Jonathan Joseph, 12 Cameron Redpath, 11 Ruaridh McConnochie, 10 Rhys Priestland, 9 Ben Spencer, 8 Taulupe Faletau, 7 Miles Reid, 6 Josh Bayliss, 5 Charlie Ewels, 4 Elliott Stooke, 3 Will Stuart, 2 Tom Dunn, 1 Beno Obano
Replacements: 16 Jack Walker, 17 Lewis Boyce, 18 Christian Judge, 19 Josh McNally, 20 Tom Ellis, 21 Will Chudley, 22 Josh Matavesi, 23 Tom de Glanville

[Puja]

Featuring the return of actual spectators, not just simulated crowd noise!

Puja

[fivepointer]

Yes, real fans in the ground. That will be welcome.
A bit of rotation from both sides but they are largely sticking to the players who turned out at the weekend. Chance for Bath to bounce back and for Quins to consolidate after a good win against Saints.
Not much in it either way, I suspect.

[16th man]

Good to see we might get a decent contest on the telly this weekend, after 2nd vs 3rd being a one sided let down due to selection.

[Scrumhead]

Herron and Young for Smith and Lewies ... WTAF? Unless they’re carrying knocks, those are bizarre rotations ...

Hopefully Care pretty much bypasses Herron as we’re definitely going to lose the battle up front. Herron’s not great on the front foot, let alone the back foot and Young is lightweight beanpole who is about half the weight of Stooke.

[Which Tyler]

Not sure how that wasn't a knock on (unless he thinks it was JJ's hand), but nevermind

[Which Tyler]

Brilliant poacher's try.

Just wish we could manufacture some backs tries rather than relying on that sort of thing and rolling mauls.

[Mr Mwenda]

Outstanding finish there. Much better this week, so far.

[Banquo]

Brilliant poacher's try.

Just wish we could manufacture some backs tries rather than relying on that sort of thing and rolling mauls.

Bizarre that you can’t, notwithstanding concerns at 10

[Mikey Brown]

What happened there? I thought I, err, Mike Brown didn't put the ball down when Spencer kicked through then, but then the cameras cut and I didn't see what the call was.

Leads to a try.

[Scrumhead]

Typical Quins. Start well and then gift two tries to Bath through really bad errors.

Re. the second try, I don’t think Brown ever touched the ball down so I’m not sure it should ever have been a Bath scrum.

[Tigersman]

Watching this game I completely forgot about Will Evans.

Such a shame that Injuries really hampered him when he was starting to get some chances, early on.

[Which Tyler]

Brilliant poacher's try.

Just wish we could manufacture some backs tries rather than relying on that sort of thing and rolling mauls.

Bizarre that you can’t, notwithstanding concerns at 10

We're just not training for fluency in the backs. Concentrating on the tight stuff and including the backs in the ruck training.

[Mikey Brown]

Typical Quins. Start well and then gift two tries to Bath through really bad errors.

Re. the second try, I don’t think Brown ever touched the ball down so I’m not sure it should ever have been a Bath scrum.

That's what I'm saying. That looked like a massive screw up from the ref, leading to a try, but I wasn't giving it my full attention.

[Banquo]

Brilliant poacher's try.

Just wish we could manufacture some backs tries rather than relying on that sort of thing and rolling mauls.

Bizarre that you can’t, notwithstanding concerns at 10

We're just not training for fluency in the backs. Concentrating on the tight stuff and including the backs in the ruck training.

Seems somewhat wasteful- it’s not like they’ve been short of time

[Which Tyler]

Yup, and we know that Dempsey can do it - if he's given that time with the players.
So frustrating

[Which Tyler]

A couple of times Bath players have shown a slightly different, and effective tackle technique.

For that last tackle, it's almost like Rhys won the collision, and then toppled Ashton towards the Bath try line - where our forwards could beat Quins' to the ball. Usually, you want to knock the attacker back, and let your forwards arrive with momentum, whilst stealing it from the attacking backup

[Which Tyler]

Missed it, what's wrong with Ant?

[Which Tyler]

Now that one was a thing of beauty

[Which Tyler]

Hmmm, not sure that is the right decision.
Already 15 up, so the extra 3 push us from 3 scores ahead to 3 scores ahead.
Chance at the TBP seems more pressing

I guess we feel the momentum.is with us and 24 minutes is plenty of time

[Which Tyler]

Getting scrappy

TdG quicker than i thought

[Which Tyler]

Hmmm, not sure that is the right decision.
Already 15 up, so the extra 3 push us from 3 scores ahead to 3 scores ahead.
Chance at the TBP seems more pressing

I guess we feel the momentum.is with us and 24 minutes is plenty of time

And again!

[Which Tyler]

Must have been a good 70m gallop there!

[Which Tyler]

I think that more than evens out the mistake over Brown's non-touch-down
Thankfully shouldn't decide anything

[Raggs]

Must have been a good 70m gallop there!

Loosehead rather than tighthead, so I'd say 50m. If it had been tighthead, then somewhere in the region of 95m.