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Bath Rugby - 15 Tom de Glanville, 14 Ruaridh McConnochie, 13 Jonathan Joseph, 12 Max Clark, 11 Will Muir, 10 Rhys Priestland, 9 Ben Spencer; 1 Juan Schoeman, 2 Tom Dunn, 3 Henry Thomas, 4 Josh McNally (C), 5 Elliott Stooke, 6 Miles Reid, 7 Sam Underhill, 8 Zach Mercer.

Replacements | 16 Jack Walker, 17 Arthur Cordwell, 18 Christian Judge, 19 Tom Ellis, 20 Ethan Staddon, 21 Will Chudley, 22 Orlando Bailey, 23 Joe Cokanasiga.

Worcester - 15 Nick David, 14 Chris Ashton, 13 Oli Morris, 12 Will Butler, 11 Perry Humphreys, 10 Fin Smith, 9 Gareth Simpson, 1 Marc Thomas, 2 Isaac Miller, 3 Joe Morris, 4 Andrew Kitchener, 5 Joe Batley, 6 Ted Hill (C), 7 Matt Kvesic, 8 Tom Dodd.

Replacements | 16 Niall Annett, 17 Ethan Waller, 18 Maks van Dyk , 19 Justin Clegg, 20 Cornell du Preez, 21 Francois Hougaard, 22 Billy Searle, 23 Francois Venter.

Wuss following Saints example last week put out an all EQ starting XV. Start for Smith at 10. He's 18. Good luck to the lad.

Bath have a decent number of EQPs starting and bench as well.

great to see Will Butler back too.

Orlando Bailey making the bench for Bath - hope he gets a few minutes.

You wonder if sides are now looking towards boosting the EQ percentage money, rather than results. I mean, it worked out pretty well for Saints last week, but Wuss have nothing really to gain or lose from this season with relegation suspended, so they may as well drop du Preez, Hougaard, and Venter and try and up their share of the dosh.

Puja

Puja wrote:Orlando Bailey making the bench for Bath - hope he gets a few minutes.

You wonder if sides are now looking towards boosting the EQ percentage money, rather than results. I mean, it worked out pretty well for Saints last week, but Wuss have nothing really to gain or lose from this season with relegation suspended, so they may as well drop du Preez, Hougaard, and Venter and try and up their share of the dosh.

Puja

Fair point, and no bad thing even if not the desired 'route'.

By my reckoning Bath have 21 EQPs in the 23. Top effort. They get an extra pat on the back for having an Arthur on the bench.

fivepointer wrote:By my reckoning Bath have 21 EQPs in the 23. Top effort. They get an extra pat on the back for having an Arthur on the bench.

Yep, if you include Max Clark, and why not.

Banquo wrote:

fivepointer wrote:By my reckoning Bath have 21 EQPs in the 23. Top effort. They get an extra pat on the back for having an Arthur on the bench.

Yep, if you include Max Clark, and why not.

We've been "good" on that for a while yet; and none of tomorrow's team are there "to boost EQP stats" The only remotely questionable selection is Bailey over Matevesi, which is more likely down to getting him ready for next season (or really ought to be)

Fucking hell! After spending 236 minutes out of a possible 240 on the bench, Fin Smith now starts for Wuss! And Bailey is on the bench for Bath! Well fuck a duck, what excellent news!!!

Smith, Atkinson and Bailey all playing Prem rugby in their first year out of school.

Which Tyler wrote:

Banquo wrote:

fivepointer wrote:By my reckoning Bath have 21 EQPs in the 23. Top effort. They get an extra pat on the back for having an Arthur on the bench.

Yep, if you include Max Clark, and why not.

We've been "good" on that for a while yet; and none of tomorrow's team are there "to boost EQP stats" The only remotely questionable selection is Bailey over Matevesi, which is more likely down to getting him ready for next season (or really ought to be)

I didn't say they were, miss!

Banquo wrote:I didn't say they were, miss!

I didn't say that you did, or that anyone particularly had

Which Tyler wrote:

Banquo wrote:I didn't say they were, miss!

I didn't say that you did, or that anyone particularly had

fair enough

Starting 15 all EQP and 11 of them have come through the academy.

Be good to see what Smith, Butler and Morris can produce. All very talented attacking players. Hopefully Butler can stay away from another injury!