RugbyRebels

Harlequins: Green; Beard, Northmore, Esterhuizen, Murley; Allan, Care; Marler, Walker, Collier, Lamb, Lewies (capt), J Chisholm, Kenningham, Lawday.

Replacements: Musk, Garcia Botta, Kerrod, Tizard, Taulani, Gjaltema, Edwards, Jones.

London Irish: Parton; Rowe, Rona, Van Rensburg, Hassell-Collins; Jackson, Phipps; Goodrick-Clarke, Creevy, Hoskins, Coleman, Simmons, Rogerson (capt), Pearson, Cracknell.

Replacements: Willemse, Dell, Parker, Mafi, Tuisue, White, Jennings, Williams.

Good to see Beard start.

Surprised that Quins aren't using Dombrandt.

Spicy start.

Care is being 100% full-fat Danny Care

Good hard game with two teams wanting to attack ball in hand.

Poor Tommy Allan and Adam Coleman both have no luck do they. Neither make it to half time.

Mad defence

The hell are we playing in the 10m for

Impressive from irish, really good win.

Irish deserved that. They worked really hard in defence and competed strongly throughout. They've got so much attacking threat that if they can defend better they will test anyone.
Enjoyable tussle between the two young 7's.

fivepointer wrote:Irish deserved that. They worked really hard in defence and competed strongly throughout. They've got so much attacking threat that if they can defend better they will test anyone.
Enjoyable tussle between the two young 7's.

They were a couple of passes away from a big win- Parton and Hassell Collins were a bit butchery.

I was also impressed with Pearson

Pearson has looked good in all his games so far. 0 hype, but seems to be a very handy player.

Scrumhead wrote:Pearson has looked good in all his games so far. 0 hype, but seems to be a very handy player.

Yeah, thought he looked good in the cup, but hard to tell because of the opposition. This match though was full bore and he looked very impressive - very solid tackling technique.

Puja

Bit of a let off to get the LBP. I never thought we'd be in a position for the trademark comeback given who we rested, coupled with Allen and Northmore going off, but I dared to hope for a moment or two until we insisted on playing 10 phases 10m inside our own half 7ish minutes from the end

Puja wrote:

Scrumhead wrote:Pearson has looked good in all his games so far. 0 hype, but seems to be a very handy player.

Yeah, thought he looked good in the cup, but hard to tell because of the opposition. This match though was full bore and he looked very impressive - very solid tackling technique.

Puja

First saw him against Exeter which may even have been his debut? He was very good then too.

Danno wrote:Bit of a let off to get the LBP. I never thought we'd be in a position for the trademark comeback given who we rested, coupled with Allen and Northmore going off, but I dared to hope for a moment or two until we insisted on playing 10 phases 10m inside our own half 7ish minutes from the end

Quins have got it in the locker to overplay in their own 22. I think it's the weakness you get from having Care run the game management. Saw it last season against Tigers when they ended a phase of having two men extra by conceding 3 points and against Sale this season where they put a lot of unnecessary pressure on themselves.

I do think they paid the price for resting their internationals that started the Bok game but that might be of more benefit in the long run and there's another big game for Quins next week. To much to hope they'll rest Smith for that.

Puja wrote:

Scrumhead wrote:Pearson has looked good in all his games so far. 0 hype, but seems to be a very handy player.

Yeah, thought he looked good in the cup, but hard to tell because of the opposition. This match though was full bore and he looked very impressive - very solid tackling technique.

Puja

His carrying was good too- nice lines and energy into contact.

Why aren't the tigers playing this weekend?

13/2 = 6.5

twitchy wrote:Why aren't the tigers playing this weekend?

Bye week.