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First Vs second and both opt to rotate for this one.

SARACENS XV: 15 Elliot Daly, 14 Sean Maitland, 13 Alex Lozowski, 12 Nick Tompkins, 11 Alex Lewington, 10 Alex Goode, 9 Aled Davies; 1 Mako Vunipola (c), 2 Tom Woolstencroft, 3 Vincent Koch, 4 Callum Hunter-Hill, 5 Tim Swinson, 6 Andy Christie, 7 Jackson Wray, 8 Billy Vunipola

Replacements: 16 Ethan Lewis, 17 Richard Barrington, 18 Sam Wainwright, 19 Theo McFarland, 20 Ben Earl, 21 Ruben de Haas, 22 Duncan Taylor, 23 Rotimi Segun

STARTING XV
15 Freddie Burns [91]
14 Harry Potter [31]
13 Matías Moroni [24]
12 Matt Scott [41]
11 Kini Murimurivalu [32]
10 George Ford (c) [118]
9 Jack van Poortvliet (vc) [39]
1 James Whitcombe [16]
2 Nic Dolly [17]
3 Joe Heyes [90]
4 Eli Snyman [13]
5 Calum Green [80]
6 Ollie Chessum [22]
7 Tommy Reffell [67]
8 George Martin [33]

REPLACEMENTS
16 Charlie Clare [42]
17 Francois van Wyk [11]
18 Nephi Leatigaga [59]
19 Harry Wells [145]
20 Jasper Wiese [33]
21 Richard Wigglesworth [29]
22 Guy Porter [35]
23 Nemani Nadolo [28]

FKAS wrote:First Vs second and both opt to rotate for this one.

SARACENS XV: 15 Elliot Daly, 14 Sean Maitland, 13 Alex Lozowski, 12 Nick Tompkins, 11 Alex Lewington, 10 Alex Goode, 9 Aled Davies; 1 Mako Vunipola (c), 2 Tom Woolstencroft, 3 Vincent Koch, 4 Callum Hunter-Hill, 5 Tim Swinson, 6 Andy Christie, 7 Jackson Wray, 8 Billy Vunipola

Replacements: 16 Ethan Lewis, 17 Richard Barrington, 18 Sam Wainwright, 19 Theo McFarland, 20 Ben Earl, 21 Ruben de Haas, 22 Duncan Taylor, 23 Rotimi Segun

STARTING XV
15 Freddie Burns [91]
14 Harry Potter [31]
13 Matías Moroni [24]
12 Matt Scott [41]
11 Kini Murimurivalu [32]
10 George Ford (c) [118]
9 Jack van Poortvliet (vc) [39]
1 James Whitcombe [16]
2 Nic Dolly [17]
3 Joe Heyes [90]
4 Eli Snyman [13]
5 Calum Green [80]
6 Ollie Chessum [22]
7 Tommy Reffell [67]
8 George Martin [33]

REPLACEMENTS
16 Charlie Clare [42]
17 Francois van Wyk [11]
18 Nephi Leatigaga [59]
19 Harry Wells [145]
20 Jasper Wiese [33]
21 Richard Wigglesworth [29]
22 Guy Porter [35]
23 Nemani Nadolo [28]

Good test for guess who……. JVP! Martin at 8 interesting.

Sarries will be way better w Goode at 10 imo. What’s happened to Earl’s form?

I'm assuming Cole's injured and it's under Borthwick's usual blackout, cause we could really have used him for this. Good test for Heyes though. Certainly won't lack for power coming through behind him though.

Odd that we're rotating so hard. Scott/Moroni are hardly schlubs in the centre and Kini is hardly bad, but you'd've thought we'd want to go up against Sarries with 5 more of our first team in Kelly, Porter, Nadolo, Wells, and Wiese (and that's assuming Liebenberg isn't rested by choice and is unavailable, gods how I hate this injury news blackout policy). Still, we've had harder rotations with positive results before, so IBWT once more.

Puja

ETA. And Montoya as well, jfc.

Schlubs.....???

Tigers have Ford back, which is a big bonus. Quite a test for the starting props. Tigers bench looks the stronger which may be significant.

Bound to be a close, cagey and physical kind of game i imagine.

Sarries appear to have rotated players in rather than out. That's not radically far off the strongest team available for them. Bit of a weird point to decided to rotate so many players from a Tigers perspective. Not doing Ford any favours, that's for sure.

Not really that weird.
Away game
Not desperate for points
Plastic Pitch

Borthwick loves to rotate the squad. He doesn't rotate for the hell of it either there will be a tactic behind the players picked both starting and on the bench. It's been one of the many things about his tenure so far that has really impressed me. Currently we have at least two players for every position I'd be entirely happy with us fielding. Been a long time since that was the case.

FKAS wrote:Borthwick loves to rotate the squad. He doesn't rotate for the hell of it either there will be a tactic behind the players picked both starting and on the bench. It's been one of the many things about his tenure so far that has really impressed me. Currently we have at least two players for every position I'd be entirely happy with us fielding. Been a long time since that was the case.

Clearly his godson

Peej wrote:Sarries appear to have rotated players in rather than out. That's not radically far off the strongest team available for them. Bit of a weird point to decided to rotate so many players from a Tigers perspective. Not doing Ford any favours, that's for sure.

Yeah. Apart from Earl starting ahead of Christie, that’s about the best they can muster right now I reckon.

Banquo wrote:

FKAS wrote:Borthwick loves to rotate the squad. He doesn't rotate for the hell of it either there will be a tactic behind the players picked both starting and on the bench. It's been one of the many things about his tenure so far that has really impressed me. Currently we have at least two players for every position I'd be entirely happy with us fielding. Been a long time since that was the case.

Clearly his godson

Ha not quite. My godfather is at least twenty years Borthwick's senior for starters.

great start from Tigers. Sarries ropy.

daly excellent in attack so far- good incursions and pass timing. V poor by Muri - 10 pt try

lol @danny care re Jones

penalty counts chunky. Tompkins looks a new man at 12

Should have started with Wiggy.

p/d wrote:Should have started with Wiggy.

Wiggy will have the wind

HIA for Billy?!?!?

Heyes doing well.

Mellsblue wrote:HIA for Billy?!?!?

lol really doesnt know the laws

sarries pen count is ludicrous

Billy terrible hands today

That's a red card all day. Awful technique head to head first collision. CMK is bailing Sarries out time after time with their discipline. Tigers need him to wake up as we don't have enough attacking penetration currently.

FKAS wrote:That's a red card all day. Awful technique head to head first collision. CMK is bailing Sarries out time after time with their discipline. Tigers need him to wake up as we don't have enough attacking penetration currently.

green gets away with a bad one imo.

That's no more of a neck roll than the one the TMO and ref didn't bother with against Nadolo five mins earlier.

And yes it was a bad one but Nadolo got dragged through a ruck by his head. Consistency would be nice. TMO was trying for a yellow there having not bothered to mentioned the one on Nadolo.