RugbyRebels

STARTING XV

15 Freddie Steward [85]
14 Mike Brown [25]
13 Matt Scott [77]
12 Dan Kelly [78]
11 Ollie Hassell-Collins [19]
10 Handré Pollard [30]
9 Jack van Poortvliet [70]
1 James Cronin [32]
2 Julián Montoya [57]
3 Dan Cole [320]
4 George Martin [63]
5 Ollie Chessum [55]
6 Hanro Liebenberg [104]
7 Tommy Reffell [111]
8 Jasper Wiese [76]

REPLACEMENTS

16 Charlie Clare [92]
17 Francois van Wyk [51]
18 Will Hurd [40]
19 Harry Wells [196]
20 Olly Cracknell [40]
21 Tom Whiteley [27]
22 Jamie Shillcock [25]
23 Phil Cokanasiga [17]

Bar Brown on the wing the starting side looks good. The bench looks mightily weak though. Still quite a few players out though having Martin and Liebenburg back is a big help.

Bristol Bears team to face Leicester Tigers at Mattioli Woods Welford Road on Saturday (3pm KO):

15. Max Malins (31 apps), 14. Siva Naulago (32 apps), 13. Benhard Janse van Rensburg (22 apps), 12. James Williams (39 apps), 11. Gabriel Ibitoye (38 apps), 10. AJ MacGinty (35 apps), 9. Harry Randall (123 apps); 1. Ellis Genge (41 apps), 2. Gabriel Oghre (14 apps), 3. Kyle Sinckler (58 apps), 4. James Dun (31 apps), 5. Joe Batley (60 apps), 6. Steven Luatua (127 apps), 7. Fitz Harding (c) (69 apps), 8. Magnus Bradbury (42 apps).

System players: 16. Harry Thacker (112 apps), 17. Jake Woolmore (147 apps), 18. Max Lahiff (84 apps), 19. Josh Caulfield (21 apps), 20. Jake Heenan (108 apps), 21. Kieran Marmion (21 apps), 22. Virimi Vakatawa (16 apps), 23. Rich Lane (33 apps).

Bristol look pretty loaded for this one.

A game short on quality in which Carley is barely in control.

Bristol lucky to only lose one man to the bin in the first fifteen minutes when I lost count of the number of penalties, mostly cynical they conceded. Mike Brown getting sin binned almost immediately after the yellow card for dissent was moronic (even if he was right and had been taken out in the side whilst over the ball). After that it's just been error after error from either side.

Mike Brown with two easily avoidable yellow cards. Tom Whiteley was again useless. Tigers controlled the game and then threw it away.

FKAS wrote: ↑Sat Apr 27, 2024 5:05 pm Mike Brown with two easily avoidable yellow cards. Tom Whiteley was again useless. Tigers controlled the game and then threw it away.

Should have kept Edwards

Banquo wrote: ↑Sat Apr 27, 2024 5:29 pm

FKAS wrote: ↑Sat Apr 27, 2024 5:05 pm Mike Brown with two easily avoidable yellow cards. Tom Whiteley was again useless. Tigers controlled the game and then threw it away.

Should have kept Edwards

I agree fully. Not sure why Youngs isn't on the bench.

In control of that game for over an hour. Then threw it away with some silly errors. Harry Thacker was a great impact option for Bears and really carried their attack in the last 10 mins. A fumbled interception and Whiteley bungling a box kick in Bristol's half with less than two mins on the clock provided the breaks for Bristol to score two of their three. Painful.

Saw the results was 19-0 with 10 to go assumed Bris had had their expected collapse!

jimKRFC wrote: ↑Sat Apr 27, 2024 6:40 pm Saw the results was 19-0 with 10 to go assumed Bris had had their expected collapse!

You'd have been right at that point. The last 10 mins however, Tigers showed Bristol how to do a proper collapse.

Think Max Lahiff sums it up nicely!

To be fair it was a great impact from him, coming off the bench and scoring twice from close range.

Though he's a prop so if he describes them they'll be at least 25m out.

Five game ban for Brown with three suspended and Tigers friendly this evening counting towards the two.

This wasn't for either of the yellow cards but in fact he uttered the phrase "fucking joke, the lot of you" as he walked past the fourth official after being sent off. Just stupid from Brown, we all know you've got to keep your mouth shut irrespective of how good or bad you think the officials are.

Haha.

Awesome.

FKAS wrote: ↑Fri May 03, 2024 5:01 pm Five game ban for Brown with three suspended and Tigers friendly this evening counting towards the two.

This wasn't for either of the yellow cards but in fact he uttered the phrase "fucking joke, the lot of you" as he walked past the fourth official after being sent off. Just stupid from Brown, we all know you've got to keep your mouth shut irrespective of how good or bad you think the officials are.

Just get rid

FKAS wrote: ↑Fri May 03, 2024 5:01 pm Five game ban for Brown with three suspended and Tigers friendly this evening counting towards the two.

This wasn't for either of the yellow cards but in fact he uttered the phrase "fucking joke, the lot of you" as he walked past the fourth official after being sent off. Just stupid from Brown, we all know you've got to keep your mouth shut irrespective of how good or bad you think the officials are.

What a grade A prick. No need for that at all.

Puja

Puja wrote: ↑Fri May 03, 2024 6:47 pm

FKAS wrote: ↑Fri May 03, 2024 5:01 pm Five game ban for Brown with three suspended and Tigers friendly this evening counting towards the two.

This wasn't for either of the yellow cards but in fact he uttered the phrase "fucking joke, the lot of you" as he walked past the fourth official after being sent off. Just stupid from Brown, we all know you've got to keep your mouth shut irrespective of how good or bad you think the officials are.

What a grade A prick. No need for that at all.

Puja

Yeah I have no sympathy. If anything like the fact the RFU have slapped the ban on him. He's got to do a presentation on the values of the game or he gets the other three weeks of ban.

After playing for one thousand years and being team mates with Dylan Hartley you'd think he would know better.

Some of the things Brown has done on the pitch have also been a joke...

You guys just aren’t true competitors.