Saracens team to play Toulon

Saracens starting XV vs Toulon

1. Deon Carstens
2. Jamie George
3. Petrus Du Plessis
4. George Kruis
5. Hugh Vyvyan
6. Will Fraser
7. Andy Saull
8. Ernst Joubert
9. Ben Spencer
10. Owen Farrell
11. James Short
12. Brad Barritt
13. Adam Powell
14. Joe Maddock
15. Alex Goode

Toulon Team


The starting XV Toulon:

1 - Eifion LEWIS-ROBERTS
2 - Mickaël IVALDI
3 - Carl HAYMAN
4 - Kris CHESNEY
5 - Dean SCHOFIELD
6 - Joe VAN NIEKERK (Cap.)
7 - Joe EL ABD
8 - Jone TAWAKE
9 - Sébastien TILLOUS-BORDE (m)
10 - Andre PRETORIUS (o)
11 - David SMITH
12 - Willie MASON
13 - Jérémy SINZELLE
14 - Jean-Yves ZEBANGO
15 - Benjamin LAPEYRE

Entreront en cours de jeu : Come during the game:

16 - Jean-Philippe GENEVOIS
17 - Romain FROU
18 - Christophe SAMSON
19 - Seva ROKOBARO
20 - Olivier MISSOUP
21 - Julien DUMORA
22 - Thomas SONETTI
23 - Damien TUSSAC
24 - Geoffroy MESSINA
25 - Mathieu BASTAREAUD
26 - Matthieu LE GUEVEL
27 - Christian LOAMANU
28 - Stéphane MUNOZ
29 - Pierrick GUNTHER
30 - Samy BEN LETAÏEF
31 - Xavier CHIOCCI


Can't say I have heard of any of the Toulon squad chosen bar Schofield,Chesney,Hayman,Van Niekerk, Lewis-Roberts and Bastareaud. Could anyone enlighten me on some of their players?

Saracens backline looks good in my opinion. Good time to try out Maddock. Haven't heard of Ben Spencer. Does anyone know anything about him?

Interesting pack nice to see Saull,Kruis,Fraser and George starting.

Less foreigners in our starting XV than Toulon.

Willie Mason is a rather huge inside centre recently converted from league.

Sébastien TILLOUS-BORDE got an international cap or two, decent scrum half with good all round skills from memory.

David Smith is a quick winger who was playing in Oz for the super 15, seems a bit over rated but give him a gap and he has the pace to finish.

Joe EL ABD, former Bristol openside, a real pain at the breakdown with a touch of pace. Was mainly used from the bench last season.

Andre PRETORIUS, experienced fly half with 30 caps for SA to his name amd was part of the RWC winning team of 2007, back up to Butch James.