Anglo Welsh Cup Semi Finals Predictions Page.

Leicester Tigers vs Gloucester

Grey Cloud , 12 degrees , 12mph winds

Leicester Tigers
Manager – LukeLovesLuka

01. Ben Franks	09. Michael Claassens
02. Lee Mears	10. Brock James
03. Cencus Johnston
04. Dan Vickerman	11. Tom Biggs
05. Alex Brown	12. Billy Twelvetrees (k)
06. Sanu Manoa	13. Brian O'Driscoll (c)
07. Jonathan Poff	14. Topsy Ojo
08. Ernst Joubert	15. Isa Nacewa

16. Dan Murphy 17. Tom Youngs 18. Faan Rautenbach 19. Tom Denton 20. Jordan Crane 21. Neil de Kock 22. Dave Walder 23. Casey Laulala


Tactics

Game is built around our powerful setpiece, intelligent midfield and flying back three. We will use the scrum and lineout as weapons.

- Attack the lineout as much as we can using the tactical kicking of Claasens, James and Twelvetrees. A.Brown to lead our lineout, and we will use any of Brown, Joubert, Manoa and Vickerman to keep Gloucester guessing.

- Call for scrums when we can if we are getting the advantage we expect to. Joubert to look to control from the base.

- Look to Joubert, Manoa, Vickerman, Mears, Johnston and Poff to give us real go-forward with their carrying.

- Use Manoa off the shoulder of the half back's crashing down the 10 channel.

- Poff is the man charged with reaching the breakdown first, securing first phase possession for us and pilfering the possession of Gloucester.

- B.James is given license to play the game as he sees it. We do ask that he uses our carrying and lineout ability to put pressure on Gloucester, but if he sees an opportunity to attack out wide - that is his call.

- Use the intelligence we have in our centres to get us into the right areas and get our back three into gaps.

- Our back three are encouraged to do what they do best - counter attacking and running the ball back. All have good boots to rely on if it isn't on or they are isolated, but the counter is what we ask them to look for.

- Early on Twelvetrees to kick all penalites within range, but we won't necessarily go for the 3 points as the game progresses. BOD/Joubert to make the call dependant on the success of the lineout.

Gloucester

Manager – anonmattyt

01. Tim Payne	09. Connor Murrey (c)
02.Jamie George	10. Stephen Donald
03.Coonie Outshuizen
04. Ali Williams	11. James Simpson-Daniel
05. George Robson	12. Juan De Jong
06. Fasivalu	13. Rob Horne
07.Qera	14. Horsea Gear
08. Ashley Johnson	15. Jonny May

16. Joe Grey 17. Nick Wood18. Julian White 19. Tom Palmer 20. Tom Savage 21. Ryan Lamb 22. shantayne Hape 23. Mils Muliana

Tactics
1. Target lineout
2 high intensity quick game
3. Counter loose kicks and keep ball alive

Northampton Saints vs. Saracens

Grey Cloud , 11 degrees , wind 12mph

Northampton Saints
Manager – Dammit Chris

01. Thomas Domingo	09. Joe Simpson
02. Mike Haywood	10. Matt Giteau
03. Carl Hayman
04. Courtney Lawes	11. Jamie Elliott
05. Patricio Albacete	12. Jean de Villiers
06. Calum Clark	13. Matt Hopper
07. Alexandre Lapandry	14. Elliot Daly
08. Liam Messam	15. Eerie Claasens

16. Chris Whitehead 17. Zak Taulofo 18. Henry Thomas 19. Joe Tacklebury/Launchbury 20. Liam Gill 21. Sam Harrison 22. Danny Cipriani 23. Siti Siviatu

Tactics
Saints focus this week is on winning the main contests throughout the 80minutes - the set piece, the breakdown battle and getting over the gainline. We will play at a high tempo against a team that has rarely played as part of the same lineup this season, we expect gaps in the defensive line which we will look to exploit and will play a rush defence to force mistakes in the Sarries attack.

Have mixed experience with age as we look to put in a strong performance and advance to the final next week - we've been planning this season to win both the LV and Amlin.

Set Piece - solid scrum that we will look to use as an attacking weapon with Messam picking up and running, or Simpson to snipe. Lineout will also be used to launch quick attacks from, Clark, Lawes, Albacete and Messam give us some good options and will look to get the ball quickly to the midfield when possible.

Breakdown - will look to put Sarries under a lot of pressure here, selected Clark as a no6 to add to our breakdown work and have Gill and Launchbury who are both specialists in this area to bring on from the bench as Sarries tire. Will look to secure turnover ball and get it out to the backs to attack with.

Attack - we are hoping to do a lot of attacking in this game and will secure ball to work through the phases and build pressure on Sarries - we have got some very dangerous backs and some good ball carrying forwards who will get us over the gainline. With Giteau pulling the strings we will look to exploit defensive uncertainties in the Sarries defence, play at a high tempo and give the ball to our backthree in space. De Villiers to do a lot of initial carrying to get us over the gainline.

Defence - will play a rush defence to put Sarries under immediate pressure and force mistakes from a team that hasn't played much rugby together.

Saracens
Manager – Ozzy3213

01. Max Lahiff	09. Paul Hodgson (c)
02. Gary Botha	10. Iain Humphreys
03. Brok Harris
04. Rynhardt Elstadt	11. James Short
05. Graham Kitchener	12. Damien Traille
06. James Phillips	13. Nevin Spence
07. James Scaysbrook	14. Mark Cueto
08. Alex Gray	15. Tom Homer

16. George Chuter 17. Jared Saunders 18. Phil Swainston 19. Bob Casey 20. Rafael Lakafia 21. James Lightfoot-Brown 22. Seilala Mapusua 23. Jack Nowell
4. Utilise bench

Are predo's open? Is that all of Pete's tactics?

This page is a dud mate pete updated the other

Sorry driver mate, was half asleep when updating the other page this morning and didn't even see this.

It's ok buddy , now you know how us Falcons fans feel being half asleep.

Hahaha!! Cheers guys found it now.