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Castres Olympique v Newport Gwent Dragons
Saturday 21st November 2015
KO 17:00
Stade Pierre Antoine, Castres

Referee Gary Conway (Ireland)
Touch Judge 1 Kieran Barry (Ireland)
Touch Judge 2 Barrie O'Connell (Ireland)
Fourth Official Christian Coussan (France)

TEAMS:

Castres Olympique
15 Geoffrey Palis
14 Romain Martial
13 Thomas Combezou
12 Romain Cabannes (capt)
11 Remi Grosso
10 Daniel Kirkpatrick
9 Julien Seron

1 Saimone Taumoepeau
2 Marc-Antoine Rallier
3 Yohan Montes
4 Christophe Samson
5 Victor Moreaux
6 Piula Faasalele
7 Alexandre Bias
8 Johnnie Beattie

16 Mathieu Bonello
17 Mihaita Lazar
18 Lucas Martinez
19 Alex Tulou
20 Theo Hannoyer
21 Julien Dumora
22 Remi Lamerat
23 Antoine Dupont

Newport Gwent Dragons
15. Carl Meyer
14. Ashton Hewitt
13. Adam Hughes
12. Adam Warren
11. Nick Scott
10. Dorian Jones
9. Sarel Pretorius

1. Phil Price
2. Elliot Dee
3. Shaun Knight
4. Matthew Screech
5. Rynard Landman ©
6. Nick Crosswell
7. Ollie Griffiths
8. Ed Jackson

Replacements: Rhys Buckley, Boris Stankovich, Lloyd Fairbrother, Cory Hill, Nic Cudd, Charlie Davies, Jason Tovey, Ross Wardle.

Tombola selection again. Why he has dropped Brok from the 23 and Boris to the bench, against French opposition, is beyond me.

He has been turning out for Newport in WP.

Never seen such a quick man look for contact so open. Literally scared of open spaces

Who?

Brew

mikey_dragon wrote:Who?

Aled Brew mun, the Newport RFC winger in his black and amber socks.

Whose looking good in the CBRPS then Dave?

GavinDragon wrote:Whose looking good in the CBRPS then Dave?

A new acronym. Marvelous!
Dunno Gav, too early to say I spose. See who's still around at the end of the season that suits Wilson's plan.

GavinDragon wrote:He has been turning out for Newport in WP.

Never seen such a quick man look for contact so open. Literally scared of open spaces

To be fair, he ain't so quick anymore and you'd think that if it had any chance of working,the contact thing would work at this level.

True. I think he is seeing out his contract. Wonder if anyone else will take a chance on him?

Cardiff Dave wrote:

GavinDragon wrote:Whose looking good in the CBRPS then Dave?

A new acronym. Marvelous!
Dunno Gav, too early to say I spose. See who's still around at the end of the season that suits Wilson's plan.

With the forward pack they can put out, CBPS are getting some poor results.

GavinDragon wrote:We were good in patches. Angus was hit and miss. Lovely break to set up the try and a good bomb for the second combined with some suspect defence and erratic kicking.

Luc jones again showed he is a joke even at this level. His poor box kick lead to their first try and he missed an easy tackle in the second.

Tbh no one stood out enough to warrant selection in the senior squad. James Benjamin could make the bench at a push and garret over price. Sweet over screech maybe

Certainly Garrett over Price. Not Sweet though, major lightweight for a lock and we're already getting beaten at mauls with our current pedestrian lock forwards. AOB isn't ready, but one day he perhaps might have the potential to oust Tovey, who seems to be going backwards. That's a good year or two away though. Benjamin is another one who's too small for that level; Cudd, Griff and Evans are quality cover there. TRT could probably take the place of Buckley.

mikey_dragon wrote:

Cardiff Dave wrote:

GavinDragon wrote:Whose looking good in the CBRPS then Dave?

A new acronym. Marvelous!
Dunno Gav, too early to say I spose. See who's still around at the end of the season that suits Wilson's plan.

With the forward pack they can put out, CBPS are getting some poor results.

Yet another acronym. They're wearing me out. For accuracy why not call them Cardiff A?
New thing anyway. Give it time.

Not really. A lot of those players have familiarity with each other, like two of the other teams.

mikey_dragon wrote:Not really. A lot of those players have familiarity with each other, like two of the other teams.

Eh?

Not using your noodle again are you. They all either play for the same club, play in the same academy, have played together for the Blues, or all three! So the reality of your situation is that it's not a new thing to the players and you're currently hitting below your weight. Scarlets are too, both of their results have been nothing short of awful.

mikey_dragon wrote:Not using your noodle again are you. They all either play for the same club, play in the same academy, have played together for the Blues, or all three! So the reality of your situation is that it's not a new thing to the players and you're currently hitting below your weight. Scarlets are too, both of their results have been nothing short of awful.

Aye.

Took you long enough.