Aviva "A" League 2015/16 Round 1

Thought it might be a good idea to get an idea of players returning to fitness and academy players to keep an eye out for.

Monday 21/11/2015
19:00 Leicester Tigers V Gloucester United (Welford Road)
19:15 Bristol united V London Irish
19:30 Northampton Wanders V Newcastle Falcons
19:30 Exeter Braves V Saracens Storm
19:30 Wasps V Harlequins

Wednesday 25/11/2015
15:00 Worcester Cavaliers V Sale Jets

Teams
Leicester tigers
1) Tiziano Pasquali, 2) Harry Thacker, 3) Aniseko Sio
4) Joe Maksymiw, 5) Graham Kitchener
6) Will Owen, 7) Will Evans, 8) Laurence Pearce
9) Jono Kitto, 10) Jacob Umaga
12) George Catchpole, 13) Jack Roberts
11) Gonzalo Camacho, 14) christian Loamanu, 15) George Worth

Replacements
16) Jake Farnworth, 17) Matt Parr, 18) Dan Hogan
19) Sebastian de Chaves, 20) Fred Tuilagi
21) Ben White, 22) Oli Bryant, 23) Paolo Odogwu

V

Gloucester United:
1) Nick Wood, 2) Tom Lindsay, 3) Nicky Thomas,
4) Joe Latta, 5) Tom Hicks,
6) Elliott Stooke, 7) Dan Thomas, 8) Lewis Ludlow
9) Callum Braley, 10) Billy Burns,
12) David Halaifonua, 13) Henry Trinder,
11) Mat Protheroe, 14) Ollie Thorley, 15) Steve McColl,

Replacements:
16 Jack Spencer, 17 Dan Murphy, 18 Josh McNulty,
19 Alex Craig, 20 Harry Wilson,
21c Ben Vellacott, 22 Lloyd Evans, 23 Jack Evans

Good to see both Kitch and Trinder getting a run out.

Excited to see Umaga start.

Considering he was travelling reserve @ 10 in the recent number of games which should be a good vote of confidence to him.

Really happy with that team, both squads are strong but with the odd academy player in there.

Harlequins team
15. Tim Swiel
14. Ollie Lindsay-Hague
13. Ross Chisholm
12. Winston Stanley
11. Charlie Walker
10. Ben Botica
9. Tito Tebaldi

1. Owen Evans
2. Joe Gray©
3. Will Collier
4. Stan South
5. Kieran Treadwell
6. Archie White
7. Victor Keunan
8. Henry Cheeseman

16. Seb Adeniran-Olule
17. Mofe Wilkey
18. Matt Shields
19. TBC
20. Dino Lamb-Cona
21. Calum Waters
22. Luke White
23. Sam Aspland-Robinson

We've sent out a relatively experienced backline behind a young pack down at Bristol and are 14-21 down going into the dying minutes.

Currently 28-31 for Quins away at Wasps

We lost 24-14.  From one of our fans who was there it was a really scrappy game, which doesn't surprise me looking at the make up of our side.

Finished 28-38 and a good win for the Quins youngsters.

Interesting that a fair few first teamers were there too

That's a strong looking back line Yappy I'm not surprised that they did some damage.

Tigers lose to Glaws. Not a shock that one. Glaws looked more experienced in the key areas. Tigers were fielding a 17 year old fly half and for the second half a 16 year old scrum half.

Judging by the match report Glaws had us under all sorts of pressure in the first half and could have had a couple more tries Tigers academy full back producing some last ditch tackling. In the second Tigers improved with Bryant getting a special mention (maybe one day he'll get a game) but they seem to have butchered several chances in the wet conditions.

Bryant looked good when he came on.

Fred Jnr outplayed Pearce when he came on IMO, (Didn't think i would say that).

Kitchener in a class of his own in the Tigers team.

Weather was crap, Pack was well beaten. Not much to say.

The younger players did nothing wrong but just were not able to show off what they could do. against a very experienced Glous team.

Also White Started.

formerly known as Sam wrote:That's a strong looking back line Yappy I'm not surprised that they did some damage.

Quite possibly the fastest backline we've fielded in several seasons - Walker and OLH are known for their speed, Chis normally plays wing/fullback and reports from the game are that Swiel is faster than all of them.

Also a good result considering that several of the Quins players played 80 minutes, and a couple more played 40-50, against Cardiff on Thursday.

Would love for leicester to try and get Walker back sometime, wish things didn't happen the way they did.

although even if Camacho, Loamanu and goneva goes we look good there still. (Betham, Veainu, Thompstone, Benjamin, Odogwu, Morris)

Stooke at 6

Lost, considering the conditions it was a good choice. Wet and miserable, added to Tigers having two academy open sides on the flank. Any extra muscle was worth bringing in.