Exeter Chiefs v Clermont Auvergne (5.15pm Sky)

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Exeter Chiefs v ASM Clermont Auvergne
Saturday 12 December 2015
KO 17:15
Sandy Park, Exeter

Referee John Lacey (Ireland)
Touch Judge 1 Gary Conway (Ireland)
Touch Judge 2 Nigel Correll (Ireland)
TMO Simon McDowell (Ireland)
Citing Commissioner Murray Whyte (Ireland)

Couldn't find a thread on this one so thought I'd start this one - apologies for it being an inferior version of George's.

TEAMS

Exeter Chiefs: Phil Dollman; Jack Nowell, Ian Whitten, Sam Hill, James Short; Gareth Steenson, Will Chudley; Ben Moon, Jack Yeandle (capt), Tomas Francis; Mitch Lees, Damian Welch; Don Armand, Julian Salvi, Thomas Waldrom.

Replacements: Elvis Taione, Carl Rimmer, Moray Low, Geoff Parling, Tom Johnson. Dave Lewis, Will Hooley, Olly Woodburn

Clermont Auvergne: Scott Spedding; David Strettle, Aurelien Rougerie, Hosea Gear, Noa Nakaitaci; Camille Lopez, Morgan Parra; Thomas Domingo, John Ulugia, Clement Ric; Paul Jedrasiak, Sebastien Vahaamahina; Peceli Yato, Viktor Kolelishvili, Damien Chouly (capt).

Replacements: Pellow van der Westhuizen, Raphael Chaume, Daniel Kotze, Flip van der Merwe, Judicael Cancoriet, Ludovic Radosavljevic, Patricio Fernandez, Albert Vulivuli.

whocares wrote:Ok looks like I overestimated Treviso and underestimated Dan Carter influence in his first game! Still think ASM will struggle.

You were right about that one at least - didn't think you would be at first though.

George Carlin wrote:Thanks for doing the thread, Stub. This is bloody close! Cooom on you Chiefs.

Also - thanks for the thread enhancements. Just noticed it looks so much better!!

Cyril wrote:Brilliant by Exeter. Very good game and that's performance of the tournament so far.

Well done Chiefs!

Nowell will have impressed Jones today. Liking the look of him at 13. Exeter have some very strong-running backs.

Was a great performance by Exe today. I am not surprised they played well, and even thought they had at least a puncher's chance of pulling the upset. But never saw this scoreline coming.

That said, I think there were some other good performances this weekend: Ulster thrashing Toulouse and Leicester beating Munster at Thomond Park.
And Sunday has two matches which could be very good as well.

This is really great Rugby.

Pot Hale wrote:And a very odd decision by ref on a crooked throw by Clermont that he turns into a knock on by Exeter.

Still overall he's done well.

Pace gone out of the game a little bit. Nowell man of the match for me even though Waldrom gets a standing ovation as he goes off.

Lacey often makes bizarre calls - isn't he also the one that gave offside against a player from his own knock-on?