Fixtures 2

Teams due by Friday , predictions over the weekend.

The fixtures will take place at Anfield Stadium

Exeter Chiefs vs. London Irish
Harlequins vs. Bath
Gloucester vs. Sale Sharks
Leicester Tigers vs. London Wasps
Saracens vs. Northampton Saints
Worcester Warriors vs. Newcastle Falcons

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Better keep the car windows up if were going to Anfield

Harlequins

1. Joe Marler
2. Matthew Rees
3. John Afoa
4. Jerome Thion
5. Erik Lund
6. Schalk Brits
7. Lewis Moody (c)
8. Richie Vernon
9. Lee Dickson
10. Rhys Priestland
11. Cedric Heymans
12. James Downey
13. Jon Clarke
14. Jonathan Joseph
15. Ben Blair (k)

16. Kieran Brookes
17. Matias Aguero
18. Tom Donnelly
19. James Gaskell
20. Phil Dowson
21. Byron Kellaher
22. Freddie Burns
23. George Lowe

Have picked a very quick backrow and a powerful front 5. We want to play at pace when we spread the ball wide when we have tied in defenders. We are going to run the ball when possible. We will look to get the best crowd in world sport on our side as we visit a ground which is so used to seeing success from the Home side

Steve

Under the rules you must name 3 front row replacements on your bench.

Exeter team to play Irish

1.Cian Healy
2.Gary Botha
3.Euan Murrey
4.Simon Shaw
5.George Skivington
6.Carl Fearns
7.Shane Jennings
8.Rapheal Lakafia

9.Tomas O’Leary
10.Ronan O’Gara
11.Iain Balshaw
12.Eliota Sapolu
13.Regan King
14.Max Evans
15.Luke Arscott

16.John Smit
17.Brett Sturgess
18.Mark Lambert
19.James Hudson
20.Kelly Brown
21.Haydn Thomas
22.Steven Myler
23.Andrea Masi

I have Schalk Brits as front row replacement in my back row. I thought you just had to have 3 front row replacements in your squad, didn't think it was specified to the bench

Sorry mate didn't see Brits at 6.

Think he could be a handy 7 though in linking play terms

Am I Ok with Brits as the replacement?

Brits as backrow could be a great asset. Could play at Hooker when its dry and running rugby and could play in the back row when its wet and bigger players are needed up front. Could be an option for Sarries with Smit on his way

Brits is fine as a replacement

tough one really, only way of knowing is to see how he goes there if he ever plays there. not sure what his breakdown work is like but he is a decent tackler and obviously has the workrate.

Saints team versus Sarries.

After last weeks loss against Newcastle, Saints name a young, attacking side to make the most of the warm conditions sweeping the UK.

1. Dave Wilson
2. Rob Webber
3. Matt Stevens
4. Courtney Lawes
5. Dave Attwood
6. Liam Messam
7. Tom Rees
8. Sergio Parisse(c)
9. Joe Simpson
10. Lionel Beauxis
11. Rory Lamont
12. Jean de Villiers
13. Manu Tuilagi
14. Leigh Halfpenny
15. Danny Cipriani

16. Ross Batty 17. Henry Thomas 18. Mako Vunipola 19. Joe Launchbury 20. Simon Taylor 21. Stuart Commins 22. Shane Geraghty 23. Siti Siviatu

Guys I'm looking for feeback mainly on

(1) my 12/13 combination
(2) using Cipriani as a fb to give two attacking options on the hard grounds, which they will be first 2 months of the season
(3) Use of players like Thomas and Launchbury from the bench.
(4) use of Geraghty and Siviatu as impact players

Tigers team to play Wasps:

1. Clarke Dermody
2. Matt Thompson
3. Gethin Jenkins
4. Chris Jack (c)
5. Tom Denton
6. Tom Croft
7. Jonathan Poff
8. Thomas Waldrom

9. Dimitri Yachvilli
10. Dave Walder (k)
11. Alesana Tuilagi
12. Florian Fritz
13. Tim Molenaar
14. Cory Jane
15. Isa Nacewa

16. Dan Murphy
17. Tom Youngs
18. Dan Cole
19. Brad Thorn
20. Nick Easter
21. Micky Young
22. David Skrela
23. Vincent Clerc

London Wasps team to play Leicester Tigers

1. Perry Freshwater
2. Steve Thompson
3. Werner Kruger
4. Steven Sykes
5. Mark Chisholm
6. James Haskell
7. Francois Louw
8. Roger Wilson

9. Luke Burgess
10. Ruadirh Jackson
11. Tom Williams
12. Jamie Roberts
13. Anthony Fainga'a
14. Lachie Turner
15. Olly Morgan

16. Tatafu Polota-Nau
17. Benn Robinson
18. Charlie Beech
19. Dan Ward-Smith
20. Tom Johnson
21. Martin Roberts
22. Rory Clegg
23. Tom Williams

Remove Tom Williams from the bench and replace him with Tom May please!

Irish team to face Exeter

1 Soane Tonga'uhia
2 James Buckland
3 Martin Castrogiovani
4 Mouritz Botha
5 Nick Kennedy
6 Jerome Kaino
7 Hendrie Fourie
8 Pierre Spies
9 Ruan Pienaar
10 Butch James
11 Bjorn Basson
12 Sonny Bill Williams
13 David Marty
14 J.P Pieterson
15 Delon Armitage

16 Jean Baptiste Poux
17 Neil Briggs
18 Duncan Bell
19 Matt Garvey
20 Steffon Armitage
21 Julien Dupuy
22 Matthew Tait
23 Juan Martin Hernandez

Gloucester

1 Wood
2 Fourie
3 Mas
4 Bakkies
5 Palmer
6 Fasavalu
7 Saull
8 Alberts
9 Genia
10 Donald
11 JSD
12 De Jongh
13 MAy
14 Sharples
15 Dagg
16 Payne
17 George
18 White
19 Robson
20 Hari
21 Lewis
22 Carter
23 Muliana

Saracens team to face Northampton Saints

15. Alex Goode
14. Tim Visser
13. Nevin Spence
12. Billy Twelvetrees
11. Rene Ranger
10. Iain Humphreys
9. Paul Hodgson

1. Matt Mullan
2. Scott Lawson
3. Alex Corbisiero
4. Graham Kitchener
5. Bob Casey
6. Joe van Niekerk
7. George Smith
8. Luke Narraway

16. George Chuter 17. Alex Waller 18. Tom Mercey 19. Rynhardt Elstadt 20. Jacob Rowan 21. Francois Hougaard 22. Owen Farrell 23. Tom Homer

Tactics

- We will look to play our normal game. Running rugby with support runners looking for the offload in or just before the tackle.

- Blitz defence with Hodgson sweeping behind the line.

- Humphreys to play what's in front of him, off the cuff switching the point of attack frequently to move the Saints defence around and create space for su to put runners through.

1 Salvatore Perugini
2 Lee Mears
3 Davit Kubrashvilli
4 Louis Deacon
5 Tim Swinson
6 Sean O'Brien
7 Beau Robinson
8 Tom Guest
9 Richard Wigglesworth
10 Charlie Hodgson
11 Ugo Monye
12 Anthony Allen
13 Jaque Fourie
14 Maxime Medard
15 Kurtley Beale
Subs: Jon Golding, Will Tanner, James Currie, Sam Whitelock, Juan Martin Fernandez Lobbe, Chris Cook, Steven Shingler, Francois Steyn

Newcastle team to face Worcester:

1. Boris Stankovich
2. Andrew Hore
3. Paul Doran-Jones
4. Flip van der Merwe
5. Geoff Parling
6. Chris Robshaw(c)
7. Marty Holah
8. Duane Vermeulen

9. Sarel Pretorius
10. Nick Evans
11. Sean Maitland
12. Luke McAlister
13. Dan Hipkiss
14. Miles Benjamin
15. Ben Smith

16. Tom Lindsay
17. Craig Mitchell
18. Grant Shiells
19. Juandre Kruger
20. Ben Woods
21. Michael Claassens
22. Topsy Ojo
23. Tom Catterick

Sale Sharks:

1. Marcos Ayerza
2. David Paice *
3. Luc Ducalcon
4. Romain Millo Chluski
5. Andries Bekker
6. Adam Thomson
7. Fulgence Quedragao
8. Louis Picamoles

9. Danny Care *
10. Johnny Sexton
11. David Strettle *
12. James Hook
13. Robbie Freuen
14. Luke Rooney *
15. Nick Abendanoon *

16. Nathan Catt * 17. Brett Sharman * 18. Carlos Nieto 19. Christian Day * 20. Wycliffe Palu 21. Nicholas Bezy 22. Olly Barkley * 23. Sam Smith *

Think we are just waiting on prop to name his side

I bbm him and he said same as last week but with thomas at 12

Predo's can open then I guess:

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