ACC, Pool 4 - Round 5: Prato vs Chiefs, USAP vs Dragons

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EXETER CHIEFS TEAM TO FACE CAVALIERI PRATO

15 Phil Dollman
14 Bryan Rennie
13 Josh Tatupu
12 Myles Dorrian
11 Mark Foster
10 Gareth Steenson (capt)
9 Kevin Barrett
1 Hoani Tui
2 Simon Alcott
3 John Andress
4 Chris Bentley
5 Aly Muldowney
6 Dave Ewers
7 Ben White
8 James Phillips

16 Chris Whitehead
17 Luke Cowan-Dickie
18 Chris Budgen
19 Richard Baxter
20 Tom Johnson
21 Pat Phibbs
22 Ignacio Mieres
23 Jack Nowell

Good strong team, with a number of first-team regulars getting a break or placed on the bench - Arscott, Jess, Camacho, Shoey, Thomas, Sturge, Mitchell, Clarke, Hayes, Scays all absent, Richie B, TJ & Nacho Mieres among the subs. Great to see Ben White and Chris Whitehead back from injury

tbh i havent seen much of cuthbert, and brew just doesnt seem favoured by the coaches, tbh id rather will harries as i think he offers something a lil different

sid, you muppet!

and now a try

Brew drops too many balls in critical positions.

Let me know when his birthday is and I'll send him some of those sticky gloves some players wear.

Looks like they scored...!

Sidoli in the bin

Ref needs to pay a bit of attention here to the violence here

23 should get red that's worse than war button and shinglers tackles

Surely that number 23 has to be red carded for that spear on Matthew Jones!

Far worse than Worburtons

2x yellows

Perp 13 vs 14 dragons

14 v 13?

maestegmafia wrote:Ref needs to pay a bit of attention here to the violence here

23 should get red that's worse than war button and shinglers tackles

the disipline has been non existent and the ref is totaly to blame. two yellows and at least one should have been red.

yep so inconsistent!

kick from brew. poor. ok, maybe not our best post-ikkle winger

should have been a red for the 23 there, he'll most certainly get cited for that.

The ref hasn't been great but his perfomance is brilliant compared to his assistants. When is Chang-a-lang going to be put out to pasture?

poor game

perpignan have been needlesly thuggish

ref and assistants have been dire

dragons have been sloppy, at best.

Dragons have not backed off and have often come out on top in the physical stakes.

Peter Allens getting angry.

Little respect for Perpignan on the manner of that win. The tide was turned by Mas' pull on Sidoli. That lad Batlle, who looks and acts like an impetulant runt, should have seen red, blatantly more obvious than Warburton's tackle, zero regard for Matthew Jones' safety. How some of these players can sleep at night...

The most you can say is that they took their chances. Dragons played very well for twenty mins of the second half but made some silly mistakes and inexplicably adopted the wrong set of tactics when at a numerical advantage.

I would imagine there will be at least two citings from the came the tackle on Jones (should have been red) and the ehad high on Thomas.

As for the game itself awful 1st half and our discipline this season has been shocking, we seemed to buck up a bit for spell in 2nd half but too many unforced errors throughout.

Please don't let Charts associate himself with players of that mindset for a grand or ten more in his paycheck

Both teams poor, agree two citings coming up the flyhalf just dumped Jones. Matt Jones is a liability with his lack of tackling.

What is Hook doing with such a poor team and Charter joining him, they are not there for the style of rugby.

Great chip and tackle by Brew and well taken try.

Agreed, Brew was excellent as usual. Thought Tuilagi was used much better than he was in previous games at times ie being brought onto the flat ball and smashing into the line.

Faletau was great at the base of the scrum and solid overall. Lydiate was active but missed a tackle or two and made a couple of silly infringements.

The kickers, including Steffan Jones, were clueless on too much of a regular basis. Don't for the life of me know why anyone would want to kick and miss touch when holding good ground and at a numerical advantage.

Fed up of seeing rejects run out for the team i:e; Matthew Jones. Keep the Gwent products in there along with Brew, Thomas, etc and build the team around them.

Was Matthew Jones chance to play for a contract extension apparently. Don't see it happening mind. Should be several player sitings and the ref needs extended lessons on controlling a game and keeping it safe

Well he fluffed that chance then Munkian .

I can't remember him ever really having a stand out game for us. Yesterday was horrible though, really thought someone would get injured. I know it was only an Amlin but it just seemed a shambles - the ref , unconfident touch judges , TMO wandering off, sin binned players not actually sitting in the sin bin. And I watched it sober with the flu

Yeah seemed very amateur ish set up yesterday. Amlin or not its at the professional level and should be treated as such.

Apparently being held by the scruff of your neck in an offside position is a yellow card now, joke!

Oh and where's the consistency we've been banging on about lately, that tackle on Jones was a straight red.

Investment into the refereeing side of the game must be a priority now. It's getting ridiculous. Warburton sees red for a similar tackle in the WC semi final. The Perp player has a yellow!!! The knee to lydiates head in the slow mo replay was just one of many cheap shots in that match. Dragons actually fronted up well in that match all things considered.

The tip tackle was much worse than Warbuton's - they were needlessly over the top all game. Don't see Luke fitting in there at all.

Shame on him for going to a team like that. He will have to lose all his morals to fit in there. Wonder how Hooks fitting in there.

He didn't have any to start with?

Impossible Standards wrote:Shame on him for going to a team like that. He will have to lose all his morals to fit in there. Wonder how Hooks fitting in there.

I wonder if he wishes he was off somewhere else now, for a similar amount of culture.