Toulon vs Stade Francais with some 'interesting' selections

Toulon: 15 Benjamin Lapeyre, 14 Alexis Palisson, 13 Geoffroy Messina, 12 Matt Giteau, 11 David Smith, 10 Jonny Wilkinson, 9 Sébastien Tillous-Borde, 8 Joe van Niekerk (capt), 7 Steffon Armitage, 6 Pierrick Gunther, 5 Dean Schofield, 4 Christophe Samson, 3 Davit Kubriashvili, 2 Jean-Charles Orioli, 1 Laurent Emmanuelli.
Replacements: 16 Sebastien Bruno, 17 Eifion Lewis-Roberts, 18 Carl Hayman, 19 Joe El Abd, 20 Gabi Lovobalavu, 21 Luke Rooney, 22 Fabien Cibray, 23 Jocelino Suta.

Stade Francais: 15 Hugo Bonneval, 14 Paul Sackey, 13 Morgan Turinui, 12 George Smith, 11 Julien Arias, 10 Jules Plisson, 9 Jerome Fillol, 8 David Lyons, 7 Pierre Rabadan, 6 Antoine Burban, 5 Alexandre Flanquart, 4 Tom Palmer, 3 David Attoub, 2 Aled De Malmanche, 1 Stan Wright.
Replacements: 16 Laurent Sempere, 17 Rabah Slimani, 18 Olivier Milloud, 19 Anton van Zyl, 20 Sergio Parisse, 21 Jonathan Danty, 22 Julien Dupuy, 23 Djibril Camara

http://www.skysports.com/rugbyunion/match_preview/0,,11069_53031_1,00.html

Can you spot the odd one out?

"Anything Radike can do, I can do better ... "

George Smith I presume.

Yep the internationally reknowned flank...inside centre...

Bit odd that Stade's captain fantastic Parisse is on the bench as well.

A good enough linkman flanker (as Smith is) should be able to play 12 as long as he really focusses on defensive position

Insanity! Rodriquez isn't even injured, is he?

Tbh, I'm surprised they don't play Parisse in the centre if they need someone there

Another try for Steffon Armitage, he's been in arguably the form of his life this season, a shoe in for South Africa surely?

Armitage has to get called up for England surely. I don't see how he's been left out so long as it is.

T14 playoffs are supposed to clash with some of the tour. If he's available I'd take him.

Cracking try and a good match so far, great intensity.

It would be nice to see him somewhere like Leicester (they could do with a good young English fetcher, although Tiger fans may disagree). However given the fact he counts as a 'French player' in terms of their quota he'll be on a fair packet down there

Stade Francais 10 looks pretty useful

gowales wrote:Stade Francais 10 looks pretty useful

Massive boot

Jerome Filiol is playing well.

Smith's getting stuck in, maybe Cheika isn't so crazy after all?

Stade francais playing against the wind now. Should make the game interesting
Nicely taken penalty by Wilkinson

Wow great try by stade here
Game on

The masterbating commentary over Wilkinson is annoying me.

We know what he does e.g. 1999-2004 England.

Stade were heading towards a yellow tbh.

Gee havent seen wilkinsons missing so many kicks for some time

Toulon is really poor tactically, with all their power and dominance on set pieces, they should have gone for a try. Not going or 50m drop goals.

Ok well he did score one in the end

Wilkinson, you legend

Cracking game

Steffon armitage banging on the four for selection. He's looking leaner and was everywhere for Toulon, Smith won't be happy about being dumped on his arse.