Midweek Friendly

Harlequins

Manager – Driver

01.Alex Corbisero	09.Luke Burgess
02.Joe Grey	10.Tom Heathcote (k)
03.Kyle Sinckler
04.Eben Etzebeth	11.George North
05.Alistair Hargreaves	12.Wesley Fofana
06.Chris Robshaw(c)	13.Adam Ashley-Cooper
07.Matt Kvesic	14.James Short
08.Willem Alberts	15.Jared Payne

16.Rob Bunchan 17.Rhys Gill 18.James Johnstone 19.George Robson 20.Will Skinner 21.Nic Berry 22.Owen Farrell 23.Elliot Daley

Tactics

- Quins to play at a high tempo. This is shown by our selection of Tom Heathcote over the Conservative Farrell at stand off as we intend to move the ball into the wide channels and move the Welsh pack.

- Our team is filled with gain line breakers such as Corbs , Etzebeth , Robshaw , Alberts , Fofana , AAC and North.

- Kvesic is still learning the game but has cracking skills on the deck and is handy in the tight which will let Alberts get his hands on the ball and punch holes and let Robshaw play a linking role throughout the team.

- Hargreaves will put plenty of pressure on the Welsh lineout and look to make a mess of things there.

- Our backs will look to come onto the ball from deep and run at the defense with plenty of off the ball movement to pull defenders out of position and create the holes.

- Take points when on offer.

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London Welsh

Manager – Fluxy

01. Paul James	09. Ruan Pienaar
02. Chris Whitehead	10. Nick Evans (k)
03. David Wilson
04. Dean Mumm	11. Topsy Ojo
05. Paul O'Connell (C)	12. Dominic Waldlouck
06. Jamie Gibson	13. Sonny Parker
07. Hienrich Brussow	14. Cory Jane
08. Nick Easter	15. Nick Abendanon

16. Shawn Pittman 17. Tom Mercey 18. David Paice 19. Steve Mafi 20. Chris Hala'ufia 21. Paul Hodgson 22. Steven Shingler 23. Ben Ransom

Tactics

• James and Wilson are solid technicians and will secure our own feed, to provide first phase possesion for our backs. james will look to put pressure on the young Sinckler on the Quins feed.
  
  
• With a strong lineout, POC will lead the lineout and use Mumm as a banker ball at the front of the line with POC jumping in the middle. If winning own ball POC will look to cut the lineout to five, to allow Easter and Gibson to get a chance to run at the defence in open field.
  
  
• Gibson and Brussow will the attack the breakdown, their skills will provide another source of possesion from turnovers. Pienaar will be behind the rucks to supply any turnover possesion to our wide men as soon as possible why the defence is in disarray.
  
  
• Off any first phase possesion, there will be a strike runner to get over the gainline to provide quick ball whilst the opposition defence is still organising itself.
  
  
• Evans and Pienaar will direct traffic and marshall the attacking forces. Pienaar will marshall the forwards and Evans will pull the strings, looking for the runs of Waldlouck off his shoulder or to allow Wald to release our dangerous roaming back three.
  
  
• Pienaar and Evans will kick all points, unless POC dictates we have a dominate set piece at the moment in time.

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Manager – ChequeredJersey

01. Matt Mullan	09. Ben Spencer (k.)
02. Harry Allen	10. Charlie Hodgson
03. Kieran Brookes
04. Donncha Ryan	11. Sam Smith
05. Mauritz Botha	12. Anthony Allen
06. Kelly Brown (c.)	13. Joel Tomkins
07. Will Fraser	14. Leigh Halfpenny (k.)
08. Chris York	15. Alex Goode

16. Mako Vunipola 17. Rob Hawkins 18. Petrus du Plessis 19. George Kruis 20. Jackson Wray 21. Richard Wigglesworth 22. Shane Geraghty 23. Marcus Watson

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Exeter Chiefs

Manager – Luke

01. Ben Moon	09. Dwayne Peel
02. Rob Webber	10. Jonny Wilkinson (k)
03. Craig Mitchell
04. Loius Deacon	11. Paul Sackey
05. Tommy Hayes	12. Ian Humphreys
06. Tom Johnson	13. Geroge Lowe
07. Steffon Armitage	14. Matt Jess
08. Richard Baxter	15. Luke Arscott

16. Lloyd Fairbrother 17. Neil Clark 18. John Andress 19. James Hanks 20. James Scaysbrook 21. Kevin Barrett 22. Gareth Steenson 23. Bryan Rennie

Good skills Flux.

Harlequins

Manager – Driver

01.Alex Corbisero	09.Luke Burgess
02.Joe Grey	10.Tom Heathcote (k)
03.Kyle Sinckler
04.Eben Etzebeth	11.George North
05.Alistair Hargreaves	12.Wesley Fofana
06.Chris Robshaw(c)	13.Adam Ashley-Cooper
07.Matt Kvesic	14.James Short
08.Willem Alberts	15.Jared Payne

16.Rob Bunchan 17.Rhys Gill 18.James Johnstone 19.George Robson 20.Will Skinner 21.Nic Berry 22.Owen Farrell 23.Elliot Daley

Tactics

- Quins to play at a high tempo. This is shown by our selection of Tom Heathcote over the Conservative Farrell at stand off as we intend to move the ball into the wide channels and move the Welsh pack.

- Our team is filled with gain line breakers such as Corbs , Etzebeth , Robshaw , Alberts , Fofana , AAC and North.

- Kvesic is still learning the game but has cracking skills on the deck and is handy in the tight which will let Alberts get his hands on the ball and punch holes and let Robshaw play a linking role throughout the team.

- Hargreaves will put plenty of pressure on the Welsh lineout and look to make a mess of things there.

- Our backs will look to come onto the ball from deep and run at the defense with plenty of off the ball movement to pull defenders out of position and create the holes.

- Take points when on offer.

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Decent looking team mate. Will get mine up when I get home.

If anyone fancies making a fried fly against someone else get your teams in by ten tonight and I'll add them to page. Then we can get predos in!

London Welsh

Manager – Fluxy

01. Paul James	09. Ruan Pienaar
02. Chris Whitehead	10. Nick Evans (k)
03. David Wilson
04. Dean Mumm	11. Topsy Ojo
05. Paul O'Connell (C)	12. Dominic Waldlouck
06. Jamie Gibson	13. Sonny Parker
07. Hienrich Brussow	14. Cory Jane
08. Nick Easter	15. Nick Abendanon

16. Shawn Pittman 17. Tom Mercey 18. David Paice 19. Steve Mafi 20. Chris Hala'ufia 21. Paul Hodgson 22. Steven Shingler 23. Ben Ransom

Tactics

- James and Wilson are solid technicians and will secure our own feed, to provide first phase possesion for our backs. james will look to put pressure on the young Sinckler on the Quins feed.

- With a strong lineout, O'Connell will lead the lineout and use Mumm as a banker ball at the front of the line with POC jumping in the middle. If winning own ball POC will look to cut the lineout to five, to allow Easter and Gibson to get a chance to run at the defence in open field.

- With the selection of Gibson and Brussow we will the attack the breakdown, their skills will provide another source of possesion from turnovers. Pienaar will be behind the rucks to supply any turnover possesion to our wide men as soon as possible why the defence is in disarray.

- Off any first phase possesion, there will be a strike runner to get over the gainline to provide quick ball whilst the opposition defence is still organising itself.

_ Evans and Pienaar will direct traffic and marshall the attacking forces. Pienaar will marshall the forwards and Evans will pull the strings, looking for the runs of Waldlouck off his shoulder or to allow Wald to release our dangerous roaming back three.

- Pienaar and Evans will kick all points, unless POC dictates we have a dominate set piece at the moment in time.

Anyone else fancy a friendly? English qualified only?

Do a uk & ireland side?

Ok UK and Ireland

You up for it Luke?

vs Sarries

Exeter Chiefs
Manager – Luke

01. Ben Moon	09. Dwayne Peel
02. Rob Webber	10. Jonny Wilkinson (k)
03. Craig Mitchell
04. Loius Deacon	11. Paul Sackey
05. Tommy Hayes	12. Ian Humphreys
06. Tom Johnson	13. Geroge Lowe
07. Steffon Armitage	14. Matt Jess
08. Richard Baxter	15. Luke Arscott

16. Lloyd Fairbrother 17. Neil Clark 18. John Andress 19. James Hanks 20. James Scaysbrook 21. Kevin Barrett 22. Gareth Steenson 23. Bryan Rennie

Vs Exeter:



Saracens
Manager – ChequeredJersey

01. Matt Mullan	09. Ben Spencer (k.)
02. Harry Allen	10. Charlie Hodgson
03. Kieran Brookes
04. Donncha Ryan	11. Sam Smith
05. Mauritz Botha	12. Anthony Allen
06. Kelly Brown (c.)	13. Joel Tomkins
07. Will Fraser	14. Leigh Halfpenny (k.)
08. Chris York	15. Alex Goode

16. Mako Vunipola 17. Rob Hawkins 18. Petrus du Plessis 19. George Kruis 20. Jackson Wray 21. Richard Wigglesworth 22. Shane Geraghty 23. Marcus Watson

Tactics

TBA

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Did anyone else want a friendly? I'll close team sheets at ten. But if anyone wants a friendly against a team outside the league, chuck you team on here and match you up against someone

Anybody want a game, no tactics??

Back from Florida, need some sleep will predict later

Sarries 14 - 19 Exeter

Exeter hold their own in the front five, just. Too much in the back row and half backs and centres though and they have enough to edge it. The spine of 6 7 8 9 10 12 13 wins it

Sgt_Pooly wrote:Anybody want a game, no tactics??

I'll give you a game, no ints?

Anyone fancy a second team / experimental team friendly? Wanting to blood some youngsters, bed in new signings and try some combos

To play this sort of side

Healy
Tolofua
Perenise
Caldwell
Attwood
Fearns
Mercer
Skirving

Cook
Hook
Woodburn
Williams
Eastmond
Chisholm
Cook

pullthestrings wrote:

Sgt_Pooly wrote:Anybody want a game, no tactics??

I'll give you a game, no ints?

I'll give you a game, no restrictions & no tactics??? I want to try out new combo's

Welsh 22- 26 Quins
Front row- won by Quins, Corbs the best on show in tight
Second row- edged by Welsh due to POC's class
Back row- Overall Quins win- Robshaw, Kvesic and Alberts looks beastly and combines to overcome Broussow at the breakdown.
HBs- won easily by Welsh- nothing wrong with young Heathcote or Burgess but Pienaar is a very good 9 and I love Nev
Centres- Quins have way more class, even if I don't rate Fofana defensively
Back 3- Welsh win, Jane just ahead of North and Ojo and Abs equal to or better than Payne and Short
Bench- Quins just

Yep, fine. Post your team here, I'm sure Flux will add it in.

Removed

Said no ints...

I said no restriction......

No probs, just leave it.

Harlequins 27-25 London Welsh

Pretty equal up front but imagine James doing Snickler over for some pens to Welsh. Cracking Engine rooms to both sides and nothing between them and similar in backrows with Bruss prob getting nudge on the breakdown but Quins with a bit more carrying.

Halfback to Welsh with Evans a class above Heathcote, although back to Quins with a fantastic centre partnership that would dismantle the Welsh pair. Great back 3's.

Where have these teams came from??????

Great game, Quins just shade. Welsh need a bit of quality in the centres.

No point in no restrictions.. 10 managers will take 5/10 mins of their time for the result to come out 30 - 20 and be no help for either side. At least with no ints we find out about our sides.

No worries, I'm in no rush to boost your ego!

My ego??? Unsure what yr on talking about.

I'd never in the real game name a side with no Int in it and if I did to please you it would include kids nobody had heard of. What would I learn from that??

I said I wasn't fussed, just fancied a quick game without drama's.