Fantasy Anglo Welsh Cup Round Three

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Bath Rugby vs. Newcastle Falcons

Bath Rugby
Manager – inthefastlane

01. Cian Healy	09. Richard Wigglesworth
02. Kevin Mealamu	10. Charlie Hodgson
03. Euan Murray
04. Luke Romano	11. George North
05. Sam Whitelock	12. Luther Burrell
06. James Haskell	13. Aurelien Rougerie
07. David Seymour	14. Maxime Medard
08. JMF Lobbe	15. Stuart Hogg

16. Jon Golding 17. Chris Brooker 18. Carl Rimmer 19. Graham Kitchener 20. David Pocock 21. Aaron Smith 22. Cory Jane 23. Rob Miller


Newcastle Falcons
Manager – Driver

01.Fabian Barcella	09.Ben Youngs
02.Lee Mears	10.Aaron Cruden (k)
03.Owen Franks
04.Brad Thorn	11.Miles Benjiman
05.Juandre Kruger	12.Sonny Bill Williams
06.Kelly Brown	13.George Lowe
07.Richie McCaw(c)	14.Adam Ashley-Cooper
08.Kieron Read	15.Alex Goode

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16.Alex Waller 17.Agustin Creevey 18.Paul Doran Jones 19.Ed Slater 20.Tom Croft 21.Jimmy Cowen 22.Toby Flood 23.James O'Connor

Tactics

Tactics

Falcons will play a high intensity game as we want to win every trophy that is presented to us and we need 2 from 2 for us to progress. From the word off we will look to take the game to Bath with Youngs and Cruden keeping the tempo of the game high moving the ball around the pitch and taking the ball to the gain line and attacking the fringes.

Our ball carrying forwards will look to get there hands on the ball as much as possible and taking it coming round the corner , from deep , off 9 and off 10 mixing out game plan up with out dynamic runners testing the Bath line.

Our primary aims are to secure our set piece and generate quick ball at the ruck we have picked a pack which is well balanced through out and will be led by the exceptional Richie McCaw.

At the kick off we will look to aim it onto the opposition 8 and hang it high to allow the mobile Kelly Brown , Richie McCaw and Kieron Read to chase and hit the man early forcing him to deck or into a errror. The tackler will look to be quick to his feet to steal the ball or slow the ball down.

Alex Goode will look to come into the line to give us a 2nd attacking line and give us plenty more options in the attacking play and create 2 on 1 situations and put men in space.

Defensivly we will operate flatline pressing hard on the 10 channel forcing the ball wide and allowing us to drift and force the winger into a 1 on 1 tackle with AAC and Benjiman solid defenders capable of putting there man down.

SBW will look to unlease runners from him with his usual offload and ball carrying.

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Harlequins vs. London Welsh

Harlequins
Manager – Steven_Sharks

01. Wyatt Crockett	09. Karl Dickson
02. Rob Buchanan	10. Quade Cooper
03. Kieran Brookes
04. George Kruis	11. Taku Ngwenya
05. Hugh Pyle	12. Felipe Contepomi (k) (c)
06. Jamie Gibson	13. Anthony Faainga
07. Will Welch	14. Ross Chisholm
08. Dave Denton	15. Luke Morahan

16. Matthew Rees 17. Tony Woodcock 18. Will Collier 19. Jerome Thion 20. James Gaskell 21. Francois Houghard 22. Greig Laidlaw 23. Matt Smith

Tactics

Picked a side which has a lot to prove. Power in the pack and pace out wide, with Dickson and Cooper threatening the defenders and putting others into space. Cooper and Contepomi will control our game and put us in the right area of the pitch and we will target the opposition lineout.


London Welsh
Manager – Ozzy3213

01. Alex Corbisiero	09. Morgan Parra
02. Chris Whitehead	10. Owen Farrell
03. Martin Castrogiovanni
04. Sitaleki Timani	11. James Simpson-Daniel
05. Jim Hamilton	12. Pat McCabe
06. Thierry Dusautoir	13. Jonathan Davies
07. Luke Wallace	14. Andrew Trimble
08. Semisi Taulava	15. Jaco Taute

16. Rob Hawkins 17. Brett Sturgess 18. Dave Wilson 19. James Hanks 20. Sione Kalamafoni 21. Tomas O’Leary 22. Elton Jantjies 23. Bryan Habana

Tactics

Usual Welsh tactics of big carriers taking the ball up before going wide and looking to dominate the collisions and play a possession based game.

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Northampton Saints vs. Gloucester

Northampton Saints

01. Ryan Grant	09. Joe Simpson
02. Mike Haywood	10. Ben Botica (k)
03. Carl Hayman/td][td]
04. Bradley Davies	11. Christian Wade
05. Alun Wyn Jones	12. Ashley Beck
06. Dan Lydiate (c)	13. Tomassi Benvenutti
07. Julian Salvi	14. Juan Jose Imhoff
08. Ashley Johnson	15. Ben Foden

16. Scott Spurling 17. Sebastien Taofifenua 18. Ben Tameifuna 19. James Craig 20. Ben Nutley 21. Sam Harrison 22. George Ford 23. Matthew Tait


Gloucester

01. Dan Murphy	09. Will Genia
02. Jamie George	10. Johan Goosen
03. Anthony Guillamon
04. Elliot Stookes	11. Charlie Sharples
05. Julien Pierre	12. Matt Scott
06. Arno Botha	13. Rob Horne
07. Ardo Savea	14. Iain Clarke
08. George Evans	15. Iain Balshaw

16. Tom Heard 17. Adriaan strauss 18. Juan Figallo 19. James Percival 20. Sean Addendorf 21. TJ Perenara 22. Billy Burns 23. Steph Reynolds

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Leicester Tigers vs. London Wasps

Leicester Tigers
Manager – LukeLovesLuka

01. Jared Saunders	09. Micky Young
02. Jimmy Stevens	10. Frederic Michalak (k)
03. Brian Mujati
04. Romain Taofifenua	11. Paul Sackey
05. Pieter-Steph du Toit	12. Dominic Waldouck
06. Steve Mafi (c)	13. Paul Jordaan
07. James Scaysbrook	14. Dom Shipperley
08. Edwin Maka	15. Clement Poitreanud

16. Ryan Bower 17. Sebastien Bruno 18. Jonny Harris 19. Nathan Hines 20. Thomas Waldrom 21. Sarel Pretorius 22. Rory Clegg 23. Alex Lewington

Tactics:

TBC


London Wasps

Manager – Fluxy

01. Charlie Beech	09. Haydn Thomas
02. Sean Cronin	10. Stephen Myler
03. Carlos Nieto
04. Dan Tuohy	11. Matt Banahan
05. Marco Wentzel (C)	12. Dan Bowden
06. Dave Dennis	13. Dan Hipkiss
07. Jonathan Poff	14. Topsy Ojo
08. Ben Mowen	15. Geordan Murphy

16. Tatafu Polota-Nau 17. Alec Hepburn 18. Shaun Knight 19. Donnacha Ryan 20. jordan Crane 21. Nick Phipps 22. Brad Barritt 23. Mike Brown

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Sale Sharks vs. Scarlets

Sale Sharks
Manager – SJE

01. Vasil Kakovin	09. Maxime Machenaud
02. Darren Dawdiuk	10. James Hook
03. Luc Ducalcon
04. Iain Henderson	11. Sam Smith
05. Christian Day	12. Jordan Turner Hall
06. Victor Vito	13. Keith Earls
07. Matt Kvesic	14. Craig Gilroy
08. Wycliffe Palu	15. Jean Marcelin Buttin

16. Lee Imolek 17. Tommy Taylor 18. Neemia Tialata 19. Dave Attwood 20. Alex Tulou 21. Ben Spencer 22. Beauden Barrett 23. Will Addison


Scarlets

01.Shaun Hopkins	09.Aled Davies
02.Kirby Myhill	10.Aled Thomas
03.Jacobie Adriaanse
04.Jake Ball	11.Lee Williams
05.Johan Shynman	12.Adam Warran
06.Craig Price	13.Garath Maule
07.Dan Thomas	14.Kristian Phillips
08.Kieran Murphey	15.Andy Fenby

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London Irish vs. Worcester Warriors

London Irish

01. Jean-Baptiste Poux	09. Julien Dupuy
02. Hika Elliott	10. Lionel Beauxis
03. Matt Stevens
04. Matt Garvey	11. Marlande Yarde
05. Johann Muller	12. Luke McAlister
06. Marcel Coetzee	13. Conrad Smith
07. Will Fraser	14. JP Pietersen
08. Alex Grey	15. Tom Homer

16. Tom Lindsay 17. Adam Jones 18. Grant Shiells 19. Nick Kennedy 20. Ross Rennie 21. Ruan Pienaar 22. Shane Geraghty 23. Henry Trinder


Worcester Warriors

01.Paul James	09.Kerr Barlow
02.Korree Britton	10.Pat Lambie (k)
03.Craig Mitchell
04.Ollie Kohn	11. Sean Maitland
05.Dean Schofield	12.Tom Casson
06.Ryan Jones (c)	13.Marcelo Bosch
07.Scott Higginbotham	14.Eli Walker
08.Ben Morgan	15.Rob Cook

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16. Dave Ward 17. Tendai Mtwarira 18. Chris Budgen 19. Tom Savage 20. Shane Jennings 21. Dwayne Peel 22. Morne Steyn 23. Olly Barkley

Quick warriors tactics......
*Big carrying forwards to dominate set piece,
*Backs to play with the ball and settle into positions ready for league,
*No surrender...we have won 2 on the trot and want to make it 3,
*Strong bench for impact for the full 80.

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Saracens vs. Cardiff Blues

Saracens Football Club
Manager – DHLS07

01. Max Lahiff	09. Dewaldt Duvenage
02. John Smit (c)	10. Gareth Steenson
03. Sekope Kepu
04. Flip van der Merwe	11. Luke Fitzgerald
05. Louis Deacon	12. Ma'a Nonu
06. Joe van Niekerk	13. Elliott Daly
07. Steffon Armitage	14. Adam Thompstone
08. Billy Vunipola	15. Ben Smith

16. George Chuter 17. Hoani Tui 18. Phil Swainston 19. Rob Simmons 20. Keegan Daniel 21. Will Chudley 22. Francois Trinh-Duc 23. Jean de Villiers

Tactics

- Very much a traditional South African game plan as adopted by Heyneke Meyer.

- Big emphasis on the forwards dominating their opponents with their physicality.

- Tight forward dominated game with big carriers punching holes in the opposition defence.

- Kick/Chase game using our wingers to hunt the ball as it drops and if the opposition winger takes it to wrap him up in the tackle and isolate him to either win us the turnover or the penalty.

- Really go for it on turnover ball and get the ball through the hands and exploit the disorganised defence.

- Play in the right areas, territory over possession.

- Solid defensive line with Steffon Armitage either stealing or slowing the ball at the breakdown.


Cardiff Blues

01. Sam Hobbs	09. Lewis Jones
02. Rhys Williams	10. Gareth Davies
03. Taufa'ao Filise
04. Lou Reed	11. Tom James
05. James Down	12. Gavin Evans
06. Luke Hamilton	13. Owen Williams
07. Josh Navidi (c)	14. Tom Williams
08. Robin Copeland	15. Dan Fish

16. Marc Breeze 17. Nathan Trevett 18. Ryan Harford 19. Macauley Cook 20. Thomas Young 21. Rob Lewis 22. Ceri Sweeney 23. Dafydd Hewitt

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Newport Gwent Dragons vs. Ospreys

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Good win mate, be good if you can get another next week and get some momentum going, as people do take that into account in their predos.

woo 3 wins on the bounce!!!!

Shame really, because I've won in everything thing else bar the league.