Sale Vs Bath, Friday night

[Which Tyler]

https://www.bathrugby.com/club-news/notice-of-disciplinary-joseph-and-stooke/

Stools and Joseph found guilty of breaching Covid protocols - internal discipline leads to 1 match ban and a fine, with further sanction for Stools being extra stupid.



No sympathies whatsoever, and well done the club for not only disciplining, but publishing the fact.

[Which Tyler]

Ref: Christophe Ridley.
TJs: Peter Allan & Wayne Falla.
TMO: Trevor Fisher.

Sale Sharks: 15 Simon Hammersley, 14 Byron McGuigan, 13 Conor Doherty, 12 Sam Hill, 11 Tom Roebuck, 10 Robert du Preez, 9 Will Cliff,8 Daniel du Preez, 7 Jono Ross (c), 6 J.L du Preez, 5 J.P du Preez, 4 James Phillips, 3 Coenie Oosthuizen, 2 Curtis Langdon, 1 Ross Harrison
Replacements: 16 Ewan Ashman, 17 Valerey Morozov, 18 Will-Griff John, 19 Matt Postlethwaite, 20 Cameron Neild, 21 Faf de Klerk, 22 AJ MacGinty, 23 Luke James

Bath: 15 Tom de Glanville, 14 Semesa Rokoduguni, 13 Max Clark, 12 Josh Matavesi, 11 Will Muir, 10 Rhys Priestland, 9 Ben Spencer, 8 Zach Mercer, 7 Miles Reid, 6 Josh Bayliss, 5 Mike Williams, 4 Josh McNally (c), 3 Christian Judge, 2 Tom Dunn, 1 Juan Schoeman
Replacements: 16 Jack Walker, 17 Jamie Bhatti, 18 Henry Thomas, 19 Ewan Richards, 20 Ethan Staddon, 21 Will Chudley, 22 Tian Schoeman, 23 Alex Gray

[FKAS]

Good on Bath for naming and shaming.

Sale have named another massive pack and it's hard to see past them running rough shod over Bath in this one. Unless Bath's international half backs actually control the game for the full 80 for a change. Faf and AJ on the bench gives them a bit of a chance.

[Raggs]

Not publishing the fact is a bit difficult when it's common knowledge since they received a ban from the RFU too...

[FKAS]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/56034456

Yeah I imagine the RFU decision was pending so the club took action to try and mitigate the RFU punishment. An additional club fine to the RFU fine is no less than the idiots deserve.

[Peej]

Alex Gray in his first appearance since coming back from NFL?

[Which Tyler]

Alex Gray in his first appearance since coming back from NFL?

Muir's first start, Gray's first bench

[Mikey Brown]

How many bloody Du Preez brothers are there?

[Epaminondas Pules]

How many bloody Du Preez brothers are there?

Three and then another with the same surname, but not a relation.

[Epaminondas Pules]

Great to see Doherty and Roebuck starting for Sale. And then I look at their pack and weep a little.

[Which Tyler]

If his contract allows - ban him for the season. Terminate his contract.
F***ing idiot!

[Raggs]

Stooke looking at getting further ban?

[Mikey Brown]

Wow. What a moron.

[Epaminondas Pules]

A Bath player charged for drunk driving? How times have changed!

What an utter bellend!

[fivepointer]

Dozy sod.

[Puja]

What a prat. And presumably a friendless prat now, as I'd imagine Joseph and Oghre would've got away with their illicit socialising if it weren't for Stooke crashing his car.

Puja

[16th man]

That Sale back row isn't exactly built for subtlety.

Absolutely huge pack.

[Peej]

Bath doing pretty well at half time! Absolute brain fart from the Sale 13 has gifted Bath 7 right at the death.

Sale's depth doesn't look too good, really

[FKAS]

Bath doing pretty well at half time! Absolute brain fart from the Sale 13 has gifted Bath 7 right at the death.

Sale's depth doesn't look too good, really

Three international centres out injured so they called in a 20 year old England age grade 13. Not the end of the world even if he was not quite up to first team speed yet. If you're missing a couple from the backline it's an odd time to bench your first choice half back pairing though.

[fivepointer]

Great win for Bath. Just what they needed.

[16th man]

Bristol spank Bath, Sale beat Bristol, Bath beat Sale. At least its an unpredictable season.

[Which Tyler]

Bristol spank Bath, Sale beat Bristol, Bath beat Sale. At least its an unpredictable season.

T'was ever thus
Thor beats Surtur, Hella beats Thor, Surtur beats Hella