BaaBaas on tour

[Mellsblue]

BaaBaas team vs NZ XV

Joe Marler (Harlequins, England)
Camille Chat (Racing 92, France)
John Ryan (Munster, Ireland)
Remi Picquette (Stade Rochelais)
Lekima Tagitagivalu (Section Paloise, Fiji)
Wenceslas Lauret (Racing 92, France)
Luke Whitelock (Section Paloise, New Zealand) (CAPTAIN)
Zach Mercer (Montpellier, England)
Tawera Kerr Barlow (Stade Rochelais, New Zealand)
Antoine Hastoy (Stade Rochelais, France)
George Bridge (Montpellier, New Zealand)
Charlie Ngatai (Leinster, New Zealand)
Joe Marchant (Harlequins, England)
Teddy Thomas (Stade Rochelais, France)
Dillyn Leyds (Stade Rochelais, South Africa)


Facundo Bosch (Aviron Bayonnais, Argentina)
Cedate Gomes Sa (Racing 92, France)
George Henri Colombe (Stade Rochelais)
Romain Sazy (Stade Rochelais)
Aaron Wainwright (Dragons, Wales)
Rhys Webb (Ospreys, Wales)
Ihaia West (Toulon)
Raymond Rhule (Stade Rochelais, South Africa)

[Puja]

Fun Barbarians squad for the game against Bath: https://www.bathrugby.com/club-news/baa ... mber-2022/

Matt Banahan coming out of retirement for one last game at the Rec. Mike Brown having a runout again. Plus a bunch of Wuss and Wasps players still in the shop window - cannot believe no-one has picked up Oghre yet. Mind, playing at Bath's probably the best place to be in the shop window for a contract right now, as they seem to be the only people with spare money.

Puja

[Peej]

Oghre was in the Bath academy too. I guess Cips isn't fit to play, though?

The Baa Baas beat NZ at the weekend.

[Mikey Brown]

Can't be arsed to paste the text itself.





Not a vintage side but an interesting chance to show something for some of those Barbarians players. Shame not to see Launch in the black and white shirt. Has he done that yet?

Odd to see one particular returning Quins back three player.

[fivepointer]

Sunday’s match between Bath Rugby and Barbarian F.C. will be live streamed for FREE.

Brought to you by Champagne Pol Roger, a 30-minute pre-match show, including interviews with club legend Matt Banahan and All Black Damian McKenzie before the action gets underway.

Commentator Warren Muggleton will be joined by Bath and England international Charlie Ewels to take you through the 80 minutes.

There will be content at half-time and at full time, the Pol Roger Performance of the Match from both sides will join the presentation area.

The live stream, brought to you by Champagne Pol Roger, will be hosted on the Bath Rugby website, YouTube and Facebook from 13:30 on Sunday.

[Which Tyler]

Bath v BaaBaa.s, Sunday, 2.00


Bath Rugby:

15 Tom de Glanville
14 Will Butt
13 Jonathan Joseph
12 Max Ojomoh
11 Matt Gallagher
10 Orlando Bailey
9 Max Green

1 Arthur Cordwell
2 Tom Dunn
3 D'Arcy Rae
4 Fergus Lee-Warner
5 Tom Ellis
6 Josh Bayliss
7 Miles Reid
8 Richard de Carpentier.

16 Niall Annett, 17 Valeriy Morozov, 18 Johannes Jonker, 19 Quinn Roux, 20 Ted Hill
21 Tom Carr-Smith, 22 Ollie Lawrence, *23 Joe Cokanasiga*


I'd grant that there's a difference between starting at international level, and benching for a club side against the BaaBaas (I don't think Eddie would ever put Jo on the bench)
There's also a few days difference, so the injury may simply be less severe than first thought.

I'm really not sure whose S&C / medical teams I'd trust more - neither have a great reputation recently

[Peej]

That's rather odd

[Puja]

This looks like it was a fun game: https://www.rugbydump.com/news/watch-jo ... ans-match/

Puja

[Which Tyler]

Bath v BaaBaa.s, Sunday, 2.00

Barbarians:
15 Mike Brown (c)
14 Francois Hougaard
13 Luther Burrell
12 Levi Aumua
11 Marland Yarde
10 Damian McKenzie
9 Gareth Simpson

1 Murray McCallum
2 Tom Cruse
3 John Ryan
4 Graham Kitchener
5 Elliott Stooke
6 Kiran McDonald
7 Iacopo Bianchi
8 Abe Papali'i

Replacements:
16 Marco Manfredi, 17 Hayden Thompson-Stringer, 18 Elliott Millar-Mills, 19 Tim Cardwell, 20 Olly Robinson
21 Cathal Forde, 22 Jacopo Trulla, 23 AJ Lam, 24 Matt Banahan

[Which Tyler]

[Which Tyler]

How the hell did he get that!

[FKAS]

Damian McKenzie reminding everyone he's absolute class I see.

[Peej]

So how was Joe C fit enough for this but not England?

[Banquo]

So how was Joe C fit enough for this but not England?

He was fit for England, he was dropped, and has been again.