Sale v Bath; Friday Night Lights

[Which Tyler]

Top of the Table clash...
Ref: Karl Dickson (80th game)
TJs: George Selwood & Jamie Leahy
TMO: David Rose

Sale:
1 Bevan Rodd
2 Luke Cowan-Dickie
3 Nick Schonert
4 Cobus Wiese
5 Jonny Hill
6 Ernst van Rhyn
7 Ben Curry ©
8 Dan du Preez

09 Gus Warr
10 George Ford
11 Arron Reed
12 Sam Bedlow
13 Rob du Preez
14 Tom Roebuck
15 Joe Carpenter

16 Agustin Creevy, 17 Si McIntyre, 18 James Harper, 19 Josh Beaumont, 20 Ben Bamber
21 Nye Thomas, 22 Sam James, 23 Tom O’Flaherty


Bath:
1 Thomas du Toit
2 Niall Annett
3 Johannes Jonker
4 Josh McNally
5 GJ van Velze ©
6 Ewan Richards
7 Chris Cloete
8 Jaco Coetzee

09 Louis Schreuder
10 Finn Russell
11 Matt Gallagher
12 Will Butt
13 Max Ojomoh
14 Ruaridh McConnochie
15 Tom de Glanville

16 Tom Dunn, 17 Juan Schoeman, 18 Archie Griffin, 19 Fergus Lee-Warner, 20 Nahum Merigan
21 Ben Spencer, 22 Orlando Bailey, 23 Cameron Redpath

[Mellsblue]

Ford vs Finn is on and the weather forecast is for dry and still(ish) conditions. Insert aubergine emoji here.

[Which Tyler]

Unfortunately, Warr vs Shreuder only has one winner.
On the other hand, and as above - good to see Richards involved, even if in the wrong position (IMO).
Also good to see Cloete back from injury - let's hope he & McNally can use their grown-up heads this weekend.

Bath in general, a bit more heavily rotated than I would have liked. I guess we're looking at this trip as being "a LBP would be nice, but not essential)"

[Puja]

I thought Du Toit was a tighthead?

Puja

[Which Tyler]

I thought Du Toit was a tighthead?

Puja

His reputation is for both

[Mellsblue]

Du Toithead?

[TheNomad]

Blimey - fair bit of rotation there by Bath!

[FKAS]

Interesting that Bath have gone with Richards at 6 and then named a lock/6 and an 8 on the bench. Clearly gearing up for a physical contest, even with a rotated squad.

Not like Sale are going for a subtle pack either, two locks on the bench as well.

[Which Tyler]

Sale on top of all the tight exchanges, Bath creating the line-breaks, and pulling off some huge turnovers

[Which Tyler]

That stings, and also shows how far we've come with a heavily rotated squad against a very good Sale team

[Mellsblue]

Ford vs Finn

Does anyone else remember paying £15 to watch Mayweather v Pacquiao only for them to barely throw a punch…