Bath v Bristol; Sat 3.05pm

[Which Tyler]

Ref: Ian Tempest
TJs: Sara Cox & John Meredith
TMO: David Rose

Bath:
1 Beno Obano
2 Tom Dunn
3 Thomas du Toit
4 Quinn Roux
5 Ross Molony
6 Josh Bayliss
7 Guy Pepper
8 Miles Reid

09 Ben Spencer ©
10 Finn Russell
11 Henry Arundell
12 Cameron Redpath
13 Ollie Lawrence
14 Joe Cokanasiga
15 Santi Carreras

Replacements: 16 Kepueli Tuipulotu, 17 Francois van Wyk, 18 Will Stuart, 19 Ewan Richards, 20 Sam Underhill, 23 Alfie Barbeary
21 Tom Carr-Smith, 22 Max Ojomoh


Bristol:
1. Ellis Genge
2. Gabriel Oghre
3. George Kloska
4. Pedro Rubiolo
5. Joe Batley
6. Santiago Grondona
7. Fitz Harding (c)
8. Viliame Mata

09. Kieran Marmion
10. Sam Worsley
11. Kalaveti Ravouvou
12. Benhard Janse van Rensburg
13. Matias Moroni
14. Jack Bates
15. Benjamin Elizalde

System players: 16. Harry Thacker, 17. Jake Woolmore, 18. Lovejoy Chawatama, 19. Joe Owen, 20. Ben Grondona
21. Oscar Lennon, 22. Josh Carrington, 23. Toby Fricker

[jimKRFC]

Think Bris will be in with a shout until the benches come on. Quite a difference in the quality there...

[fivepointer]

Yeah, the Bath bench is mightily impressive.

[FKAS]

Looks like the kind of game where both sides get a TBP.

[Which Tyler]

Looks like the kind of game where both sides get a TBP.

Isn't that just assumed to be the case when Bristol are playing?

[FKAS]

Looks like the kind of game where both sides get a TBP.

Isn't that just assumed to be the case when Bristol are playing?

Sort of fair. Depends whether the other side can orchestrate a reasonable attack or not.

At a guess, end to end game for 50 mins to and hour and then Bath pull away through their bench.

[Which Tyler]

Anyone got links?

Mine are mostly just failing this season

ETA: Found one: https://livecric.pk/s2w/469

[Which Tyler]

Fuck!

ETA: Fuck yeah!

[Which Tyler]

This match is insane - as is the wind at the momenrt

[Which Tyler]

Very clever, but that's a dummy throw

[Which Tyler]

We are really pissing off the ref today.

Spencer is really taking the Farrell approach to captaincy this season.

[Which Tyler]

I was just about to say that consistency would make that a penalty restart

[FKAS]

Bit late to this one. Bath's extra physicality up front, especially with the bench and Russell at 10 are making the difference.

That being said, every rolling maul for Bath seems to come from the lifter coming down and being protected by the two lifters. On another day there's a few penalties to Bristol there.

Fun game.

[Captainhaircut]

Spencer dreadful today.

[fivepointer]

Bath just too strong. Had the edge at scrum and maul and put Bristol under a lot of pressure. Lawrence did a lot right and i thought Pepper looked tremendous. In a losing cause, Harding put in a monumental shift.