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Leicester Tigers (v Racing 92, Welford Road, Sunday 1.00pm)
15 Mathew Tait
14 Nick Malouf
13 Manu Tuilagi
12 Matt Toomua
11 Jonny May
10 George Ford (c)
9 Ben Youngs
1 Greg Bateman
2 Tatafu Polota-Nau
3 Dan Cole
4 Harry Wells
5 Graham Kitchener
6 Mike Williams
7 Brendon O’Connor
8 Sione Kalamafoni
Replacements
16 Tom Youngs
17 Michele Rizzo
18 Logovi’i Mulipola
19 Mike Fitzgerald
20 Valentino Mapapalangi
21 Sam Harrison
22 Joe Ford
23 Adam Thompstone

Only Wells and Bateman keep their starting shirts from last week.
Glad Wells finally gets a back to back run of games again.

Bye Will! Hope you had fun on your one appearance this season!

Wonder why we're picking the real team this week? Surely it would've made just as much sense to send the B-team out to get slaughtered again and save the big guns for the Prem? I suspect that MOC might feel that he needs at least a hard fought defeat to keep the sacking stories away. Hopefully we can win; won't do anything for us, but it'd help out some of the other English clubs looking to qualify.

Puja

Well what a surprise. The B team gets sent out on mission impossible away in France and are replaced for the easier home fixture.
At least the deserving Wells gets another run out.
Will Evans another week twiddling his thumbs.

fivepointer wrote:Well what a surprise. The B team gets sent out on mission impossible away in France and are replaced for the easier home fixture.
At least the deserving Wells gets another run out.
Will Evans another week twiddling his thumbs.

Racing at home is not really that much easier, they will be looking at getting a TBP win.

I've said it about Will before but he needs to bulk.
He hasn't got Kwagga smith speed to lose and at 6ft he needs to be weighing at least mid-high 15 stone IMHO.

Tigersman wrote:

fivepointer wrote:Well what a surprise. The B team gets sent out on mission impossible away in France and are replaced for the easier home fixture.
At least the deserving Wells gets another run out.
Will Evans another week twiddling his thumbs.

Racing at home is not really that much easier, they will be looking at getting a TBP win.

I've said it about Will before but he needs to bulk.
He hasn't got Kwagga smith speed to lose and at 6ft he needs to be weighing at least mid-high 15 stone IMHO.

especially when you have the talent of Williams at openside .......

Banquo wrote:

Tigersman wrote:

fivepointer wrote:Well what a surprise. The B team gets sent out on mission impossible away in France and are replaced for the easier home fixture.
At least the deserving Wells gets another run out.
Will Evans another week twiddling his thumbs.

Racing at home is not really that much easier, they will be looking at getting a TBP win.

I've said it about Will before but he needs to bulk.
He hasn't got Kwagga smith speed to lose and at 6ft he needs to be weighing at least mid-high 15 stone IMHO.

especially when you have the talent of Williams at openside .......

Is Williams’s playing 7?

Tigersman wrote:

Banquo wrote:

Tigersman wrote:
Racing at home is not really that much easier, they will be looking at getting a TBP win.

I've said it about Will before but he needs to bulk.
He hasn't got Kwagga smith speed to lose and at 6ft he needs to be weighing at least mid-high 15 stone IMHO.

especially when you have the talent of Williams at openside .......

Is Williams’s playing 7?

damn, that backfired. As you were, but replace with O'Connor and you get the drift. My point is, the bigger guys are shunt.

(williams did play 7 recently though, iirc)

Banquo wrote:

Tigersman wrote:

Banquo wrote: especially when you have the talent of Williams at openside .......

Is Williams’s playing 7?

damn, that backfired. As you were, but replace with O'Connor and you get the drift. My point is, the bigger guys are shunt.

(williams did play 7 recently though, iirc)

Don't get me wrong i like Evans just can see his faults currently esp against a big physical team like Racing, That being said some leicester fans think the likes of Hamilton are amazing and we should do everything to keep them, i think they are good players but wouldn't get near a current top 4 team.

Tigersman wrote:

Banquo wrote:

Tigersman wrote: Is Williams’s playing 7?

damn, that backfired. As you were, but replace with O'Connor and you get the drift. My point is, the bigger guys are shunt.

(williams did play 7 recently though, iirc)

Don't get me wrong i like Evans just can see his faults currently esp against a big physical team like Racing, That being said some leicester fans think the likes of Hamilton are amazing and we should do everything to keep them, i think they are good players but wouldn't get near a current top 4 team.

But even with his 'faults' he will surely be a better bet than the also rans currently being picked.

Going well for Sarries

This is painful. We've got no ideas, no pattern to our play, and our forwards are just being utterly outmuscled/outdesired.

0-14 and a very real chance of giving away the bonus point before half-time. If we lose this badly, surely MOC can't survive? One win in eight and that a scraped scramble over relegation fodder?

Puja

Is it just me, or is Polotna-Nau actually utterly crap? He's come with a reputation and everyone seemed pretty happy with the signing, but he doesn't appear to be able to hit a cow's arse with a banjo in the lineout and has offered the square root of f*ck all around the pitch.

Puha

He looks pants to be honest. The only thing he looks to have come with is a pair of hair straighteners

Well Leicester got to be happy to finish the half only 5 behind

Some shocking kicking out there by both sides, whilst Tigees first up tackles need to improve dramatically

Get in!!!

tigers handling is just shocking.

what permutations are in play, I've lost the plot!

bad miss from Ford, but reckon Roko cocked up

Youngs kicking isn't helping

Come on Leicester!! Nothing stupid......oh well

brilliant by Ford

Big decision for Ford- lineout for me

what the hell did they scrum for? They could have kicked it out, game wouldn't have ended on a that touch, lineout much better. Mad call.

Sarries will not be happy, but they shuoldn't have messed up in earlier group games. Tigers remain a bad side to watch, and in many ways simply a bad side

Banquo wrote:what the hell did they scrum for? They could have kicked it out, game wouldn't have ended on a that touch, lineout much better. Mad call.

Indeed. Crap decision