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Bath vs Quins; Saturday, 3.00pm
Ref: Matthew Carley (81st Premiership game).
TJs: Anthony Woodthorpe & Robert Warburton.
TMO: Graham Hughes.

Bath:
15. Freddie Burns
14. Ruaridh McConnochie
13. Jonathan Joseph
12. Jamie Roberts
11. Cooper Vuna
10. Rhys Priestland
9. Will Chudley (c)

1. Nathan Catt
2. Tom Dunn
3. Henry Thomas
4. Dave Attwood
5. Elliott Stooke
6. Paul Grant
7. Francois Louw
8. Zach Mercer

16. Ross Batty; 17. Beno Obano; 18. Anthony Perenise; 19. Levi Douglas; 20. Miles Reid
21. Kahn Fotuali’i; 22. Jackson Willison; 23. Tom Homer

Harlequins:
15. Brown
14. Chisholm
13. Marchant
12. Tapuai
11. Earle
10. Lang
9. Mulchrone

1. Boyce
2. Elis
3. Collier
4. Symons
5. Horwill (c)
6. Glynn
7. Robshaw (c)
8. Dombrand

16. Ward; 17. Marler; 18. Ibuanokpe; 19. Merrick; 20. Clifford
21. Lewis; 22. Smith; 23. Saili

Very good to see Obano back.

Harlequins: Brown; Chisholm, Marchant, Tapuai, Earle; Lang, Mulchrone; Boyce, Elia, Collier, Symons, Horwill (oo-capt), Glynn, Robshaw (co-capt), Dombrandt.

Replacements: Ward, Marler, Ibuanokpe, Merrick, Clifford, Lewis, Smith, Saili.

Surely we can assume that Glynn at 6 means Clifford is being semi-rested, otherwise that's ridiculous.

The story is that it's rotation and rest.

Surprised Joe C hasn't been released this week, but then as far as I can tell no England players have.

Mikey Brown wrote:Surely we can assume that Glynn at 6 means Clifford is being semi-rested, otherwise that's ridiculous.

I hope so. Not sure why we’d rotate Marler and Clifford TBH.

The selection suggest to me that PG is focusing on the remaining home games and hoping we can pick up losing BPs on the road.

If we really want to show we’re play off contenders, we should be aiming to beat Bath and I don’t think a team including Glynn and Ross Chisholm doesn’t feel like we’re going for it.

Scrumhead wrote:

Mikey Brown wrote:Surely we can assume that Glynn at 6 means Clifford is being semi-rested, otherwise that's ridiculous.

I hope so. Not sure why we’d rotate Marler and Clifford TBH.

The selection suggest to me that PG is focusing on the remaining home games and hoping we can pick up losing BPs on the road.

If we really want to show we’re play off contenders, we should be aiming to beat Bath and I don’t think a team including Glynn and Ross Chisholm doesn’t feel like we’re going for it.

At least the choice of Chis is through necessity: all our wingers are crocked again.

Is Walker injured? I thought he was just persona non grata.

Scrumhead wrote:Is Walker injured? I thought he was just persona non grata.

Ah yes, of course...

Not going well.
Burns showing that FB is a specialist position - if only we had one sitting on the bench.
Bad looking injury to Mulchrone

Bath 3 14 Quin's
16 min

Ben'os back!

A real nail biter!

I’ve been sat in a restaurant refreshing every couple of minutes. So please with that result! Come on you Quins!

Sounds like quite a game. Good effort from Quins to score in the last minute to win.
They are up to 3rd place now and have very good chance of staying in the top 4.
Gustard doing a fine job.

Really looked determined to butcher that one. Seemed we’d let the game go several times in the last 10 but somehow managed it. For all everyone is talking about Donbrandt’s body shape he seems to still be putting the work in at the late stages of the game quite often.

Nathan Earle has been a terrific signing for Quins.

Beno Obano

Timbo wrote:Nathan Earle has been a terrific signing for Quins.

I was very, very dubious but he seems to be more consistently showing what he can do with a lot of gametime.

Just caught the highlights. Some superb tries in there.