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Opening Premiership fixtures

Bristol v Bath (19:45 BST, Friday, 18 October)
Exeter v Harlequins (15:00 BST, Saturday, 19 October)
Sale v Gloucester (15:00 BST, Saturday, 19 October)
Saracens v Northampton (15:00 BST, Saturday, 19 October)
Worcester v Leicester (15:00 BST, Saturday, 19 October)
Wasps v London Irish (15:00 BST, Sunday, 20 October)

Not exactly confident about Exeter away. But I suppose they’ll be a fair bit more depleted than we will.

Actually I’m not sure that’s even right. We won’t have Marler to take advantage of their missing tight-heads.

I'd assume in advance it'll be home wins across all those fixtures

Mikey Brown wrote:Actually I’m not sure that’s even right. We won’t have Marler to take advantage of their missing tight-heads.

Yeah, Exe won't be crazy depleted at all, really. Which is a bit insane considering where they finished last time out...

What, they'll be missing Williams, Francis, LCD, Skinner, Slade, Nowell, Hogg. Anyone else? That's not much, really.

We'll be missing: Marler, Sinckler, Kunatani, Goneva, Botta, Landajo, Campagnaro, Lasike...mainly 2nd choice players, which is weird.

It's the same week as the RWC quarters, so I'd imagine the group stage returnees will start to be available from the second week of the season.

We'll likely be missing Genge, Cole, Lavanini, Kalamafoni (maybe) Youngs, Ford, Tuilagi, May, Holmes (maybe), Veainu. Which could leave a starting XV of Bateman, Youngs, Heyes, Green, Spencer, Taufua, Thompson, Liebenberg, White, McPhilips, Olowofela, Eastmond, Taute, Aspland-Robinson, Worth.

That's not a bad team, but like last season, it'll depend on if we're still less than the sum of our parts.

Puja

BT Sport's 2019/20 Gallagher Premiership fixtures
Date Match Kick-off time
Round 1
18/10/2019 Bristol Bears v Bath Rugby 19.45
19/10/2019 Saracens v Northampton Saints 15.00
20/10/2019 Wasps v London Irish 15.00
Round 2
25/10/2019 Bath Rugby v Exeter Chiefs 19.45
26/10/2019 Gloucester Rugby v Wasps 15.00
27/10/2019 Leicester Tigers v Saracens 15.00
Round 3
01/11/2019 Northampton Saints v Harlequins 19.45
02/11/2019 Leicester Tigers v Gloucester Rugby 15.00
03/11/2019 Worcester Warriors v Exeter Chiefs 15.00
Round 4
08/11/2019 Sale Sharks v Wasps 19.45
09/11/2019 Gloucester Rugby v Saracens 15.00
10/11/2019 Exeter Chiefs v Bristol Bears 15.00
Round 5
29/11/2019 Bath Rugby v Saracens 19.45
30/11/2019 Northampton Saints v Leicester Tigers 15.00
01/12/2019 Harlequins v Gloucester Rugby 15.00
Round 6
20/12/2019 Gloucester Rugby v Worcester Warriors 19.45
21/12/2019 Leicester Tigers v Exeter Chiefs 15.00
22/12/2019 London Irish v Bath Rugby 15.00
Round 7
27/12/2019 Bristol Bears v Wasps 19.45
28/12/2019 Northampton Saints v Gloucester Rugby 14.00
28/12/2019 Harlequins v Leicester Tigers 16.30
29/12/2019 Exeter Chiefs v Saracens 15.00
Round 8
03/01/2020 Sale Sharks v Harlequins 19.45
04/01/2020 Gloucester Rugby v Bath Rugby 15.00
05/01/2020 Wasps v Northampton Saints 15.00

Most clubs appear in 5 televised matches. Bristol only feature in 3, Sale, Irish and Worcester only have 2.

Gloucester top the TV appearances with 7! Do they have somene on the board at BT Sport?

jimKRFC wrote:
Gloucester top the TV appearances with 7! Do they have somene on the board at BT Sport?

More likely because of Mark Atkinson at 12 and his sidekick at 10.

Mellsblue wrote:

jimKRFC wrote:
Gloucester top the TV appearances with 7! Do they have somene on the board at BT Sport?

More likely because of Mark Atkinson at 12 and his sidekick at 10.

Maybe, we should have a referendum on who gets picked for the country at 10? If Cips is so popular . . . .

Oakboy wrote:

Mellsblue wrote:

jimKRFC wrote:
Gloucester top the TV appearances with 7! Do they have somene on the board at BT Sport?

More likely because of Mark Atkinson at 12 and his sidekick at 10.

Maybe, we should have a referendum on who gets picked for the country at 10? If Cips is so popular . . . .

You just know the result would be Johnny coming out of retirement :p

Oakboy wrote:

Mellsblue wrote:

jimKRFC wrote:
Gloucester top the TV appearances with 7! Do they have somene on the board at BT Sport?

More likely because of Mark Atkinson at 12 and his sidekick at 10.

Maybe, we should have a referendum on who gets picked for the country at 10? If Cips is so popular . . . .

That'd end up with David Beckham.

Puja

Beckham at 7 would be even worse