Newcastle vs Bath - Sat 3pm

[Puja]

Newcastle Falcons: 15 Elliott Obatoyinbo, 14 Adam Radwan, 13 George Wacokecoke, 12 Pete Lucock, 11 Ben Stevenson, 10 Brett Connon, 9 Michael Young (captain); 1 Adam Brocklebank, 2 Jamie Blamire, 3 Richard Palframan, 4 Matthew Dalton, 5 Sebastian de Chaves, 6 Freddie Lockwood, 7 Connor Collett, 8 Callum Chick.

Replacements: 16 George McGuigan, 17 Phil Brantingham, 18 Mark Tampin, 19 George Merrick, 20 Guy Pepper, 21 Sam Stuart, 22 Tian Schoeman, 23 Tom Penny.


Bath Rugby 15 Matt Gallagher, 14 Gabriel Hamer-Webb, 13 Ollie Lawrence, 12 Max Ojomoh, 11 Ruaridh McConnochie, 10 George Worboys, 9 Max Green; 1 Valeriy Morozov, 2 Tom Dunn ©, 3 D’Arcy Rae, 4 Fergus Lee-Warner, 5 Quinn Roux, 6 Ted Hill, 7 Miles Reid, 8 Richard de Carpentier

Impact players: 16 Niall Annett, 17 Arthur Cordwell, 18 Johannes Jonker, 19 Tom Ellis, 20 Josh Bayliss, 21 Tom Carr-Smith, 22 Billy Searle, 23 Jonathan Joseph

[Peej]

Battle of the discarded Sarries full backs

[Banquo]

Poor old JJ.

[Scrumhead]

Battle of the discarded Sarries full backs

In fairness, I think Gallagher moved to Munster to chase an Ireland cap. He’s done well for Bath so far.

[FKAS]

Battle of the discarded Sarries full backs

In fairness, I think Gallagher moved to Munster to chase an Ireland cap. He’s done well for Bath so far.

He was looking very good for Sarries before an injury meant he dropped down the pecking order and then when he got fit the cheating all came out. Munster came in and off he went somewhat unsuccessfully. I thought he might be a handy acquisition for Bath and it's proving so, so far.

Falcons will probably make this tough in the first half but come the second half I expect Bath to pull away.

[Which Tyler]

Watching my first live match since R2.
By gods it's boring

Not terrible, like previously, but just so dull

[Mellsblue]

It’s not exactly the weekends glamour tie.

[Which Tyler]

Oooh look, something interesting has happened.

Joseph on for McConnochie (injury?) But Lawrence goes to wing, not JJ. (ETA, and now Ojomo)


Yes. That counts as "interesting" this afternoon.
NZ v France this is not.

[SouthFalcon87]

Fairly obvious these are the worst 2 teams in the league. Newcastle just managed to be worse this week. It is painful how little they use Radwan. And it’s impressive to be so obsessed with kicking when Young and Connon are so bad at it.

[FKAS]

Falcons do have the annoying tendency of catfishing you into thinking they've turned a corner only then to be shite once again.

[fivepointer]

Thought Walder would try and get the team to play with a bit more adventure. Doesnt sound like thats the case.

[FKAS]

Well he has but again there's no consistency. Smash Bristol, fold against 14 man Sarries, take Saints down to the wire scoring five tries at the Gardens and losing by a point but then fall at home to Bath.

With Dean they were consistently average now it seems you're not sure what Falcons team will turn up.

[Scrumhead]

Fairly obvious these are the worst 2 teams in the league. Newcastle just managed to be worse this week. It is painful how little they use Radwan. And it’s impressive to be so obsessed with kicking when Young and Connon are so bad at it.

Yeah. Although it does feel like van Graan is starting to have a positive effect on Bath and the additions of Hill and Lawrence have added a nice extra bit of quality.

I expect Bath to get better, but I don’t know if I can say the same for Falcons.

[Which Tyler]

Yeah. Although it does feel like van Graan is starting to have a positive effect on Bath and the additions of Hill and Lawrence have added a nice extra bit of quality.

Yup, TBF Hill and Lawrence would add quality to just about any team.
JvG does seem to have taken us from Dull, incohesive and absolutely terrible to dull, cohesive and terrible to watch.

Meanwhile, the social media have upped their game, even though I don't really care about the rivalry; but this is pretty good (or a well known meme that I'm simply ignorant of)

[fivepointer]

Great finish by Radwan for the Newcastle try.

[Which Tyler]

Great finish by Radwan for the Newcastle try.

Yup, that try, and JJ's kick through for Lawrence's try are the highlights - as in, the only things worth watching; highlights package of 1 minute - and only much via showing several angles of the 2 moments.

[Puja]

Meanwhile, the social media have upped their game, even though I don't really care about the rivalry; but this is pretty good (or a well known meme that I'm simply ignorant of)

It is a known meme, but it's a good use of it. Good work by the social media team.

Puja

[Timbo]

Great finish by Radwan for the Newcastle try.

Yup, that try, and JJ's kick through for Lawrence's try are the highlights - as in, the only things worth watching; highlights package of 1 minute - and only much via showing several angles of the 2 moments.

The kick through was Ojomoh wasn’t it?