Exeter vs Harlequins - Sunday

[Puja]

Exeter Chiefs: 15 Josh Hodge, 14 Olly Woodburn, 13 Henry Slade, 12 Will Rigg, 11 Paul Brown-Bampoe, 10 Will Haydon-Wood, 9 Will Becconsall, 8 Greg Fisilau, 7 Jacques Vermeulen, 6 Ross Vintcent, 5 Richard Capstick, 4 Franco Molina, 3 Ehren Painter, 2 Dan Frost, 1 Scott Sio (c)
Replacements: 16 Jack Yeandle, 17 Will Goodrick-Clarke, 18 Marcus Street, 19 Rusi Tuima, 20 Ethan Roots, 21 Stu Townsend, 22 Harvey Skinner, 23 Ben Hammersley

Harlequins: 15 Tyrone Green, 14 Rodrigo Isgro, 13 Oscar Beard, 12 Lennox Anyanwu, 11 Cadan Murley (c), 10 Jarrod Evans, 9 Will Porter, 8 James Chisholm, 7 Will Evans, 6 Jack Kenningham, 5 Stephan Lewies, 4 Irne Herbst, 3 Titi Lamositele, 2 Jack Walker, 1 Jordan Els
Replacements: 16 Nathan Jibulu, 17 Wyn Jones, 18 Simon Kerrod, 19 Joe Launchbury, 20 Tom Lawday, 21 Danny Care, 22 Jamie Benson, 23 Nick David


Venue: Sandy Park
Kick-off: 15:00 BST
Referee: Adam Leal
Assistant Referees: Luke Pearce, Jamie Leahy
TMO: Tom Foley

[Mikey Brown]

A winger as captain? We’re a complete joke.

Rigg/Slade centre combo. We’ll be lucky to keep it under 50.

Completely forgot we’d signed Wyn Jones. I’m guessing he’s nowhere near the force he was.

[FKAS]

Chiefs with an actual midfield and Skinner is dropped for the second time this season. Chiefs looking stronger than in some previous weeks, Quins obviously missing a few with England. This could be a good Sunday afternoon watch.

[Epaminondas Pules]

Good to see Benson on the bench

[Scrumhead]

A winger as captain? We’re a complete joke.

Rigg/Slade centre combo. We’ll be lucky to keep it under 50.

Completely forgot we’d signed Wyn Jones. I’m guessing he’s nowhere near the force he was.

Is this supposed to be an ironic post?

Firstly, if a winger happens to be your most influential player from a leadership POV, I don’t think it matters where they play. Lewies will act as the pack leader.

As far as fearing a Rigg/Slade combo, I’m not sure a player with very limited Premiership experience and a guy who hasn’t played in months are the threats I’d be most concerned about.

[fivepointer]

Hallelujah!! Exeter change their HB's. Beconsall looked very good last year and WHW is surely due a run of games to see what he can bring to the team. Rigg at centre should be interesting. They get 2 England squad players back, Quins 0.

I'm taking Exeter to break their duck.

[twitchy]

I'm going to go out on a limb and predict a home loss.

[twitchy]

Exe under the cosh already.

[Mikey Brown]

Ah. Green back to his old self, but Beard had to be more aware there.

[Mikey Brown]

WTF is everyone doing?

[Mikey Brown]

Thank god.

[Mikey Brown]

Imagine if Will Evans was English qualified.

[Mikey Brown]

Feels like we could have put this out of sight by now. Massive turnaround there for Rigg to score.

[Mikey Brown]

Care's passing still hilariously bad.

[Mikey Brown]

Well that was comically bad for large portions of the game, but a bonus point win away at Exeter will do, given how many games we’ve let slip away so far this season.

[FKAS]

Imagine if Will Evans was English qualified.

I've heard he's going to change his last name to Curry as it's a guarantee to get picked.

[Banquo]

Did Benson get on?

[fivepointer]

Exeter are really in a bit of a mess. Nothing about their game looks in good enough order. Some of their defending was abject. Quins werent great but won at a canter.

[Banquo]

Exeter are really in a bit of a mess. Nothing about their game looks in good enough order. Some of their defending was abject. Quins werent great but won at a canter.

its odd, because not a poor team on paper

[fivepointer]

Exeter are really in a bit of a mess. Nothing about their game looks in good enough order. Some of their defending was abject. Quins werent great but won at a canter.

its odd, because not a poor team on paper

They're not. They are basically the same team that played pretty well last season. They really have gone off the boil in a big way.

[Mikey Brown]

They’ve basically just swapped with Bath.

[p/d]

Yeah yeah yeah……..but did he get on!

[Banquo]

Yeah yeah yeah……..but did he get on!

Benson? doesnt look like it.

[Epaminondas Pules]

Yeah yeah yeah……..but did he get on!

Benson? doesnt look like it.

He didn’t get on, no. I’m sure he’ll have learnt loads from watching the game.

[Mikey Brown]

He must have got excited when he saw Jarrod Evans kick the ball backwards, but alas.

It was an uncomfortably close game until quite late on, to be fair.