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Ref: Ian Tempest
TJs: Karl Dickson & Wayne Falla
TMO: Dean Richards

Newcastle:
1 Murray McCallum
2 Jamie Blamire
3 Richard Palframan
4 Sebastian de Chaves
5 Kiran McDonald Seran
6 Freddie Lockwood
7 Tom Gordon
8 Callum Chick

09 Sam Stuart
10 Brett Connon
11 Ben Stevenson
12 Cameron Hutchison
13 Alex Hearle
14 Adam Radwan
15 Ben Redshaw

16 Ollie Fletcher, 17 Mike Rewcastle, 18 Callum Hancock, 19 Philip van der Walt, 20 Ollie Leatherbarrow
21 Hugh O'Sullivan, 22 Kieran Wilkinson, 23 Oli Spencer


Bath:
1 Francois van Wyk
2 Tom Dunn
3 Will Stuart
4 Quinn Roux
5 Charlie Ewels
6 Josh Bayliss
7 Guy Pepper
8 Alfie Barbeary

09 Ben Spencer
10 Finn Russell
11 Will Muir
12 Cameron Redpath
13 Ollie Lawrence
14 Joe Cokanasiga
15 Tom de Glanville

16 Niall Annett, 17 Beno Obano, 18 Thomas du Toit, 19 Ted Hill, 20 Sam Underhill, 23 Jaco Coetzee
21 Tom Carr-Smith, 22 Will Butt

Wow, that's a bench and a half from Bath.

FKAS wrote: ↑Fri Dec 20, 2024 7:20 pm Wow, that's a bench and a half from Bath.

It is, but it's by weakening the starting XV. I think Newcastle will be hopeful of getting something out of this - Diamonds getting those nuggety performances out of them that he's famous for and, on a cold day in the North-east, they might make Bath regret rotating.

Puja

Puja wrote: ↑Fri Dec 20, 2024 10:59 pm

FKAS wrote: ↑Fri Dec 20, 2024 7:20 pm Wow, that's a bench and a half from Bath.

It is, but it's by weakening the starting XV. I think Newcastle will be hopeful of getting something out of this - Diamonds getting those nuggety performances out of them that he's famous for and, on a cold day in the North-east, they might make Bath regret rotating.

Puja

Yeah I know what you mean but they are starting with should be able to at least stay on top of Falcons until the cavalry can turn up and blow them away.

Falcons just have a few too many key injuries at prop for instance and the loss of Sammy Arnold is massive for them.

That weakened starting XV is only really weakened in 3 positions (I'd say 4, but JvG doesn't seem intent on dropping Barbeary just yet).
Two of those 3 are Pepper and Bayliss, so hardly big steps down either.

Less annoyed about the Coka drop given the strength we can now see if the wind


New 5 - 5 Bath

3 min

Newc 12 - 7 Bath

8 min

Newc 12 - 14 Bath

22 min

Wind is horrendous, looks like it's mostly blowing about a 45* angle from the centre spot to around (Bath's) right hand touch line at the 22, but turbulent and different in different locations as the stand effect things.
Put the ball high, and no-one knows where it's going to land.

Wow, handling from TdG for what's not a try for Alfie!

Absolutely brutal number of phases for Bath's third try !

Newc 15 - 21 Bath
HT

Well played Tempest there.
Crowd not happy, but that's beery bias

Newc 15 - 40 Bath
FT

As expected Bath's bench makes a massive difference and they dominate the second half.