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Ref: Christophe Ridley
TJs: Craig Maxwell-Keys and Wayne Falla
TMO: Andrew Jackson

Gloucester:
1 Val Rapava-Ruskin
2 Jack Singleton
3 Afo Fasogbon
4 Freddie Clarke
5 Freddie Thomas
6 Jack Clement
7 Lewis Ludlow (C)
8 Ruan Ackermann

09 Tomos Williams
10 Charlie Atkinson
11 Josh Hathaway
12 Seb Atkinson
13 Chris Harris
14 Christian Wade
15 Santi Carreras

16 Seb Blake, 17 Ciaran Knight, 18 Kirill Gotovtsev, 19 Cam Jordan, 20 Harry Taylor
21 Caolan Englefield, 22 Will Butler, 23 George Barton


Bristol:
1. Ellis Genge
2. Gabriel Oghre
3. Max Lahiff
4. James Dun
5. Josh Caulfield
6. Steven Luatua
7. Fitz Harding (c)
8. Viliame Mata

09. Harry Randall
10. Harry Byrne
11. Kalaveti Ravouvou
12. James Williams
13. Benhard Janse van Rensburg
14. Jack Bates
15. Rich Lane

16. Harry Thacker, 17. Jake Woolmore, 18. Jimmy Halliwell, 19. Paddy Pearce, 20. Jake Heenan
21. Kieran Marmion, 22. AJ MacGinty, 23. Siva Naulago

Bound to be entertaining. Try BP's on the cards for both teams. Fasogbon-Genge is a match up to savour.

Good to see Halliwell getting game time.

fivepointer wrote: ↑Fri Mar 28, 2025 4:44 pm Bound to be entertaining. Try BP's on the cards for both teams. Fasogbon-Genge is a match up to savour.

Fasogbon’s raw strength against Obano was something to behold. Despite being put in positions he didn’t want to be in his strength to hold firm as astounding!

Epaminondas Pules wrote: ↑Fri Mar 28, 2025 5:52 pm

fivepointer wrote: ↑Fri Mar 28, 2025 4:44 pm Bound to be entertaining. Try BP's on the cards for both teams. Fasogbon-Genge is a match up to savour.

Fasogbon’s raw strength against Obano was something to behold. Despite being put in positions he didn’t want to be in his strength to hold firm as astounding!

Genge is going to be looking for some revenge as well.

Glos looking good early on.

TBP, 17 min

Looks like BBC has given up at HT.

Any score updates?

p/d wrote: ↑Sat Mar 29, 2025 6:50 pm Looks like BBC has given up at HT.

Any score updates?

53 - 28, 12 mins left

Another madcap tryfest. Plenty of good ones including 3 for Seb Atkinson.

He's a board favourite and today tells you why. Everything he did had a touch of class about it. There's something seriously out of kilter if this guy is ignored by England in the summer.

Seb A was outstanding today. A midfield of him and Max Ojomoh would be a problem for any team in the world. Strong as an ox but just has seemingly endless time on the ball and rarely makes a bad decision.

I mean,
17 carries
110 metres made
4 clean breaks
12 gainline success
16 tackles
3 tries
2 try assists

Not a bad day at the office!

Epaminondas Pules wrote: ↑Sat Mar 29, 2025 9:26 pm I mean,
17 carries
110 metres made
4 clean breaks
12 gainline success
16 tackles
3 tries
2 try assists

Not a bad day at the office!

He is class!!

ilovelamp wrote: ↑Sat Mar 29, 2025 8:34 pm Seb A was outstanding today. A midfield of him and Max Ojomoh would be a problem for any team in the world. Strong as an ox but just has seemingly endless time on the ball and rarely makes a bad decision.

Just watched the highlights and his disguised pull-back pass for the first try was exquisite. I have genuinely no idea what he could possibly be missing to not get into the England squad, let alone the fact that he's apparently not good enough for England A.

Puja

His run, sit the hell down, pass for the third was none too shabby either

BBC Sports has very strange line ups for both teams. Lahiff at 10 and Lane at 1 for Bristol and Fasagbon at 10 and Wade at 2 for Gloucester.

Well spotted, Yorkie ! The BBC rugby journos slip up again!

https://www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-union/match/EVP4571211

On another note Genge got zero change out of Fasogbon. He’s gone against Genge and Obano in successive weeks and more than held his own!

Epaminondas Pules wrote: ↑Sun Mar 30, 2025 8:38 am On another note Genge got zero change out of Fasogbon. He’s gone against Genge and Obano in successive weeks and more than held his own!

Fasogbon is surprisingly mobile and athletic for a tighthead who weighs more than 20 stone. Massive talent that's bright enough to change and learn as he goes, Obano made his life very difficult early doors last weekend but Fasogbon adapted and came back at him. Hopefully he's fit to be in the squad for the Argentina tour. Him and AOF getting some experience off the bench across those games will move their development on nicely.

Yep, Fasogbon is a special talent. He's done very well the last 2 weeks up against quality LH's. He should be nailed on to tour with England in the summer.

Speaking of special talents, surely Seb Atkinson is putting his hand up for selection. Just such a classy operator.

Tomos Williams‘ offload!!! Insert aubergine emoji here.

Mellsblue wrote: ↑Sun Mar 30, 2025 2:21 pm Tomos Williams‘ offload!!! Insert aubergine emoji here.

‘‘Twas a beaut

Mellsblue wrote: ↑Sun Mar 30, 2025 2:21 pm Tomos Williams‘ offload!!! Insert aubergine emoji here.

I don’t know why what seemed like a completely unnecessary pirouette added so much to that, but it was great.

I really hope we don’t see Seb Atkinson’s skills go to waste at international level.

Neither he or Dingwall fit the DDA/Danty mould of a 12 but I think England just have to look at what we’ve got and stick to having more of a distributor at 12 and a more powerful runner at 13.

you'd think Seb Atkinson might get noticed by the board sometime