Leicester v Saracens

[bluntiger]

I will be shocked if we name a team other than the best we can put out and IMO that is as follows:

15 Geordan Murphy
14 Scott Hamilton
13 Matt Smith
12 Anthony Allen
11 Alesana Tuilagi
10 Toby Flood
9 Ben Youngs
8 Jordan Crane
7 Lewis Moody
6 Tom Croft
5 Geoff Parling
4 Louis Deacon
3 Martin Castrogiovanni
2 George Chuter
1 Marcos Ayerza

Replacements:
16 Boris Stankovich
17 Joe Duffey
18 Dan Cole
19 Brett Deacon
20 Ben Kay
21 James Grindall
22 Jeremy Staunton
23 Johne Murphy

[mightymouse]

The players have had plenty of rest over the last few weeks - what they need now is game time

I think this will be a very difficult game but if we manage to subdue them we need to bring off key players to ensure against injury in the final 20 (Flood, Youngs, Murphy G. Marcos,Chuter and Castro)

Re last nights game - we kept letting them back into a game we should have wrapped up easily (ref didn't help ) but I agree about Ellis - he was dire - I dearly hope he goes away and gets fit and strong and mentally prepared for next season because he cannot play premiership rugby like that. The clearance from the ruck improved dramatically when Harrison came on. Ford shows great promise but again I agree he needs a lot of work.

The younger guys guys showing most potential at the moment are Callum Green and Manu Tuillagi and of course 12ts although playing him on the wing did him no favours.

[kingol22]

Agree with your team bluntiger but i would find space for amorisino and hipkiss on the bench.

[bluntiger]

Agree with your team bluntiger but i would find space for amorisino and hipkiss on the bench.

I would too Kingol, but I doubt cockers will look further than Staunton and Murphy.

[Darc Tiger]

Cockers gunning for the win: http://www.leicestertigers.com/news/14920.php

[Richard]

I expect hipkiss won't feature as he was hobbling when he came of at the end of last nights match.

[tigerburnie]

Just having a nosey round the saffas website,didn't realise they have never won at Welford Road in any competition,so an added incentive to keep that little record.

[APJones]

depending on how we are doing at half time I think it would do all our players good to get some decent matchtime in against the Sarries .

[Darc Tiger]

http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/l ... ticle.html

Crane and L.Deacon doubts for the match.

[chandler262827]

Well, with it being my last match as a ST holder, I'm hoping for a full strength team and an excellent match.

So, expect a scoreline on the lines of 6 - 3 after a kick-fest

[smalldell]

I went to the A team game and it confimred that Ellis needs time to get his fitness back and lets give him a full summer and preseason to do it. Probably same for Hipkiss as well, he needs to get fully fit...

Am expecting a full strength team apart from any injuries.....

[Bill W (2)]

Do we owe our East midlands neighbours a favour?

[Bill W (2)]

JHMG Pam, that goes on a bit!

We will massacre them in the scrums; we will dominate the lineout; we will rule in the ruck and monopolise the maul. In defense we will take no prisoners and in attack we will exploit the wide outside and cut amazing angles!

Oh and btw we will win the match with a tbp!

KEEP THE FAITH!

[salcombe bob]

keep Chuter safe and out of the way.