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Iceman 19,is that your own website? If so you used to post on the DT under a different name?
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Happy with that team - at least with Croft playing we can attack their lineout and try to stop that maul. Genge and Williams off the bench after 50 mins will be great .
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I'm wondering if the half back thing is that they are now training as pairs, kitto/Williams and Harrison/Burns.
As Austin said a couple of weeks ago both 10s are leaving so there should be no favouritism and the coaches feel this is the best mix
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Could be Bunchy but when you get a winning team and the confidence that comes with it certain changes that appear to be just cosmetic are not needed, after all scrum half is one of the pivotal positions in the team. I know because that was my position playing for the school and at junior county level way back in the early sixties, why change things just for the sake of it?
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Noddy555 wrote:Could be Bunchy but when you get a winning team and the confidence that comes with it certain changes that appear to be just cosmetic are not needed, after all scrum half is one of the pivotal positions in the team. I know because that was my position playing for the school and at junior county level way back in the early sixties, why change things just for the sake of it?
You know it's pivotal because you played there and therefore it must be pivotal because only a man as grand as Noddy could possibly play there.
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8/11 Tigers, 7/4 Chiefs... interesting....

Going to be a lovely night for running rugby :smt002
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Strong looking sides, but I fancy the way we are playing a home victory will prevail as we motor towards the top 4 again.

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It looks like the rain will relent a couple of hours before kick off which would be good from a point of those on the terrace and hopefully the watchability of the match.

I've honestly no idea how it is going to go. I'm sort of nervous and excited at the same time. Can only hope for the best.
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It will be wet conditions which I think will suit the Chiefs driving maul rather more than our current quick handling game but I will be there KEEPING THE FAITH!
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If we win this one, I think we are serious contenders this season again, however it is a HUGE if and if I am honest I see there only being one result tonight and it is us coming second by a distance .... please please please prove me wrong
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Chobbsy wrote:If we win this one, I think we are serious contenders this season again, however it is a HUGE if and if I am honest I see there only being one result tonight and it is us coming second by a distance .... please please please prove me wrong
Chin up and take some happy pills Chobbsy, it could also be us coming first by some distance.

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Then IF we get beaten (if we do I don't believe it'll be by some distance) we can all lament on what could/should/might have been :smt006
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Chobbsy wrote:If we win this one, I think we are serious contenders this season again, however it is a HUGE if and if I am honest I see there only being one result tonight and it is us coming second by a distance .... please please please prove me wrong
I seem to remember the Exeter fans coming up here last season full of confidence and everyone Doom-mongering that we were going to get a pasting. Turned out it was all over by 50 mins, and if we hadn't let up (like we always do, grrrrrrr) because we were so far ahead, it would have been a right thrashing!

Obviously it is a new season, new scenario, etc, but I will never write Tigers off at Welford Road before the game has even started!
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Seem to remember a few people wrote us off against Quins as well
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northerntiger wrote:Seem to remember a few people wrote us off against Quins as well
I think an in form Chiefs is a bit different from a depleted Quins

I am more than happy to be proved wrong
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Slow delivery from Kitto + lazy kick from Williams = 7 points lost. Schoolboy errors! :smt011
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