I like the back line, yes Erinle is unlucky, and we need Mauger and Alex to really step up. I would love to see TV get stuck in, show us you can be the number one winger in England. Dont stand on the wing, if you do have a bag of chips to keep warm. But do me a favour and score 5 tries.
But being positive, our back line is really superb, and this without Seru and Ollie, J Murphy. For all the frustration and comments recently, we are still the top team in England.
should be a game game with that team i still wounder why we did't play that team on tuesday nite but still there a good chance we stuff bristol tho fingers crossed.
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I'm surprised not to see Erinle starting, fine, hard working, player despite his faux pas and yellow card the other night, the way Alex Tuilagi has played recently, admittedly due (reportedly) to injury concerns, I would've put Erinle in ahead of him for this match, but then I'd prefer to see Erinle staring at 13 outside of Mauger as I think they have been most effective in small glimpses when paired up.
Not a criticism though, as I'm also an AT and DH fan, it's still a strong line-up accounting for players injured, and I'll willingly let AT and/or DH stuff those words back down my throat WHEN they prove me wrong with 2 (or more) tries (each please) and blockbuster performances on saturday
Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
Selection really worries me - this is a must win with bonus point game - the absolute best team available should play - is this the best team available?
Johne Murphy has been our best back recently - is he injured - if not he should play instead of Alex on form. Why is Mefin in the starting 15 - doesn't make sense - if George is dropped for his howler then fine the put Mefin on the bench and start with Bengy.
What is wrong with louis Deacon? not even in the squad - bizarre!
I was expecting more of a first/second-first team makeup here, but ML seems to have picked what I would say is not far off the first choice 15. Clearly not messing around with this one, I would have thought they want to go out, smash 5 points past Brizzle and silence a couple of doubters. I hope they do.
I like our back row makeup: speed of Croft, power of Crane and the fetching of Herring.
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Unless Boris, Moreno, and Young are all injured, I can not understand the logic of selecting Ayerza on the bench,with Herring in the team, especially as neither White, nor Castro seem to be able to go close to lasting whole games. As soon as one of these goes off, so will our only open side player. Strange
Apart from that, a good team, given the availability. Let's hope we see a big performance.Would love to see Erinle come on at some stage and show us what he can do.
Johne Murphy came off, apparently injured, against Bath mightymouse and was reportedly on crutches afterwards/next day, whether precautionary or not I don't know.
Do agree with you about the Davies/Kayser selection, I've been impressed with Ben Kayser this season and would've stared him if GC dropped/injured (?) so I'm a bit puzzled by that one too.
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mightymouse wrote:Johne Murphy has been our best back recently - is he injured - if not he should play instead of Alex on form. Why is Mefin in the starting 15 - doesn't make sense - if George is dropped for his howler then fine the put Mefin on the bench and start with Bengy.
I would have preferred to see Erinle start at 13, he’s been unlucky not to get starts in the ‘proper’ line up.
I’m a big fan of Hipkiss but he had a shocker against the O’s (along with most others) and doesn’t appear to be quite ‘on it’ recently. Hope he proves me wrong.
However, I think Bristol are going to be on the receiving end of a pasting this week……fingers crossed.
Agree with many about the odd decision to have Ayerza and Herring in the same XXII, one can only assume that Stankovich isn't fit.
Erinle is unlucky, and Hipkiss joins the list of players due a 'big one'. Alex T probably heads that list; his inability keep the ball in contact has been depressingly on show. The loss to injury of Johne is a worry, and I hope that Geordan is fully recovered.
The loss of Deacon (injured?) and continued unavailability of Wentzel bother me. Kay is also on the 'due a big one' list, will he and Corry be blowing out of the a***s by the end?
I can see a fair bit of reshuffling in the pack in the 2nd half.
(faint, shock - HORROR! 
) that I was surprised to see miffed meffin in the starting 15... we'll see!