Friday, December 26, 2008

Saturday's a Rugby Day!

Huge weekend ahead in the Guiness Premiership, some great match ups with the highest profile match coming in the form of Wasps vs. Sale. Much has been made of Wasps inability to get the job done this year and I can't see that changing tomorrow. The Guiness premiership is an unforgiving league as they come - Wasps are not play that bad of Rugby but there is no room for simply playing, "ok." As previously noted on R&L Sale lost a cracker last weekend against Bath and will be looking for revenge in the form of the Wasps. Look for some huge perfoamnces from Shabal, McCalister and Richard Wiggelsworth as Sale win this easy.

Sale Sharks: 15 Mark Cueto, 14 Chris Bell, 13 Andy Tuilagi, 12 Luke McAlister, 11 David Doherty, 10 Charlie Hodgson, 9 Richard Wigglesworth, 8 Juan Martin Fernandez Lobbe (c), 7 Neil Briggs, 6 Jason White, 5 Dean Schofield, 4 Sebastien Chabal, 3 Eifion Roberts, 2 Marc Jones, 1 Lionel Faure.
Replacements: 16 Stuart Turner, 17 Andrew Sheridan, 18 Brent Cockbain, 19 Carl Fearns, 20 Dwayne Peel, 21 Mathew Tait, 22 Nick Macleod

London Wasps: 15 Lachlan Mitchell, 14 Chris Bishay, 13 Josh Lewsey, 12 Riki Flutey, 11 Tom Voyce, 10 Dave Walder, 9 Joe Simpson, 8 John Hart, 7 Serge Betsen, 6 Joe Worsley (C), 5 Richard Birkett, 4 Simon Shaw, 3 Tim Payne, 2 Joe Ward, 1 Tom French.
Replacements: 16 Damien Varley, 17 Charlie Beech, 18 George Skivington, 19 Dan Leo, 20 Eoin Reddan, 21 Jeremy Staunton, 22 Rob Hoadley

The game I'm looking forward to is the Quins vs. Tigers at Twickers. 50,000 people are going to see a traditonal Heavywieght play against battle against a one of Euro's form teams. Look for Nick Evans to give a huge performance as he simply oozes class. Liecster are eager to get back to the top of the table and always show up to play. They have a very full strength squad this week full of internationals and and expierence. This is my pick of the week as I think Quins continue on their rampant tear and squeak away with a win.

1 CERI JONES, 2 TANI FUGA, 3 MIKE ROSS, 4 JAMES PERCIVAL, 5 GEORGE ROBSON, 6 CHRIS ROBSHAW, 7 WILL SKINNER(CAPTAIN), 8 NICK EASTER, 9 DANNY CARE, 10 NICK EVANS, 11 UGO MONYE, 12 JORDAN TURNER- HALL, 13 GONZALO TIESI, 14 TOM WILLIAMS, 15 MIKE BROWN
16 CHRIS BROOKER, 17 MARK LAMBERT, 18 JIM EVANS, 19 TOM GUEST, 20 ANDY GOMARSALL, 21 DE WET BARRY, 22 CHRIS MALONE

15 Scott Hamilton, 14 Johne Murphy, 13 Dan Hipkiss, 12 Aaron Mauger, 11 Matt Smith, 10 Toby Flood, 9 Julien Dupuy, 1 Boris Stankovich, 2 Benjamin Kayser, 3 Julian White, 4 Martin Corry (captain), 5 Marco Wentzel, 6 Tom Croft, 7 Lewis Moody, 8 Jordan Crane
Replacements 16 George Chuter, 17 Martin Castrogiovanni, 18 Craig Newby, 19 Ben Herring, 20 Ben Youngs, 21 Seru Rabeni, 22 Tom Varndell

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