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Re: Team's Up!
DIR By: The Quin Meister
Date: February 15, 2019, 6:25 am
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Pleased to see James Chis back in the match 23 after (I assume)
an injury layoff. We have a good team but so have Worcester.
They have got very dangerous wingers, class act at 9 to
challenge Danny and Ted Hill coming off the bench. This will not
be a stroll in the park. We're gonna need to really want it.
Expecting a close game.
Hoping the absence of Saili is just horses for courses. He is a
key player for us.
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Re: Team's Up!
DIR By: TomBuckQuin
Date: February 15, 2019, 6:29 am
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Agree that Saili not starting would not normally be a great
thing. But when I see Taps at 12 I'm suddenly absolutely fine
with it. Even though, on paper, I too think Saili is the more
talented player overall.
The major difference for me this season is Gussy's player
management - rotating the squad, keeping everyone at as close to
100% as they can possibly be. The guy is a true squad manager -
something we haven't really had since Deano left (not that we
needed it in 2011/12 of course).
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Re: Team's Up!
DIR By: Quins Head
Date: February 15, 2019, 6:54 am
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Where is Siali
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Re: Team's Up!
DIR By: Blucherquin
Date: February 15, 2019, 6:56 am
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--- Quote from: Quins Head link ---
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> Where is Siali
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Not selected. Hence not in the team and not in "not considered
for selection".
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Re: Team's Up!
DIR By: TomBuckQuin
Date: February 15, 2019, 6:57 am
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--- Quote from: Quins Head link ---
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> Where is Siali
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He's the one with the red and white striped jumper on, wearing
glasses and holding a cane. You have to find him - that's the
whole point.
Oh, sorry. Yeah, I dunno - ring the club?
#Post#: 16908--------------------------------------------------
Re: Team's Up!
DIR By: Quins-Az
Date: February 15, 2019, 7:14 am
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Sailli has just had a kid and by looks of things been on
paternity leave which is why i believe he hasn't been picked
this week..
I could be wrong...
#Post#: 16909--------------------------------------------------
Re: Team's Up!
DIR By: honkytonk
Date: February 15, 2019, 7:32 am
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Makes sense.
#Post#: 16912--------------------------------------------------
Re: Team's Up!
DIR By: TomBuckQuin
Date: February 15, 2019, 7:46 am
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--- Quote from: Quins-Az link ---
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> Sailli has just had a kid and by looks of things been on
paternity leave which is why i believe he hasn't been picked
this week..
>
> I could be wrong...
>
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Surely then he'd be under "not considered" though. I think Gussy
has just picked Taps over him for this game tbh...
#Post#: 16913--------------------------------------------------
Re: Team's Up!
DIR By: HamptonCourtJester
Date: February 15, 2019, 7:47 am
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Whats everyones views on Lang v Smith?
I always get killed in the pub as I prefer Smith as I feel a lot
more confident of his kicking between the posts, where as my pre
match/post match pub friends say Lang is the better all round
player.
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Re: Team's Up!
DIR By: poorfour
Date: February 15, 2019, 8:17 am
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--- Quote from: TomBuckQuin link ---
>
> Agree that Saili not starting would not normally be a great
thing. But when I see Taps at 12 I'm suddenly absolutely fine
with it. Even though, on paper, I too think Saili is the more
talented player overall.
>
> The major difference for me this season is Gussy's player
management - rotating the squad, keeping everyone at as close to
100% as they can possibly be. The guy is a true squad manager -
something we haven't really had since Deano left (not that we
needed it in 2011/12 of course).
>
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The funny thing about 2011-2012 is that while most of us would
agree on the preferred starting XV for that season (Brown;
Williams, Lowe, Turner-Hall, Monye; Evans, Care; Marler, Gray,
Johnston, Kohn, Robson, Fa'asavalu, Robshaw, Easter), the number
of times that it took the field that season was surprisingly
low...
We started with that lineup precisely once. In the final itself.
14 out of that 15 started in a handful of matches, but there
were also times when we were down to bare bones. At one point
during the RWC we had something like 13 players out with their
countries or with injury, and we were playing a back row of
York, Wallace and Robshaw for several weeks.
We didn't need it, because it happened for us anyway - we had to
rotate players but fortunately the injuries fell in areas we had
good cover.
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