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Roth v Rams Team News
DIR By: Watto
Date: November 22, 2024, 7:02 am
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Round eleven of National 1 sees Rotherham Titans take on league
leaders and title favourites Rams; kick-off at Clifton Lane on
Saturday is 2pm.
Rotherham will go into the game on the back of a good
performance against Sedgley Park which saw them pick-up the
bonus point in a hard-fought but deserved 35-30 win.
Trailing by ten points early in the second half, Rotherham
impressed by showing good composure and control to overcome a
dangerous Sedgley side.
Another good performance will be required when a rampant Rams
side rock up at the Lane.
The Berkshire based outfit have impressed this term with a
perfect 10 wins form 10 games. Indeed, only two teams have
managed to collect the losing bonus point as Rams have pretty
much overrun every team they’ve played. They can also boast of
having the strongest defence in the league; a strong defence is
always a good indicator of a top side.
Nevertheless, Rotherham are going well themselves and will
relish the challenge of taking on the best side in the division.
The teams have met on two previous occasions, those being in the
foreshortened Covid season back in 2019/20 and whilst both games
were competitive Rams came out on top in both fixtures.
Going into this week’s game Roth have made five changes to their
starting XV.
In the front row hooker Jack Bergmanas retains his spot and is
flanked by props Charlie Capps at loosehead who comes in for
Loma Kivalu and Andrew Foster at tighthead who comes in for
Alastair Donkor.
The second row sees Curran Maguire lining up alongside Harry
Gilson-Fox, whilst in the back row the only change sees Ellis
Thomas come in for the injured Harry Newborn at openside. Zak
Poole stays on the blindside with Callum Bustin at number 8.
Across the backline scrum half JB Bruzulier comes in for James
Naylor and he will accompany Rob Povey in the half back
positions, with Lloyd Hayes and Jamie Cooke maintaining their
partnership in midfield.
The back three sees Tomasi Tanumi come in on the wing as Ronnie
Du Randt moves to full back in place of Jack Townend, with Aidan
Shortall on the other wing.
Looking ahead to the game Titans Assistant Coach, Matt Smith,
said:
“We were delighted to come away from Sedgley Park with a bonus
point win because it’s a tough place to go. We’ve had some tough
contests there over the years and so to come away with the
result was very rewarding for the lads.
“I always felt with the performance there was more to come from
us, but if you look at their games you can see they’ve picked up
a lot of bonus points and we knew we were going to be in a fight
and they didn’t disappoint.
“When we went 10 points down early in the second half we weren’t
really nervous, it was frustration more than anything. I think
the boys gave away a couple of soft tries and even at that point
I still felt like we had enough on the pitch to go and win the
game.
“As a coaching team we were really pleased with how the boys got
back to task and just went out there to show the ability to go
and win a game of rugby. It will be the same against Rams, we’ll
have to show that same desire and attitude against arguably the
best team in the division.
“Rams have got a great a great set-up and you can tell they are
building for the Championship. They’ve been really successful in
recent years and they are now in a position to make that next
step.
“And credit to them, they’ve played 10 games so far and they’ve
won them all and we know it’s going to be a tough game, but it’s
one we’re excited to be involved in.”
Titans: 15 Ronnie Du Randt, 14 Tomasi Tanumi, 13 Lloyd Hayes, 12
Jamie Cooke, 11 Aidan Shortall, 10 Rob Povey, 9 JB Bruzulier, 1
Charlie Capps ©, 2 Jack Bergmanas, 3 Andrew Foster, 4 Harry
Gilson-Fox, 5 Curran Maguire, 6 Zak Poole ©, 7 Ellis Thomas, 8
Callum Bustin.
Replacements: 16 Luke Cole, 17 Loma Kivalu, 18 Alastair Donkor,
19 John Okafor, 20 Corben Ollivent.
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Re: Roth v Rams Team News
DIR By: Rothman2
Date: November 22, 2024, 7:17 am
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Crikey. That looks one hell of a team.
SENDEMOAMWINOWTROTH
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Re: Roth v Rams Team News
DIR By: MG_3
Date: November 22, 2024, 7:19 am
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Pitch Inspection At 2pm This Afternoon I’ve Been Informed
🤞🙏🏉
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Re: Roth v Rams Team News
DIR By: Duncang
Date: November 22, 2024, 7:46 am
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Good to see John O back in the squad
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Re: Roth v Rams Team News
DIR By: Steve Bott
Date: November 22, 2024, 8:47 am
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Game confirmed as on.
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Re: Roth v Rams Team News
DIR By: SimonBall
Date: November 22, 2024, 9:27 am
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Well done to all who made this weekends game possible. Now lets
send the Rams home with nowt.
COME ON YOU ROTH!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Re: Roth v Rams Team News
DIR By: Jim Garbutt
Date: November 22, 2024, 10:07 am
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This would be an awesome game to win and I fancy us for 4.
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Re: Roth v Rams Team News
DIR By: Rucko
Date: November 22, 2024, 11:33 am
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A very strong bench hopefully if we’re in touch with 15 minutes
to go the bench might be able to get us over the line
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Re: Roth v Rams Team News
DIR By: eagle
Date: November 22, 2024, 12:30 pm
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Great news that the game is on, we seem I think to be building a
mini winning run also having players coming back from injury is
another bonus.
The Rams won't know what hit them.
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Re: Roth v Rams Team News
DIR By: Rothman2
Date: November 22, 2024, 4:17 pm
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Well I see there is some more snow forecast (around 4cm) early
morning (5-7 am) temperature about 1 deg C with a moderate south
south easterly breeze with gusts of wind 20-30 metres h. 9 am
will see any snow turning to rain and turning much milder
throughout the morning. By 10.30 winds will move to a southerly
direction with a moderate to fresh breeze with gusts to 40 mph
and by noon temperatures will be around 7 deg C.
Rain will continue throughout the day ( mostly light to
moderate) By kick off time the wind will still be in a southerly
direction ( fresh breeze with gusts around 40mph) and will move
to a south south westerly direction by half time but the wind
speed will be about the same for the rest of the game into the
early evening.
This means, if my geographical of the ground is correct, that
before half time the wind is likely to be blowing across the
pitch toward Badsley Moor Lane and, second half still in the
same direction but probably more pronounced towards the main
entrance.
Use of the wind and winning the toss will be key I guess but,
whatever happens it will be a very interesting game.
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