Harlequins v Saracens

[Epaminondas Pules]

HARLEQUINS v SARACENS
Sunday 12 October (KO 15:00)
Twickenham Stoop
Live on TNT Sports
STARTING XV:

15. Tyrone Green (97)
14. Rodrigo Isgró (13)
13. Oscar Beard (79)
12. Jamie Benson (26)
11. Cadan Murley (C) (131)
10. Marcus Smith (178)
9. Will Porter (46)
1. Fin Baxter (72)
2. Jack Walker (93)
3. Harry Williams (3)
4. Guido Petti Pagadizábal (*)
5. Kieran Treadwell (9)
6. Jack Kenningham (76)
7. Will Evans (118)
8. Chandler Cunningham-South (33)

IMPACT PLAYERS:
16. George Turner (2)
17. Boris Wenger (*)
18. Pedro Delgado (*)
19. Jonny Green (13)
20. Zach Carr (11)
21. Alex Dombrandt (159)
22. Stu Townsend (*)
23. Sean Kerr (12)

Unavailable for selection: Ethan Clarke, Matt Woollard, Lucas Friday, James Chisholm, Stephan Lewies, Ben Waghorn, Will Hobson, Lucas Schmid, Joe Launchbury, Luke Northmore, Bryn Bradley, Sean Sharp

[Epaminondas Pules]

Saracens Men team to play Harlequins:
1 Rhys Carre
2 Theo Dan
3 Marco Riccioni
4 Nick Isiekwe
5 Hugh Tizard
6 Andy Onyeama-Christie
7 Ben Earl
8 Tom Willis
9 Ivan van Zyl (c)
10 Fergus Burke
11 Lucio Cinti
12 Owen Farrell
13 Nick Tompkins
14 Jack Bracken
15 Max Malins

Replacements:
16 Jamie George
17 Eroni Mawi
18 Alec Clarey
19 Harry Wilson
20 Olamide Sodeke
21 Juan Martin Gonzalez
22 Charlie Bracken
23 Brandon Jackson

Injured: Phil Brantingham, Elliot Daly, Max Eke, Tobias Elliott, Olly Hartley, Toby Knight, Alex Lozowski, Theo McFarland, Vilikesa Nairau, Sam Spink, Harvey Beaton, Rotimi Segun.

Unavailable: Tietie Tuimauga, Nathan Michelow, Maro Itoje.

[FKAS]

Interesting that Dombrandt is dropped to the bench and CCS moves to 8 with Petti coming in.

[Scrumhead]

He’s carrying a knock. Same reason he came off early last weekend.

Quins throwing our best available side at this but I’m still expecting to lose. Saracens looking annoyingly good ATM.

[Mikey Brown]

Must be all that poise in midfield.

[twitchy]

*Narrative Klaxon*

Number 10 bulldozes through tighthead to score the opening try of the game.


marcus smith

[Epaminondas Pules]

Charlie Bracken gets brought on to watch Marcus Smith take the last kick! If Carlsberg did youth development this would not be it!

[fivepointer]

Charlie Bracken gets brought on to watch Marcus Smith take the last kick! If Carlsberg did youth development this would not be it!

Certainly the most pointless substitution of the season so far. Hard to see how anyone is going to top it.

Well done Quins. They were the better side and deserved the win. Smith played a most unusual yet effective hand and i thought Kenningham, CCS and Baxter were excellent up front.

Willis was easily Saracens best player despite the comms team bigging up you know who.....

[Oakboy]

Charlie Bracken gets brought on to watch Marcus Smith take the last kick! If Carlsberg did youth development this would not be it!

Certainly the most pointless substitution of the season so far. Hard to see how anyone is going to top it.

Well done Quins. They were the better side and deserved the win. Smith played a most unusual yet effective hand and i thought Kenningham, CCS and Baxter were excellent up front.

Willis was easily Saracens best player despite the comms team bigging up you know who.....

Agreed. I especially liked CCS at 8. IMO, he's a 6/8 and should not be messed about at lock. He's a more effective back-up at 8 to Willis than Earl is and, with both Currys injured, he must be close to the starting 6 shirt for the AIs.

[FKAS]

Charlie Bracken gets brought on to watch Marcus Smith take the last kick! If Carlsberg did youth development this would not be it!

Certainly the most pointless substitution of the season so far. Hard to see how anyone is going to top it.

Well done Quins. They were the better side and deserved the win. Smith played a most unusual yet effective hand and i thought Kenningham, CCS and Baxter were excellent up front.

Willis was easily Saracens best player despite the comms team bigging up you know who.....

Agreed. I especially liked CCS at 8. IMO, he's a 6/8 and should not be messed about at lock. He's a more effective back-up at 8 to Willis than Earl is and, with both Currys injured, he must be close to the starting 6 shirt for the AIs.

Does he have the work rate for 6 at international level? Hasn't looked like it previously.

His positional versatility makes him very likely to be in the 19 shirt surely. Pepper or Underhill alongside Earl would be my guess for the flanker selections given the injuries.

[Oakboy]

Certainly the most pointless substitution of the season so far. Hard to see how anyone is going to top it.

Well done Quins. They were the better side and deserved the win. Smith played a most unusual yet effective hand and i thought Kenningham, CCS and Baxter were excellent up front.

Willis was easily Saracens best player despite the comms team bigging up you know who.....

Agreed. I especially liked CCS at 8. IMO, he's a 6/8 and should not be messed about at lock. He's a more effective back-up at 8 to Willis than Earl is and, with both Currys injured, he must be close to the starting 6 shirt for the AIs.

Does he have the work rate for 6 at international level? Hasn't looked like it previously.

His positional versatility makes him very likely to be in the 19 shirt surely. Pepper or Underhill alongside Earl would be my guess for the flanker selections given the injuries.

You could be right but I'd pick CCS, Pollock and Willis.

[FKAS]

Agreed. I especially liked CCS at 8. IMO, he's a 6/8 and should not be messed about at lock. He's a more effective back-up at 8 to Willis than Earl is and, with both Currys injured, he must be close to the starting 6 shirt for the AIs.

Does he have the work rate for 6 at international level? Hasn't looked like it previously.

His positional versatility makes him very likely to be in the 19 shirt surely. Pepper or Underhill alongside Earl would be my guess for the flanker selections given the injuries.

You could be right but I'd pick CCS, Pollock and Willis.

I'd have Pollock on the bench as well. Something like;
Baxter, LCD, Stuart, Chessum, Itoje, Pepper, Earl, Willis to start and then pack the bench with impact: George, Genge, Heyes, CCS, Pollock. Would give us a good all round starting pack and then the option for positive impact across the replacements. If be maybe even tempted to start Heyes and then deploy Genge and Stuart from the bench at half time together. A bit Saffa style.

[Scrumhead]

I don’t hate that idea. The good thing is that we’re reaching a stage where there is very little to choose between our 1st and 2nd choice front rows.

CCS still has time to figure out his best position but for now he is an excellent option for the Martin Corry role.

Delighted at today’s result. Certainly lifts a bit of the gloom around Quins.

[Which Tyler]

I think everyone is delighted at today's result - Quin's fan or otherwise