Exeter vs Quins, Sunday 19 Oct, 3pm

[Danno]

Exeter Chiefs:

15 Josh Hodge
14 Immanuel Feyi-Waboso
13 Henry Slade
12 Len Ikitau
11 Paul Brown-Bampoe
10 Harvey Skinner
9 Stephen Varney


1 Will Goodrick-Clarke
2 Joseph Dweba
3 Josh Iosefa-Scott
4 Dafydd Jenkins (c)
5 Rusi Tuima
6 Tom Hooper
7 Ethan Roots
8 Greg Fisilau

Replacements:

16 Jack Yeandle
17 Scott Sio
18 Bachuki Tchumbadze
19 Andrea Zambonin
20 Lewis Pearson
21 Kane James
22 Charlie Chapman
23 Ben Hammersley

Quins
STARTING XV:

15. Tyrone Green (98)
14. Rodrigo Isgró (14)
13. Luke Northmore (83)
12. Jamie Benson (27)
11. Cadan Murley (C) (132)
10. Marcus Smith (180)
9. Will Porter (47)

1. Fin Baxter (73)
2. Jack Walker (94)
3. Harry Williams (4)
4. Guido Petti Pagadizábal (1)
5. Stephan Lewies (83)
6. Jack Kenningham (77)
7. Will Evans (119)
8. Chandler Cunningham-South (34)

IMPACT PLAYERS:

16. George Turner (3)
17. Boris Wenger (1)
18. Pedro Delgado (1)
19. Kieran Treadwell (10)
20. Harry Browne (9)
21. Zach Carr (12)
22. Stu Townsend (1)
23. Cameron Anderson (20)

Unavailable: James Chisholm, Lucas Friday, Alex Dombrandt, Oscar Beard, Ben Waghorn, Ethan Clarke, Joe Launchbury, Matt Woollard, Lucas Schmid, Sean Sharp, Jimmy Staples, Guy Rogers

[Danno]

Potentially scary backline from Chiefs there. Bench is still a bit meh. Not that ours is much better.

[fivepointer]

Harlequins: 15 Tyrone Green, 14 Rodrigo Isgró, 13 Luke Northmore, 12 Jamie Benson, 11 Cadan Murley (C), 10 Marcus Smith, 9 Will Porter, 1 Fin Baxter, 2 Jack Walker, 3 Harry Williams, 4 Guido Petti Pagadizábal, 5 Stephan Lewies, 6 Jack Kenningham, 7 Will Evans, 8 Chandler Cunningham-South

Impact players: 16 George Turner, 17 Boris Wenger, 18 Pedro Delgado, 19 Kieran Treadwell, 20 Harry Browne, 21 Zach Carr, 22 Stu Townsend, 23 Cameron Anderson

[twitchy]

Terrible conditions, it's been pissing down for 12+ hours.

[FKAS]

Terrible conditions, it's been pissing down for 12+ hours.

Nice bit of swirling wind to go with it as well.

Rough day for the hookers and back three with the wind and rain.

[twitchy]

I did not expect that result.

[fivepointer]

Exeter played well. Adapted to the conditions and controlled things pretty much throughout.

Quins were woeful.

[Danno]

Well that was embarrassing. What the fuck guys?

[FKAS]

That's not far off a first choice Quins XV, they were abject. Don't think Marcus Smith or CCS will want Borthwick to see this game.

Exeter looked good. The two Wallabies they've brought in looked good. Has helped sort out a couple areas of need.

[Mikey Brown]

I’ve not managed to watch a single game this season. Beating Saracens and then losing to one of the worst teams in the league (on recent form) feels like exactly what I’ve come to expect from this group of players.

[Oakboy]

Last time out, Quins coaches got praise for their kicking tactics. Exeter gave them a lesson in how and when to kick in this game and, in particular, when NOT to kick.

Quins, on paper - in Kenningham and Evans, had the two best ball-winning back rowers yet Exeter, Roots in particular, knocked them off the ball all game.

Exeter out-fought and out-thought the opposition.

On the back of Saracens and Sale's see-sawing form and Bath losing a game they should have won it was an odd weekend. Where does it leave any of them in terms of winning competitions? Who knows. I'd suggest that teams could well be increasingly apprehensive about facing Exeter as the season progresses.

[Which Tyler]

Bath losing a game they should have won

Should we?
We certainly could have, and had opportunities (but then, Leicester also had unconverted opportunities)

I'm not sure that Bath were the better team, either on paper or on grass - IMO there was nothing in it.
If Bath "should" beat... last year's runners up, away, on a day they're celebrating a club legend, whilst rotating... that really doesn't say good things about the league.

[Oakboy]

Bath losing a game they should have won

Should we?
We certainly could have, and had opportunities (but then, Leicester also had unconverted opportunities)

I'm not sure that Bath were the better team, either on paper or on grass - IMO there was nothing in it.
If Bath "should" beat... last year's runners up, away, on a day they're celebrating a club legend, whilst rotating... that really doesn't say good things about the league.

Maybe you are right but on the day, watching once without in-depth analysis, I thought Bath left 5% in the changing room. De Glanville on the wing was a curious selection, IMO. That was an unsuccessful rotation ploy.

[FKAS]

Bath losing a game they should have won

Should we?
We certainly could have, and had opportunities (but then, Leicester also had unconverted opportunities)

I'm not sure that Bath were the better team, either on paper or on grass - IMO there was nothing in it.
If Bath "should" beat... last year's runners up, away, on a day they're celebrating a club legend, whilst rotating... that really doesn't say good things about the league.

Maybe you are right but on the day, watching once without in-depth analysis, I thought Bath left 5% in the changing room. De Glanville on the wing was a curious selection, IMO. That was an unsuccessful rotation ploy.

I assumed that with a narrow pitch and iffy weather predictions Bath were looking for options to pin Tigers back with, try and stop Tigers pack getting into good positions. Given Bath also kicked short on a lot of their box kicks, they were clearly trying to find ways to keep Steward and his aerial abilities out the game. De Glanville was a bit unlucky with Woodward recovering from his knock in time, last weekend Tigers struggled to get the ball wide often enough. Not an issue at the weekend with Woodward and JOC interlinking and finding space to move it early.

I thought it was a pretty even game that ebbed and flowed. The try just before halftime did swing momentum Tigers way but the impact of the Bath bench did look to have swung it back. Bath's lack of composure late on will have been more concerning for van Graan than the result.