Newcastle v Bath, Friday night, off-air

[Which Tyler]

Friday, 7.45 pm, Kingston Park, PRTV
Ref: Tom Foley
TJs: Sara Cox and Hamish Smales
TMO: Dean Richards

Newcastle:
1 Adam Brocklebank
2 Jamie Blamire
3 Eduardo Bello
4 Tim Cardall
5 Sebastian de Chaves
6 Sam Cross
7 Guy Pepper
8 Callum Chick [C]

09 Sam Stuart
10 Brett Connon
11 Ben Redshaw
12 Cameron Hutchison
13 Matias Moroni
14 Adam Radwan
15 Louis Brown

16 Bryan Byrne, 17 Mark Dormer, 18 Richard Palframan, 19 John Hawkins, 20 Freddie Lockwood
21 James Elliott, 22 Rory Jennings, 23 Oli Spencer


Bath Rugby:
1 Beno Obano
2 Tom Dunn
3 Thomas du Toit
4 Quinn Roux
5 Charlie Ewels
6 Ted Hill
7 Sam Underhill
8 Alfie Barbeary

09 Ben Spencer [c]
10 Finn Russell
11 Will Muir
12 Cameron Redpath
13 Ollie Lawrence
14 Joe Cokanasiga
15 Matt Gallagher

16 Niall Annett, 17 Juan Schoeman, 18 Will Stuart, 19 Jacques du Plessis, 20 Miles Reid, 23 Josh Bayliss
21 Louis Schreuder, 22 Orlando Bailey

Finn's back and so is the bloody 6:2 bench

[FKAS]

That looks a more combative Falcons team now that they are at home. I suspect some more Steve Diamond style fight will be imbued in them this time. I don't think it will be enough but Bath might have to actually work for the win.

[Banquo]

Ironic choice of TMO

[Which Tyler]

Nice of Dimes to write Bath's team talk for us
https://www.ruck.co.uk/newcastle-boss-s ... held-back/

[Mellsblue]

He’s not wrong, though.

[FKAS]

That's a fairly standard Diamond media broadside. He used to aim those at Tigers quite a lot back when we were reliably good.

The unavailable list for Falcons is pretty rough.

Not available for selection: Phil Brantingham, Murray McCallum, Kiran McDonald, Elliott Obatoyinbo, Hugh O’Sullivan, Tom Penny, Pedro Rubiolo, Ben Stevenson, Philip van der Walt.

[Which Tyler]

Both teams showing well in the NE.
Bath converting to points, Newcastle forwards looking for a fight, whilst their backs are desperate to play some rugby.
Pepper definitely making himself known amongst the Bath players.

Newcastle 0 - 14 Bath
26 min

[Which Tyler]

Make that 0 - 21, as Coka shrugs off 2 tackles, and carries another 2 over the line with him

28 minutes

[Which Tyler]

And finally, Newcastle actually convert.

Blamire at the back of the lineout maul

[Mikey Brown]

Du Toit’s try rate must be right up there for any tighthead at this level.

[Which Tyler]

And that's the fourth, from Gallagher
5 - 28
38 min.


Looks like Finn just made up a training ground move on the fly, told Cam and Matt and Will what was going to happen, waited for them to be in position, and demanded the ball (to Cam).

Redpath takes the ball flat, attracts the tackler, and pulls back to Finn, with Muir charging up on his left shoulder, and Gallagher on his right. The moment the ball is in Finn's hands, Gallagher changes his line to outside and ghosts around the defence. Coka stays wide, preventing his defender from helping out.

[Which Tyler]

Newcastle score a 2nd try with the clock in the red. 15 man maul off the lineout.

10 - 28
HT