Sarries Vs Bath

[FKAS]

Saracens Men's team to play Bath Rugby:

1 Rhys Carre
2 Theo Dan
3 Marco Riccioni
4 Theo McFarland
5 Hugh Tizard
6 Juan Martin Gonzalez
7 Ben Earl
8 Tom Willis
9 Ivan van Zyl (c)
10 Owen Farrell
11 Max Malins
12 Nick Tompkins
13 Lucio Cinti
14 Noah Caluori
15 Elliot Daly

Replacements:
16 James Hadfield
17 Eroni Mawi
18 Marcus Street
19 Harry Wilson
20 Nick Isiekwe
21 Charlie Bracken
22 Fergus Burke
23 Angus Hall

Bath Rugby: 1 Beno Obano, 2 Tom Dunn, 3 Thomas du Toit, 4 Quinn Roux, 5 Charlie Ewels, 6 Josh Bayliss, 7 Miles Reid, 8 Arthur Green, 9 Ben Spencer (c), 10 Finn Russell, 11 Henry Arundell, 12 Will Butt, 13 Chris Harris, 14 Joe Cokanasiga, 15 Tom de Glanville

Replacements: 16 Dan Frost, 17 Francois van Wyk, 18 Will Stuart, 19 Ross Molony, 20 Ted Hill, 21 Tom Carr-Smith, 22 Max Ojomoh, 23 Cameron Redpath

[Which Tyler]

NB: ITV4

[fivepointer]

Green up against Willis should be worth watching. The Bath youngster has got something about him. Plenty of other tasty match ups.

[Which Tyler]

Was that not forward from Earl?
Too far back for TMO though, so "happy" with the try.


Sarries out of the blocks incredibly fast today, and really playing wider than our defence, even without the kicks to the wingers.
Bath need to get hold of the ball for it bit, or this is going to run away from us

[twitchy]

Never get bored by watching ardundell run.

[Which Tyler]

Does Arundell ground that BEFORE the try line?

[charlesdeboeuf]

Great aerial battle between Caluori and Arundell. Could even argue Arundell’s come out on top thus far.

[Which Tyler]

Now that was beautiful.

Worried that Spencer was in front of Arundell, but all okay on the replays

[Which Tyler]

He's closer to the line than a lot of lineout throwers are, nowhere near the "miles" of Austin.

Could argue he's got his heel on the line, and just shifts his weight forwards fractionally early, just lifting the heel a touch

[FKAS]

Great aerial battle between Caluori and Arundell. Could even argue Arundell’s come out on top thus far.

Arundell has done brilliantly well. I've generally been a bit unimpressed by his aerial work previously, he wasn't weak but not really much more than average. He's been considerably better than average today. Exactly the sort of display Simply Ballkick will want to see.

[Which Tyler]

TFFT

[Which Tyler]

I think that might be the best I've seen Arundell play.
Only out of position once, when he was penalised for overrunning a high kick... by being bang undeath it.., and getting his hand on the bal.

[twitchy]

Despite not playing a huge amount with england he will have been training all the high ball stuff constantly with them and he has always been an elite athlete.

[Which Tyler]

Oh, it's only his brain, not his athleticism that's ever been in doubt.
Positioning, defence, work-ethic, decision making... All of which we're excellent today

[Oakboy]

How good is Green? He looked pretty special to me today.

Conversely, how ordinary is Van Zyl? I must be missing something.

[Captainhaircut]

That Bath back row is ridiculous. Bayliss and Green are third choice in their positions. Green excellent though- very promising.

Farrell was excellent today. How he got away with speaking to Ridley like he did particularly when he wasn’t even captain was astounding though. Really weak from Ridley.

Arundell excellent. Ojomoh excellent for winning try. Bath seriously good- missing Pepper, Underhill, Barbeary, Coetzee, Lawrence and Muir today.

[charlesdeboeuf]

How good is Green? He looked pretty special to me today.

Conversely, how ordinary is Van Zyl? I must be missing something.

Very good, was everywhere! On that showing he’s surely going to be running Barbeary close for a starting spot.

And on Van Zyl, very. Admittedly, he was coming on as an impact sub but the speed and zip brought by Bracken was night and day to what VZ was offering up.

[fivepointer]

That Bath back row is ridiculous. Bayliss and Green are third choice in their positions. Green excellent though- very promising.

Farrell was excellent today. How he got away with speaking to Ridley like he did particularly when he wasn’t even captain was astounding though. Really weak from Ridley.

Arundell excellent. Ojomoh excellent for winning try. Bath seriously good- missing Pepper, Underhill, Barbeary, Coetzee, Lawrence and Muir today.

Only caught the 2nd half but i was amazed Ridley didnt tell Farrell to button it.

I did highlight Green earlier in the thread and he's certainly one to watch.

[FKAS]

How good is Green? He looked pretty special to me today.

Conversely, how ordinary is Van Zyl? I must be missing something.

Very good, was everywhere! On that showing he’s surely going to be running Barbeary close for a starting spot.

And on Van Zyl, very. Admittedly, he was coming on as an impact sub but the speed and zip brought by Bracken was night and day to what VZ was offering up.

It's surely only a matter of time before Bracken takes that starting 9 shirt. I was hoping he'd have done so already but Sarries do like their experienced players.

Green looks a cracking 8, hopefully be in the England A side before long.