shamalicious wrote:Robbie D should be starting instead of Lew with Hendo into the second row surely?
I like the selection, if we did as you suggest, we'd be more or less screwed for a bit of impetus later, not that it's the strongest bench you will ever see. They are stronger as a 23, could be a problem if our 15 don't bitchslap theirs.
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austintranslation wrote:Thought Warwick should have started instead of Lutton purely on making more appearances this season, but apart from that can't really complain.
Warwick's a loosehead
So he is. Apologies for my incompetence.
He has played tighthead though, to be fair. Just about handled Healy at home to Leinster, last year, in The Night of the Tipping Toners . . .
HoneyBadger wrote:Is there any reason why Allen is preferred to nelson(injured?) or scholes?
On previous outings my purely honest opinion would be ... he's better!
If we are playing the smothering attritional game that I hope to see, he's defensively stronger than Nelson or Scholes. If this game were at home Nelson may have got the nod. Allen does have hands like feet mind you........
I love how people compare players on our team vs the other we always have the better players, but our success in these types of matches never matches the ratings that's a very good Glasgow side and they have the stronger bench which may hold the difference.
Again I thought the only question concerning starting selection, was which way round in the back and second rows were we going to select Diack and Hendo.
Then he selects Stevenson!
I give up.
Full strength I would back us anywhere against anyone but replacing averageness for excellence in the front 5 with the loss of Herbst and VDM neutralises an area where we normally are strong and expect to gain an edge.
This makes Glasgow the big favourites in my book.
I hope they are complacent in that knowledge and the more I think about it the more I think we need Henderson to have one of those massive games again as he is made for the big stage.
Anything good this season we have done, he has been heavily involved in and the reverse can also be said.
He is the leader by example and a great talisman that the others seem to follow and my little hopes are tied to him more than any other factor.
bazzaj wrote:Again I thought the only question concerning starting selection, was which way round in the back and second rows were we going to select Diack and Hendo.
Then he selects Stevenson!
I give up.
Full strength I would back us anywhere against anyone but replacing averageness for excellence in the front 5 with the loss of Herbst and VDM neutralises an area where we normally are strong.
This makes Glasgow the big favourites in my book.
I hope they are complacent in that knowledge and the more I think about it the more I think we need Henderson to have one of those massive games again as he is made for the big stage.
Anything good this season we have done, he has been heavily involved in and the reverse can also be said.
He is the leader by example and a great talisman that the others seem to follow and my hopes are tied to him more than any other factor.
Louis has more grunt and a bit of animal about him in the maul.
We do maul well which I think is a weapon we really under use.
It may well signal our intention to do that snipe as we can recall that was the way we played them at home extremely effectively under Kiss and they had no answer to.
Remember fondly Herbst standing off a ruck in midfield, planting his foot as solid as a rock instigating a maul where we savaged them and got a kickable penalty from.
Good point but lets see the maul then!
Neill_M wrote:Well its not Nigel Owens. He is in charge of the Munster Ospreys game on Sat. No chance of neutral refs for the semi finals?
As far as possible they have the officials from the away team during the league - makes it doubly hard for Ulster of course - but yes, you'd have thought they could have had neutrals for the semis. They did last season from memory.
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Neill_M wrote:Well its not Nigel Owens. He is in charge of the Munster Ospreys game on Sat. No chance of neutral refs for the semi finals?
As far as possible they have the officials from the away team during the league - makes it doubly hard for Ulster of course - but yes, you'd have thought they could have had neutrals for the semis. They did last season from memory.
They did. Hodges for us v Leinster and Mitrea for Glasgow v Munster.
Since Owens is in charge of Munster v Ospreys, does that rule him out of the final? I've never heard of a team getting the same ref two weeks in a row.
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Neill_M wrote:Well its not Nigel Owens. He is in charge of the Munster Ospreys game on Sat. No chance of neutral refs for the semi finals?
As far as possible they have the officials from the away team during the league - makes it doubly hard for Ulster of course - but yes, you'd have thought they could have had neutrals for the semis. They did last season from memory.
They did. Hodges for us v Leinster and Mitrea for Glasgow v Munster.
Since Owens is in charge of Munster v Ospreys, does that rule him out of the final? I've never heard of a team getting the same ref two weeks in a row.
that's a very good Glasgow side and they have the stronger bench which may hold the difference.
