toulouse : Wed May 18, 2022 1:31 pm  

looks like Watson has gone with a fairly strong squad for Friday night.
Fages missing - hope thats just to prevent injury and nothing else - cogger back in but other than that the rest of the spine is named. I guess his thinking is with Pryce available for the final if we get an injury to another of the halves we still have fages and pryce to come in if needs be.
Still no Mcqueen but that was expected.
If it were me i'd have AOB on the bench, play Levi at start and if it looks like the game is won take him off and give AOB long minutes to prevent injury to Levi.
Same with Hill, no unnecessary injuries. just hope we don't play too conservative trying not to get penalised as noone wants a ban for next week!!!!

Jermaine McGillvary, Jake Wardle, Ricky Leutele, Ashton Golding, Tui Lolohea, Chris Hill, Danny Levi, Michael Lawrence, Josh Jones, Luke Yates, Matty English, Joe Greenwood, Jack Cogger, Owen Trout, Sebastine Ikahihifo, Adam O'Brien, Oliver Wilson, Leroy Cudjoe Olly Russell, Innes Senior, Sam Hewitt,

Re: toulouse : Wed May 18, 2022 5:44 pm  

Prefer to see Golding on the bench to take over from Levi. For me, Golding should definitely be on the bench for the Final as well, he's been excellent & always made an impact with the limited minutes he's had.

Re: toulouse : Wed May 18, 2022 7:29 pm  

Unbeliever wrote:

Prefer to see Golding on the bench to take over from Levi. For me, Golding should definitely be on the bench for the Final as well, he's been excellent & always made an impact with the limited minutes he's had.

I agree golding should definitely play in the final. The reason I’d play AOB is because I think he’s more replaceable. Golding gives us so many options from the bench and we don’t want to lose that option for the final!
An injury to any of our back line and he can step in. Same with the hooking position.
Looking forward to Friday - hoping to see a bouyant team playing with confidence.

Re: toulouse : Wed May 18, 2022 8:47 pm  

Agree totally with seeing Golding on bench for final 3 forwards + him. Sadly i think with the way the disciplinary have been this year you will see a timid side scared to get banned for the final. If Toulouse turn up and are aggressive i think they may well turn us over, hope i'm wrong!