Today !!!
Gloucester V Leicester! West Country six toers versus the midland mutes!! Makes you wish that you could take them both on at a crossword competition!!
As usual I am being very brave behind a screen, and miles away from the players!!
All crap jokes aside, I think it should be fascinating;
How will Leicester deal with losing Ellis? How will Gloucester try to negate the Leicester pack?
Will Lamb bring control as well as unpredictability to his game, and will his partnership with Allen allow Gloucester to open the Leicester defence. Will the Six Toers miss Tindall? Will Blashaw receive a few high balls and a serious kicking early on?? It is exactly what I would do to him!
Will Jennings dominate the breakdown or can Hazell actually make an impression on the game??
Looking forward to it, and then to watch the Super 14 semis.
Lots of debate in NZ, (not sure they call it that because its a long word) about the benefits or not of the AB's conditioning programme! It certainly seems to have lessened the impact of their teams in the competition. Lots of worried talk coming out from the Silver cloud. Are the guys going to hit their peak at the World Cup, or has it put them all out of form and confidence?
Will be great to watch the Blues take on the Sharks, but especially to watch the Crusaders take on the Bulls at Loftus. How will the Bulls take out McCaw?! Is Carter at his best? Can the Crusaders pack win enough ball in the right field positions for their backs??
Should be gut wrenching stuff, which is always the best. And underlying it all will be the thoughts of the World Cup! Can the NZ boys deal with the hostile environment, and can the Boks thrive on it?? Loftus is one great place to silence them!!!
Having read Peter Winterbottom's greatest XV, I am thinking mine through. I know Zinzan and Ieuan are too! I will have mine up in a week or two, but I am just deciding who would be good enough to play alongside me!!!!
So Leicester to beat Gloucester, Blues to beat Sharks but Crusaders to fall against the Bulls!
Lets see how crap my predictions are...............!!!!
4 comments:
Stunning performance by Tigers, all pace and power. I thought it might be a tight match but the Tigers brutally exposed the Glos defensive frailties. At time it looked like men playing against boys, the physicality of the Tigers team overwhelmed the Glos side.
From Paul Ackford in the Telegraph "Some of their tackling, frankly, verged on the cowardly. Tuilagi and Rabeni are big lumps but Anthony Allen, Lamb and other backs were brushed aside too easily. "
There have been many pleading the case for the Glos backs to be in the England side, frankly they today they were found wanting.
Tigers certainly look up for the treble and I think they will have an even better side next season.
I worry for Gloucester. They've invested so much time in bringing in young guns but I think now is the time for the Coach to give Lamb and Allen and co a slap round the back of the head and tell them to buck their ideas up.
Good win for Leicester, outsmarted and outran Gloucester today. Should be a dead cert for winning the HEC too.
Chris,
have to agree with Paul Ackford, some of the tackling, or lack of it, was just gutless. Lamb might be an attacking talent, but of he is that yellow in defence who cares.
Great win for Leicester, although I am sure Wasps will offer far more of a challenge. The Dallaglio / Corry battle is worth the ticket price alone!!
Peter,
as I said above, not sure the HEC is going to be that easy. I think they will win it, but the one thing Wasps have is a spine, and bizarely Gloucester seemed to have completely lost theirs.
Looking forward to it!!!
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