Exeter Chiefs vs Wuss Warriors

Chiefs' team:

15 Luke Arscott
14 Gonzalo Camacho
13 Nic Sestaret
12 Jason Shoemark
11 Matt Jess
10 Ignacio Mieres
9 Haydn Thomas
1 Brett Sturgess
2 Neil Clark
3 Craig Mitchell
4 Tom Hayes (capt)
5 James Hanks
6 Tom Johnson
7 James Scaysbrook
8 Richard Baxter

16 Simon Alcott
17 Ben Moon
18 Hoani Tui
19 James Phillips
20 Ben White
21 Pat Phibbs
22 Gareth Steenson
23 Josh Tatupu

Mieres in for Steeno who drops to the bench, Mitchell earns a first start to dsiplace Tui, and Haydn keeps the 9 jersey over Pat Phibbs

How's Camacho been going for you boys ASBO? He's a pretty nifty winger to have but maybe not always the most orthodox.

Wuss:

15 Errie Claassens
14 Marcel Garvey
13 Alex Grove
12 Dale Rasmussen (c)
11 Miles Benjamin
10 Joe Carlisle
9 Shaun Perry

1 Bruce Douglas
2 Ed Shervington
3 Tevita Taumoepeau
4 James Percival
5 Craig Gillies
6 Sam Betty
7 Matt Kvesic
8 Chris Jones

Replacements
16 James Currie
17 Aleki Lutui
18 Oliver Tomaszczyk
19 Ben Gulliver
20 Jake Abbott
21 Jonny Arr
22 Andy Goode
23 Chris Pennell

yappysnap wrote:How's Camacho been going for you boys ASBO? He's a pretty nifty winger to have but maybe not always the most orthodox.

yappy, he's been going well, without getting on the scoreboard much yet - he's superb in broken play, returns with interest anything kicked near to him, but probably hasn't seen as much of the ball as he would've liked, even tho he's shown willingness to go hunting for it

You boys would be handy with Joe Carlisle at 10, he's looking like a very good prospect especially in attack.

yappysnap wrote:You boys would be handy with Joe Carlisle at 10, he's looking like a very good prospect especially in attack.

Yeah i saw an article a few years back when they had Ruddock as coach and he said that hes the best passer of the ball hes ever seen. Which is saying something.

Joe Carlisle

https://youtu.be/LVAXM8r3M9I

Not pretty, but will take the win. Back to 3rd in the table until tomorrow's London fixtures

What's happened Steenson?

Dave, nothing much - he's had a handful of starts but I think he's just behind Mieres in the pecking order at the moment

Anything remarkable to report from Bruce Douglas or Alex Grove??

Nothing much to report, fES, tbh - Douglas was playing loosehead (I thought he was normally tighthead, but that may have been down to Wuss' front row injury crisis) and got pinged in the scrums a couple of times (Exe's pack were marginally dominant), and Grove did nothing wrong but equally nothing particularly remarkable, apart from one lovely break which put Garvey/Benjamin in space on the right wing, but B/G couldn't hold on to a perfect pass

Chiefs in 3rd in the AP going into the Christmas period.

Not sure what price you would have got on that at the start of the season, but fair play, they are a tough nut to crack.

Should make for a titanic 3rd vs. 4th battle at the MadStad on 27th December!

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Pete, absolutely, and you should be back much closer to full strength by then too, right? I'll take an LBP against the Exiles and then we can go on at Hogmanay to be the first premiership team in the last century to beat Quins when we meet them at SP

Hape and Armitage will be back by then (that's if they don't manage to get cited again in the next fortnight ).

If they both are back and also Shingler should be back then as well, we may see Ansbro and Armitage on the wings against you I think, as it would appear that Ojo has been playing through injury since the Tiggers game and really could do with a rest.

I will settle for a 1 point win in the scrappiest of affairs to be honest, as the little group of 3 games in 11 days starting with the Chiefs, and then taking in The Rec and then Sale Sharks at home could be pretty season defining for us, and three wins, however they come would stand us in really good stead for the rest of the season.