Amlin Challenge Cup Round Three

Pool One

Bucharest Wolves vs Worcester Warriors
Banca Monte Crociati vs. Stade Francais

Pool Two

Exeter Chiefs vs Toulon
Lyon Rugby vs. Petrarca Padova

Pool Three

Bayonne vs Northampton Saints
Rugby Rovigo vs. Bordeaux-Begles


Pool Four

Bath vs Newport Gwent Dragons
Perpignan vs. I Cavalieri Prato

Pool Five

Agen vs London Wasps
Rugby Club La Vila vs. Brive

Weather forecasts etc will be up tomorrow.

Bring on Toulon and there team of no bodys!!!!

Warriors off to slave some Wolves!!

That's an awful pun , it's been Toulon since Chiefs last win

I am predicting loses for both of you after those awful, awful comments...you wont even get a losing BP!

Bath Rugby
Manager – inthefastlane

01. Jon Golding	09. Richard Wigglesworth
02. Joe Ward	10. David Skrela
03. Davit Kubrashvilli
04. Rob Simmons	11. Richard Haughton
05.Sam Whitelock	12. Eliota Fuimaono-Sapolu
06. Juan Martin Fernandez Lobbe	13. David Marty
07. Beau Robinson	14. Luke Fielden
08. Tom Guest	15. Francois Steyn

16 Cian Healy 17 Kevin Mealamu 18 Petrus Du Plessis 19 Will Spencer 20 Dan Lydiate 21 Chris Cook 22 Charlie Hodgson 23 Maxime Medard

Saints Team

Manager – Dammit Chris

01. Matt Mullan	09. Mike Phillips
02. Rob Webber	10. Matt Giteau
03. Matt Stevens
04. Ali Williams	11. Christian Wade
05.Courtney Lawes	12. Jean de Villiers
06. Joe Launchberry	13. Max Evans
07. Liam Gill	14. Siti Siviatu
08. Simon Taylor	15. Leigh Halfpenny

16 Chris Whitehead 17 Zak Taulafo 18 James Johnson 19 Ben Nutley 20 Liam Messam 21 Joe Simpson 22 Danny Cipriani 23 Manu Tuilagi

Tactics:

* Weather early storm - keep ball and go through phases
* Take early points and silence crowd
* After initial first 10-15mins open up the game and attack the French
* Aim for a BP win and build confidence after two disappointing performances in the AP.
* Use all the sub bench, as soon as hit 20+ points bring on Simpson and Cips.

1.Brett Sturgess
2.Damian Varley
3.Dave Wilson
4.James Hudson
5.Simon Shaw
6.Ben Skirving
7.Lewis Moody (c)
8.Nick Easter

9.Byron Kelleher
10.Colin Slade
11.Horace Aguella
12.Mike Tindall
13.George Pisi
14.Isaia Toeava
15.Ben Blair (k)

16.Neil Clark 17.Wyatt Crockett 18.Tom Mercy 19.Flip Van Der Merwe 20.Johnnie Beattie 21.Haydn Thomas 22.Josh Matavista 23.Chris Bell


Chris you still ok to do the teams?

I could do the teams tomorrow if Chris can't

Toulon:

Toulon: 15 Luke Rooney, 14 Jeremy Sinzelle, 13 Mathieu Bastareaud, 12 Geoffroy Messina, 11 Benjamin Lapeyre, 10 Julien Dumora, 9 Laurent Magnaval, 8 SEVA Rokobaro, 7 Joe El Abd, 6 Pierrick Gunther, 5 Dean Schofield, 4 Konstantine Mikautadze, 3 Carl Hayman, 2 Jean-Charles Orioli, 1 Eifion Lewis-Roberts.
Replacements: 16 Mickael Ivaldi, 17 Xavier Chiocci, 18 Levan Chilachava, 19 Alafoti Faosiliva, 20 Baptiste Bonnet, 21 Jonny Wilkinson, 22 Alexis Palisson, 23 Christophe Samson.

Agen (v Wasps)

Agen: 15 Belisario Agulla, 14 Kevin Swiryn, 13 Miguel Avramovic, 12 Jamie Robinson, 11 Saimoni Vaka, 10 Valentin Courrent, 9 Alexi Bales, 8 Antoine Erbani, 7 Jerome Mondoulet, 5 Damien Lagrange, 4 Pat O'Connor, 3 Beka Sheklashvili, 2 Julien Janaudy, 1 Laurent Cabarry.

Replacements: 16 Jalil Narjissi, 17 John Schwalger, 18 Martin Scelzo, 19 Dewald Senekal, 20 Adri Badenhorst, 21 Sylvain Dupuy, 22 Mathieu Lamoulie.

waiting for other teams tbc.

if not done by tomorrow lunch we will just use the same teams as those in 2nd round of Amlin.

Think we go on round 2 teams?

The first two above have been named so quite easy to do - just blooming difficult find the teams for the other ones! LLL if you know of any then please do post them up!

THink its Bayonne, Dragons and Wolves that need teams for.

If it's round 2 teams, you can get them from here:

http://www.espnscrum.com/amlin-challenge-cup-2011-12/rugby/series/144784.html?template=results

Dragons:

15 Martyn Thomas
14 Tonderai Chavhanga
13 Adam Hughes
12 Ashley Smith
11 Aled Brew
10 Jason Tovey
9 Wayne Evans
1 Nathan Williams
2 Lloyd Burns
3 Dan Way
4 Adam Jones
5 Robert Sidoli
6 Lewis Evans
7 Gavin Thomas
8 Toby Faletau

Replacements

16 Rhys Buckley
17 Phil Price
18 Nathan Buck
19 Scott Morgan
20 Andrew Coombs
21 Joe Bedford
22 Lewis Robling
23 Steffan Jones

Bayonne

15 Sylvain Bouillon
14 Sam Gerber
13 Thibault Lacroix
12 Lionel Mazars
11 Joe Rokocoko
10 Benjamin Boyet
9 Laigain

1 Pierre-Philippe Lafond
2 David Roumieu
3 Renaud Boyoud
4 Rob Linde
5 Abdellatif Boutaty
6 Dwayne Haare
7 Julien Puricelli
8 Marc Baget-Rabarou

Replacements
16 Victor Manukula
17 Neemia Tialata
18 Aretz Iguiniz
19 Sione Lauaki
20 Cedric Garcia
21 Cedric Heymans
22 Clement Lagain
23 Troy Flavell

Momentum
We enter this game on a streak of four wins on the bounce and will be looking to keep this going with two wins in the Amlin cup which would ensure qualification.

Set Piece
We feel an area we will dominate is the scrum. Early on we will really look to get Dragons on the back foot giving our 9/10 axis fast b all. If the scrum is working we will keep calling it. Look to really punish Dragons with our scrumagging options off the bench aswell. We have also looked to pick good lineout options. Simmons, Whitelock and Lobbe are all solid options in the air and will look to target Sidoli for the opposition lineouts. We will not be looking to play a kicking game though so it is only for the opposition throws which this will happen.

Breakdown
We will also be looking to get control of the breakdown area. We will get bodies into the breakdown in order to secure quick ball when on the attack and slow Dragons ball when defending. We will look to get Simmons, Whitelock, Golding, Ward, Kubrashvilli and Lobbe into the rucks hitting with big impact. Beau Robinson will be picky about what rucks he enters; only going in when he feels he can force a turnover.

Kicking
Francois Steyn is our designated place kicker. He will take on any penalties from a nice angle in front of halfway and depending on the wind maybe behind. Also in times where there seems to be no action he will go for a drop goal. Having Steyn in the back three should have the effect of deterring the opposition kicking as it will give Steyn time with his drop kicks.

Attack
Our backs will be led by Skrela. The mercurial Frenchman will look to receive quick ball off the consistent Wigglesworth. Skrela is good enough to make magic happen and we will try to encourage him to pick the appropriate time, looking for team mates if in a better position. EFS and Marty will be looking to make their probing, direct runs causing the opposition to put numbers on them. They will be looking to get the ball out to wings where the pace of Fielden + Haughton will cause trouble. We will look to get the ball out to these when they are in space but look for gains before that.

[u]Changes [u/]
On our bench we have brilliant young talents Spencer and Cook who we will look to bring on when in control of the game. Cook has a good rugby brain with a fast hands and will look to get his pass going. We will also look to get Will Spencer on the ball. We will be looking for some carries from the young lad and he is an extra lineout option to use. We have also picked options for the front row who we really feel can put pressure on the Dragons. Lydiate, Medard and Hodgson also offer some quality and we would like to bring these on in a close match.


If people don't mind can I have some feedback on tactics

ITFL - a lot, lot better - can see exactly how you are looking to play the game and definitely get the thumbs up with those.

Great team you have put together there!

01. George Porter	09. Eion Reddan
02. Chris Fortey	10. Tom Heathcote (k)
03. John Andress
04. Danie Russouw	11. Phil Chesters
05.Dom Barrow	12. Pat McCabe
06. Richard Thorpe	13. Gavin Henson
07. Martyn Williams (c)	14. Julien Malzieu
08. Ben McCalman	15. Greig Tonks

16 Koree Britton 17 Yann Thomas 18 David Flatman 19 Leo Cullen 20 Sebastian Chabal 21 Dwayne Peel 22 Chris Paterson 23 Bryan Habana

Tactics
*We come looking for a big win,
*Henson will run the back line to take some pressure off Heathcote,
*We want quick ball and have picked quick backs to run with it,
*Our pack will look to be all over the place and they all have the stamina to do this (bar Fortey!!),
*To attack the breakdown with venom,
*Have Russouw and McCalman to run off 12 and 13,
*Make holes, quick ball and score!!
*We want our confidence to continue and using the whole squad for this,
*If nothing's on Heathcote will kick for corners for us to challenge their lineouts,
*We want a big win and will be unhappy if we don't bring 5 points away,
*We are nto taking them lightly and will look for a forwards battle for first 20 before releasing our backs,
*If we win we can feel safer travelling to Stade for the last week.



Good tactics there ITFL

London Wasps team

1. Benn Robinson
2. Tatafu Polota-Nau
3. James Slipper
4. Steve Mafi
5. Richard Birkett (c)
6. Tom Johnson
7. Deon Stegmann
8. Billy Vunipola

9. Martin Roberts
10. Steven Myler
11. Noah Cato
12. James Downey
13. Stirling Mortlock
14. Matt Banahan
15. Chris Wyles

16. Andy Titterell
17. Charlie Beech
18. CJ Van Der Linde
19. Peter Elder
20. John Hart
21. Nick Phipps
22. Stephen Jones
23. Tom Williams

Luke

Can you still do the match thread mate I'm super busy tomorrow!

Doing it now