London Irish vs Exeter Chiefs

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Exeter Chiefs

15 Stuart Hogg
14 Olly Woodburn
13 Ian Whitten
12 Harvey Skinner
11 Tom O’Flaherty
10 Joe Simmonds
9 Jack Maunder
1 James Kenny
2 Jack Innard
3 Patrick Schickerling
4 Jonny Gray
5 Sam Skinner
6 Dave Ewers
7 Jannes Kirsten
8 Don Armand

16 Jack Yeandle
17 Billy Keast
18 Josh Iosefa-Scott
19 Daffyd Jenkins
20 Santiago Grondona
21 Sam Maunder
22 Sean O’Brien
23 Josh Hodge

London Irish:

15 James Stokes,
14 Ben Loader,
13 Curtis Rona,
12 Benhard van Rensburg,
11 Lucio Cinti,
10 Paddy Jackson,
9 Nick Phipps,
1 Will Goodrick-Clarke,
2 Matt Cornish,
3 Ollie Hoskins,
4 Rob Simmons,
5 Adam Coleman,
6 Matt Rogerson (c),
7 Tom Pearson,
8 Sean O’Brien.

Replacements

16 Mike Willemse,
17 Facundo Gigena,
18 Marcel van der Merwe,
19 Chunya Munga,
20 Olly Cracknell,
21 Juan Martin Gonzalez,
22 Hugh O’Sullivan,
23 Kyle Rowe

Referee: Mathew Carley
Assistant Referees: Nick Wood & Phil Watters.
TMO: Luke Pearce.
Citing Officer: Chris Catling

Weather as at 1200 Friday

Light cloud with a gentle breeze from the west

Temperature feels like 12 degrees

Low chance of rain

TV Coverage

Not on BT Sport this weekend

Really please for Schickerling. He's starting to look like a long-term solution for us at 3.

Interesting selection. Whitten at 13(!) and Skinner at 12, ahead of O’Brien on the bench.

Front row resources being very stretched.. no Moon, Hepburn, Williams, Street, Nixon etc. But good to see Keast back.

Armand at 8. Which suggests there are still a number of injuries.. Tuima, Capstick, Hinkley on loan etc.

With the amount of absences and unsettled side, it will be a tough game. But hopefully the newfound confidence will be enough.

In Rob's pre match comments he says that we will have to get used to a bit of pain over the next few weeks with senior players away with Six Nations. It is, however, a wonderful chance for the youngsters to step up and perform. It would be good to see Hodge get some game time and the front row have a real opportunity to impress.

I really like the look of that side and the bench. I know there are lots of injury absences as well as international call ups and these next 8 weeks could be a bit painful, but at long last, even if from necessity , we are going to see if the second/ third/ fourth string guys can really hack it. We have tons of props and hookers, and they need to grow up eventually. I have been wanting to see HS at 12 for a while, to see if he can add that creative “je ne sais qua” in Henry’s absence.
The big ones missing for me are Cordero, Street, and Hinckley.

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TV Coverage
Not on BT Sport this weekend

You can still get your Chiefs TV fix, the Girls game against Wasps is on BBC Sport and BBC i player from 12:30

WOO HOO for the ladies.

I'll leans towards optimism for the men...London Irish 20 Chiefs 25.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2022:01:28:21:15:21 by ExTeddChief.

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WOO HOO for the ladies.
I'll leans towards optimism for the men...Wasps 20 Chiefs 25.

HI ETC. Puzzled by your mixed gender prediction.

I think if Chiefs men are playing Wasps women, I'd go for a higher points difference

I think we might just sneak it. LI 18 - 22 Chiefs

L Irish 18-24 Exe but I could be wrong

London Irish 18 - 19 Exeter. Optimism abounds.

London Irish 22 Chiefs 30

How many times have we had teams sheets with the same name on both sides?

Come on Sean O'Brien!!

Well done Tribester!!!!!!!!! The logo and the name.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2022:01:28:18:23:40 by plymptonchief.

Not very hopeful tomorrow

Irish 23 Chiefs 12

Pack looks ok, so does our back line so this could be a real test.
Like to think we can sneak this. LI 22-Chiefs 29

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ExTeddChief
WOO HOO for the ladies.
I'll leans towards optimism for the men...Wasps 20 Chiefs 25.

HI ETC. Puzzled by your mixed gender prediction.

I am a dumbarse! Original post edited!

Chiefs to win 30:12

In Rob we trust.
By the way - cream on first. There's nothing to debate.

Like all games in the six nations window, a difficult one to predict.
Irish are a good side now and are not really affected by call ups.
I'm glad we have our Scottish players, hoping that might be enough to nudge it our way. Irish 24 Chiefs 27 Although, would not be at all surprised if we lost this one

Could go either way but at home London Irish to win. 28 24

Irish a good side without a lot of "star" players. Rona always looks good to me. Even so I'm going with my heart
PC Chiefs 24 Irish 18
Mrs PC Chiefs 17 Irish 20
So much for family solidarity!

Still some regular predicters short!!

Irish 21 - Chiefs 28

L.Irish 24 - Exe 26

Oirish 22 Chiefs26

Narrow defeat 14 - 18, apparently scoreless in 2nd half

@#$%& that's a double for Irish over us this season. At least we got a point.

Cornwall Chief and Bold Eagle move ahead of the pack; CC got the right result and BE got Irish score right. Not a great deal of movement elsewhere; too much optimism!! again!!!
29 Points: Cornwall Chief; Bold Eagle
27 Points: Clalan; Mike the Shirt
26 Points: Osmium
24 Points: DumnoniiNomad; Mrs PC; Fisher
23 Points: Chief Firewater
22 Points: Big Chief Little Chief; The Stoke Canon
21 Points: Ex 58
20 Points: Ouch That Hurts; ExTeddChief; Plympton Chief
19 Points: Curry Chief; Thomas Hawk
16 Points: Last of the Beercans
14 Points: Exeterfan; Keithbar54
10 Points: Father Alice
A few others less than 10.
Only 15 prepared to predict this week!