Exeter Chiefs v Newcastle Falcons

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Exeter Chiefs

15 Harvey Skinner

14 Paul Brown-Bampoe

13 Henry Slade

12 Will Rigg

11 Josh Hodge

10 Ben Coen

9 Stu Townsend

1 Scott Sio

2 Jack Yeandle

3 Josh Iosefa-Scott

4 Dafydd Jenkins (c)

5 Franco Molina

6 Martin Moloney

7 Richard Capstick

8 Greg Fisilau

Replacements:

16 Max Norey

17 Kwenzo Blose

18 Jimmy Roots

19 Rusi Tuima

20 Kane James

21 Tom Cairns

22 Tamati Tua

23 Ben Hammersley

Newcastle Falcons

15 Elliott Obatoyinbo,

14 Alex Hearle,

13 Connor Doherty,

12 Max Clark,

11 Ben Stevenson,

10 Brett Connon,

9 Joe Davis;

1 Adam Brocklebank,

2 Jamie Blamire,

3 Richard Palframan,

4 John Hawkins,

5 Sebastian de Chaves,

6 Freddie Lockwood,

7 Cameron Neild,

8 Callum Chick (captain).

Replacements:

16 Ollie Fletcher,

17 Micky Rewcastle,

18 Murray McCallum,

19 Adam Scott,

20 Ollie Leatherbarrow,

21 Sam Stuart,

22 Kieran Wilkinson,

23 Oli Spencer

Match Officials

Referee: Adam Leal

Assistant Referees: Harry Walbaum and Simon Harding

TMO: David Rose

Chiefs 35 - 21 Falcons

Weather Forecast as at 1200 Friday

Light cloud and a gentle breeze from the west south west

Temperature 13 degrees but will feel like 11degrees

Precipitation is not expected

Chiefs 49 Falcons 17

Don’t have a dedicated TNT Channel but might be on the red button in the Bath/Quins game.
Available from 1445 on Discovery +

"For victory," to quote 300.

Chiefs 38 - 22 Falcons

Cueto wasn't in touch, at least in my dreams.

Hopefully we are too strong in a game that has now lost all of its relegation possibilities for either club.
Chiefs 35 - 18 Falcons

Chiefs 36 Falcons 21

Surprised to see Skinner at 15 instead of Hodge (with Hammersley starting on the wing). I wonder what the reasoning is?

All the jeopardy has gone, sadly. But hopefully both teams will be playing for pride.

Chiefs 31 Falcons 18

Chiefs 33- 24 Falcons



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Exeter 47 - 19 Newcastle

Chiefs 36 Falcons 14

High scoring and close. Chiefs 40 Falcons 38

Chiefs 42 Falcons 15

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Lowerwatha
Don’t have a dedicated TNT Channel but might be on the red button in the Bath/Quins game.
Available from 1445 on Discovery +

Showing up on TNT sports 5 on my EPG and recording if you've set all PRL games to record.

Chiefs 41 Newcastle 17

A dead rubber, but one both sides will be wanting to put a marker down for next season, so I think it'll play like there's a lot more at stake.
Chiefs 40: Falcons 12

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

Chiefs 42 Falcons 21

Ben Stevenson will certainly score a try and Callum Chick probably will too. Nevertheless I’m going for:
Chiefs 26, Falcons 19

Main thing for me is for us to play attacking rugby , even if we come unstuck, with less kicking. I think its may be close as miracles do not happen instantly and we have only just changed our head coach. Chiefs 42 Newcastle 34.

Clearly Baxter has taken the view people who have turned down contracts to stay with us will not play, I’m fine with that.
Lots missing injured but that’s an opportunity for others to shine. Think it will be closer than many people think, Falcons strength is the maul and we are hopeless at defending that play so they will score points. Discipline will be key.
Chiefs 36 Newcastle 31.

Think falcons could nick this our team is weak in places so its chiefs 26 newcastle 31

Chiefs 35 Newcastle 20

Skinner can defend, so think we will get a healthy win tomorrow. Speed on the wings and solid centres will give us good shape if we keep hold of the ball.

Chiefs 33 Falcons 17.

Chiefs 40 Newcastle 25

Exe. 32-21 Newcastle

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Andy15.1
Clearly Baxter has taken the view people who have turned down contracts to stay with us will not play, I’m fine with that.
Lots missing injured but that’s an opportunity for others to shine. Think it will be closer than many people think, Falcons strength is the maul and we are hopeless at defending that play so they will score points. Discipline will be key.
Chiefs 36 Newcastle 31.

I agree, I too think it will be closer than a lot of people have predicted. Our back row is very lightweight and we are really lacking big ball carriers. Confidence will be low for both teams, a few early tries one way or another could see heads drop. Glad Henry is fit to play, and at center, we look a better team with him there.

I'm going Chiefs 22 Newcastle 17.

It is though a tough one to predict, lets hope to see some good running rugby, with hopefully some good defence, actually any defence would be an improvement!!

Chiefs 36 Falcons 18

Chiefs 30 - 28 Falcons

Quote:

DumnoniiNomad
A dead rubber, but one both sides will be wanting to put a marker down for next season, so I think it'll play like there's a lot more at stake.
Chiefs 40: Falcons 12

How wrong was I?! Looked more like the season written off completely and the duration of the game was just taking time away from their plans for the post season holiday. Very disappointing.

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

wrong thread.



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