Ryan Walkinshaw made it quite clear this week. Gloucester are a top four club and anything outside the top six is not acceptable. Like the rest of us he has written off this season, but says a new fly half has already signed for next alongside the other big signings .. that's a pretty clear message.
However, we are still fiddling and fudging in season 2013-14 and are currently ninth. This week we take on the team which is in sixth and which has amassed 14 more points than we have - the once mighty Leicester Tiggers. Who would have thought that two such big and well supporter clubs would be languishing like this?
Regardless Tigers v Glaws is always a big game and its on BT Sport on Sunday afternoon 9kick off 2.000 if you can't make it through the floods.
Nigel Davies, who undoubtedly got the Walkinshaw message at the supporters forum this week, goes for experience.Mike Tindall returns and will captain a side which has five changes from the one which lost at Sale last week.
Will James will partner Elliott Stooke in the second row with Matt Kvesic and Ben Morgan in the back row. Dan Robson will be at scrum half with Tindall and Henry Trinder in the centre.
Gloucs: Rob Cook, Charlie Sharples, Henry Trinder, Mike Tindall (capt), Martyn Thomas, Ryan Mills, Dan Robson; Nick Wood, Darren Dawidiuk, Sila Puafisi, Elliott Stooke, Will James, Sione Kalamafoni, Matt Kvesic, Ben Morgan
Changes: Huia Edmonds, Yann Thomas, Rupert Harden, James Hudson, Matt Cox, Jimmy Cowan, Freddie Burns, Shane Monahan
Tigers: Mathew Tait , Vereniki Goneva, Matt Smith, Anthony Allen, Adam Thompstone, Toby Flood (c), Ben Youngs, Marcos Ayerza, Tom Youngs, Logovi'i Mulipola, Ed Slater, Graham Kitchener, Jamie Gibson, Julian Salvi, Jordan Crane
Changes : Rob Hawkins, Boris Stankovich, Fraser Balmain, Louis Deacon, Thomas Waldrom, David Mele, Owen Williams, Blaine Scully
Walkinshaw Has Spoken
Posted by: Shedloads (IP Logged)
Date: 14/02/2014 12:27
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