Ditto bench looks great.
16. 17. 18. Could easily be starting front row.
Kahn, Clark - err whose planet are they ropey on?
Levi Douglas has always looked totally at home when he's played.
Lewis, makes sense to give Rhys a break. So let's see what Josh can do.
Rhys actually listed as unavailable, so not rested.
Unavailable for selection: Dave Attwood, Matt Banahan, Ross Batty, Nathan Catt, Luke Charteris, Tom Ellis, Matt Garvey, Paul Grant, Tom Homer, Shaun Knight, Max Lahiff, Francois Louw, Kane Palma-Newport, Rhys Priestland, Jeff Williams
15 Chris Pennell
14 Josh Adams
13 Jackson Willison
12 Ben Te’o
11 Dean Hammond
10 Jamie Shillcock
9 Jonny Arr
1 Ryan Bower
2 Jack Singleton
3 Biyi Alo
4 Donncha O’Callaghan (C)
5 Will Spencer
6 David Denton
7 Sam Lewis
8 GJ van Velze
Replacements
16 Joe Taufete’e
17 Ethan Waller
18 Gareth Milasinovich
19 Christian Scotland-Williamson
20 Alafoti Faosiliva
21 Peter Stringer
22 Jono Lance
23 Wynand Olivie
Strong team but its a banana skin fixture, not confident at all. You can guarantee the ex-Bath boys fronting up and the 23 as a whole might be riding a wave of confidence after denying Sarries a TBP last weekend.
Good, exciting team considering there appears to be 15 players still injured.
Of concern could possibly be that, apart from Perenise, this is an incredibly young starting 15.
Yes, getting out of the blocks straight from kick-off will be a must to racking up a score that will dominate the opposition.
Strong team from us with a couple of the changes we had hoped for - albeit the Burns one appears to be injury promotion.
Not sure it is a weak bench for us either - plenty of potential starters there let alone them being our 2/3rd choice players apart from maybe Levi Douglas.
Let's hope we get out of the blocks quick and rack up a decent score but must keep switched on! Wuss are no pushover and will really test us if we do not keep the committed defence we had last week and show some ruthless finishing in attack!
BBW by 15 points though for me!
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We all know how this works, you do the basics well up front, build the pressure, take your chances and only think of the TBP once you are certain of victory.
Disrespect your opponent or go wide too soon before space is created and you could be in trouble.
Equally, thinking you can take it easy in defence because you think you'll just score more down the other end is not a good mindset.
We should on form and confidence beat Worcester with relative ease. However didn't they give us a scare at the Rec last season and I believe we are the last team they beat in the league.
They have some star quality, aligned with old experienced gnarled heads and some very talented youngsters. We have to start well and match their known aggression and fight up front, and hopefully get some early scores to dent their already shaken confidence. They have a big tough pack with a few returning players having something to prove. Remember Will Spencer's MoTM performance last May? And they have a certain Peter Stringer.....
Hopefully Luke Pearce will be aware of the Worcester tricks and not let them disrupt our play to much.
It should be Bath by at least 20 but believe it will be much tighter, particularly if it is wet, ie Bath by 5-10.
Their heads are ‘knobbly, rough and twisted with age’? Charming!
My chosen betting firm has us by 20. Please please please the ‘good Bath’ turn up today otherwise there will be more word eating by the Bath massive if ‘bad Bath’ arrive.
I was interested to see that the front row who got munched by wasps is starting again? The replacements performed better but then they were up against tired bodies I guess (and PDJ).
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