Bath
Team for Yorkshire
Captain Garvey
By Lawrence Aggleton
August 12 2016
Pre-season rolls around again!
Bath's squad for their first pre-season game is pretty youthful:
15. Tom Homer
14. Jeff Williams
13. Max Clark
12. Dan Bowden
11. Harry Davies
10 Rory Jennings
9. Will Homer
1. Beno Obano
2. Michael Van Vuuren
3. Kane Palma-Newport
4. Elliott Stooke
5. Matt Garvey
6. Tom Ellis
7. David Sisi
8. Zach Mercer
Replacements:
16. Gabriel Oghre
17. Nick Auterac
18. Max Lahiff
19. Charlie Ewels
20. Levi Douglas
21. Alex Humfrey
22. Chris Cook
23. Adam Hastings
24. Darren Atkins
25. Matt Banahan
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Good to see the extended squad get some gametime.
Designed in Scotland | Made in the West Country
Designed in Scotland | Made in the West Country
When Ellis first emerged there were a few who said that he would end up at 6. Guess now is as good a time as any to give it a go.
Interested to hear about Oghre. England U18 hooker who apparently is a good carrier.
Interested to hear about Oghre. England U18 hooker who apparently is a good carrier.
A United team, which is entirely right.
Counting down to someone saying we should be playing the strongest possible XV.
Stuart
Former ed.
Counting down to someone saying we should be playing the strongest possible XV.
Stuart
Former ed.
Quote:Stuart Anderton
A United team, which is entirely right.
Counting down to someone saying we should be playing the strongest possible XV.
If we lose there will be ranting...
If we draw there will be ranting
If we win there will be ranting
A man who cannot change his mind, cannot change anything
RAEBURN SHIELD
If we win there will be ranting
RAEBURN SHIELD
Quote:Which Tyler
If we draw there will be ranting
If we win there will be ranting
This is true, however, the degree of ranting is also impacted by other external factors, for example the result of the Exeter Redskins vs. Taffy Scarlets
I just remember having a terrible preseason last year and it leading to a domestic season of equal measure...
Surely the point of a pre season friendly is to get the first team playing together as a team as preparation for the new season. How does this help at all? Probably only 2 or 3 players that might end up playing in the first league game.
Every single one of those players could at some point be called on to play for the first team so why wouldn't Bath give them some game time now?
Quote:I thought the point of pre-season was to start getting all players match-fit rather than gym-fit; to test out new combinations; to see where the junior and back-up players are at in their development, and to check out whether it's preferable to play a 3rd choicer or a 2nd choicer out of position.beastieboy
Surely the point of a pre season friendly is to get the first team playing together as a team as preparation for the new season. How does this help at all? Probably only 2 or 3 players that might end up playing in the first league game.
Generally also to test out new moves and tactics etc, though I don't think that can really apply this year.
It's an opposed training session.
RAEBURN SHIELD
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 2016:08:13:10:46:07 by Which Tyler.
I'm not sure there's a relationship between the players you select for your first preseason game and the overall season. Did we have a particularly brilliant preseason the year before?
Sounds like KPN was fairly ineffective at scrum time, Clark had a big game with two mentions on the official twitter feed, first for a big hit resulting in a turnover and secondly for drawing in three tacklers on the crash ball. The live blog singles out good performances from: Clark, Sisi, Mercer, Auterac, van Vuuren. Which is good to hear!
I went to the game. We had a young and rusty team. Yorkshire seemed to dominate the physical battle in the first half and went into half time rightly ahead. They tired as the game went on and our fitness began to tell a bit.
To be honest there wasn't a lot between the teams. However I think Bowden needs to buy Clarke a pint after giving him man and ball into a huge hit.
To be honest there wasn't a lot between the teams. However I think Bowden needs to buy Clarke a pint after giving him man and ball into a huge hit.
Found some highlights - no commentary but loud music instead - suggest use mute
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Sorry you didn't like the music - we have had a lot worse: I think Carnegie employ an ex-wedding video photographer for these highlights. Hope you agree it was a great event - perhaps you spoilt the party by kicking goals though (even in the first half) - but I suppose it would be embarrassing to lose to a second tier side on Blackadders first match in charge.
Obviously all the second string players need to have game time but the priority is surely to get the main combinations that will be first choice building an understanding as soon as possible. I'd have thought we would start with first choice with 2nd tier replacements coming on later. I don't think the 2nd tier status of our opponents should have much of a bearing as they are decent opposition. Shame that KPN was slow off the mark as he is someone we would like to make more use of this season. Hopefully lessons will have been learnt from last season's disastrous pre-season from which we never recovered.
Can't see any point playing or first choice given we played badly and by the sound of it won through fitness with none of them in a shirt.
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Was Blackadder in attendance?
I think hes still in NZ.
Chronicle today saying that Matson is in the UK and should start at Farleigh in the next couple of days, with Blackadder expected to arrive this week sometime. Both should be at the Scarlets game.
Quote:DanWiley
Can't see any point playing or first choice given we played badly and by the sound of it won through fitness with none of them in a shirt.
Can you edit that please Dan.
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