Newcastle Falcons Fri 26th

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Newcastle Falcons Fri 26th

Postby Tichtheid on Thu Aug 25, 2016 2:40 pm

Edinburgh Rugby team to play Newcastle Falcons at BT Murrayfield Stadium
Tomorrow (Friday 26 August, kick-off 7.35pm)

15 Glenn Bryce

14 Tom Brown
13 Sasa Tofilau
12 Phil Burleigh
11 Rory Scholes

10 Duncan Weir
9 Sam Hidalgo-Clyne

1 Rory Sutherland
2 Ross Ford
3 WP Nel
4 Fraser McKenzie
5 Grant Gilchrist
6 Jamie Ritchie
7 Hamish Watson
8 Magnus Bradbury

Substitutes:
16 Stuart McInally
17 Jack Cosgrove
18 Simon Berghan
19 Ben Toolis
20 John Hardie
21 Nathan Fowles
22 Blair Kinghorn
23 Chris Dean

George Turner (blank shirt)
Lewis Carmichael (blank shirt)
Viliami Fihaki (blank shirt)
Solomoni Rasolea (blank shirt)
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Re: Newcastle Falcons Fri 26th

Postby Tichtheid on Thu Aug 25, 2016 2:41 pm

Decent side, I hope Bradbury and Berg put their hands up for selection, Berg especially, we need cover for the international windows
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Re: Newcastle Falcons Fri 26th

Postby gowrie on Thu Aug 25, 2016 4:22 pm

Good side, though Hoyland and Dickinson (in addition to duPreez and Bresler) haven't made appearances yet.
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Re: Newcastle Falcons Fri 26th

Postby The Feral Goat on Thu Aug 25, 2016 4:25 pm

Good team! Looking forward to seeing what the backline can do. With the exception of WP an entirely home grown pack with a lot of young Scottish talent.....agh must keep hopes for the season in check!
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Re: Newcastle Falcons Fri 26th

Postby The Nudger on Thu Aug 25, 2016 4:35 pm

Dissapointed not o see Nasi Manu in their but how good is it to see Gilchrist and McKenzie back in the boiler room!
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Re: Newcastle Falcons Fri 26th

Postby Crichton Gunner on Thu Aug 25, 2016 6:37 pm

Looking forward to seeing the team in action again. Decent side, but very much a 2nd choice back row. A friendly is just a training game so not going to get excited by the result, no matter which way it goes.
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Re: Newcastle Falcons Fri 26th

Postby bert1945 on Fri Aug 26, 2016 9:38 am

Looking forward to see how well team performs against Newcastle particular in the backs.
Solly says everyone who is fit and available will get game time in warm up games.
Does this mean that guys like Allen Hoyland Tovey Northam Dickenson Dell Cochrane Bresler Du Preez are all injured.
I know Bresler and Du Preez are recovering from surgery. This seems a lot of injuries before season starts.
I hope I am wrong and reading something that is not there.
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Re: Newcastle Falcons Fri 26th

Postby biffer on Fri Aug 26, 2016 1:36 pm

Falcons
15 Simon Hammersley

14 Vereniki Goneva

13 Chris Harris

12 Juan Pablo Socino

11 Sinoti Sinoti

10 Mike Delany

9 Sonatane Takulua

1 Jon Welsh

2 Scott Lawson

3 Taione Vea

4 Calum Green

5 Will Witty

6 Evan Olmstead

7 Will Welch (captain)

8 Mark Wilson

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Don't mention Rory Hutton. I did once but I think I got away with it.
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Re: Newcastle Falcons Fri 26th

Postby gowrie on Fri Aug 26, 2016 7:32 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkU3i8-vjtM

the game's being streamed on the official channel
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Re: Newcastle Falcons Fri 26th

Postby gowrie on Fri Aug 26, 2016 7:42 pm

dire start. Slowing our own ball and wimpy defence, 0-7

Get the ball in their half for a while. Spend a minute doing useless one-out hit ups before we make some space and a try with some nice passes. Bradbury, McInally and Watson carry well, McInally scores. 5-7

Better defence, all the backrow hitting hard, Weir working hard. Bryce having a game to forget.

Bad finish, we dominate territory and position and they score the try. Lineout weak so far, Tofilau carrying well, Hidalgo-Clyne also doing well.
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Re: Newcastle Falcons Fri 26th

Postby Tichtheid on Fri Aug 26, 2016 8:16 pm

Nel is gubbing Welsh so convincingly that Welsh is moving out to ship the pressure, forcing Nel to let go the bind - refs don't know a bloomin thing about this sort of stuff

Tofilau, Ritchie and Watson looking good
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Re: Newcastle Falcons Fri 26th

Postby gowrie on Fri Aug 26, 2016 8:39 pm

Hardie doing his best impression of a doormat there.

Horrific white line fever from H-C, pass to no one and we lose the ball.

Rasolea gets the try, McInally a real step up from Ford in the loose and set piece.

That was a lovely try! Rasolea loops well off Gilchrist breaks and Hardie gives a beautiful offload to Weir 21-19 now.
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Re: Newcastle Falcons Fri 26th

Postby Frenchy on Fri Aug 26, 2016 9:01 pm

Rasolea doing very well.

Sutherland is very very close to being a world class player - he does everything a prop needs to, and keeps popping up where you might not expect a prop to, then throwing a pass you do expect from a prop.
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Re: Newcastle Falcons Fri 26th

Postby gowrie on Fri Aug 26, 2016 9:08 pm

Frenchy wrote:Sutherland is very very close to being a world class player - he does everything a prop needs to, and keeps popping up where you might not expect a prop to, then throwing a pass you do expect from a prop.


He's still got developing to do, but he's got immense talent, like you said his allround game is top class and he's really an intelligent player.
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Re: Newcastle Falcons Fri 26th

Postby gowrie on Fri Aug 26, 2016 9:24 pm

Disappointing overall losing 21-26 at home. Defensive structure never got used to their pace and offloads. Attack had very quick flashes of something interesting, but was dominated by simple one out runners. Set-piece was wonky, lineout was weak whenever McInally wasn't throwing and the scrum gave away more penalties than it earned, though we had the nudge on there, through simple technical mistakes. McInally, Watson, Weir, Tofilau our better players.

Nothing revelatory, nothing horrifying, looks like the same Edinburgh of the past couple of seasons and think we'll end up about the same place in the league.
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