Benetton Treviso

[SanSepolcro]

Evening everyone!

Is anyone heading over to the Treviso match this weekend?

[The Feral Goat]

Saturday 2 November (kick-off 5.15pm GMT) – live on Premier Sports




15. Blair Kinghorn (78)

14. Eroni Sau (1)

13. Mark Bennett (24)

12. Matt Scott (85)

11. Damien Hoyland (66)




10. Jaco van der Walt (43)

9. Henry Pyrgos (25) CAPTAIN




1. Jamie Bhatti (4)

2. Mike Willemse (4)

3. Pietro Ceccarelli (14)

4. Fraser McKenzie (116)

5. Lewis Carmichael (35)

6. Ally Miller (12)

7. Luke Crosbie (30)

8. Magnus Bradbury (66)




Replacements: 16. David Cherry (17) 17. Pierre Schoeman (27) 18. Murray McCallum (53) 19. Sam Thomson (2) 20. Viliame Mata (60) 21. Nic Groom (3) 22. Simon Hickey (22) 23. George Taylor (8)

Players unavailable due to injury: Murray Douglas, Charlie Shiel, Nick Haining, Darryl Marfo, Hamish Watson, Chris Dean, Ruan Steenkamp

[Tichtheid]

Good strong side, Duhan obviously being rotated out this week, it gives Hoyland the chance to show his chops in his stronger position

Bit of impact from the bench too!

[Tichtheid]

Benetton Rugby:
15 Jayden Hayward, 14 Ratuva Tavuyara, 13 Ignacio Brex, 12 Tommaso Benvenuti, 11 Angelo Esposito, 10 Tommaso Allan (C), 9 Dewaldt Duvenage, 8 Toa Halafihi, 7 Abraham Steyn, 6 Sebastian Negri, 5 Eli Snyman, 4 Irnè Herbst, 3 Tiziano Pasquali, 2 Tomas Baravalle, 1 Federico Zani

A disposizione: 16 Hame Faiva, 17 Cherif Traore, 18 Michele Mancini Parri, 19 Niccolò Cannone, 20 Federico Ruzza, 21 Giovanni Pettinelli, 22 Tito Tebaldi, 23 Antonio Rizzi

[bignose]

Shiel down as injured?

[Friday Knight Lights]

It's good to see Cockers rotate in Bhatti, Hoyland and after a good run of games keep Miller in the team over Mata.

This season is about rotation as that's where we suffered last year.

[liveinhope]

What looks good (to me anyway) is that despite the changes team is just as strong )(ok a bit of a drop off with Bhatti but Schoeman is on the bench). And strong looking bench cover so overall not a bad looking 23 despite the World Cup lay offs and inevitable injury list.
Big test of our away form-will they play like in Cardiff...or like at Leinster?

[biffer]

Big test this, that's a very strong Treviso side..

But that's a good side to put out and good to see rotation this early in the season - hopefully we'll reap the benefits of that come April and May.

[Friday Knight Lights]

Just got in as Bhatti gets yellowed for the most stupid off the ball tackle you'll see.

[biffer]

Had to mute the telly due to the abysmally awful Irish commentary.

[Pitfitter446]

Had to mute the telly due to the abysmally awful Irish commentary.

Aha, we’re not the only ones then.

[Pitfitter446]

All that effort for 3 points, still, only 2 down after a yellow card spell, weather is worse than Edinburgh area?

[biffer]

Some pretty dreadful stuff from Edinburgh this evening. Winning an occasional lineout would be nice.

[Tichtheid]

We had the opportunities to win that, Jaco is usually so accurate but it was a horrible night for kicking.

Horrible night all round, in fact

[The Nudger]

Really TonySpreadbury off with that tonight. Manufactured more than enough opportunities to win that but as usual lacked the accuracy to make them count when the chips were down.

So as it turns out, far from being a 'statement win', last week was just yet another false dawn.