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doedin wrote:Any word on De Bruin injury? WIth Nel now banned we might be struggling at TH against a strong scrummaging Bath pack. I suspect Bath will be looking to target our scrum now and will hope to take us on up front with some big carriers like Hughes in the pack. From what I have seen they are not a particularly mobile pack and their front 5 and Hughes can be exposed when in the defensive line. They do look very slow in defending after multiple phases and get ragged with the defensive line and dog legs start appearing. They don't work very hard to be honest. They do however have some good strike runners in the backs but have so far been very disjointed and when under pressure resort to one up carries and then kicking, usually poorly. I suspect we will play a long game and hope that our better fitness and more mobile pack will wear them down and we will do well in the final quarter. However we have to avoid giving away the stupid penalties we are prone to doing at set piece and breakdown and then ending up defending line outs and mauls in our own 22, if we do this then we might have a long night ahead of us.
liveinhope wrote:Just got my tickets by e-mail.I had a look at the website to see how sales were going-absolutely astonished how few were sold.At a rough guess only about 40% of capacity (and yet at the weekend seemed more had gone).
What's happening here-at a quick look I to note reckon at least 80% of tickets gone for the Ulster game in a fortnight.
Easter plans? Season ticket holders baulking at having to pay for a knock-out game? very few Bath fans travelling due to Easter/very late scheduling/or just the 8pm kick off??
Great pity as i thought this would be a sell out.
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