To (try to) win, or to Blood

[Hymenoptera]

Cruise is rumoured to be off, with Bristol interested although that’s gone a little quiet

Rebuked by Coventrylive so lets see.

[mike909]

It doesn't have to be either/or

I think we ought to be playing our best side - allowing for rotation - injury and form

For me it does little good to send out naive teams "to get experience" when the experience is likely to be getting tonked.....

The side in some sort of form includes quite a lot of younger players, but we need to be able imo to have bench support for younger players starting so that we don't compound any "bad days".

And as for the fans - I think we ought to be biased towards winning as its not like we've been overwhelmed with good games and victories so far....

[Hymenoptera]

I'm not sure we have the luxury of defining either. I'd settle for a team that knows how to play rugby...whoever that may be

[Tervueren]

We saw which team it was not on Saturday, hope we have the originals and not the tribute act for the Worcester match.

I think the league has to be played as if the Sarries thing never happened, pick on form and play like we could go down.

[Neils]

We saw which team it was not on Saturday, hope we have the originals and not the tribute act for the Worcester match.

I think the league has to be played as if the Sarries thing never happened, pick on form and play like we could go down.

We have to if we have any hope of the Big Euro Competition

[RBB]

We saw which team it was not on Saturday, hope we have the originals and not the tribute act for the Worcester match.

I think the league has to be played as if the Sarries thing never happened, pick on form and play like we could go down.

+1 - the players have to blank it out and get on with the job

[Shugs]

By happy coincidence I think the strongest team or youth conundrum is becoming a non issue due to our youngsters now being the best players. Umaga, West, Wolstenholme, Flament and Oghre have all been pushing hard for nailed on starting places. So I think if we play our strongest team the integration of youth happens naturally.

[InBetweenWasp]

.....and with some Senior players not firing on all cylinders should we:

My comment would be, which senior players aren't firing on all cylinders

Fair point.  Perhaps an over-exaggeration on my part.  I guess primarily I’m referring to Sops and Robson.  Fekitoa looks to have begun to be more comfortable and making an impact in games.  If we could figure out 9, 10 and 12 it should make a big difference.

Like you, I’m pretty happy with the pack.  A little more grunt/physicality in the second row would be nice, but Thibaut for a relatively slim lock tends to make yards, is athletic and has good hands so perhaps a big lump isn’t as neccessary as I think if we play like the Wasps of old.

Back 3 are fine for me, some good options there for us. 

[baldpaul101]

I don't think it matters who we play, its more about how they play.

Last weekends game was embarrassingly bad, the weekend before looked pretty good. The spine of the two teams wasn't massively different & as others have said, it looks as though if the youngsters are playing well, then they will get picked.