Quins A v Leeds A - A League Semi Final TONIGHT!

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2010:04:27:10:23:17 by The Prof.

Please turn up in your thousands next Monday to support our brilliant A team in the Guiness A Semi final against Leeds on Monday, 7.30 at the Stoop. If you have never been to an A game before, you will be in for a treat. These are always great matches and quite different from the First XV matches. It is good to be able to see our young players (and last week we had 2 schoolboys in the winning team) and appreciate the talent we are nurturing.

There is open seating in the LV= stand, free admission for STHs and the bar is open for food and drinks. It will be a great evening.

Hear hear!

Count me in!

and me

I will definitely be there!!!

Should be good evening.

I note the Leicester A game semi final is free to season tickets holders and other fans can download a voucher to gain free entry. One way to make sure that you get a good crowd.

Tigers A Game Voucher

will need updates please...down in the wilds of Cornwall and too far to travel....

I'll be there! And vocal...not at the ref though!

COME ON YOU 'QUINSAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'll be there. I only started going to A-games last season and I enjoy them almost as much as the 1st XV matches. The games are much more free-flowing with much more running play and very few penalty kicks at goal.

GQG.

Indeed... should be a good evening... well, I hope so anyway!!!

and isn't it so much better when they're played at The Stoop?

and hopefully the kitchen people will plan ahead for half time this week

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Nicksb
Count me in!

Have a JD for me, old boy. I'm committed to a little trip up to Mansion House on Monday so won't be able to make it...

The game's afoot;
Follow your spirit: and upon this charge,
Cry — God for Harry! England and Saint George

Will the Rosebine be open for parking? And yes I know I could phone club!

No, but you can park in the car parks by The Stoop

Broken windows and theft come free of charge apparently!

I will be there

I'll be there (with at least 1 sprog with me)

No need, HESM, they do food in the bar!

he he I can never eat a whole one either...

The game's afoot;
Follow your spirit: and upon this charge,
Cry — God for Harry! England and Saint George

Depends how its cooked and how many veggies are on my plate!

You eat Vegetarians too? Aren't they a bit stringy?

The game's afoot;
Follow your spirit: and upon this charge,
Cry — God for Harry! England and Saint George

I wish I could be there but I'll be stuck in Manchester (again).

Good luck to the team.

Will anyone be posting updates?

A Quin is for life, not just for pleasure.....

Might Gommers be playing for Leeds?

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Babs
and isn't it so much better when they're played at The Stoop?

Now that the A team are playing back at The Stoop, does this mean that we won't have to listen to you whining on about Quins RL ?

It's now "this Monday"... looking forward to this evening... and to a good match!! [& hopefully with no rain]

how long did marler play for on saturday? is he in line for a start? was york on the bench (i presume not) and if so did he play?

marler was on for about 20 minutes. yorkie wasnt on the bench

1 Joe Marler
2 Rob Buchanan
3 James Johnston
4 Tomas Vallejos
5 Lewis Stevenson
6 Luke Wallace
7 Neil McMillan (Capt)
8 Chris York
9 Karl Dickson
10 Waisea Luvenyali
11 Sam Smith
12 Tosh Masson
13 Nils Mordt
14 Josh Drauiniu
15 Ollie Lindsay-Hague

16 Aston Croall
17 Darryl Marfo
18 Dan Frazier
19 Charlie Matthews
20 Sam Stitcher
21 Seb Jewell
22 Tom Casson
23 Miles Mantella

And Mr T, Hannibal, Murdoch and Face!

Sounds good, can't wait for the balti pie and chips followed by the main course...

decent looking team. let's hope leeds are still drunk. is chisholm injured?

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Nicksb

And Mr T, Hannibal, Murdoch and Face!

I bet COS loves it when a plan comes together...

The game's afoot;
Follow your spirit: and upon this charge,
Cry — God for Harry! England and Saint George

Thats CoS is one crazy fool!

Should be a great game tonight.

No sign of Leeds posting their team on the web.

Just merged the threads about the A League Semi together

I wonder if the Leeds players will still be hung over??!!

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Nicksb
Thats CoS is one crazy fool!

he he. snicker, snicker....

The game's afoot;
Follow your spirit: and upon this charge,
Cry — God for Harry! England and Saint George

you're just NUTS you are!!!

Leeds team for this evenings game ( from their website)

It is the first time ever that any Leeds A team has reached this stage of the competition and Simon Middleton's side are just 80 minutes away from booking an incredible Grand Final appearance.
Quins finished top of the Southern Conference and are former Champions at this level. Leeds inlcude a number of players who will be looking to sign off their time at the club with a victory included Joe Ford and Scott Armstrong who are off to Northampton next season and the half back pairing of Joe Bedford and Jason Strange, who the club announced would be leaving Headingley Carnegie during the summer.

The side will be skippered by Jon Pendlebury with Tom Denton, the man who kicked the ball out of play against Worcester to seal victory starting in the second row.

The team in full is:

15 Joe Ford
14 Richard Welding
13 Jonny Hepworth
12 Ollie Denton
11 Scott Armstrong
10 Jason Strange
9 Joe Bedford
1 Cameron Zeiss
2 Vili Maasi
3 Peter Bucknall
4 James Craig
5 Tom Denton
6 Jon Pendlebury (c)
7 Jacob Rowan
8 Ollie Steadman
16 Phil Nilsen
17 Gareth Hardy
18 Alex Moreno
19 Alex Ball
20 Joe Barker
21 Dan White
22 James Twomey
23 Rob Almond

Quins include former Leeds Carnegie Academy player Sam Stitcher in their squad. Stitcher left Leeds to join Esher two years ago but plays for Quins as part of the relationship between the two clubs. The starting line up includes some familiar faces in the likes of Nils Mordt and Josh Drauiniu.

Mordt, Karl Dickson, Lewis Stevens, Aston Croall, James Johnston, and Chris York all played against Leeds in the recent Guinness Premiership defeat at the Stoop after coming on off the bench.

"We should have enough to see this lof off"

is there 22, twomey, related to the massive bloke in our 2nd row last week? forgotten his christian name. shame no gommars, but should be a good night. looking forward to my pie!

anyone keep us posted on progress?

Try under the posts
dickson converted by biggles

Pen to Leeds
7-3

Nice try in the corner by ooh converted by boggles again!
Great try and conversion
14-3

Tosh substituted by tom!
pen Leeds
14-6

Second try by olh after a nice grubber from biggles who then converted
21-6

Try by casson under the sticks after a strong hand off
converted by u know who
28-6

Interception in the quins22 and Sam smith sprints the length of the pitch to go under the posts!
35-6 I think

Half time!

Quins 40 - Leeds 6

49 6

tigers beat sarries 23 11 I think

Oo, wish I'd gone now

GO GO UGO

PINKWIN

Nice try in the corner by seb jewell
biggles misses one!

I think that was as good an A team performance as I've seen in a good while. Excellent performance from Quins.

I thought that Tom Casson looked an exciting player. He made a couple of lovely darting runs which resulted in tries.

how did Marler and JJ play ???

Everyone played well. It was one of those games. Marler was probably the pick of the front row in the loose.

sorry but what is Darryl Marfo like ?

and who is Miles Mantella ?

Excellent game, and well deserved standing ovations at half and full-time !!!

And ..... no incidents of aerial ping-pong this week or last week.

Good Luck in the final boys.

Darryl Marfo is a first year academy lad and played very well when he came on. He's a tighthead usually but has been playing loosehead for Richmond recently, and that's where he played when he came on tonight. I have a feeling that the club may persist with him at loosehead as we have an inbalance with plenty of tightheads.

Mantella is a Millfield schoolboy and used to play in the same team as Ollie Lindsay-Hague.

Thanks for the info QP

very usful

Marler again outstanding. He is going to be very good. Could be a break through player next year like Lowe has been this season. Will also be a big favourite with the supporters given his aggressive attitude. As QP said, many played well though the line out badly misfired and we were hopeless at restarts.

Back three all went very well, including Millfield schoolboy Miles when he came on. Seb Jewell exuded confidence and it would be good to see him get a chance in the GP.

I've said it before but I'll be more gutted if Seb doesn't stay with us than I am about Strets leaving!

Great turn-out of mostly Quins supporters, unsurprisingly. Very appreciative crowd who gave standing ovations at half and full time and to individuals being replaced. Must say Neil McMillan did a brilliant job captaining the game and looked completely knackered when he came off. Hope he recovers by next Monday!

Well done everyone - squad, coaches and supporters! A brilliant evening's rugby. Good luck for next Monday at Welford Road. I went when we had the final there a few years back but, sadly, cannot go next week.

Jewell is nailed on for a first team squad next year.
Just hope its Quins!

I thought Luvenyali had an excellent game.

Totally agree. For me he was man of the match. But there were some good contenders.

Seb was superb. No idea why we haven't played him more. Biggles kicking was excellent - he kicked a couple of really tricky conversions.

Casson looked very good too.

This was my second A league game and I reckon the trip to Welford Rd will be well worth it.

Very little kicking; plenty of running rugby from both sides - if anyone reading this hasn't been to an A league game then I highly recommend that they do.

MARLER IS A CULT HERO IN WAITING

who scored the penultimate try, when luvenyali threw a bad pass behind the other runners, so one of our guys had to scamper back, but then jinked through about 4 tackles to score an excellent solo try. think it was casson, mantella or olh. anyone know?

great game. last week i thought the pack were immense and whilst they still were this week, i think the backs stole the show. another good showing from dickson, clearly intent on proving me wrong!

According to the offy, Mantella scored the penultimate try.

What I didn't realise, is that if we had scored 2 more tries over the competition, we would have had a home final. Oh well.

I just hope that the boys who picked up knocks last night are fit enough to play next week and we can do some tigger taming!

I thought it was only tries in the pool stages that counted to a home or away final

I don't know. I looked at the tiggers site this morning and they said that they had scored 45 to our 43.

Think 43 is a pretty good achievement though! Hopefully we'll see a few more next Monday!

It's a shame that we were only allowed 4 try wins against the teams that pulled out of games with us

Agreed, as that probably cost us a home final place...