Coventry v Loughborough Students: Team News & Predictions
Team News
By Russ (Site Editor)
September 2 2016
At 3:00pm tomorrow the season kicks off in earnest at the Butts Park Arena. The 1st XV for the first game of the campaign, led by captain Tom Wheatcroft, is as follows...
COVENTRY: 15 James Stokes, 14 James Pritchard, 13 Corey Hircock, 12 Tom Wheatcroft (captain), 11 Max Trimble, 10 Tony Fenner, 9 Sam Grasso, 1 Jimmy Litchfield, 2 Scott Tolmie, 3 Phil Boulton, 4 Tom Jubb, 5 Brendon Snyman, 6 Darrell Dyer, 7 Eoghan Grace, 8 Ali Bone.
Replacements: 16 Matt Price, 17 Boris Stankovich, 18 Brett Daynes, 19 Rhodri Adamson, 20 Will Maisey.
Roland Winter goes into more detail on his selections in John Wilkinson's article on the official site.
The prediction league is currrently uniformly optimistic, with 100% backing a Cov win of some sort. The lowest combined points total predicted is 44, which suggests that supporters fancy it will be an open game.
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Here's to hoping the combined brains of the board have called the result right, and regardless I'm sure that everyone who turns up tomorrow will have a great day.
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The lad, who is two going on thirteen, currently fancies himself a place-kicker and has also mastered the art of pinging it into the darkest, prickliest corners of the garden. (My brief rugby career was also based on kicking it as far and fast as possible, in fairness).
I can't wait to see what he makes of his first Cov game - he may be the only person in the ground encouraging us to kick it away!
Cheers all,
Russ.